THE AFRICAN COMMUNIST LIST OF CONTENTS: 1959-1967
1959 No.l
Editorial: The New Africa—Capitalist or Socialist?
Toussaint: Marxism The Science of Change Uganda—A Survey: G.M.
Problems of the African Revolution: George Maxwell
October 1 8 19 22
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1960 No. 2
Our Magazine
Editorial: Avenge the Martyrs of Coalbrook
A. Lemma: A Historical Step Forward (Formation of the All African Federation of Trade Unions)
Toussaint: How 'Foreign' is Communism?
Jalang Kwena: Guinea Shows the Way Forward N. Numade: Marxism and African Liberation . .
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April 1 2 7 16 24 32 No. 3
Editorial: Problems of a Continent in Revolution J. Girodot: The Congo Marches to Freedom
/. Potekhin: Lenin and Africa
A. Lerumo: The Agony of South Africa . . /. Kumalo: Nigerian Independence
B. Pela: The United States and Africa . .
September 2 10 18 26 36 40 1961
No. 4 January Manifesto for Colonial Freedom (extract from the Statement
of 81 Marxist-Leninist Parties, Moscow, I960) . . . . 2 Toussaint: The United Nations: Illusion and Reality . . . . 6 B. Radebe: South West Africa—Test Case for UNO and Africa 18 F. Kumalo: Socialism for Africa . . . . . . . . . . 31 Jalang Kwena: Marxist Education Scries, No. I . . . . 40
No. 5
Editorial Notes: Patrice Lumumba; Khrushchov on Colonialism Portugal, Quit Africa! Apartheid under Fire . .
N. Numade: The Choice before New Africa A. Zanzolo: Some Thoughts on Federation
Toussaint: Solidarity with South Africa
Jalang Kwena: Marxist Education Series, No. 2
BOOK REVIEW: Africa—the Roots of Revolt, by Jack Woddis
DOCUMENTS: Greetings from S.A.C.P. to C.P.G.B., 27th Congress A Message to Africa: John Gollan
May 1 10 23 29 42 49 59 60
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No. 6
Editorial Notes: The Apartheid Republic; The Congo and the U.N.; Bravo Cuba!
P. Dias: Fascist Portugal Must Quit Africa
B. Peia: Two German States and the New Africa
Toussaint: Towards Real Independence (The Cairo Meeting of the All-African People's Conference) . .
\4 Socialist*: Socialism for Africa What our Readers Write . .
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July 2 11 19 32 42 50
No. 7 September Editorial Notes: On Guard for Peace; Disarmament and Nuclear
Tests; The Murder of EI Helou; Anti-Communism, A Rotten
Remnant of Colonialism . . . . . . . . . . 1 M. Decker: The Economics of Neo-Colonialism . . . . 12
Mohammed Harmei: Bourgiba and Africa 23 B. Peia: The All-African Trade Union Federation . . . . 34
Jalang Kwena: Marxist Education Series, No. 3 . . . . 49 A. Lerumo: After 40 Years (Anniversary of the C.P.S.A.) . . 62
What our Readers Write 83 1962
No. 8 First Quarter Editorial Notes: 22nd Congress of the C.P.S.U. ; Albania; Person-
alities in Africa; Ghana Goes Ahead; Independent Tangan-
yika; Establishment of C.P. of Lesotho 1 A. Lerumo: Forms and Methods of Struggle in the National
Liberation Revolution . . . . . . . . . . -. 12 Jean Suret-Canale: Tropical Africa Before the Colonialists . . 26
R. Palme Dutt: Africa and Communism 36 Peter Florin: The German Peace Treaty and Africa . . . . 47
E. Iphrahint: Sudan's Dictatorship..
Marxist Education Series, No. 4 What Our Readers Write . .
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55 65 72 No. 9 Second Quarter
Editorial Notes: Verwoerd's Threat to Africa; Heroic Algeria The Other France; I.C.F.T.U. Neo-Colonialism; Cuba's Revo lution; P.A.C. Wrecks the United Front; Death of Ajoy Ghosh
N. Numade: Towards a United Africa
25th Anniversary of the Algerian Communist Party
L. Bouhali: Message from the Algerian Communist Party A. Lerumo: The South African Democratic Revolution
Jean Suret-Canale: Effects of Colonialism on African Society B. Pe/a: W, E. B. DuBois Joins the Communist Party
Marxist Education Series, No. 5 What Our Readers Write . .
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1 14 26 41 43 52 61 68 75 No. 10 Third Quarter Editorial Notes: Fascist South Africa; O.A.S. Defeated in Algeria;
'Central African Federation' Dissolved; The European Common Market; Pravda\s 50th Birthday
Y. Dolgopolov: National Liberation Wars
Communist Party of Lesotho: Programme Summarised Jalang Kwena: National Independence and Socialism .
B. Peta: Apartheid in the U.S.A
A. Lerumo: Africa and World Peace
7th Congress of the Tunisian Communist Party What Our Readers Write
BOOK REVIEW: Africa, the Lion Awakes, by Jack Woddis
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No. 11* Fourth Quarter
Editorial Notes: How Strong is Vcrwoerd? Release Nelson Mandela; Algerian Unity; Events in Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland; the S.A. Liberal Party
L. Legwa: Partitioning South Africa*—Aspects of the 'Bantustan' Jalang Kwena: Africa Looks at the Common Market
Jdris Cox: Land Robbery in Kenya
N. Numade: The Working Class and the African Revolution . . A. Zanzolo: The Draft Programme ofthe S.A. Communist Parly
What Our Readers Write
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1963
No. 12* First Quarter Editorial Notes: Hands off Cuba! China and India; Dictator-
ship Run Mad (in S. Africa); U.N. Sanctions Against Apar-
theid ; Whither Algeria ? 3 A. Zanzolo: The Theory of the South African Revolution . . 17
THE ROAD TO SOUTH AFRICAN FREEDOM: Programme of the
Communist Party 24 Idris Cox: They Cannot Forget Lumumba 71
A. Cohen and A. Lerumo: Central African Federation—
Burying the Corpse
What Our Readers Write
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77 84 No. 13* Second Quarter The Revolutionary Way Out: Statement by the Central Com-
mittee of the S.A.C.P 3
Editorial Notes: The Things that Bind the International Com- munist Movement; Southern African Events; Ban on the
Tunisian c.p.;'Assagai'Magazine . . . . . . . . 19 Against the Ban on the Algerian C.P. . . . . . . . . 27
B. Peia: The One-Party State in Africa 40 Senegal and the African Independence Party 48
L. N'Diaye: Bourgeois and Proletarian Nations . . . . 61
British Right-Wing Labour and Africa 66 Joseph W. Musole: Class Struggles in Zambia . . . . . . 81
What is Communism? 88 What Our Readers Write . . . . . . 98
No. 14* Third Quarter Editorial Notes: The Addis Ababa Summit Meeting; K.A.N.U.
Victory in Kenya; The End of the 'c.A.F/; Apartheid—U.S.
Style; Britain's Colonies in South Africa A. Lerumo: South Africa is at War
Jack Woddis: Africa and Industrialisation John Gollan: Britain and S. Africa
Charles P. Howard: Secrets of the Congo Terence Africanus: Mr. Mboya's 'Socialism*
DOCUMENTS: N O Arms for South Africa! (A. J. Lutuli) Communism (Fidel Castro)
What Our Readers Write . .
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No. 15 Fourth Quarter
Editorial Notes: A Great African Passes (Dr. W. E. B. DuBois);
Hands off Our People (African Descended People in the U.S.);
The u.N. Must Act Now; Algeria Chooses Socialism;
Tokoloho; A Stab in the Back (the P.A.C.) 3 W. E. B. DuBois: The Birth of African Unity 14 N. Numade: Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland . . 27
Ivan Potekhin: Land Relations in African Countries . . . . 46
Peter Mackintosh: Fascist South Africa Today 66 Sol Duhula: How Social Change Comes About (study series) 79
BOOK REVIEWS: Africa, the Way Ahead by J. Woddis; The
African Patriots by Mary Benson . . . . . . . . 90
DOCUMENTS: Statement by Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Com- mittee; South Africa and Peace (J. B. Marks); Protest on
Refugees (Bechuanaland People's Party) 99
What Our Readers Write 118 Stand By Our Leaders (the Rivonia Arrests) . . . . . . insert
1964
No. 16 First Quarter
Editorial Notes: Turbulent Africa (Zanzibar Uprising), East African army 'mutinies*, 'Phases' of the African Revolution;
the One Party State; the Apartheid State 3 Strive for World Communist Unity: Statement by the Central
Committee, S.A.C.P. 27
P. Tlale: Sanctions Against Apartheid 35 Henri Alleg: Algeria Rebuilds . . . . . . . . . . 59
Foundation of Nigerian Socialist Workers and Farmers Party 67 Sol Duhula: The Role of Ideas in History (study series) . . 73
BOOK REVIEW: South-West Africa by Ruth First . . . . 82 Dorothy Hewitt: Verwoerd, Verwocrd, They Cry, A Poem . . 86
What Our Readers Write 87
DOCUMENTS: Kenya's First Address at the u.N. (Oginga Odinga);
South Africa's Political Prisoners (O. R. Tambo); Expel S.
Africa f r o m the U.N. ( D . N o k w c ) . . . . . . . . 93
No, 17 Second Quarter
Editorial Notes: Murder Will Out; The Algiers Afro-Asian Meeting: Iraq's Heroic Communists; Tanganyika's Trade
Unions; A New Chapter for Egypt 3 Jack Woddis: Ghana's Changing Economy . . . . . . 14
Joseph W. Musole: Central Africa After Federation . . . . 33
BOOK REVIEWS: The Rise of the South African Reich by Brian
Bunting; African Socialism by Fenner Brockway . . . . 47
What Our Readers Write 55
DOCUMENTS: Fascist Terror in South Africa (United Nations
Special Committee on Apartheid) 62 No, 18 Third Quarter
Editorial Notes: The People Unconquerable (On the Rivonia Trial); The Nigerian General Strike; South West Africa;
Congo—Tshombe Returns; Death of Nehru . . . . . . 3 Z. Nkosi: Blueprint for Slavery (Bantu Laws Amendment Act) 30
Desmond Buckle: The U.A.R., a Bastion of Anti-Colonialism . . 40
P. Tlale: The Apartheid Economy Today 48 Kgang Dithata: Congo—The Constitutional Aspect . . . . 60
Terence Africanus: The First International—100 Years After . . 71
DOCUMENTS: Political Terrorism in Lesotho (S.A.C.P. Statement) 95
What Our Readers White 98 No. 19 Fourth Quarter
Editorial Notes: The Republic of Zambia; S. Africa, a Torture Chamber; Labour Britain and Africa; A Sad Farewell
The Pretoria-Bonn Atomic Axis (Memorandum from the Afro Asian Solidarity Committee in the German Democratic Republic
Ivan Potekhin: Pan-Africanism
W. O. Goodluck: Nigeria and Marxism
Makxvugo Okoye, P. Tlale: Africa and Democracy
Scheepers Fourie: Across the Colour Line—Aspects of S.A Literature
BOOK REVIEWS: Whither the Transkei? by W. A. Bellwood Bantustans—the Fragmentation ofS. Africa by Christopher R Hill; South Africa: The Peasants Revolt by Govan Mbeki South Africa: Crisis for the West by C. & M. Legum
What Our Readers Write
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No. 20 First Quarter
Editorial Notes: The Frontiers of Freedom 3 A. N. C. Kumalo: A Poem of Vengeance (and other Tributes to
Mini, Mkaba and Khayinga, Executed 6 November 1964) . . 13
A. Lerumo: The Battle for the Congo 19 /.. Nkosi: No Mercy from Vorster 32
George David: The Elections in Guiana 43 31
Saviiri Azad: How Verwocrd Uses Anti-Communism . . . . 54 Africa: Notes on Current Events . . . . . . . . . . 65
BOOK REVIEWS: The Economics of Apartheid by W. H. Hutt;
The South African Economy by D. Hobart Houghton . . 71 No. 21 Second Quarter
Editorial Notes: The U.S. War on Vietman . . . . . . 5 From the South African Communist Party: Message to Vietnam
French and South African Communists Meet . . . . 13
Henri Alleg: Ichtirakya! 16 Romesh Chandra: Pio Pinto: Son of Africa . . . . . . 28
Sol Dubula: South West Africa—the Hour of Decision . . 32 A Special Correspondent: Nigeria After the Elections . . . . 41
Mohit Sen: The Indian Scene Today 51 Jack Woddis: Democracy and Africa . . . , . . . . 62
Africa: Notes on Current Events . . . , . . . . . . 71
DOCUMENTS: Message from Brain Fischer: Consultative
Meeting of Communist Parties 78 Joseph Mofolo Butane: South African Literature—a Rejoinder
to S. Fourie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 No. 22 Third Quarter
The South African People will Win their Freedom! Central
Committee, South African Communist Party . . . . 5 Editorial Notes: The Pledge is Binding (IOth Anniversary of the
Freedom Charter); No Easy Walk; Algerian Events . , 13 So/ Dubula: Kenya 'African Socialism' Paper . . . . . . 23
A. Langa: Tanzania Five Year Plans 41
Z. Nkosi: The fcFischer' Trial 46
Africa: Notes on Current Events 56 Bankoie Akpata: Wallace-Johnson—A Tribute . . . . . . 61
Alex Chima and A. Chukuka Eke: Africa and Democracy—
A Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Angolan Study Centre: Facts on Angola . . . . . . 75
BOOK REVIEWS: Axis to the Cape by Eberhard Czaya; 117 days
by Ruth First: And a Threefold Cord by Alex La Guina . . 99
DOCUMENTS: Rally and Unite Anti-Imperialist Forces (Appeal
from c . c . S.A.C.P.) 101
No, 23 Fourth Quarter Zimbabwe: Statement by the Central Committee, South
African Communist Party . . . . . . . . . . 5
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Editorial Notes: Kick the Smith Gang Out! Pioneer Marxists of Africa (50th Anniversary of International Socialist League
[p.A.J)
P. Tlale: The Imperialist Stake in Apartheid
A. Zanzolo: Islands of Independence in the Slave South A. Langa: Elections in Tanzania
Sol Dubula: The Myth of P.A.C. 'Militancy' Africa—Notes on Current Events
Obi B. Egbuna: My Death Warrant
BOOK REVIEWS: The Three Internationals by R. Palme Dutt;
The Forest by William J. Pomeroy; Apartheid Analysed by Sol Dubula
DOCUMENTS: Meeting of British and South African Communists
7-18 23 41 50 54 66 70 91 102 1966
No. 24 First Quarter Editorial Notes: Nigeria: Collapse of Sham Democracy; South
Africa Enters 1966; Bram Fischer; The Sudanese Communists;
Unity Against Apatheid; The Late Arthur Letele . . . . 5
R. Palme Dutt: British Labour and Africa 17 Sol Dubula: Putting the Record Straight 32 Henri Alleg: Political Detainees in Algeria 45 A. Lerumo: Liberation of the Southland . . . . . . . . 49
Joseph Mofolo Bulane: The Oral Tradition in African Poetry . . 60
Africa: Notes on Current Events 67
BOOK REVIEWS: Neo-Colonialism, The last Stage of Imperialism
by Kwame Nkrumah; Egypt and Socialism by Idris Cox . . 72
DOCUMENTS: The African National Congress on the Rhodesian
Crisis; A Communist on the Truth (Govan Mbeki) . . . . 80 No. 25 Second Quarter
Editorial Notes: Bram Fischer—and the S.A. Elections; The Judges Judged; Vietnam and U.S.; Treason in Ghana; An
Absurd Antic
Dennis Ogden: Ghana Socialists Fight Back
Christine Johnson: Let's Free Ghana and Free Africa . . Claude Lightfoot: Negro Oppression and U.S. Foreign Policy Sigingi kaNelani: Apartheid Colonialism in America
Uriah Simango: Mozambique, My Country Henri Alleg: Algeria: Behind the Silence..
A. Langa: Nigeria: Behind the Coup
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BOOK REVIEWS: History of Black Africa, Vol. I by E. Sik; The Wretched of the Larch and Studies in a Dying Colonialism by
F. Fanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
DOCUMENTS: Message from the S.A. Communist Party to the
23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 86 No. 26 Third Quarter
Editorial Notes: Rebels Against the Crown; Independence for Lesotho . . . and Botswana; The Communist Party: 45 Years
A. Zanzolo: Crisis in Africa
Z. Nkosi: Bending the Colour Bar A. Lerumo: Showdown in Kenya
Y. Usmart: Shortcomings of Military Rule
Y. Ngomezulu: The Soviet Union as I Saw It . . Sol Dubula: African notes on current events
BOOK REVIEW: Tomorrow's Sun by Helen Joseph What Our Readers Write
DOCUMENTS: President Nasser's May Day Speech
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5 15 28 47 58 62 68 81 84 88 No. 27 Fourth Quarter
Editorial Notes: After Verwoerd, Fuhrer Vorster; Concern About
China; Tributes to South Africa's Communists . . . . 5 Joan Bellamy: Testing Time for Ghana . . . . . . . . 20
A. Zanzolo: Drought, Water and Politics in Southern Africa . . 28
D. N. Pritt Q.C.: Bram Fischer's Great Speech 34 Khaled Mohei El~Dm: Phases of the Egyptian Revolution . . 37
A, Langa: South West Africa: The Phoney War Ends . . 58
Sol Dubula: Africa: Notes on Current Events 63
BOOK REVIEWS: Race Relations in Britain by A. Chater;
African Trade Unions by loan Davies; Socialist Ideas in Africa by Idris Cox; The Late Bourgeois World by Nadine Gordimcr;
Five Years by Deirdre Lcvinson; An African Bourgeoisie by
Leo Kuper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
What Our Readers Write 89 1967
No. 28 First Quarter Editorial Notes: 'Confrontation' in Southern Africa: Uncon-
querable Vietnam; 50 Years of Workers' Rule . . . . 5 Africa: National and Social Revolution—A Report on the Cairo
Seminar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
A. Zanzolo: A Nation Behind Bars 41
Toussaint: Transkei . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Sol Dubula: Africa—Notes on Current Events 56
BOOK REVIEWS: History of Black Africa, Vol. 2, by E. Sik; The
Press in Africa by Rosalynde Ainslie 67
DOCUMENTS: Rhodesia, the Case for Action (Julius K. Nyerere,
Text of Address to the O.A.U.) 74
Vietnam: Resolution of the Central Committee, S.A.C.P. . . 84 No. 29 Second Quarter
South African Communist Party, Central Committee State- ments on The Present Situation in the World, in Africa, in Southern Africa; The International Communist Movement;
Events in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,5 Toussaint: Tanzania's New Revolution (The Arusha Declaration) 19 Tigane T. Bibiker: The Sudanese Communist Party will Survive 32 Terence Africanus: 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution
1—The Background 40 R. E. Braverman: Trade Union Apartheid 50
Sol Dubula: Africa—Notes on Current Events 60
DOCUMENTS: J. K. Nyerere and O. R. Tambo on the Arusha
Declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
BOOK REVIEWS: The Jail Dairy of Albie Sachs; African Writing
Today (ed. E. Mphahlcle) 74 What Our Readers Write 76 No. 30 Third Quarter
Editorial Notes: Imperialism, Israel and the Arabs; The Nigerian
Tragedy; Again the Congo; A Worthy Laureate . . . . 5
B. Kades: The Sources of Economic Growth II Z. Nkosi: South African Imperialist Expansion . . . . 25
J. J. Jabulani: Money Screams in Katanga . . . . . . 40 Terence Africanus: 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution
2—From February to October 62 Sol Dubula: Africa—Notes on Current Events . . . . . . 69
Baba Oluwide: A Tribute to J. O. B. Omotosho . . . . 76
BOOK REVIEWS: Not Yet Uhuru by Oginga Odinga; The Auto-
biography of Malcolm X 77 No. 31 Fourth Quarter
Editorial Notes: Freedom Marches South (Guerrilla War Opens in
Zimbabwe); Karl Marx's 'Capital' 5 J. B. Marks: October, Africa and National Liberation . . 15
Terence Africanus: 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution
3—Shaking the World 25 CHIEF ALBERT JOHN LUTULI 1898-1967 38
Kathleen Welsh: Oppression and Suppression—A New Consolo-
dation in South Africa 45 / . / . Jabulani: Bonn-Pretoria Axis 55
Samuel Ben Adam: Zionism and the Future of Israel . . . . 66 AH Yata: The Moroccan Revolution . . . . . . . . 77
BOOK REVIEWS: The Rise and Fall of Kwame Nkrumah by Henry L. Bretton; The Literature and Thought of Modern Africa by
Claude Wauthier 84
DOCUMENTS: Major Nozegwu's Last Words 90
What Our Readers Write 94
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