Scottish Communists

Authors: Edited by Ken Keable (CPB) with an introduction by Ronnie Kasrils (SACP) and a foreword by Pallo Jordan (ANC).

The history of the Anti-Apartheid movement brings up images of boycotts and public campaigns in the UK. But another story went on behind the scenes, in secret, one that has been never told before.

This is the story of the foreign recruits and their activities in South Africa, how they acted in defiance of the Apartheid government and its police on the instructions of the African National Congress (ANC).

Buy it here http://www.merlinpress.co.uk/acatalog/LONDON_RECRUITS.html Price:£15.95

All royalties from this book will go to The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund.

It tells of:

• ANC Banners that unfurled
• ANC speeches that sounded through public places
• Buckets that exploded and showered ANC leaflets
• Transportation of weapons, communications, logistics
• Helping ANC fighters to enter South Africa,
• and more…..

Many recruits were Young Communists (YCL), others were Trotskyists or independent socialists; from the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the USA, and they all took amazing risks.
Some paid a heavy price for their support. This is their untold story.

ISBN:
    9780850366556
Publisher:
    Merlin Press Ltd

Published in February 2012
Price:£15.95

Watch fellow author Ronnie Kasrils (CPSA) launch his own book "The Unlikely Secret Agent" on the South African struggles here: http://www.scottishcommunists.org.uk/progressive-videos/the-unlikely-secret-agent-2010-mandela-tambo-lecture

Demo in response to fascist attacks on Palestinian & Communist stalls & Morning Star Sellers on Buchanan Street, Glasgow.

Read more about the attacks here: http://www.scottishcommunists.org.uk/communist-news/nazi-thugs-attack-morning-star-sellers-communists

An excellent & wide ranging report back from a Cuba Solidarity Campaign trip to Cuba in 2010 by Jim Whyte, life long British Communist and retired Trade Union studies lecturer.

From the Cuban health service, education, economy, revolutionary councils, elections, women's rights, democracy, reforms, social changes - right up to the state of some of the taxi services - Jim tells it as he saw it from his considerable experience in the worker's movement.

Professorial Lecture on
"Does Ownership Matter in Scottish Economy?"

By

Prof John Foster
(University of West of Scotland)

Wednesday, 2nd February 2011

Prof Kees van der Pijl

(University of Sussex)

25 November 2010

A Public academic lecture organised by the Department of Economic Studies and International Business, Glasgow Caledonian University

Ronnie Kasrils

Ronnie Kasrils was Deputy Minister of Defence in Nelson Mandela's government, then Minister for Water and Forestry Affairs and, until 2009, Minister of Intelligence for South Africa. Prior to that, Ronnie was a leader in the armed wing of the African National Congress, Umkhonto we Sizwe. Ronnie Kasrils is also a member of the Communist Party of South Africa.

The 2010 Lecture will launch the book, "The Unlikely Secret Agent" by Ronnie Kasrils, and will be delivered by the author. The book is about the underground activity of his late wife, Eleanor, in the early 1960s in apartheid South Africa. John Le Carré writes, "This is a wonderful book about a courageous and extraordinary woman who was highly principled, yet endowed by nature with all the clandestine skills."

West of Scotland Launch 11 October 2009

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