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OverviewThis book explores the role of social movements in the Southern African liberation struggle, through the lens of two ‘everyday communists’. Focusing on the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), the author explores the lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker, whose contribution to the party was more clandestine than that of leaders such as Bram Fischer and Joe Slovo. They represent how ‘ordinary’ people could play significant roles based on stances more rooted in common decency and morality than in Marxist theory. The book also sheds light on the interplay between transnational and national tendencies during the liberation movement, particularly between the 1940s and the 1960s. The Schermbruckers changed their views in response to the shifting national and international political landscape, the rise of Stalinism, and the flight of South African activists into exile from the 1960s. Both fluent in African languages, they were able to create relationships of trust with African membersof the CPSA. Examining tensions and conflicts during the liberation struggle, this book provides fresh insights into ‘underground’ activism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alan KirkaldyPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2022 Weight: 0.526kg ISBN: 9783030839239ISBN 10: 3030839230 Pages: 386 Publication Date: 12 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION AND AUTHOR’S NOTECHAPTER 2 THE SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT, FINDING COMMUNISM AND IVAN AND LESLEY’S EARLY YEARS The CPSA/SACP, the ANC, Transnationalism and African Nationalism Women in the Struggle A Sense of Rootedness: The Colonel The Rural Economy: Transkei and Zululand Traders Foundations of an Activist Ideology: Ivan’s Childhood and Youth Radicalising Influences The Party’s Paper: Work, the Move to the Guardian and funding the Party Lesley’s Family and Youth Developing a Political Ideology and Establishing a Working Career Stalinism CHAPTER 3 PARTNERS IN ACTIVISM - IVAN AND LESLEY Life Partners and Struggle Partners Security Legislation, Repression and Financing the Guardian Growing in the Struggle CHAPTER 4: TIGHTENING REPRESSION: INCREASING INVOLVEMENT, SURVEILLANCE AND DETENTION Security Legislation in the 1960S in context On the Central Committee Funding the Revolution and Supporting its Captured Cadres The State Cracks Down – Becoming a Target, Detention and Torture Women Filling the Gap Stayers vs Leavers in the Struggle Situation of the Left at this time CHAPTER 5: THE TRIAL OF BRAM FISCHER AND 13 OTHERS Awaiting Trial The Accused The Trial Begins Ivan’s Defence and Cross-Examination Judgement and Sentence Reflections on Activism – Pre-Incarceration Letters CHAPTER 6: WOMEN PICKING UP THE SPEAR – LESLEY’S INCREASING INVOLVEMENT, ARREST AND TRIAL Increasing Involvement, Further Arrests and Detentions, Clandestine Meetings, Party Funds and Hiding Bram Fischer Lesley’s Arrest and Detention and Bram Fischer’s Preliminary Hearing Those who gave State Evidence Tightening the Net Further – Lelsey and Violet’s Trial Caught in the Crossfire – The Children CHAPTER 7: PRISON LIFE “Politicals” and “Non-Politicals” Ivan A More Nationalist Focus The Routine of Prison Life Lesley The Fort Barberton Changing Ideology CHAPTER 8: AFTERMATH Lesley’s Release Ivan’s Release Disillusionment with Exiles and Cementing a More Nationalist Ideology Helping those Left Behind in Prison Other Activities and Making a Living in Defiance of Restrictive Measures Declining Health and Death REFERENCES ARCHIVAL SOURCES UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS, NOTES, ADDRESSES AND RECOLLECTIONS INTERVIEWS PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS NEWSPAPER ARTICLES JOURNAL ARTICLES BOOKS CHAPTERS IN BOOKS UNPUBLISHED ARTICLES THESES AND DISSERTATIONS INTERNET SOURCESReviewsKirkaldy's moving biography is about 'everyday' lives in a different sense from the ordinary. ... Kirkaldy illuminates Lesley's and Ivan's everyday experience: their residences; their bill paying ... and of course their love and confidence in each other, for it is very much a book about a marriage. His heroes may be ordinary enough people, but in the way they lived their lives, they achieved 'a trumph of the everyday' ... . (Tom Lodge, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, June, 2022)72 Words Author InformationAlan Kirkaldy is Associate Professor and Head of the History Department at Rhodes University, South Africa. He has previously published works on the Kalk Bay fishing community and Venda history. Alan has lectured on African and environmental history since 1989. Much of his teaching has focused on liberation movements. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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