The Big Read: Quo vadis, comrades in the SACP?
16 July 2015 - 02:02
Rusty Bernstein must have thought it would be easy to convince communist veterans Jack Simons and his wife, Ray Alexander, to take up membership of the South African Communist Party. But, while Alexander did not hesitate in signing up, Simons refused. According to Bernstein, Simons saw no need for an independent communist party as all its political purposes "could be fully achieved" at the time through the ANC and the then burgeoning trade union movement.
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