Everyday Communists in South Africa's Liberation Struggle: The Lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker by Kirkaldy, Alan
Everyday Communists in South Africa's Liberation Struggle: The Lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker by Kirkaldy, Alan

Everyday Communists in South Africa's Liberation Struggle: The Lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION AND AUTHOR'S NOTECHAPTER 2 THE SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT, FINDING COMMUNISM AND IVAN AND LESLEY'S EARLY...
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Everyday Communists in South Africa's Liberation Struggle: The Lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker by Kirkaldy, Alan

Everyday Communists in South Africa's Liberation Struggle: The Lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker

$441.63
Everyday Communists in South Africa's Liberation Struggle: The Lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker by Kirkaldy, Alan

Everyday Communists in South Africa's Liberation Struggle: The Lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker

$441.63
Author: Alan Kirkaldy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION AND AUTHOR'S NOTE

CHAPTER 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 &nbs

Author: Alan Kirkaldy
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/12/2022
Pages: 386
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9783030839239

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