Publications
In 'External Mission: The ANC in exile', which has recently been relaunched, the late Stephen Ellis examines how the ANC operated in exile and reflects on the relationship between the party and the South African Communist Party. In the excerpt below, Ellis reveals decisions the SACP took at its 6th congress and why it took such a decision.
In 1984, when the SACP was planning its sixth congress to be held in a wintry Moscow, a world away from the heat of Natal, the people’s war strategy was high on the agenda. This was the period before Gorbachev, when the USSR was still run by old men who spoke of glorious socialist revolutions and victorious workers.
