African Communist Issue

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 the latest issue of the AFRICAN COMMUNIST, the
theoretical journal of the south african c.p. deals with
 global imperialism in the concrete. access it at:
www.sacp.org.za

Includes an contribution by Patrick Bond, if this has not been noted here 
already.

CB

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EDITORIAL NOTES
Contemporary class struggles and the National Democratic Revolution
This issue of the African Communist reflects some of the progressive, left-wing
ideological ferment that is once more in evidence here in South Africa, and 
indeed
internationally. The decade of the 1990s began dismally for left-wing forces * 
the
collapse of the Berlin Wall being the most dramatic symbol of a major 
world-historical
set-back.

But the crisis and collapse of the former Soviet bloc was just one 
manifestation of
the crisis of the left at that time. In Africa and through much of the Third 
World,
the radical national democratic project had seemingly lost its way under the 
impact of
structural adjustment programmes, internal bureaucratisation, and other 
weaknesses. By
the beginning of the last decade this stagnation was already evident in a 
country like
Zimbabwe. The sequel is playing itself out in our neighbouring country at 
present, and
Patrick Bond contributes an interesting perspective in this issue on the 
complicated
challenges facing the left in that country.

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