The National Liberation Struggle in South Africa

The article examines Russia's position on the War of Independence in Cuba (1868-1878), which marked the beginning of a long process of national liberation. The tone of the reports of Russian diplomats from Spain and the United States was determined by the policy of neutrality and non-interference typical of Russia's foreign policy towards Spain after Аlexander II's accession to the Russian throne in 1855. Events of the liberation struggle of the Cuban people, methods and forms of liberation movement, the policy of the United States and Spain in relation to the war of independence in Cuba received coverage in the liberal Russian press, such publications as "World Illustration", "The Case", "The Herald of Europe". Articles and notes contained objective information about the events taking place in Cuba, expressed feelings of solidarity and support for the Cuban people, condemned the policy of Spain, which sought by any means to suppress the revolutionary process, criticized the Cuban policy of the United States, persecuted their vested economic interests and not interested in the independence of Cu-ba.

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The Last Years of Apartheid

Issue A Journal of Opinion ◽

10.1017/s004716070050434x ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 60-63

Author(s):

Herbert Vilakazi

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Southern Africa ◽

Revolutionary War ◽

Armed Struggle ◽

Peaceful Resolution ◽

Liberation Movement ◽

Blacks And Whites ◽

Liberation Struggle ◽

Racial Problem

“Everything in Russia is ‘as of old’, at the top.But there is also something new, at the bottom.”Lenin, 1911The most crucial factor overhanging any discussion of Southern Africa today is the imminent revolutionary war between blacks and whites in South Africa. The Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and the suppression of the ANC and PAC forced upon the leaders of the liberation movement the conclusion that only the violence of the oppressed against the white regime will bring about freedom for the blacks. Sharpeville, therefore, marked a watershed in the liberation struggle, in that the leadership of the liberation organizations abandoned hope of a peaceful resolution of the racial problem. They then proceeded, abroad, to begin preparations for the armed struggle.

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Conclusion

Democracy's Infrastructure ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691170770.003.0007 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Antina von Schnitzler

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Liberal Democracy ◽

The Political ◽

Central Feature ◽

The Public ◽

Central Task ◽

Liberation Struggle

This chapter concludes that the book has explored the political terrain in postapartheid South Africa, where infrastructure and administration had for decades been central political arenas in which much of the urban struggle unfolded. In particular, it has examined how producing liberal democracy, including the constitutive splits between the public and the private and the political and the administrative, became a central task of the postapartheid state, one that has always been prone to failure and contestation from multiple directions. The book has outlined the contours of this techno-political terrain beginning in the late-apartheid period when infrastructure and action on the administrative terrain became a central feature of the antiapartheid struggle. In conclusion, it considers how, in the postapartheid period, many of the questions that animated the liberation struggle are often continually being negotiated and re-articulated in a variety of spaces.

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Imperialism and the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa

Issue A Journal of Opinion ◽

10.1017/s0047160700504417 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 9 (1-2) ◽

pp. 14-16

Author(s):

Nzongola Ntalaja

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Southern Africa ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

Racial Oppression ◽

Extreme Form ◽

Popular Movement ◽

Liberation Movements ◽

Liberation Struggle ◽

White Settlers ◽

Portuguese Colonialism

After the victories of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against Portuguese colonialism, the liberation struggle in Southern Africa today consists of the heroic efforts being made by the black and brown peoples of South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe to destroy the system of racial oppression established in these countries by white settlers. This system, known in its extreme form of economic explotation and political and cultural oppression as apartheid in South Africa and Namibia, is closely tied to the survival of imperialist interests in Southern Africa. This is why any analysis of the difficulties being faced by the liberation movements of Southern Africa must include a discussion of the specific articulation of imperialism and settler colonialism in this area. For it provides the context in which the African liberation struggle must be understood.

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