Schlagwort: Nelson Mandela

  • Peter Taaffe: Apartheid ends – a new chapter opens

    (Militant International Review, No. 55, January 1994) Militant Labour’s general secretary Peter Taaffe recently visited South Africa. Here he assesses the perspectives ahead. 27 April, the date for South Africa’s election, will see the long nightmare of apartheid finally ended. That hated system, set up in 1948, merely codified and widened the racial segregation which…

  • Peter Taaffe: The Real Nelson Mandela

    (Socialism Today No 5, February 1996) Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela, 1995. Reviewed by Peter Taaffe. This account of Nelson Mandela’s eventful life offers many insights even to those familiar with the main landmarks in the South African struggle. It is impossible not to be moved by the heroic struggle it recounts, the…