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This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

The Path to Power

Programme of the South African Communist Partyas Adopted at the Seventh Congress, 1989

CONTENTS

1.. The World Revolutionary Process

. The Three Main Revolutionary Contingents

2.. The Revolutionary Process in Africa

. The Transition to SocialismThe Southern African Region

3.. Colonialism of a Special Type

. The Origins of Colonialism of a Special TypeThe Class and Social Structure of Colonialism of a Special TypeThe Crisis of Colonialism of a Special Type

4.. National Democratic Revolution

. The Role of the Working Class in the National Democratic RevolutionThe National Democratic Revolution and the Transition to SocialismThe Socialist Perspective

5.. The National Democratic Movement and the Vanguard Role of the Communist Party

. Vanguard Role of the SACPThe Vanguard Party and the Mass Democratic Movement

6.. The Path to Power in the National Democratic Revolution

. A New Strategic LineOur Approach to Armed StruggleRelationship Between Military and Other Forms of Political StruggleSeizure of PowerProspects for a Negotiated Transfer of PowerThe Enemy Armed ForcesThe White Community and Armed ConflictThe Masses are the Key

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