The ANC and the turn to armed struggle, 1950-1970
By: Ben Turok ; [foreword by Kgalema Motlanthe]
Series: Understanding the ANC today -- 2; Understanding the ANC today -- 2
Publisher: Jacana Media
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Auckland Park, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781770099685
Subjects: Politics and government; African National Congress; Resistance to Government; Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa); National liberation movements; History
Notes: "This classic work was first published in the late 1960s at a time when the ANC was forced by events within South Africa to confront major ideological and policy issues"--P. 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-129) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The context: Liberation wars in the Third World; title: Pt. 1. Non-violent mass action. Black consciousness is not false consciousness; title: Early concepts of democracy; title: A militant 'programme of action'; title: The Defiance Campaign; title: Non-racial policies. Pt. 2. The transfer to violence. Sharpeville and regrouping underground; title: Sabotage and the white state focused; title: Catastrophe at Rivonia; title: Geographic isolation; title: The movement abroad; title: A war of national liberation.