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Written as a tribute to the revolutionary intellectual and leader Mzala Nxumalo, this book discusses the significance of his work in the context of contemporary South African left politics. It explores the history and struggle of the apartheid era that preceded the advent of democracy to analyze a crucial aspect of the national question – that is, the quest for the establishment of a united South Africa to overcome racist and sexist policies that create and nurture divisions among black people. The subjects in this book deal with a wide range of topics, including the new social, economic and political challenges facing democratic South Africa; the need to reexamine the critique of capitalism in the 21st century; the relationship between race, class and community struggles; and the ecological challenges under capitalism. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa

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‘In a dispiriting present, these wide-ranging essays reinvigorate left analysis, with many drawing on the work of the communist intellectual and militant Mzala Nxumalo. This reaching back to engage the present means that this volume is an important contribution to sustaining a national left intellectual tradition, aproject in dialogue with the best ideas from around the world. Mzala, as he was and remains known, was committed to a nonsectarian approach to building a left project and these essays will be useful to people across the South African left, and elsewhere.’ — Scholar, journalist, editor, teacher and activist; author of Writing the Decline: on the Struggle for South Africa’s Democracy (2016) and editor of Asinamali: University Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2006), Richard Pithouse

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Robert J. Balfour is Deputy Vice Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) at North-West University, South Africa. He is a National Research Foundation-rated academic and has published frequently on language learning and literacy, rural education and postcolonial literature.

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