South Africa

• Setting the boundaries
• Moving into another GEAR
• The heavy hand of enforced unity
• 'Managing contradictions'

The device by which content is replaced by form and ideas by phrases has produced a host of declamatory priests … whose last offshoots had of course to lead to democracy. Karl Marx[1]

By the South African Communist Party

[This is a working draft prepared by the leadership of the SACP and circulated on the internet.]

By Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond is the author of two recent books: Unsustainable South Africa: Environment, Development and Social Protest and Fanon's Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development. Both are available from Africa World Press (http://www.africanworld.com). His 2001 book Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance, will be republished by Zed Press this year, as will a new edition of Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa from Pluto Press.

By Dale T. McKinley

CONTENTS

Class struggle revisited

New resistances