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Comrade Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela -1918-2013
Mandela was a revolutionary, committed to the liberation of South Africa from colonialism and imperialism
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MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
It will be difficult this weekend to find a political commentator to speak ill of Nelson Mandela, but it was not always so.
The man dubbed a communist terrorist by Margaret Thatcher is now portrayed as everyone's grandfather, a loveable old man with a twinkle in his eye and a kind word for everyone.
We owe it to history to step beyond this one-sided picture and to proclaim the reality that Mandela was a revolutionary, committed to the liberation of South Africa from colonialism and imperialism.
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