S. Africa: British Spooks, Jack Abramoff & the Red-Baiting of the ANC – A Capsule History
Constatine Report, 2014
McCarthyism rounds on Freedom Charter 2014 (Excerpt)
Among the authors of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen were wealthy merchants from Bordeaux, Marseilles and Paris, many of whom owed their riches to the Caribbean slave trade. Though it was amended at least twice, it is universally recognised as a significant statement of civil and human rights, the dubious moral character of its authors notwithstanding.
Thirty days after Madiba’s passing, Stephen Ellis, editor of Africa Confidential in the 1980s, crawled out of the woodwork to pronounce this challenge: “Maybe the South African Communist Party’s chieftains will now admit the African National Congress’s (ANC’s) key statement of principles, the 1955 Freedom Charter, was written by white communists. ” For the committed cold warriors, being a communist or an (more…)