Books by Allison Drew
Amazon #1 Best Seller Organized Crime True Accounts
Amazon #1 Best Seller Death & Grief
Amazon #1... more Amazon #1 Best Seller Organized Crime True Accounts
Amazon #1 Best Seller Death & Grief
Amazon #1 Best Seller Grief & Bereavement
Articles and book chapters by Allison Drew
Rethinking Africa Series Occasional Paper, no. 6, UCT Centre for African Studies, 2023
This paper focuses on a particular moment in the intellectual and political life of Neville Alexa... more This paper focuses on a particular moment in the intellectual and political life of Neville Alexander. It does so by situating Alexander and the organizations he was instrumental in setting up, the YCCC/NLF, in the broader context of the New Left, which the author refers to as a “transnational generational movement”, arguing that Alexander and the YCCC/NLF represented a South African version of this movement. The paper also raises a further point about how a transnational perspective can illuminate small groups such as the YCCC/NLF, in a context where a national perspective can, as in South Africa, lead to these groups being marginalized and overshadowed by larger and formal political parties.
Representation & Reality: Portraits of Women's Lives in the Western Cape, - (Pretoria, ... more Representation & Reality: Portraits of Women's Lives in the Western Cape, - (Pretoria, ), p. ; University of Cape Town Manuscripts & Archives [hereafter UCTMA], Neville Alexander Papers [hereafter BC], State versus Neville Alexander and ten others [hereafter D...]., Verdict, p. . . Black male political prisoners were incarcerated in various locations, Robben Island being the best known. Black refers to all people of colour victimized by the white supremacist apartheid regime. Where relevant, I use the official categories of African, Coloured, and Indian. . Some exceptions using life story approaches are Scanlon, Representation, see esp. pp. -;
Globalzzazioni rosse : Studi sul comunismo nel mundo del Novecento, a cura di Silvio Pons, Rome: Carocci, pp. 174-93, 2020
The launch of South Africa’s armed struggle has been portrayed as the action of urban-based South... more The launch of South Africa’s armed struggle has been portrayed as the action of urban-based South African Communist Party (SACP) and African National Congress (ANC) members; scholarly debates concern the relative importance of the SACP, ANC and the Soviet Union. Yet the Left was fluid and eclectic during this transitional period. Seeking new approaches and methods to address the rapidly evolving political environment, left-wing
activists drew on political and personal contacts to build new underground networks. Their arguments came not from the Soviets but from the experiences of guerrilla struggles, such as Algeria’s war of independence. They sought, unsuccessfully, to integrate insights from Algeria into their strategies.
der, CO: Westview Press, 2010. xii + 495 pp., $36.91 paperback (ISBN 978-0-813-34444-7). Making F... more der, CO: Westview Press, 2010. xii + 495 pp., $36.91 paperback (ISBN 978-0-813-34444-7). Making Feminist Sense of the Global Justice Movement. By Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010. xiii + 266 pp., $26.95 hardcover (ISBN-13: 978-0-742-55592-1).
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Books by Allison Drew
Amazon #1 Best Seller Death & Grief
Amazon #1 Best Seller Grief & Bereavement
Articles and book chapters by Allison Drew
activists drew on political and personal contacts to build new underground networks. Their arguments came not from the Soviets but from the experiences of guerrilla struggles, such as Algeria’s war of independence. They sought, unsuccessfully, to integrate insights from Algeria into their strategies.
Amazon #1 Best Seller Death & Grief
Amazon #1 Best Seller Grief & Bereavement
activists drew on political and personal contacts to build new underground networks. Their arguments came not from the Soviets but from the experiences of guerrilla struggles, such as Algeria’s war of independence. They sought, unsuccessfully, to integrate insights from Algeria into their strategies.
The study begins with an historical analysis of the origins and development of the racially-divided working class. It challenges functionalist explanations which attribute racial policies and practices to the influence of particular classes or groupings, demonstrating instead that the roots of the racially-divided working class lay in the racial pattern in which the processes of proletarianization and urbanization unfolded. This racial pattern of development laid the basis both for the turbulent labor struggles of the early twentieth century and for the racial policies promoted by different social classes, notably white labor and capitalists, and institutionalized into state policy.
The study then focuses on the interaction between socialist theory and practice and the movements for non-collaboration, black unity and African self-reliance which flourished from the 1930s through the 1950s, and it examines their internal class dynamics to explain why radicals failed to maintain the initial mass support mobilized by these movements. It analyzes the theoretical frameworks which socialists used to explain the articulation of class and color and compares them to the actual conditions of working class development and political consciousness in South Africa. The study concludes with a comparative overview of Communist and Trotskyist strategies and tactics in the face of common objective constraints.