White Supremacy Confronted

Citation

Horne, Gerald. White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism Vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela. International Publishers, 2019. Google Books Link

Excerpts

Page	Quote	Notes
294	”International communism openly deplores distinctions based upon race and as such must commend itself very strongly to the non-European communities of South Africa” - US State Dept memo
362	”the ratio of scholarships is now at least eight to one in favor of the Communists” [-memo to McGeorge Bundy about scholarships as soft power!]
507	“‘We have to remember’, said an official of the [British] Foreign and Commonwealth Office, ‘that the black African states were ruled by emotion to a greater extent than most other countries.‘“
510	US oficial in Nigeria: “We pay a price every day in US-Nigerian relations for voting with Portugal and South Africa”
552	”Congressman David Bowen argued that Salisbury and Pretoria were capitals of the continent’s only democracies.”
567	”By early 1977 one source estimated that 30% of Rhodesia’s forces had roots in the US, UK, or South Africa” with “600-800 US mercenaries in Rhodesia” [report from Quaker group]
577	Citation: General Walton Walker (1978), The Bear at the Door: The Soviet Threat to the West’s Lifeline in Africa
584	Citation: Monique Bedasse (2017), Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization
612	mid-1979, Sonia Bunting was “enthusiastically reporting to the ANC about ‘the success of my tour of Africa on behalf of Inkululeko Publications’, the party’s publishing arm, which distributed the African Communist from London”
661	”Recall, Hill said [Melvin Hill, president of Gulf Oil Exploration], how BP was nationalized in Nigeria because of disgust with London’s Rhodesia policy” [1981, Congressional testimony]
715	Pat Buchanan, “They [the Senate] cannot see that the battle for the future is not between segregation and de-segregation but the Soviet Empire and the West”
743	Herman Cohen: “do we work with the black nationalists in the organization [ANC] to help them get rid of communists?“
758	”Secretary of State Shultz instructed the Attorney General to intervene in Baltimore in ‘challenging that city’s divestment measure‘“
797	”On the ADL’s ‘extensive intelligence unit’, see San Francisco Chronicle, 23 April 1993”

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Abstract

Based upon exhaustive research in all presidential libraries from Hoover to Clinton, the voluminous archives of the African National Congress [ANC] at Fort Hare University in South Africa, along with allied archives of the NAACP, the Ford and Rockefeller fortunes, etc., this is the most comprehensive account to date of the entangled histories of apartheid and Jim Crow that culminated in 1994 with the election of Nelson Mandela as president in Pretoria.The author traces in detail the close ties between e.g. Mandela, Robeson, and Du Bois—among others—and how their working in tandem with the socialist camp (particularly the Soviet Union and Cuba) was the deciding factor (along with the struggles of Africans and their allies on both sides of the Atlantic) in compelling the reluctant retreat of the comrades-in-arms: apartheid and Jim Crow. However, weeks after the collapse of the Berlin Wall the apartheid regime chose to free Mandela and to legalize the ANC and its close ally, the South African Communist Party—while anticommunism, a major ideological weapon of the ruling class in Washington and Pretoria alike, surged—putting the Mandela government in a weakened position in the prelude to the nation’s first democratic elections in 1994 and thereafter.Also detailed in these riveting pages are the allied struggles in Namibia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Congo, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique, along with the massive solidarity movement in the U.S.—particularly among unions and students—that contributed mightily to victory.This is a story well worth studying as we continue to combat anticommunism—and struggle for socialism.

Metadata

FirstAuthor:: Horne, Gerald
Title:: White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-communism Vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela ShortTitle:: White Supremacy Confronted Year:: 2019
Citekey:: horne_white_2019
itemType:: book
Publisher:: International Publishers
ISBN:: 978-0-7178-0763-5