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Author(s):	Paul S. Landau

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0821424793
Pages:	372	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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A revelatory and definitive account of how Nelson Mandela and his peers led South Africa to the brink of revolution against the postwar twentieth centurys most infamously racist regime. Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries brings to life the brief revolutionary period in which Nelson Mandela and his comrades fought apartheid not just with words but also with violence. After the 1960 Sharpeville police shootings of civilian protesters, Mandela and his comrades in the mass-resistance order of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party pioneered the use of force and formed Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation. A civilian-based militia, MK stockpiled weapons and waged a war of sabotage against the state with pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, and dynamite. In response, the state passed draconian laws, militarized its police, and imprisoned its enemies without trial. Drawing from several hundred first-person accounts, most of which are unpublished, Paul Landau traces Mandelas alliesand opponentsin communist, pan-Africanist, liberal, and other groups involved in escalating resistance alongside the ANC. After Mandelas capture, the Pan Africanist Congress planned to initiate street violence, and MK organized Operation Mayibuye, an uprising to be led by trained commandos. The state short-circuited those plans and subsequently jailed, exiled, tortured, and murdered revolutionaries. The era of high apartheid then began. Spear reshapes our understanding of Mandela by focusing on this intense but relatively neglected period of escalation in the movement against apartheid. Landaus book is not a biography, nor is it a history of a militia or an army  rather, it is a riveting story about ordinary civilians debating and acting together in extremis. Contextualizing Mandela and MKs activities amid anticolonial change and Black Marxism in the early 1960s, Spear also speaks to todays transnational antiracism protests and worldwide struggles against oppression.
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