Anti-apartheid solidarity in the perspectives and practices of the British far left in the 1970s and ’80s

This chapter examines the relationship of three different far Left tendencies to the antiapartheid struggle during the 1970s and 1980s. It contrasts the politics and practices of the CPGB, two dominant currents in British Trotskyism (Militant and the IS/SWP tradition), as well as the smaller Revolutionary Communist Group. These groups identified different agents of revolutionary change in South Africa; had different geopolitical understandings of South Africa’s place in the world; and their specific conceptualisations of internationalism shaped how they practised solidarity with those resisting apartheid.