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Owing to its ready availability as well as to its intrinsic interest, I am breaking precedent with NR’s policy against noticing foreign publications not available in the U.S. to review Keith Campbell’s extremely useful booklet ANC: A Soviet Task Force? (Institute for the Study of Terrorism, 65 Blandford Street, London W1H 3AJ, England, UK; $4.50). Mr. Campbell’s work richly merits publication and distribution in the United States, events that the prevailing war hysteria in this country make unlikely.

Indeed, the situation is not much better in Great Britain where, as Lord Chalfont (who serves as chairman of the institute) notes in a foreword, “One of the myths carefully fostered by organs of progressive opinion … is that the African National Congress is a straightforward nationalist movement, dedicated to the peaceful establishment of majority rule in South Africa. . . . When the ANC was founded in 1912 by moderate mission-educated black South Africans, its aims may well have been peaceful and evolutionary. The present-day ANC is a very different organization. In the 1950s it began to establish close links with the South African Communist Party, and in 1961 it founded Umkhonto we Sizwe (the Spear of the Nation), a militant organization openly dedicated to the overthrow of the South African regime by ‘armed struggle,’ which in practice has come to mean terrorism.” In 58 large, crowded, and highly condensed pages, Mr. Campbell substantiates these remarks and offers what amounts to conclusive evidence that the goal of the ANC—acting in formal alliance with the South African Communist Party (SACP) and in close collaboration with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)—is the creation of a one-party Communist-dominated state, entailing the enslavement of all South Africans, black, white, and colored, and the inclusion of South Africa within the Soviet bloc.

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Owing to its ready availability as well as to its intrinsic interest, I am breaking precedent with NR’s policy against noticing foreign publications not available in the U.S. to review Keith Campbell’s extremely useful booklet ANC: A Soviet Task Force? (Institute for the Study of Terrorism, 65 Blandford Street, London W1H 3AJ, England, UK; $4.50). Mr. Campbell’s work richly merits publication and distribution in the United States, events that the prevailing war hysteria in this country make unlikely.

Indeed, the situation is not much better in Great Britain where, as Lord Chalfont (who serves as chairman of the institute) notes in a foreword, “One of the myths carefully fostered by organs of progressive opinion … is that the African National Congress is a straightforward nationalist movement, dedicated to the peaceful establishment of majority rule in South Africa. . . . When the ANC was founded in 1912 by moderate mission-educated black South Africans, its aims may well have been peaceful and evolutionary. The present-day ANC is a very different organization. In the 1950s it began to establish close links with the South African Communist Party, and in 1961 it founded Umkhonto we Sizwe (the Spear of the Nation), a militant organization openly dedicated to the overthrow of the South African regime by ‘armed struggle,’ which in practice has come to mean terrorism.” In 58 large, crowded, and highly condensed pages, Mr. Campbell substantiates these remarks and offers what amounts to conclusive evidence that the goal of the ANC—acting in formal alliance with the South African Communist Party (SACP) and in close collaboration with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)—is the creation of a one-party Communist-dominated state, entailing the enslavement of all South Africans, black, white, and colored, and the inclusion of South Africa within the Soviet bloc.