Gower and the Peasants' Revolt

The United Democratic Front and Township Revolt ^ South Africa

Recent years have witnessed the revival of organised mass opposition to Apartheid. Fighting in the townships, labour unrest, classroom revolts, rent strikes, consumer boycotts, worker stayaways and guerilla warfare all these have become familiar features of South Africa's political landscape since 1976. From the inception of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983, though, radical black oppos...

The revolt of youth: some historical comparisons.

The existence of a youth problem appears to many a phenomenon peculiarly characteristic of our own time. In fact, in the United States over the past fifty years almost each generation has produced distinctive young rebels-the bohemians before and after World War I, the radicals of the thirties and forties, the beatniks and hipsters of the fifties, and the hippies and romantic anarcho-marxists o...

Frank Gower Bergin

Frank Gower Bergin passed away in his sleep on October 25th, after a prolonged period of restricted activity due to cardiac weakness. His father and brother were at one time Directors of Muller's Orphanage; two brothers were doctors, and a sister was for a while Casualty Sister at the General Hospital. With the late James Taylor, he pioneered radiological services in Bristol, working for many y...

Peasants Make Their Own History

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Revolt on the Nile: Economic Shocks, Religion, and Political Power