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When thought was a crime: Neville Alexander and NLF (Prof Allison Drew)

This seminar is brought to you as part of the Indexing Transformation seminar series held by the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University. Abstract: My project is a study of the tiny National Liberation Front (NLF) and its precursor, the even tinier Yu Chi Chan Club, its name meaning 'guerrilla struggle,' after a pamphlet by Mao Zedong. I argue that the groups need to be understood as part of the transnational New Left of the long global 1960s, and I highlight Neville Alexander's role as a transnational intellectual-activist in this South African New Left. In marked contrast to other early 1960s groups, the NLF has been virtually ignored by historians of South Africa's liberation movement. Yet the NLF trial, I argue, shows more starkly than any other during those years the Orwellian concept of thoughtcrime in apartheid South Africa--when the South African state criminalized thought.