ABSTRACT
In accordance with the development of the labour movement since the imperialist war, our Party has gone through a number of certain.-..-. .-. stages of development.-..-..-..-..-..-.. The first stage was that of its birth. That was in the period when the position of the white workers as a result of the war and the.-. .-. post-war crisis (which made itself felt also in South Africa) was greatly shattered. The labour aristocracy for the first time declared strikes against wage cuts (the railway workers in 1914, the miners in 1922), the white workers intensively began to organise. Hence the wave of passing radicalism and opposition tendencies in the organisations of the white workers – the Labour Party and the unions. At the extreme left were the founders of the future Communist Party. Neither their radicalism nor their anti-war stand as yet indicated their firmness. Not only workers who settled in the country were then anti-imperialists, but also that section of the bourgeoisie which considered South Africa its home and was not anxious to fight in the interests of Great Britain.
