ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the dilemmas which confront the Communist Party as a result of the failure in class solidarity between workers of different race. The problems in relating to the national or racial liberatory movement, and the difficulties in the application of revolutionary theory derived from the class struggle. The chapter stresses the racial or ethnic structure as the crucial factor and suggests how this emphasis may contribute to the analysis of revolutionary change. Throughout, the chapter draws largely on case studies of South Africa, in which there is de jure differential incorporation of the races and the subordinate races are in the great majority, and Algeria, before the revolution, a colonial situation, with sharp cleavages between the population of colons and the indigenous people. The failure in class solidarity between workers of different race or ethnic group runs contrary to the expectations Communist Parties would derive from classical Marxist theory.
