Southern Rhodesia Communist Party
- Southern Rhodesia Communist Party
Southern Rhodesia Communist Party was an illegal, underground communist party in Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe). It emerged from a split in the Rhodesia Labour Party. [ [http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj94/zeilig.htm Crisis in Zimbabwe ] ] The party had a small, and predominately white, membership. The party had links to the Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist Party of Great Britain. [ [http://links.org.au/node/77 Revolutionaries, resistance and crisis in Zimbabwe | Links ] ] The party disappeared in the late 1940s. [ [http://www.greenleft.org.au/2002/476/29015 Green Left - ZIMBABWE: Women and the fight against HIV/AIDS ] ] Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing was a member of the party. [ [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dlessing.htm Doris Lessing ] ]
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