TOWARDS SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY

725pp., hardback, Pietermartizburg, 2007

Explores the history of the global strggle for socialism in the twentieth century with particular emphasis on the liberation struggle in South Africa from the 1920s through the 1980s, discusses the mistakes made by the leadership of the South African Communist Party and examines the economic record of the African National Congress government since 1994.

Martin Legassick was emeritus professor at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town.