Classes and the national liberation struggle: the case of southern Africa with special reference on the frontline states

Abstract

The national liberation of Southern Africa with an exception of few other areas in Africa assumed and continues to assume an ever wider mark of armed struggle. For instance, 1985, has witnessed escalating armed struggle in South Africa and Nambia, the last of the remaining colonies. The South African regime continues to carry out hot pursuits amongst the frontline states in its determination not only to wipe out freedom fighter bases but also to compel these states to sign a non-aggression pact with her.

At no time in the history of the national liberation struggle have the character of classes that rule the states on the globe revealed their true character towards the national liberation more than during the national liberation struggle of Southern Africa.In particular, the class forces that are the ruling parties in the frontline states have increasingly led bare their true character towards the national liberation particularly. between 1969 to 1984 when one of them (Mozambique) signed a non-aggression treaty with the national colonial bourgeois state of South Africa. There can be no doubt that the final liberation of South Africa and Nambia is yet to reveal the character of classes that rule the states on the globe more fully.