Southern Rhodesia Communist Party

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Political history — Overview 1890–1923  BSA Company rule 1923–1980  Southern Rhodesia 1953–1963  Rhodesia–Nyasaland Federation 1965–1979  Rhodesia under UDI  1979  Zimbabwe Rhodesia (under UDI)
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The Southern Rhodesia Communist Party was an illegal, underground communist party established in Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) which was formed in large part due to the minority settler rule, which had an immensely repressive structure.^[1] It emerged in 1941 from a split in the Rhodesia Labour Party.^[2] The party consisted of a small, and predominantly white, membership. During the parties existence it had links to other communist parties such as the Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist Party of Great Britain.^[1] The party disappeared in the late 1940s, with the exact date of its dissolution not being known.^[3] Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing author of various works including “The Grass is Singing,”^[4] is the most well known member of the Southern Rhodesian Communist Party.^[5]