International Socialist League | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | ISL |
| Founder | David Ivon Jones |
| Founded | September 1915 |
| Dissolved | February 12, 1921 |
| Merged into | CPSA |
| Ideology | Libertarian socialism[1] Marxism De Leonism Syndicalism[2] |
| Political position | Far-left |
The International Socialist League of South Africa was the earliest major Marxist party in South Africa, and a predecessor of the South African Communist Party. The ISL was founded around the syndicalist politics of the Industrial Workers of the World and Daniel De Leon.[3][4]
- ^ Van der Walt, Lucien. "'The Industrial Union is the Embryo of the Socialist Commonwealth': The International Socialist League and Revolutionary Syndicalism in South Africa, 1915–1920." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 19, no. 1 (1999): 5-28. "Whereas the Communist Party of South Africa was unambiguously Leninist and Marxist, the International Socialist League was, despite minor Marxist influences, a revolutionary syndicalist organization situated in the broad libertarian socialist tradition".
- ^ Hirson 2005, p. 7.
- ^ Hirson 2005, pp. 7–19.
- ^ van der Walt 2004, pp. 67–89.
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