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200 10$aRuth First and Joe Slovo in the war against apartheid$b[electronic resource] /$fAlan Wieder ; foreword by Nadine Gordimer
210   $aNew York $cMonthly Review Press$d2013
215   $a1 online resource (391 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tIntroduction --$tFrom the shtetl to South Africa --$tWar, wits, politics and Ruth meets Joe --$tApartheid, children, and the beginning of the struggle --$tThe treason trials, and underground action --$tSharpeville, prison, and exile --$tThe initial exile :$gliving in London --$tAcademics, writing, and activism :$gmoving toward Africa --$tAcademics and revolution :$gtaking the struggle home --$tAssassination, grief, and expulsion from Maputo --$tLusaka, marriage, and the beginning of the journey home --$tHome --$tElection, ministry, resting in Soweto --$tEpilogue.
330   $aRuth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of the war to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising militants, they were the perfect enemies for the white police state. Together they were swept up in the growing resistance to apartheid, and together they experienced repression and exile. Their contributions to the liberation struggle, as individuals and as a couple, are undeniable. Ruth agitated tirelessly for the overthrow of apartheid, first in South Africa and then from abroad, and Joe directed much of the armed struggle carried out by the
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