Southern Rhodesia Communist Party
Underground communist party in Rhodesia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]