The world tries to turn him into a harmless man of peace, but we remember the revolutionary. His radical leanings are often sanitised by a history that wants to ignore his membership in the South African Communist Party and his commitment to the total overthrow of racialised capitalism.
He understood that you cannot have freedom without bread. This was an international struggle, supported by the young workers of the Young Communist League right here in Britain. Known as the London Recruits, these YCL members went undercover to sustain the resistance when it was most dangerous, proving that the fight against apartheid was a fight for the global working class.
To learn more about this history of British communist solidarity, visit the London Recruits archive: londonrecruits.org.uk
Nelson Mandela died on 5 December 2013
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