A collection of around 150 items relating to the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, and African revolutionary politics, including booklets, periodicals, newspapers, handbills and circulars, from the papers of South African activist Basil Stein.

Upwards of 150 items, in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. In two parts, with Part One (around 100 items) relating directly to the anti-apartheid struggle, and Part Two (around 50 items) to broader African revolutionary politics. Part One includes 16 booklets from the 1950s and 1960s: 'Nelson Mandela versus the State'; 'The Unholy Alliance. Salazar, Verwoerd, Welensky'; S. Abdul, 'The Truth about South Africa'; 'Sing Free South Africa'; 'What can I do? A Guide to Action Against Apartheid'; I. B. Tabata, 'Education for Barbarism'; Leslie Rubin, 'This is Apartheid'; H. E. Joosub, 'Bitterness towards Indians'; 'Blueprint for Blackout. A Commentary on the Education Policy of the Institut vir Christelik-Nationale Onderwys'; 'South West Africa. An International Responsibility'; 'The Collaborators. Published by the Anti-Apartheid Movement'; 'Non-racial Democracy. The policies of the Liberal Party of South Africa'; 'Brute Force. Treatment of prisoners in South Africa's gaols'; 'South Africa on Trial: behind the "Rivonia" Case'; Rt Rev. Ambrose Reeves, 'South Africa: Let the Facts Speak'; 'Seretse Khama. A Background Study of the South African Crisis.'; Father Trevor Huddlestone (foreword), 'Sport, the Arts and the Colour Bar in South Africa'. Also in Part One are the following periodicals: the first issue of 'Information Bulletin Pan-Africanist Congress (South Africa)' (London: May 1965); 3 issues of 'Liberal News. Bulletin of the Transvaal Division of the Liberal Party of South Africa' (Johannesburg: 1965); 6 issues of 'Colonial Freedom News' (London: Movement for Colonial Freedom, 1963-1966); 9 issues of 'Information . . . South Africa . . . and analysis', edited by Lewis Nkosi (Paris: 1963-1966); 9 issues of 'The New African', edited by Randolph Vigne (London: 1963-1965); 7 issues of 'Apartheid News' (London: Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1965-1966); 4 issues of 'Sechaba. Official organ of the African National Congress, South Africa' (London: 1978-1979). Part One also includes around fifty items relating to the anti-apartheid movement, dating from the 1960s, including magazines, circulars, fliers, brochures, many published by the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Part Two includes 8 booklets: Th. Munzer, 'De l'Emancipation Nationale à la Révolution Socialiste en Afrique Noire'; 'Background to Rhodesia'; 'In support of the People of the Congo (Leopoldville) against U.S. aggression'; 'South West Africa. An international responsibility'; 'The Movement for Colonial Freedom. Annual Report 1964'; 'Congo. Prelude to Independence'; Lionel Forman, 'Chapters in the History of the March to Freedom'; Johannes Meintjes, 'Frontier Family'. Part two also contains the following periodicals: 14 issues of 'The African Communist', published by the South African Communist Party (1963-1974); 4 issues of 'The Afro-Asian Journalist' (1964 and 1965); 2 issues of 'Race Relations News' (1956); 2 issues of 'Africa Latin America Asia Revolution' (1964). Also in Part Two are around 20 items from the 1960s, including South African newspapers, leaflets, fliers, brochures, a handbill for a 1950 mass meeting in Trafalgar Square on 'Human Rights and Africa' and a copy of the August/September 1963 issue of 'Freedom', published by the British Guiana Freedom Association.