Class Contradictions and Class Alliances: The Social Nature of ICU Leadership, 1924-1929

ICU

An examination of the class character of the leadership of the ICU by Helen Bradford.

'(The ICU) differed from the ANC in one other important respect: Its leaders were not drawn from the "respectable classes". They had come straight from the ranks of the workers themselves, and they had a ruggedness and militancy that men accustomed to making obeisances before authority found outrageous.'

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