Legassick, Martin
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Name (Latin)
Legassick, Martin
Date of birth
1940
Date of death
2016-03-01
Other associated place
Cape Town (South Africa)
Associate group
University of the Western Cape
Occupation
Historians
College teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Hidden histories of Gordonia, 2016:title page (Martin Legassick) page 4 of cover (1940-2016; was Emeritus Professor of History, University of the Western Cape; historian, activist and author)
- Towards socialist democracy, 2007:t.p. (Martin Legassick) p. 4 of cover (Martin Legassick has a long history of political involvement and activism. He is an emeritus professor at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa)
- Wikipedia, July 28, 2025(Martin Legassick; born in Edinborough, Scotland in 1940; a central figure in the "revisionist" school of South African historiography, drawing on Marxism, that revolutionized study of Apartheid by highlighting the importance of political economy, class contradictions and imperialism; also a critic, from the left, of positions taken by the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party; emigrated with his parents to South Africa in 1947; attended Diocesan College, Cape Town; became a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford in 1960; completed his PhD at the University of California; worked at universities in the United Kingdom and Tanzania, where he became active in the ANC and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in exile; in 1979 he was suspended with others from the ANC for allegedly forming a faction; they then launched the Marxist Workers Tendency of the ANC; he left academia in 1981 to become a full-time anti-apartheid activist; after the unbanning of the ANC in 1990 he returned to Cape Town and to academia; later became an activist working with groups in Cape Town including the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign (2000s) and others; the Workers and Socialist Party is a South African political party from the MWT tradition that takes Legassick's work as an important reference point; died 1 March 2016 after a battle with cancer)
- His The National Union of South African Students ... 1968, c1967.
- Towards socialist democracy, 2007:t.p. (Martin Legassick) p. 4 of cover (Martin Legassick has a long history of political involvement and activism. He is an emeritius peofessor at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa)