The oldest members and founders

The oldest members and founders of Sydney p were expelled from the Communist Party. Bowing and William Andrews, accused of reformism, white chauvinism, and even counter -revolutionary activity. Characterizing the efforts of the Walton spouses and their supporters in the “Bolshevization” of the party, all the same. Kotan noted: “Walton arrived with the Comintern mandate to destroy reformism in the party. He did it so thoroughly that he pushed off the members of the trade unions from the party so that we could not even maintain contacts with them «. All this lasted more than three years. In early 1934. Waltons suddenly left South Africa, this time forever, and moved to England. The Secretary General broke up with the party led by him so hastily that he did not properly formalize some organizational and even financial affairs. Explaining the reasons for such a departure, Douglas Walton, in a letter to his authorities in the Executive Committee of the Comintern, referred to family circumstances related to raising a child, as well as a “complete decline in physical forces and a nervous disorder of Comrade Molly”. In 1948. In Moscow, the book of Douglas Walton was published into Russian entitled «Where is South Africa going». The fact that the book does not have a word about the relationship of Walton with the Comintern is not surprising — all this was hidden by the cover of secrecy. Another surprises — in the header of the book in Russian there is no question mark that stood in the English original. In all likelihood, unlike the author, for three years of his activity as the Secretary General of the South African Communist Party actually ruined the South African Communist Party, “where is South Africa going”. And they even added a subtitle: «The people of Bantu in the struggle for their liberation».