yaBasebenzi, and the MWT newspaper, Congress Militant. He was expelled by the ANC in 1985. Academia After the unbanning of the ANC in 1990 he was able to return home to Cape Town where he returned to academia. However, he continued to play a leading role in the MWT of the ANC and was active in working class struggles in the Western Cape. The Marxist Workers' Tendency was affiliated to the Committee for a Workers' International, an international organisation of Trotskyist parties and the newspaper, The Militant. Legassick was expelled from the ANC in 1985. Legassick later became a prominent activist working with a variety of groups in Cape Town including the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign in the 2000s, with Abahlali baseMjondolo, with the Mandela Park Backyarders and, more recently, in the Democratic Left Front. In 2007 he was involved in an exchange of open letters with the then National Minister of Housing in South Africa, Lindiwe Sisulu. In May 2009 he was arrested while supporting the Macassar Village Land Occupation near Cape Town. A dominant and consistent theme in Legassick's political work is the building of "a mass workers' party". 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. Publications References Further reading The Making of the South African Past, Christopher Saunders, 1988 External links The African Activist Archive Project website includes material a description of and material of the South Africa Freedom Action Committee of which Martin Legassick was a founder. 1940 births 2016 deaths Housing in South Africa Members of the African National Congress South African academics South African activists South African Trotskyists L South African Marxists