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Baruch Hirson was born on 10 December, 1921 in South Africa, is a South African political activist, academic, author and historian. Discover Baruch Hirson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Born 10 December, 1921
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Date of death 3 October, 1999
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1921

Baruch Hirson (10 December 1921 – 3 October 1999) was a South African political activist, academic, author, and historian, who was jailed for nine years in apartheid-era South Africa before moving to England in 1973.

1938

Influenced against Stalinism by reading Workers' Front (1938), Fenner Brockway's account of the Spanish Civil War, he became a Trotskyist.

1939

His mathematical ability enabled him to study as a part-time student at the University of Witwatersrand, matriculating in 1939.

1940

In 1940, he joined Hashomer Hatzair, the radical Zionist youth movement.

Encountering organized anti-Semitism from the Greyshirts and those celebrating the centenary of the Great Trek, he moved towards Marxism, joining the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa (FIOSA).

1944

From 1944 to 1946, Hirson was full-time-organiser for the Workers' International League, a short-lived Trotskyist group, trying to develop black trade unions despite the Suppression of Communism Act.

He came to know other South African Trotskyists such as M. N. Averbach, Hosea Jaffe, Yudel Burlak and Raff Lee.

When the WIL stopped working with unions, Hirson was involved for a while with the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM).

1950

In 1950, he joined the Congress of Democrats, the white wing of the ANC-led Congress Alliance, organizing a new Socialist League of Africa.

1960

After the Sharpeville Massacre Hirson felt discouraged by the political failure to combat apartheid and in 1960 he wrote a critique of the movement, called 10 Years of the Stay at Home.

In the early 1960s, Hirson organized a National Committee for Liberation, later known as the African Resistance Movement (ARM), with other Trotskyists and younger members of the ANC.

1964

The group carried out sabotage actions, and in 1964 Hirson was arrested, convicted of sabotage, and jailed for nine years.

During his time in Pretoria Central Prison, he met Denis Goldberg, and helped Goldberg to communicate with ANC members on the outside via coded letters.

1973

Released in 1973, but facing a banning order and house arrest, Hirson and his family moved to England.

There he found posts at Middlesex University and Bradford University.

1979

These communications helped to effect the prison escape of Tim Jenkin, Stephen Lee and Alex Moumbaris in 1979 (later the subject of the film Escape from Pretoria).

1986

He initially lectured in physics, but in 1986, enrolled for a PhD in history.

Beginning with Year of fire, year of ash, a record of the Soweto uprising, Hirson wrote a series of works on the history of the left and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.

He collaborated with Hillel Ticktin of Critique, and founded the critical journal Searchlight South Africa with Paul Trewhela.

1991

He was co-founder of the critical journal Searchlight South Africa, and in 1991, a critic of what he referred to as Stalinist methods used by the African National Congress (ANC).

Baruch Hirson was born to a lower-middle class Jewish family in Doornfontein, Johannesburg.

His parents, Joseph and Lily Hirson, had emigrated to South Africa to escape anti-Semitism in the Russian Empire.

From the age of four, Hirson attended a Hebrew school in Johannesburg.

In 1991, Hirson returned to visit South Africa, speaking at eight universities with the demand that "use of Stalinist methods in the ANC" be exposed and stopped.

1995

In 1995, his biography of the Welsh communist and opponent of apartheid, David Ivon Jones, was published.

1999

He died in London in 1999, aged 77, from the cumulative effects of a long-term degenerative paralysis of the bone structure, one of several health problems exacerbated by his imprisonment.

2011

In March 2011, the country of Sierra Leone issued a postage stamp in his honor, naming him as one of the Legendary Heroes of Africa.