African Peoples' Democratic Union of Southern Africa

{{Short description|Political group in Southern Africa}}

{{Trotskyism}}

The African Peoples' Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) is a Trotskyist political group in South Africa. Formed in 1961, it emerged from the Non-European Unity Movement, and was closely associated with I.B. Tabata, a leading Marxist who died in exile in 1990. Its aim was to end white minority domination of South Africa and ultimately achieve a socialist revolution supported by an alliance of the urban proletariat and peasantry.{{cite book |author1=John Sharp |editor1-last=Devisch |editor1-first=René |editor2-last=Nyamnjoh |editor2-first=Francis |title=The Postcolonial Turn |date=2011 |publisher=African Books Collective |isbn=9789956726653 |page=76}} APDUSA was involved in armed struggle in the 1960s, but suffered heavy repression from the apartheid state.'Robin Kayser & Mohamed Adhikari, 2004, "Peasant and Proletarian: A History of the African Peoples' Democratic Union of Southern Africa," Kleio, volume 36, number 1, pp. 5-27 APDUSA remains active today {{cite web | url=http://www.apdusa.org.za/| title=APDUSA: The African Peoples' Democratic Union of Southern Africa | publisher=APUDUSA| accessdate=7 August 2018}} and publishes the APUDUSAN Newsletter.{{cite web | url=http://www.apdusa.org.za/newsletter//| title= APUDUSAN Newsletter | date= 16 November 2011 | publisher=APUDUSA| accessdate=7 August 2018}}