Lucien van der Walt, 1998, "South Africa's Job Crisis: Can the Job Summit Deliver?," talk given at a meeting of the Workers Solidarity Federation (WSF), at the Workers' Library & Museum, Newtown, Johannesburg, 26 September. South Africa is in the midst of an unemployment crisis unprecedented in its history. There at least 5 million jobless. … Continue reading [TALK]: Lucien van der Walt, 1998, “South Africa’s Unemployment Crisis: Can the Job Summit Deliver?”
Author: Lucien van der Walt
I teach at Rhodes University, the Eastern Cape. I’m 10th generation South African, born and bred. I have long been involved in union and working class education, and have a background in social movement and left-wing activism, the Workers’ Library and Museum, the Anti-Privatisation Forum, and the National Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU).
I’ve presented or published 450+ papers, including conferences and workshops, co-edited 4 journal specials (on global and African labour history, and the left), and produced five books. Southern Africa editor for the 2009 'International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest' (Blackwell). I won the 2008 international ‘Labor History’ PhD thesis prize, and the 2008/2009 Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) award for best African dissertation, for my thesis on South African anarchism, syndicalism and black militants. I have also done research in Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
[ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Wits 2001: restructuring and retrenchments” in ‘South African Labour Bulletin’
Lucien van der Walt, 2000, "Wits 2001: Restructuring and Retrenchments," South African Labour Bulletin, volume 24, number 2, p. 43. Get the PDF here. Text below. BRIEFING The ongoing restructuring of state assets has its echo in the tertiary [education] sector, which employs about 60 000 people. The trend over the last five years … Continue reading [ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Wits 2001: restructuring and retrenchments” in ‘South African Labour Bulletin’
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “In a Neoliberal World: Is Nationalisation a Route to Socialism?” (Lesedi presentation)
Lucien van der Walt, 19 August 2000, "In a Neoliberal World: Is Nationalisation a Route to Socialism?" (Lesedi Socialist Study Group, Wits University, Johannesburg). Get the PDF here. Text below. Is nationalisation a route to socialism? Paper by Lucien van der Walt (revised after presentation) Lesedi Socialist Study Group, Johannesburg 19 August 2000 Nationalisation – … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “In a Neoliberal World: Is Nationalisation a Route to Socialism?” (Lesedi presentation)
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2004, “Reflections on Race and Anarchism in South Africa, 1904-2004”, ‘Perspectives on Anarchist Theory’
Lucien van der Walt, 2004, “Reflections on Race and Anarchism in South Africa, 1904-2004”, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, Institute for Anarchist Studies (United States), volume 8, number 1, pp. 1, 13-16. Get the PDF here. Text below. *The following article by lAS [Institute for Anarchist Studies] grant recipient Lucien van der Walt explores the … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2004, “Reflections on Race and Anarchism in South Africa, 1904-2004”, ‘Perspectives on Anarchist Theory’
[ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Penalising the Workers [university neo-liberalism],” in ‘Sowetan’
Lucien van der Walt, 13 June 2000, “Penalising the Workers”, The Sowetan. Get the PDF here. Text below. Growing conflict over 620 retrenchments at Wits University is the latest salvo in a battle for the soul of higher education, writes Lucien van der Walt. ------ Battle lines have been drawn at the University of … Continue reading [ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Penalising the Workers [university neo-liberalism],” in ‘Sowetan’
[INTERVIEW]: Lucien van der Walt, 2011, interview in London-based “Freedom”
I was interviewed for the London-based "Freedom" anarchist newspaper back in 2011, the interview appearing in the January 2012 print edition. The paper was founded in 1886 by the exiled Piotr Kropotkin (!) and others as "A Journal of Anarchist Socialism" and had a fairly continuous print-run into 2014 when it went online only. Copies … Continue reading [INTERVIEW]: Lucien van der Walt, 2011, interview in London-based “Freedom”
[ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “Beyond ‘White Monopoly Capital’: Who owns South Africa?,” in ‘South African Labour Bulletin’
Lucien van der Walt, 2015, "Beyond ‘White Monopoly Capital’: Who owns South Africa?," South African Labour Bulletin, volume 39, number 3, pp. 39-42. Get the PDF here. Text below. Note the text below includes all references: these do not appear in the published PDF. p. 39 The debate on 'white monopoly capital' has some blind … Continue reading [ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “Beyond ‘White Monopoly Capital’: Who owns South Africa?,” in ‘South African Labour Bulletin’
[ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “How Imperialism and Postcolonial Elites have Plundered Africa: And the Class Struggle, Anarchist-Communist Solution,” in ‘Tokologo’
Lucien van der Walt, 2015, "How Imperialism and Postcolonial Elites have Plundered Africa: And the Class Struggle, Anarchist-Communist Solution," Tokologo, numbers 5/6, pp. 17-19. Get the PDF here. Text below. How Imperialism and Postcolonial Elites have Plundered Africa: And the Class Struggle, Anarchist-Communist Solution by LUCIEN VAN DER WALT 'Tokologo,' numbers 5/6, pp. 17-19. … Continue reading [ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “How Imperialism and Postcolonial Elites have Plundered Africa: And the Class Struggle, Anarchist-Communist Solution,” in ‘Tokologo’
[ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2005/2006, “The Influence of the IWW in Southern Africa,” in ‘Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (ASR)’
Lucien van der Walt, 2005/2006, "The Influence of the IWW in Southern Africa," Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (ASR), numbers 42/3, pp. 31-38. Get the PDF online here. Text below. The IWW had an important impact on South Africa and its surrounding region in the early twentieth century. The ideas and model of the IWW were deeply … Continue reading [ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2005/2006, “The Influence of the IWW in Southern Africa,” in ‘Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (ASR)’
[ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “Bill Andrews and South Africa’s Revolutionary Syndicalists”, in ‘Tokologo’
Lucien van der Walt, 2015, "Bill Andrews and South Africa’s Revolutionary Syndicalists", Tokologo, numbers 5/6, p. 24. Get the PDF here. Text below. "Bill Andrews and South Africa's Revolutionary Syndicalists" by LUCIEN VAN DER WALT Tokologo, 2015, numbers 5/6, p. 24 If W. H. "Bill" Andrews (1870- 1950) is remembered today, it is usually … Continue reading [ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “Bill Andrews and South Africa’s Revolutionary Syndicalists”, in ‘Tokologo’
[REFERENCE] Lucien van der Walt, 2012, “Thibedi, T.W. (1888-1960)” in ‘Dictionary of African Biography’
Lucien van der Walt, 2012, "Thibedi, T.W. (1888-1960)", Henry Louis Gates and Emmanuel Akyeampong (eds.), Dictionary of African Biography, volume 6, Oxford University Press, pp. 13-14. Get the PDF here.
[ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “’Fight for Africa, Which you Deserve’: The Industrial Workers of Africa in South Africa, 1917-1921”, in ‘Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library’
Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “'Fight for Africa, Which you Deserve': The Industrial Workers of Africa in South Africa, 1917-1921”, Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library, number 24, pp. 2,5,6. Get the PDF here. Better quality one (as part of complete Bulletin) here.
[ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Putting Profit First” [university restructuring]
Lucien van der Walt, 7 September 2000, "Putting Profit First," The Sowetan. Still relevant. Get the PDF here. Lucien van der Walt, September 7, 2000, PUTTING PROFIT FIRST, in THE SOWETAN Wits is rapidly turning into a market university that serves the wealthy, while excluding working class people, writes Lucien van der Walt Just … Continue reading [ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Putting Profit First” [university restructuring]
[ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “From Living Wage to Working Class Counter-Power: Theory, Strategy and Struggle,” in ‘Bargaining Indicators 2015’
Lucien van der Walt, October 2015, "From Living Wage to Working Class Counter-Power: Theory, Strategy and Struggle," Bargaining Indicators 2015: A Collective Bargaining Omnibus, volume 15, pp. 117-124. This is a slightly expanded and revised version of a paper previously published in the South African Labour Bulletin earlier in 2015, which you can read here. … Continue reading [ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “From Living Wage to Working Class Counter-Power: Theory, Strategy and Struggle,” in ‘Bargaining Indicators 2015’
[PHOTO + SPEECH]: Prof Lucien van der Walt at fees protests: “Free higher education, complete national liberation,” at “Rhodes” University, 19 October 2015
Personal statement by "Rhodes" University professor Lucien van der Walt: "Rights are not given from above but won from below. Fight for free higher education as part of the struggle for change and completing the black working class national liberation struggle in South Africa. Move the struggle from individual VCs and universities … Continue reading [PHOTO + SPEECH]: Prof Lucien van der Walt at fees protests: “Free higher education, complete national liberation,” at “Rhodes” University, 19 October 2015
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