Lucien van der Walt, 26 May 2020, "Critically Assessing Social Programmes to Mitigate COVID-19: Long march to rebuilding bottom-up, working class-led change in South Africa," #SAFTUWorkersConversations series on "Coronavirus and the Working Class," South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), online. In conversation with SAFTU's Zwelinzima Vavi, Mametlwe Sebei and others, NALSU director, Professor Lucien … Continue reading VIDEO: Lucien van der Walt, 26 May 2020, “Critically Assessing Social Programmes to Mitigate COVID-19: Long march to rebuilding bottom-up, working class-led change in South Africa,” SAFTU Workers’ Conversations
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.
WORKERS’ CONVERSATIONS South Africa Livestream! Tuesday 26 May @ 19h00: Lucien van der Walt: “The working class, welfare and perspectives in the lockdown crisis”
WORKERS' CONVERSATIONS Livestream! Tuesday 26 May at 19h00 via SAFTU on Facebook, and via Zoom : the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) and Zwelinzima Vavi will be in discussion with Professor Lucien van der Walt of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU), Rhodes University, Makhanda. What measures have been put in place, … Continue reading WORKERS’ CONVERSATIONS South Africa Livestream! Tuesday 26 May @ 19h00: Lucien van der Walt: “The working class, welfare and perspectives in the lockdown crisis”
[4-DAY SCHOOL with Eastern Cape unions]: 9-12/07/2019: “Politics Within and At a Distance from the State”
The Vuyisile Mini Winter School is an annual event, launched at Rhodes University in 2015 with financial support from the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES). Named after a famed Eastern Cape trade unionist who was executed by the apartheid state, the Winter School has focused on trade unionists based in the Eastern Cape Province, where Rhodes … Continue reading [4-DAY SCHOOL with Eastern Cape unions]: 9-12/07/2019: “Politics Within and At a Distance from the State”
[6-DAY SCHOOL with Eastern Cape unions]: 25-30/08/2019: “South African Political Economy and the Global Crisis”
Looking back at the year: we ran a great August 2019 short course on “Political Economy, and Economic and Social Policy” at Rhodes University in Makhanda/ Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape. Our theme is “South African Political Economy and the Global Crisis.” The short course is the first module in our four module Policy, Theory … Continue reading [6-DAY SCHOOL with Eastern Cape unions]: 25-30/08/2019: “South African Political Economy and the Global Crisis”
[JOURNAL]: Lucien van der Walt, 2019, “Aspects de l’histoire de l’anarchisme et du syndicalisme révolutionnaire en Afrique du Sud, des années 1880 aux années 1920”
Lucien van der Walt, 2019, "Aspects de l’histoire de l’anarchisme et du syndicalisme révolutionnaire en Afrique du Sud, des années 1880 aux années 1920," Actuel Marx, 2019/2 (no 66), pp. 44-63. Get the PDF of print version here
[SHORT]: Lucien van der Walt, 2019, “Rebuilding Links between Unions and Co-operatives for Counter-Power”
Lucien van der Walt, 2019, "Rebuilding Links between Unions and Co-operatives for Counter-Power," Amandla, numbers 67/68, pp. 28-29 Get the PDF of print version here **Based on a talk in Tanzania on union strategy. High unemployment, together with stunning failures by both private and state sectors to provide basic services, have helped reignite interest in forming … Continue reading [SHORT]: Lucien van der Walt, 2019, “Rebuilding Links between Unions and Co-operatives for Counter-Power”
[REFERENCE]: Lucien van der Walt, 2009, “Thibedi, T.W. (1888-1960),” International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest`
Lucien van der Walt, 2009, "Thibedi, T.W. (1888-1960)," International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest, Blackwell, New York, online edition. Get the PDF of print version here
[REFERENCE]: Lucien van der Walt, 2009, “Sigamoney, Bernard L.E. (1888-1963),” International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest
Lucien van der Walt, 2009, "Sigamoney, Bernard L.E. (1888-1963)," International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest, Blackwell, New York, p. 3034. Get the PDF of print version here
[REFERENCE]: Lucien van der Walt, 2009,”Gomas, Johnny (1901-1979),” International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest
Lucien van der Walt, 2009,"Gomas, Johnny (1901-1979)," International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest, Blackwell, New York, pp. 1414-1415. Get the PDF of print version here
[REFERENCE]: Lucien van der Walt, 2009, “Fisher, Percy, 1891-1922,” International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest
Lucien van der Walt, 2009, "Fisher, Percy, 1891-1922," International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest, Blackwell, New York, online edition. Get the PDF of print version here
[REFERENCE]: Lucien van der Walt, 2009, “Dunbar, Andrew (1879-1964),” International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest, Blackwell
Lucien van der Walt, 2009, "Dunbar, Andrew (1879-1964)," International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest, Blackwell, New York, pp. 1028-1029. Get the PDF of print version here
[JOURNAL]: Lucien van der Walt, 2009, “Class Politics and Black Freedom Movements: Thinking about the USA and South Africa”
Lucien van der Walt, 2009, "Class Politics and Black Freedom Movements: Thinking about the USA and South Africa," for "Labor History symposium: Robert H. Zeiger, For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865," Labor History, volume 50, number 1, pp. 72-78. Get the PDF of print version here
[ANALYSIS]: Byrne, McGregor &van der Walt, 2011, “Why May Day Matters: History with Anarchist Roots,” ‘Zabalaza’
Sian Byrne, Warren McGregor and Lucien van der Walt, 2011, "Why May Day Matters: History with Anarchist Roots," Zabalaza: A Southern African Journal of Revolutionary anarchism, no. 12, pp. 29-31. Get the PDF of print version here
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2011, “What Anarchism and Syndicalism Offer the South African Left,” in ‘Zabalaza’
Lucien van der Walt, 2011, "What Anarchism and Syndicalism Offer the South African Left," Zabalaza: A Southern African Journal of Revolutionary Anarchism, no. 11, pp. 34-36. Get the PDF of print version here The 21st century is a time of both despair and hope: despair at the evils of contemporary society, hope that a new world is … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2011, “What Anarchism and Syndicalism Offer the South African Left,” in ‘Zabalaza’
[SHORT]: Tina Sizovuka & Lucien van der Walt, 2013, “Get Rich or Lie Trying: Why ANC Millionaire Julius Malema Posed as a Radical, Why he Lost, and What This Tells Us about the Post-Apartheid ANC”
Tina Sizovuka and Lucien van der Walt, 2013, "Get Rich or Lie Trying: Why ANC Millionaire Julius Malema Posed as a Radical, Why he Lost, and What This Tells Us about the Post-Apartheid ANC," Zabalaza: A Journal of Southern African Revolutionary Anarchism, number 13, pp. 28-35. Get the PDF of print version here This article aims … Continue reading [SHORT]: Tina Sizovuka & Lucien van der Walt, 2013, “Get Rich or Lie Trying: Why ANC Millionaire Julius Malema Posed as a Radical, Why he Lost, and What This Tells Us about the Post-Apartheid ANC”
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