In 2000, I was part of a campaign against outsourcing and neo-liberalism at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). As part of the Concerned Academics Group, one of several structures I was active in, I lobbied for the South African Sociological Association (SASA) to issue a statement firmly condemning the "Wits 2001" programme. SASA agreed, … Continue reading [DOCUMENT] South African Sociological Association condemns “Wits 2001” outsourcing
Category: From 1990+
Published or produced or presented or circulated in the 1990s
[TALK]: Lucien van der Walt, 1998, “South Africa’s Unemployment Crisis: Can the Job Summit Deliver?”
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?”
[JOURNAL]: Lucien van der Walt, “Bakunin’s Heirs in South Africa: Race, class and revolutionary syndicalism from the IWW to the International Socialist League, 1910-1921”
Lucien van der Walt, 2004, “Bakunin's Heirs in South Africa: Race, class and revolutionary syndicalism from the IWW to the International Socialist League, 1910-1921”, Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, volume 30, number 1, pp. 67-89. Get the PDF here ABSTRACT: The historiography of the socialist movement in South Africa remains dominated by the … Continue reading [JOURNAL]: Lucien van der Walt, “Bakunin’s Heirs in South Africa: Race, class and revolutionary syndicalism from the IWW to the International Socialist League, 1910-1921”
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1996, “Swazi Unions Demand Democracy”
This is pretty old, from my student days... Lucien van der Walt, 1996, "Swazi Unions Demand Democracy", Workers Solidarity, volume 2, number 1, p. 10 Get the PDF here In 1994 the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (SFTU) called a two day general strike for the 21- 22 of February. More than 10 000 workers … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1996, “Swazi Unions Demand Democracy”
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1997, “Breve Histoire de l’anarchisme en Afrique du Sud”
Lucien van der Walt, 1997, "Breve Histoire de l'anarchisme en Afrique du Sud," Le Monde Libertaire, 12 November 1997, no. 1100. Click the image to get the PDF or click here
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1997, “L’Afrique du Sud apres l’apartheid”
Lucien van der Walt, 1997, "L'Afrique du Sud apres l'apartheid," Le Monde Libertaire, 12 November 1997, no. 1100. Click the image to get the PDF or click here
[REVIEW]: Lucien van der Walt, 1999, Owen Crankshaw, “Race, Class and the Changing Division of Labour under Apartheid”
Lucien van der Walt, 1999, “Owen Crankshaw, Race, Class and the Changing Division of Labour under Apartheid”, International Review of Social History, volume 44, part 3, pp. 505-508. CRANKSHAW, OWEN, Race, Class and the Changing Division of Labour under Apartheid. Routledge, London [etc.] 1997. ix, 214 pp. 45.00. Owen Crankshaw's *Race, Class and the Changing … Continue reading [REVIEW]: Lucien van der Walt, 1999, Owen Crankshaw, “Race, Class and the Changing Division of Labour under Apartheid”
[REVIEW]: Lucien van der Walt, 1997, Film review, Ken Loach’s “Land and Freedom” (“Anarchists-syndicalists sidelined”)
Lucien van der Walt, 1997, Film review: Land and Freedom, directed by Ken Loach, entitled "Anarchists-syndicalists sidelined," from Debate: voices from the South African left, number 2 (first series), pp. 123-124. Note: review was deeply influenced by the review in Scottish Anarchist, no. 3, 1997. Get the PDF of the review here "Land and Freedom," … Continue reading [REVIEW]: Lucien van der Walt, 1997, Film review, Ken Loach’s “Land and Freedom” (“Anarchists-syndicalists sidelined”)
[ANALYSIS] [UNPUBLISHED]: Lucien van der Walt, ca. 1999, “Background to Zimbabwe and Structural Adjustment” (6)
The text below was written in 1999 for a proposed c0-authored (but never published, for various reasons) booklet in the Khanya College "Economic Literacy Series." It examines Zimbabwe in the 1980s and 1990s, stressing the class struggles and rebellions faced by the ZANU-PF regime of Robert Mugabe, and the regime's (these days, well known) pattern … Continue reading [ANALYSIS] [UNPUBLISHED]: Lucien van der Walt, ca. 1999, “Background to Zimbabwe and Structural Adjustment” (6)
[ANALYSIS]: Sakhela Buhlungu, Lucien van der Walt, 1997, “Voice from Below: Zambian Workers Speak Out”
Sakhela Buhlungu and Lucien van der Walt, 1997, “The Voice from Below: Zambian Workers Speak Out," South African Labour Bulletin, volume 21, number 3, pp. 64-68 Based on interviews with workers and trade unionists and factory and mine visits in the late 1990s, a look at how Zambia's working class responded to the impact of … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Sakhela Buhlungu, Lucien van der Walt, 1997, “Voice from Below: Zambian Workers Speak Out”
[JOURNAL + comments]: Lucien van der Walt, 1998, “Trade Unions in Zimbabwe: For Democracy, Against Neo-Liberalism” (4)
Lucien van der Walt, 1998, "Trade Unions in Zimbabwe: For Democracy, Against Neo-Liberalism," Capital and Class, volume 22, number 3, pp. 85-117 Get the PDF here. This paper, written around 1997 and published in 1998, provided an overview of the Zimbabwe labour movement, locating it in the country's larger political economy and history. In general, … Continue reading [JOURNAL + comments]: Lucien van der Walt, 1998, “Trade Unions in Zimbabwe: For Democracy, Against Neo-Liberalism” (4)
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1999, “Trade Unions in Zimbabwe” (3)
Lucien van der Walt, May 1999, "Trade Unions in Zimbabwe," Labour Movements: Research Committee (RC) 44 Newsletter, International Sociological Association, p. 8 By early 1999, it was clear that the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and its allies in the struggle against the repressive and corrupt ZANU-PF regime of Zimbabwe, as well as against … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1999, “Trade Unions in Zimbabwe” (3)
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1999, “Victory for Zimbabwean Workers?” (2)
Lucien van der Walt, December 1998, "Victory for Zimbabwean Workers?," South African Labour Bulletin, volume 22, number 6, pp. 89-90. Following from an earlier analysis (here) of the rise of the unions and other working class and peasant forces in Zimbabwe in the late 1990s, this piece examined a major - but contradictory - victory … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1999, “Victory for Zimbabwean Workers?” (2)
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1998, “‘This is Class Warfare’: the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe”
Lucien van der Walt, October 1998, "'This is Class Warfare': the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe," South African Labour Bulletin, volume 22, number 5, pp. 85-90. This was one of a number of pieces I wrote on popular struggles - often led by trade unions - in Zimbabwe. At that time, neo-liberal Structural Adjustment, high … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1998, “‘This is Class Warfare’: the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe”
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1997, “South Africa after Apartheid ,” ‘Le Monde Libertaire’
Translated from Lucien van der Walt, "Afrique du Sud apres l'apartheid," 13-19 November 1997, Le Monde Libertaire, no. 1100Historically, South Africa epitomized the poverty and oppression associated with capitalism and racism. The first non-racial elections to parliament in April 1994 gave many hope for the redress of the injustices of the past. The holding of … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1997, “South Africa after Apartheid ,” ‘Le Monde Libertaire’
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