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)’
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[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
[JOURNAL] Lucien van der Walt, 2001, “Les Anarchistes contre L’impérialisme: ‘Dans cette lutte, seuls les ouvriers et les paysans iront jusqu’ au bout’”
Lucien van der Walt, 2001, "Les Anarchistes contre L'impérialisme Anarchiste: ‘Dans cette lutte, seuls les ouvriers et les paysans iront jusqu' au bout,’" Refractions, number 8, (France) pp. 27–38. Get the PDF here.
[JOURNAL] Byrne, van der Walt, 2015, “Review Article: Worlds of Western Anarchism and Syndicalism: Class Struggle, Transnationalism, Violence and Anti-imperialism, 1870s–1940s”
Sian Byrne and Lucien van der Walt, 2015, "Review Article. Worlds of Western Anarchism and Syndicalism: Class Struggle, Transnationalism, Violence and Anti-imperialism, 1870s–1940s". Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d'histoire, volume 50, number 1, pp. 98-123. Get the PDF here.
[PHOTO]: Lucien van der Walt, lecturer, addressing rally, in support of mass student protests at University of Witwatersrand, September 2010.
Lucien van der Walt, lecturer, addressing rally, in support of mass student protests at University of Witwatersrand, September 2010. The problem is the system.
[ANALYSIS] : Sefalafala, van der Walt, 2015, “Building a Mass Anarchist Movement: The Example of Spain’s CNT”
Thabang Sefalafala and Lucien van der Walt, 2015, "Building a Mass Anarchist Movement: The example of Spain's CNT," Zabalaza: a journal of southern African revolutionary anarchism, number 14, pp. 25–26. Text below. Get the PDF here. "BUILDING A MASS ANARCHIST MOVEMENT: THE EXAMPLE OF SPAIN’S CNT", 2015, Thabang Sefalafala and Lucien van der Walt, in Zabalaza: … Continue reading [ANALYSIS] : Sefalafala, van der Walt, 2015, “Building a Mass Anarchist Movement: The Example of Spain’s CNT”
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “Self-Managed Class-Struggle Alternatives to Neo-liberalism, Nationalisation, Elections,” ‘Global Labour Column’
Lucien van der Walt, 2015, "Self-Managed Class-Struggle Alternatives to Neo-liberalism, Nationalisation, Elections," Global Labour Column, Number 213, October 2015 Text below. Get the PDF here or directly at the Global Labour Column site. Introduction by Global Labour Column (GLC) editors: "In this week’s article, van der Walt expresses pessimism against statist Left policies as … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “Self-Managed Class-Struggle Alternatives to Neo-liberalism, Nationalisation, Elections,” ‘Global Labour Column’
[AUDIO]: Lucien van der Walt, 21 August 2015, “Classes, Commons, Collectivisation: Labour and the Left” (at “Class, Colonialism and the Commons: The Case of Southern Africa” colloquium: Rhodes University, South Africa). Chaired by Mazibuko Jara (United Front)
[SPEECH]: Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “Working Class Struggle, Blazing a Path to Freedom”
Lucien van der Walt, 2015, "SPEECH: Working Class Struggle, Blazing a Path to Freedom [24 Sept 2012, Heritage Day event, Joza Township, Grahamstown]," Zabalaza: A Journal of Southern African Revolutionary Anarchism, no. 14, pp. 26-27. Talk by Lucien van der Walt at 24 Sept 2012, Heritage Day event, Joza Township, Grahamstown Get the PDF here … Continue reading [SPEECH]: Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “Working Class Struggle, Blazing a Path to Freedom”
[PRESS]: Lucien van der Walt: discussing the NUMSA-initiated “Anti-Corruption March”
Numsa pact: Shifting deckchairs or the real deal? 18 Sep 2015, Mail and Guardian, here Sarah Evans The launch of a new anti-corruption coalition could be a sign that major labour shifts are afoot. NEWS ANALYSIS It is like watching a pair of nervous teenagers flirt. Perhaps they are on a dance floor: their hands … Continue reading [PRESS]: Lucien van der Walt: discussing the NUMSA-initiated “Anti-Corruption March”
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