van der Walt, Lucien (2014) "Reclaiming Syndicalism: From Spain to South Africa to Global Labour Today," Global Labour Journal, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 239-252. Online at journal: here [fixed] Local mirror: here [fixed] ABSTRACT (text below) Events like the 2012 Marikana police massacre of miners in South Africa bring into sharp relief core … Continue reading [JOURNAL]: Lucien van der Walt, 2014, “Reclaiming Syndicalism: From Spain to South Africa to Global Labour Today”
Category: Neo-liberalism & privatisation
Examining neo-liberal state/ capitalist restructuring, its aims, effects and popular class struggles that fight back
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Privatisation: How far have ‘we’ come?”, NGO Matters
Lucien van der Walt, 2000, "Privatisation: how far have "we" come?", NGO Matters, SANGOCO, volume 3, number 3, p. 10. Still-relevant overview of privatisation in South Africa, past, present and future. Includes a critical assessment of impact of the privatisation and commercialisation of state companies and facilities. Click on image for PDF of the article … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Privatisation: How far have ‘we’ come?”, NGO Matters
[ANALYSIS]: Dieltiens, van der Walt, 2000, “Debating Privatisation,” AIDC Alternatives
Nicolas Dieltiens and Lucien van der Walt, 2000, "Debating Privatisation," AIDC Alternatives, pp. 4-5. An old text, critically examining the case for and against privatisation. A3 centre-spread in AIDC Alternatives, of Cape Town. From when Nicolas and I were the Media Officers of the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF). Produced for the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) in 2000. … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Dieltiens, van der Walt, 2000, “Debating Privatisation,” AIDC Alternatives
[ANALYSIS]: Yushaú, Byrne, McGregor & van der Walt, “Towards a Viable Counter-Movement in Nigeria: Beyond May Day Celebrations”
Muttaqa Yusha'u, Sian Byrne, Warren McGregor and Lucien van der Walt, 20 June, 2013, "Beyond May Day Celebrations: Towards a Viable Counter-Movement in Nigeria," Daily Labour, volume 26, number 7, (Nigeria), p. 10. (Also see corrections note in Daily Labour, 15 July 2013 vol. 26 no. 8, p. 1) The PDF is here … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Yushaú, Byrne, McGregor & van der Walt, “Towards a Viable Counter-Movement in Nigeria: Beyond May Day Celebrations”
[ANALYSIS]: Chinguwo, Byrne, McGregor & van der Walt, “Why May Day matters to Malawi… History with anarchist roots”
Paliani Chinguwo, Sian Byrne, Warren McGregor and Lucien van der Walt, 1 May 2013, “Why May Day Matters to Malawi ... history with anarchist roots”, The Nation, Labour Day Supplement, (Malawi), pp. 11-12. The PDF is here Why May Day matters to Malawi …History with anarchist roots Paliani Chinguwo, Sian Byrne, Warren McGregor and Lucien … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Chinguwo, Byrne, McGregor & van der Walt, “Why May Day matters to Malawi… History with anarchist roots”
[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)
[JOURNAL]: Devan Pillay and Lucien van der Walt, 2012, “Assessing the Politics of Organized Labour in Asia, Africa and Latin America at the Start of the 21st Century”
Devan Pillay and Lucien van der Walt, 2012, “Assessing the Politics of Organized Labour in Asia, Africa and Latin America at the Start of the 21st Century,” Labour, Capital and Society, volume 44, number 2, pp. 2-25 . PDF online here. On the basis of studies of workers’ struggles in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ecuador, India, … Continue reading [JOURNAL]: Devan Pillay and Lucien van der Walt, 2012, “Assessing the Politics of Organized Labour in Asia, Africa and Latin America at the Start of the 21st Century”
[ANALYSIS]: Melanie Samson, Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Communities Mobilise: interview with Virginia Setshedi of SECC”
Melanie Samson and Lucien van der Walt, September 2000, "Samson, van der Walt - Communities Mobilise - interview with Virginia Setshedi of the SECC," Anti-Privatisation Monitor, number 1, pp. 1-2 An old interview with Virginia Setshedi, at the time an activist in the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee (SECC), a key affiliate of the Anti-Privatisation Forum … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Melanie Samson, Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Communities Mobilise: interview with Virginia Setshedi of SECC”
[ANALYSIS]: Kariuki, van der Walt, 2000, “The Politics of Land – ZANU vs the MDC” (5)
Samuel Kariuki and Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “The Politics of Land - ZANU vs the MDC," Southern Africa Report, volume 15, number 4, pp. 11-15. A fifth Zimbabwean piece. Samuel Kariuki and I argued that unless the (then-) union-backed Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) developed an effective progressive programme (including pro-worker land reform), the … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Kariuki, van der Walt, 2000, “The Politics of Land – ZANU vs the MDC” (5)
[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”
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2001, “South Africa: ANC’s electricity privatisation opposed”
Lucien van der Walt, 11 April 2001, "South Africa: ANC's electricity privatisation opposed," Green Left Weekly, number 444. PDF is online here SOUTH AFRICA: ANC's electricity privatisation opposed Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 10:00 Lucien van der Walt JOHANNESBURG — The Anti-Privatisation Forum — an organisation that unites trade unions, township residents' groups, left-wing parties, … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2001, “South Africa: ANC’s electricity privatisation opposed”
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2001, “Radical South African magazine relaunched”
Lucien van der Walt, 9 May 2001, "Radical South African magazine relaunched," Green Left Weekly, number 447. PDF is online here Radical South African magazine relaunched Lucien van der Walt,Green Left Weekly 447. JOHANNESBURG — The radical magazine, Debate: voices from the South African left, was recently relaunched at the Workers' Library and Museum in … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2001, “Radical South African magazine relaunched”
[TRANSLATION]: Lucien van der Walt, 2011, “Sulla risposta del COSATU alla crisi: per un’impostazione ed un’alternativa anarco-sindacalista”
Italian translation of Lucien van der Walt, 2011, "COSATU’s Response to the Crisis: an Anarcho-Syndicalist Assessment and Alternative," Zabalaza: a journal of southern African revolutionary anarchism, no. 11 Source: anarkismo.net here Lucien van der Walt "Sulla risposta del COSATU alla crisi: per un'impostazione ed un'alternativa anarco-sindacalista" I sindacati sud-africani, confederati nel COSATU (Congress of South African … Continue reading [TRANSLATION]: Lucien van der Walt, 2011, “Sulla risposta del COSATU alla crisi: per un’impostazione ed un’alternativa anarco-sindacalista”
[TRANSLATION]: Lucien van der Walt, 2005, “Επαναστ. Αναρχισμός και αντιπαγκοσμιοποίηση: Ενότητα, καθαρότητα, αφοσίωση, ενάντια σε ένα μεγά”
Greek translation of Lucien van der Walt, 2001, "Revolutionary Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement,” Red and Black Revolution: a magazine of libertarian communism, number 5, 2001, which can be read here. Lucien van der Walt Επαναστ. Αναρχισμός και αντιπαγκοσμιοποίηση: Ενότητα, καθαρότητα, αφοσίωση, ενάντια σε ένα μεγά Ο Επαναστατικός Αναρχισμός και το κίνημα της αντιπαγκοσμιοποίησης Ειδικές … Continue reading [TRANSLATION]: Lucien van der Walt, 2005, “Επαναστ. Αναρχισμός και αντιπαγκοσμιοποίηση: Ενότητα, καθαρότητα, αφοσίωση, ενάντια σε ένα μεγά”
[CHAPTER]: Lucien van der Walt, 2008, “Zyklen der Akkumulation – Zyklen des Klassenkampfes. Zum Verhältnis von Apartheid, Arbeit und Befreiung in Südafrika”
Lucien van der Walt, 2008, "Zyklen der Akkumulation - Zyklen des Klassenkampfes. Zum Verhältnis von Apartheid, Arbeit und Befreiung in Südafrika", Holger Marcks and Matthias Seiffert (Hg.), Die großen Streiks: Episoden aus dem Klassenkampf, Unrast-Bücher der Kritik, Münster, pp. 160-164. PDF is here.
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