Build a Better Workers’ Movement: learning from South Africa’s 2010 mass strike Lucien van der Walt and Ian Bekker Zabalaza: a journal of Southern African revolutionary anarchism, no. 12, 2011, pp. 11-15 PDF online here The biggest single strike since the 1994 parliamentary transition in South Africa showed the unions’ power. It won some … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt and Ian Bekker, 2011, “Build a Better Workers’ Movement: learning from South Africa’s 2010 mass strike”
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[DISCUSSION]: Lucien van der Walt, 2011, Detailed reply to ‘International Socialism’: debating power and revolution in anarchism, ‘Black Flame,’ and historical Marxism
Detailed reply to International Socialism: debating power and revolution in anarchism, Black Flame and historical Marxism [1] 7 April 2011 PDF is online here Lucien van der Walt, Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, l.vanderwalt@ru.ac.za **This paper substantially expands arguments I published as “Counterpower, Participatory Democracy, Revolutionary Defence: debating Black … Continue reading [DISCUSSION]: Lucien van der Walt, 2011, Detailed reply to ‘International Socialism’: debating power and revolution in anarchism, ‘Black Flame,’ and historical Marxism
[PRESS]: Lucien van der Walt: counterpower to neo-liberalism, by Peter Kenworthy (Denmark, 2011)
Source: http://stiffkitten.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/lucien-van-der-walt-counterpower-to-neo-liberalism/Lucien van der Walt: counterpower to neo-liberalismby Peter Kenworthy (Denmark, 2011), Africa blogIn neo-liberalism the expansion of the market has become an end in itself. The market must engulf all areas of society. Neo-liberalism is therefore much more of an all-embracing life philosophy than classic liberalism. The economic crisis of the early eighties, the collapse … Continue reading [PRESS]: Lucien van der Walt: counterpower to neo-liberalism, by Peter Kenworthy (Denmark, 2011)
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2010, “COSATU’s Response to the Crisis: an Anarcho-Syndicalist Assessment and Alternative” [ZABALAZA]
COSATU’s Response to the Crisis: an Anarcho-Syndicalist Assessment and Alternative Lucien van der Walt, in Zabalaza: a journal of southern African revolutionary anarchism, no. 11 PDF of Zabalaza version online here South African unions, centred on the 2 million-strong Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), have consistently articulated a policy vision that … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2010, “COSATU’s Response to the Crisis: an Anarcho-Syndicalist Assessment and Alternative” [ZABALAZA]
[TALK]: Remarks to the 2010 NUMSA/ Wits graduates, Monday 6 December 2010
Professor Lucien van der WaltRemarks to the 2010 NUMSA/ Wits union graduatesMonday 6 December 2010Hofmeyer House, University of the WitwatersrandThank you. I will say a few words, if I may. In the first place, let me say a few ‘thank you’s:- To the comrades who attended the course studied hard and achieved; if you learnt … Continue reading [TALK]: Remarks to the 2010 NUMSA/ Wits graduates, Monday 6 December 2010
[ANALYSIS]: “2010 Anarchist Survey” – notes for a critical assesment
"2010 Anarchist Survey" - notes for a critical assessment Lucien van der Walt, December 2010 (minor edit Feb 2013, marked with []) Recently, an "Anarchist Survey" was run online, with the results appearing around August 2010. You can visit the survey here. This is a very interesting, indeed important, initiative - let me stress that. … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: “2010 Anarchist Survey” – notes for a critical assesment
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Neo-liberalism comes to Wits University – 600 jobs on the line,” in ‘Umsebenzi’
[I wrote this as part of the campaign against the neo-liberal Wits 2001 restructuring at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa. The plan cut jobs, mainly in support services, sought to commercialise reserach and teaching, and imposed a series of mergers and managerial reforms. We lost, but when we went down, we … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Neo-liberalism comes to Wits University – 600 jobs on the line,” in ‘Umsebenzi’
[JOURNAL]: Ian Bekker& Lucien van der Walt, 2010, “The 2010 Mass Strike in the State Sector, South Africa: Positive Achievements but Serious Problems”
Ian Bekker and Lucien van der Walt, "The 2010 Mass Strike in the State Sector, South Africa: Positive Achievements but Serious Problems" Social.History Online / Sozial.Geschichte Online, open access journal Issue 4 / 2010 pp. 138-152 Article in PDF here Mirrored here Journal issue here The August-September 2010 mass strike in the South African state … Continue reading [JOURNAL]: Ian Bekker& Lucien van der Walt, 2010, “The 2010 Mass Strike in the State Sector, South Africa: Positive Achievements but Serious Problems”
[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’
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1992, “South Africa: Looking back at the Rio Summit farce”
A discussion of the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, which proved an absolute failure in terms of attempts to halt environmental destruction. I wrote this for a short-lived anarchist paper called Revolt, published in Johannesburg in 1992 (it appeared in issue #2; there wasn't, in fact, an issue #1!). There … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1992, “South Africa: Looking back at the Rio Summit farce”
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2001, “80th anniversary of Kronstadt Uprising: 18 March 1921/ 18 March 2001”
A-Infos News Service, 18 March 200180 years ago, the workers' movement and rebellion at Kronstadt, near Petrograd in Russia, was bloodily suppressed by the state-capitalist regime of VI Lenin and Leon Trotsky. The article below, produced for the old Workers Solidarity (South Africa) in 1996, outlines the story. Further online references and links, including an … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2001, “80th anniversary of Kronstadt Uprising: 18 March 1921/ 18 March 2001”
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1998, “The Collectives in Revolutionary Spain”
SOURCE: From an unpublished paper on "How an anarchist economy could work", written in 1997, presented in 1998 (and hopefully to be revised one day and published). Mirrored here and in Greek here. Originally section on "Revolutionary Spain and Anarcho-syndicalism, 1936-7" in the essay How an anarchist economy could work written by "Lucien. W." <029walt@cosmos.wits.ac.za> … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 1998, “The Collectives in Revolutionary Spain”
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2001, “Towards a History of Anarchist Anti-imperialism: ‘In This Struggle, Only The Workers And Peasants Will Go All The Way To The End'”
First published in the Against War and Terrorism compilation (2001); besides numerous reprints in English, it has also been translated into French - here and Greek - here. PDF version from Against War and Terrorism is online here PDF version from The Peak is online here PDF version from The NorthEastern Anarchist: a magazine of class struggle theory … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2001, “Towards a History of Anarchist Anti-imperialism: ‘In This Struggle, Only The Workers And Peasants Will Go All The Way To The End'”
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2008, “‘The Tradition of All the Dead Generations’: Some Critical Notes on Che Guevara and the Cuban Mirage”
Unfashionable truths are still truths. Cuba is a state-capitalist dictatorship, even today despite shifts to neo-liberalism; Che Guevara helped establish that regime, and played a key role in its early crackdowns on opponents. His forthright opposition to US imperialism was commendable, and accounts for much of his reputation. He has, of course, also been … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2008, “‘The Tradition of All the Dead Generations’: Some Critical Notes on Che Guevara and the Cuban Mirage”
[JOURNAL]: Lucien van der Walt, Chris Bolsmann, Bernadette Johnson, & Lindsey Martin, 2003, “Globalisation, the Market University and Support Service Outsourcing in South Africa: class struggle, convergence and difference, 1994-2001”
van der Walt, Lucien (and Chris Bolsmann, Bernadette Johnson, and Lindsey Martin), (2003), "Globalisation, the Market University and Support Service Outsourcing in South Africa: class struggle, convergence and difference, 1994-2001," Society in Transition, volume 34, number 2 PDF is now online here ABSTRACT: 'Globalisation' is all too often understood m a monolithic process that produces … Continue reading [JOURNAL]: Lucien van der Walt, Chris Bolsmann, Bernadette Johnson, & Lindsey Martin, 2003, “Globalisation, the Market University and Support Service Outsourcing in South Africa: class struggle, convergence and difference, 1994-2001”
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