Lucien van der Walt, 13 June 2000, “Penalising the Workers”, The Sowetan. Get the PDF here. Text below. Growing conflict over 620 retrenchments at Wits University is the latest salvo in a battle for the soul of higher education, writes Lucien van der Walt. ------ Battle lines have been drawn at the University of … Continue reading [ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Penalising the Workers [university neo-liberalism],” in ‘Sowetan’
Category: Race & national liberation struggles
These pieces examine imperialism, colonialism, race, the national question, and national liberation struggles -including anarchist/ syndicalist positions
[ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “Beyond ‘White Monopoly Capital’: Who owns South Africa?,” in ‘South African Labour Bulletin’
Lucien van der Walt, 2015, "Beyond ‘White Monopoly Capital’: Who owns South Africa?," South African Labour Bulletin, volume 39, number 3, pp. 39-42. Get the PDF here. Text below. Note the text below includes all references: these do not appear in the published PDF. p. 39 The debate on 'white monopoly capital' has some blind … Continue reading [ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “Beyond ‘White Monopoly Capital’: Who owns South Africa?,” in ‘South African Labour Bulletin’
[ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “How Imperialism and Postcolonial Elites have Plundered Africa: And the Class Struggle, Anarchist-Communist Solution,” in ‘Tokologo’
Lucien van der Walt, 2015, "How Imperialism and Postcolonial Elites have Plundered Africa: And the Class Struggle, Anarchist-Communist Solution," Tokologo, numbers 5/6, pp. 17-19. Get the PDF here. Text below. How Imperialism and Postcolonial Elites have Plundered Africa: And the Class Struggle, Anarchist-Communist Solution by LUCIEN VAN DER WALT 'Tokologo,' numbers 5/6, pp. 17-19. … Continue reading [ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “How Imperialism and Postcolonial Elites have Plundered Africa: And the Class Struggle, Anarchist-Communist Solution,” in ‘Tokologo’
[ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2005/2006, “The Influence of the IWW in Southern Africa,” in ‘Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (ASR)’
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)’
[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.
[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.
[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”
[RADIO]: Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “Poverty and The Living Wage Campaign, ” 26 August 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUHfQmfATJU Lucien van der Walt arguing for autonomous, self-managed unified working class movement to win living wages and build a breakthrough to new, better society on South African radio, 2015.... FROM: SAFm, “Workers on Wednesday,” Wednesday 26 August 2015, 10 am, DISCUSSION on POVERTY AND THE LIVING WAGE CAMPAIGN. Studio guests: Professor Lucien van … Continue reading [RADIO]: Lucien van der Walt, 2015, “Poverty and The Living Wage Campaign, ” 26 August 2015
[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”
[REFERENCE]: Lucien van der Walt, 2009, “Anarchism and syndicalism, Southern Africa”, International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest
Lucien van der Walt, 2009, “Anarchism and syndicalism, Southern Africa”, International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest, Blackwell, New York, pp. 147-155. Get the PDF here Anarchism and syndicalism, Southern Africa Lucien van der Walt p. 147 Anarchism, and particularly its syndicalist variant, played an important role in early labor and socialist … Continue reading [REFERENCE]: Lucien van der Walt, 2009, “Anarchism and syndicalism, Southern Africa”, International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest
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