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”
Category: South Africa
Pieces that have South Africa as a central focus – but are often relevant to labour and the left more generally
[ANALYSIS]: Shawn Hattingh and Lucien van der Walt, 2013, “Mandela, the ANC and the 1994 Breakthrough: Anarchist / syndicalist reflections on national liberation and South Africa’s transition”
[ONLINE ONLY] Shawn Hattingh and Lucien van der Walt, 2013, "Mandela, the ANC and the 1994 Breakthrough: Anarchist / syndicalist reflections on national liberation and South Africa’s transition," for anarkismo.net here. SUMMARY The destruction of the apartheid state form, with its odious policies of coercion and racism, was a major triumph for the working class … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Shawn Hattingh and Lucien van der Walt, 2013, “Mandela, the ANC and the 1994 Breakthrough: Anarchist / syndicalist reflections on national liberation and South Africa’s transition”
[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, 2007, “Tras 10 años de GEAR: COSATU, el juicio a Zuma y la vía muerta de la política de alianzas”
Spanish translation of Lucien van der Walt, 2006, "After 10 years of GEAR: COSATU, the Zuma Trial and the Dead End of Alliance Politics," Zabalaza: a journal of southern African revolutionary anarchism, no. 6, pp. 7-13, which you can read here. Source: anarkismo.net here Reportedly published as Lucien van der Walt, June 2007, "Tras 10 … Continue reading [TRANSLATION]: Lucien van der Walt, 2007, “Tras 10 años de GEAR: COSATU, el juicio a Zuma y la vía muerta de la política de alianzas”
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2006, “After 10 years of GEAR: COSATU, the Zuma Trial and the Dead End of Alliance Politics”
Lucien van der Walt, 2006, "After 10 years of GEAR: COSATU, the Zuma Trial and the Dead End of Alliance Politics," Zabalaza: a journal of southern African revolutionary anarchism, no. 6, pp. 7-13 Get the paginated PDF here. South Africa’s transition, as we stated in Workers Solidarity in 1998, went sour a long time ago. … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2006, “After 10 years of GEAR: COSATU, the Zuma Trial and the Dead End of Alliance Politics”
[TRANSLATION]: Lucien van der Walt, 2005, “Il significato politico del NEPAD: ricetta africana per il neoliberismo”
Italian translation of Lucien van der Walt, 2004, “The Political Significance of NEPAD”, Zabalaza: a southern African journal of revolutionary anarchism, number 5, which can be read here. Source: anarkismo.net here Lucien van der Walt Il significato politico del NEPAD: ricetta africana per il neoliberismo Il NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa's Development), adottato dall'Unione Africana … Continue reading [TRANSLATION]: Lucien van der Walt, 2005, “Il significato politico del NEPAD: ricetta africana per il neoliberismo”
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2007, “Wits Students Fight Fee Increases, Privatisation”
Lucien van der Walt, November 2007, "Wits Students Fight Fee Increases, Privatisation," Steeldrum: news for members of Steelworkers Local 1998, University of Toronto, vol. 7, no. 4 PDF is online here
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2001, “History of the IWW in South Africa,” from ‘Bread and Roses’
Lucien van der Walt, 2001, "A History of the IWW in South Africa", Bread and Roses, number 7, (Britain), pp. 11-14. This short article looks at how the revolutionary syndicalist IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) influenced South African workers struggles into the 1920s. The IWW had an important influence on black as well as … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2001, “History of the IWW in South Africa,” from ‘Bread and Roses’
[JOURNAL]: Lucien van der Walt, 2001, “Revolutionärer Syndikalismus, Rasse und Klasse in Südafrika: die ‘International Socialist League’ und die ‘Industrial Workers of Africa’ 1915 bis 1920”, Archiv für die Geschichte des Widerstandes und der Arbeit, number 16, (Germany), pp. 213-246.
This article appeared in German in the Archiv für die Geschichte des Widerstandes und der Arbeit (AGWA), of which more can be read here. Get the PDF here It discusses South African revolutionary syndicalism, with particular reference to the International Socialist League (a syndicalist political group, later merged into the Communist Party of South Africa), … Continue reading [JOURNAL]: Lucien van der Walt, 2001, “Revolutionärer Syndikalismus, Rasse und Klasse in Südafrika: die ‘International Socialist League’ und die ‘Industrial Workers of Africa’ 1915 bis 1920”, Archiv für die Geschichte des Widerstandes und der Arbeit, number 16, (Germany), pp. 213-246.
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2004, “Perspectives on Race and Anarchism in South Africa, 1904-2004”
Lucien van der Walt, 2004, "Perspectives on Race and Anarchism in South Africa, 1904-2004," Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, volume 8 number 1, pp. 1, 14-16. Correct PDF is here This short analysis, looking at both the South African anarchist / syndicalist movement of the 1880s-1920s, and the revived movement that emerged from the 1990s, examined … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2004, “Perspectives on Race and Anarchism in South Africa, 1904-2004”
[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.
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Against the Bourgeois University: Fighting neo-liberalism in South African higher education”
This is the English-language original of Lucien van der Walt, November 2000, "Contre l'Universite Bourgeoise: combattons le neoliberalisme dans l'enseignement superieur Sud Africain," Le Combat Syndicaliste, p. 13, which is here Against the Bourgeois University: Fighting neo-liberalism in South African higher education Lucien van der Walt Bikisha Media Collective Johannesburg Since early 2000, libertarian … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Against the Bourgeois University: Fighting neo-liberalism in South African higher education”
[TRANSLATION]: Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Contre l’Universite Bourgeoise: combattons le neoliberalisme dans l’enseignement superieur Sud Africain”
This article, written during the struggle against the neo-liberal, union-busting "Wits 2001" programme at the University of the Witwatersrand, appeared in the November 2000 issue of Le Combat Syndicaliste, published by the CNT-Vignolles (and who translated it, too) Lucien van der Walt, November 2000, "Contre l'Universite Bourgeoise: combattons le neoliberalisme dans l'enseignement superieur Sud Africain," … Continue reading [TRANSLATION]: Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Contre l’Universite Bourgeoise: combattons le neoliberalisme dans l’enseignement superieur Sud Africain”
