Dinga Sikwebu and Judy Madumo, July 2011, "Opening Doors of Learning to Workers ," NUMSA News, 2011 Report on the course I co-teach, and which I helped design, and co-coordinate, for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Get the PDF here. In April and June … Continue reading [PRESS]: Dinga Sikwebu and Judy Mdumo, 2011, “Opening Doors of Learning to Workers” (‘NUMSA News’)
Category: Unions: analysis & strategy
Documenting and examining the struggles of trade unions, generally from an anarcho-syndicalist perspective
[SPEECH]: Lucien van der Walt, 1996, “What’s ‘Left’? Is There An Alternative To Capitalism Today?”
Lucien van der Walt, 1996, “What's "Left"? Is There an Alternative to Capitalism Today?," talk given at a public meeting hosted by the Workers Solidarity Federation (WSF), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 22 August 1996. Comrades, the starting point of this talk today is that we need an alternative to capitalism. We need … Continue reading [SPEECH]: Lucien van der Walt, 1996, “What’s ‘Left’? Is There An Alternative To Capitalism Today?”
[SPEECH]: Lucien van der Walt, 1998, “The Silent War on the Land against Black Workers”
Lucien van der Walt, 1998, “The Silent War on the Land against Black Workers,” talk given at a public meeting hosted by the Workers Solidarity Federation (WSF), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 27 May 1998. In recent months, the rural areas have come into focus in the media. Farm killings The bulk of … Continue reading [SPEECH]: Lucien van der Walt, 1998, “The Silent War on the Land against Black Workers”
[DOCUMENT] Poster from 1996 general strike around labour law
Poster from the 1996 general strike called by COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions) to try push the new Labour Relations Act (then Bill) in a more labour-friendly direction. A key point of contention was a clause allowing bosses the right to lock-out, which was being pushed by the old National Party (NP), the … Continue reading [DOCUMENT] Poster from 1996 general strike around labour law
[TALK]: Lucien van der Walt, 1998, “South Africa’s Unemployment Crisis: Can the Job Summit Deliver?”
Lucien van der Walt, 1998, "South Africa's Job Crisis: Can the Job Summit Deliver?," talk given at a meeting of the Workers Solidarity Federation (WSF), at the Workers' Library & Museum, Newtown, Johannesburg, 26 September. South Africa is in the midst of an unemployment crisis unprecedented in its history. There at least 5 million jobless. … Continue reading [TALK]: Lucien van der Walt, 1998, “South Africa’s Unemployment Crisis: Can the Job Summit Deliver?”
[ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Wits 2001: restructuring and retrenchments” in ‘South African Labour Bulletin’
Lucien van der Walt, 2000, "Wits 2001: Restructuring and Retrenchments," South African Labour Bulletin, volume 24, number 2, p. 43. Get the PDF here. Text below. BRIEFING The ongoing restructuring of state assets has its echo in the tertiary [education] sector, which employs about 60 000 people. The trend over the last five years … Continue reading [ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Wits 2001: restructuring and retrenchments” in ‘South African Labour Bulletin’
[ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2004, “Reflections on Race and Anarchism in South Africa, 1904-2004”, ‘Perspectives on Anarchist Theory’
Lucien van der Walt, 2004, “Reflections on Race and Anarchism in South Africa, 1904-2004”, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, Institute for Anarchist Studies (United States), volume 8, number 1, pp. 1, 13-16. Get the PDF here. Text below. *The following article by lAS [Institute for Anarchist Studies] grant recipient Lucien van der Walt explores the … Continue reading [ANALYSIS]: Lucien van der Walt, 2004, “Reflections on Race and Anarchism in South Africa, 1904-2004”, ‘Perspectives on Anarchist Theory’
[ANALYSIS] Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Penalising the Workers [university neo-liberalism],” in ‘Sowetan’
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’
[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, 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’
[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, 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’
[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’
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