Lucien van der Walt, 2016, "Alternatives from the Ground Up: Globalization School Input on Anarchism/ Syndicalism and (Black) Working Class Self-Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa" Get the PDF here p. 251 ABSTRACT: This commentary, an input at a Globalization School debate in Cape Town, engages current labor and Left debates on building alternatives, drawing on … Continue reading [JOURNAL]: van der Walt, 2016, “Alternatives from the Ground Up: Globalization School Input on Anarchism/Syndicalism and (Black) Working Class Self-Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa” (WorkingUSA: Journal of Labour and Society)
Category: Events, talks, interviews
[WORKSHOP]: July 2016 Vuyisile Mini Winter School in Makhanda/ Grahamstown
I participated as a facilitator on worker education at the July 2016 Vuyisile Mini Winter School in Grahamstown/ Makhanda. The School's theme was "Labour and Social Policy," and it was organised by the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) and the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU), Rhodes University. There is a photo of … Continue reading [WORKSHOP]: July 2016 Vuyisile Mini Winter School in Makhanda/ Grahamstown
[SPEECH]: Lucien van der Walt, 2006, “Internationalism, Solidarity and the Struggle for Zimbabwe”
I gave this talk at the"Freedom in our Lifetime" resistance festival in Newtown, Johannesburg, 10 December, 2006 It was previously published online, uncredited, at http://www.anarkismo.net/article/4424 Internationalism, Solidarity and the Struggle for Zimbabwe Lucien van der Walt, 2006. How to fight for freedom in Zimbabwe? How to avoid another Mugabe coming into power? How to fight … Continue reading [SPEECH]: Lucien van der Walt, 2006, “Internationalism, Solidarity and the Struggle for Zimbabwe”
[TALK]: Message from Lucien van der Walt to the National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) 2015 graduate class at Wits University, Johannesburg, 11 March 2016
Message from Lucien van der Walt to the National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) 2015 graduate class at Wits University, Johannesburg, 11 March 2016 Dear comrades, It is with deep regret that I am not here with you in person – please know that I am here with you in heart and soul. In the face … Continue reading [TALK]: Message from Lucien van der Walt to the National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) 2015 graduate class at Wits University, Johannesburg, 11 March 2016
[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”
[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?”
[INTERVIEW]: Lucien van der Walt, 2011, interview in London-based “Freedom”
I was interviewed for the London-based "Freedom" anarchist newspaper back in 2011, the interview appearing in the January 2012 print edition. The paper was founded in 1886 by the exiled Piotr Kropotkin (!) and others as "A Journal of Anarchist Socialism" and had a fairly continuous print-run into 2014 when it went online only. Copies … Continue reading [INTERVIEW]: Lucien van der Walt, 2011, interview in London-based “Freedom”
[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
[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.
[AUDIO]: Lucien van der Walt, 21 August 2015, “Classes, Commons, Collectivisation: Labour and the Left” (at “Class, Colonialism and the Commons: The Case of Southern Africa” colloquium: Rhodes University, South Africa). Chaired by Mazibuko Jara (United Front)
[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”
[WORKSHOP]: July 2015 Vuyisile Mini Winter School in Makhanda/ Grahamstown
I enjoyed the July 2015 Vuyisile Mini Winter School in Grahamstown/ Makhanda. The School was organised by the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) and the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU), Rhodes University. Nicole Ulrich and I gave the input “A Historical Perspective on the South African Labour Movement and the National Question,” … Continue reading [WORKSHOP]: July 2015 Vuyisile Mini Winter School in Makhanda/ Grahamstown
[SPEECH]: Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Report on ‘Le Autre Futur’ Summit, Paris: Another Future Through Social Resistance”
In 2000, I was able to attend an exciting international summit -- anarchist and syndicalist -- in Paris, France. I had been at an academic conference in the Netherlands ("Revolutionary Syndicalism and African workers in South Africa: a preliminary account of the Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921", at the ESSHC) and working in the archives … Continue reading [SPEECH]: Lucien van der Walt, 2000, “Report on ‘Le Autre Futur’ Summit, Paris: Another Future Through Social Resistance”
[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
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