An article from 2000 by Samuel Kariuki and Lucien van der Walt on the issue of land in Zimbabwean politics and the potential lessons from neighbouring South Africa. Copied to clipboard http://lucienvanderwalt.wordpress.com/ Files Kariuki, van der Walt - The Politics of Land - ZANU vs the MDC.pdf (2.76 MB) South Africa Zimbabwe Lucien van der Walt Samuel Kariuki PDF Comments
“The industrial union is the embryo of the socialist commonwealth”: The International Socialist League and revolutionary syndicalism in South Africa, 1915-1920 A paper by Lucien van der Walt that examines and dispels many of the myths surrounding the International Socialist League, the main revolutionary socialist organization active in South Africa in the latter half of the 1910s.
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