Lucien van der Walt on the potential of Zimbabwean trade unions' to force change during a wave of strike action in 1998. Attachments van der Walt - This is class warfare - workers and democracy in Zimbabwe.pdf (1.6 MB) 1990s unions Zimbabwe Lucien van der Walt PDF Comments
Trade unions in Zimbabwe: For democracy, against neo-liberalism Lucien van der Walt's paper on the state of organised labour in Zimbabwe circa 1998.
The politics of land: ZANU vs. the MDC 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.
Rethinking welfare: A radical critique - Lucien van der Walt In 2006, Cosatu called for the introduction of a universal basic incomes grant in response to the ANC introducing various welfare measures to alleviate poverty. Lucien van der Walt argued that that unions had been sidestracked by technocratic demands and that the demand for welfare should instead be linked to the struggle of the working class to reinvent society.
Labour in South Africa: A sleeping giant? A chapter by Lucien van der Walt providing a brief overview of the union movement in South Africa, black and white, its achievements and its…
The Rise and Fall of the ICU: a Case of Self-Destruction? - Phil Bonner This essay, which first appeared in the South African Labour Bulletin, sought to draw the lessons of…
Workers power in Lérida - Jordi de Gardeny A brief account of the revolution and its institutions in Lérida, Spain, in August-September 1936, written in 1965 by one of the former leaders…
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