Lucien van der Walt on the potential of Zimbabwean trade unions' to force change during a wave of strike action in 1998. Copied to clipboard 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 Maryland Freedom Union - Mike Flug Participant reports of the formation of a union by workers in the 1960s, from nursing homes, shops and laundries. The workers, mostly Black women…
Neoliberalism, bureaucracy and resistance at Wits University A 2006 article by Lucien van der Walt and James Pendlebury considering the neoliberal restructuring…
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