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Marxism and a free society - Marcus Graham

An anarchist reply to Isaac Deutscher’s address on “Socialist Man” with particular reference to the Minutes of the First International and the…

NUMSA members

The party is haunting us again

The National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA) recently split from the African National Congress (ANC). As part of this it is…

Remembering and learning from the past: The 1976 uprising and the African working class

From "Zabalaza: a journal of Southern African Revolutionary Anarchism" #7 (December 2006).

T.W. Thibedi (1888-1960)

T.W. Thibedi: The life of a South African revolutionary syndicalist

The son of a Wesleyan minister, Thibedi William Thibedi was one of the most important black African…

The anti-liberation movements

This is an edited version of a talk given by veteran communist Alan Lipman who participated in drawing up the Freedom Charter in 1955, about why he left the Communist Party and the ANC, subsequently becoming an anarchist. He was addressing a two-day workshop held by the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front at the invitation of the now defunct Anti-Privatisation Forum, on class, capitalism, apartheid, neo-liberalism…

Marx’s economics for anarchists: an anarchist’s introduction to Marx’s critique of political economy

Wayne Price's pamphlet on Marxism from an anarchist perspective.

Towards a truly democratic left: An anarchist assessment of the DLF at COP17

Jonathan Payn, from the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF), argues that the Democratic Left Front (DLF), an attempt to unite the left in South Africa, is a top down, undemocratic and middle class dominated structure that needs to be democratised.

Worker co-operatives, markets and the South African state

An evaluation of the realities faced by co-operatives operating in the market through an analysis of…

Take Back What’s Yours: the Mine-Line Occupation in Johannesburg

Shawn Hatting from the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front on the Mine-Line Factory Occupation in Johannesburg

The Kronstadt Rebellion: Still Significant 90 Years On

Shawn Hattingh, from the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front in South Africa, on the Kronstadt Rebellion.

Maureen Mnisi (centre) of the Landless People's Movement in her shack in Soweto.

Landless People's Movement Attacked in Soweto

The Landless People's Movement (LPM) has been attacked in Soweto, Johannesburg. Their partners in the Poor People's Alliance (PPA), Abahlali…

No Land! No House! No Vote!

Resistance not ballots; mass organisation not authoritarian leaders

The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front issue a call for fidelity to the Poor People's Alliance 'No…