Italian boss sends workers on vacation, Closes factory and sets up business in Poland - with the help of the Polish state Workers of the Firem Factory near Modena should take issue with the government of…
Solidarity, the market and Marx - Adam Buick Adam Buick's critique of market socialist elements of the Solidarity translation of Cornelius Castoriadis' text Workers' councils and the economics of self-managed society.
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Anarchist Federation Conference, Melbourne, March 2008 This reader was distributed at the Anarchist Federation Conference held at the Melbourne Anarchist Club in March 2008.
The 100 versus the state - Solidarity A Joint Solidarity and Independent Labour Party pamphlet about the Committee of 100. For Solidarity this was pamphlet number 10. A pdf of the…
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 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.
The voice from below: Zambian workers speak out A 1997 article in which Sakhela Buhlungu and Lucien van der Walt talk with Zambian workers about the country's economic liberalisation and its effects on their conditions and militancy.
The anarchist movement in North Africa: 1877-1951 CONTENT NOTE: In 2015 it came to light that one of the authors of this work, Michael Schmidt, has advocated merging anarchist and white supremacist ideas both privately under his own name and publicly under pseudonyms. We are not aware of such themes in this work but readers should be advised. Normally eurocentric, Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt sketch out the anarchist movement in North Arica until the mid…
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.
Anarchism and syndicalism in the colonial and postcolonial world, 1870-1940: The praxis of national liberation, internationalism, and social revolution A book edited by Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt examining social anarchist, anarchist communist, anarcho-syndicalist, and revolutionary syndicalist movements in Africa, Asia, East Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Ireland, in the period of classic imperialism.
