Neoliberalism, bureaucracy and resistance at Wits University

A 2006 article by Lucien van der Walt and James Pendlebury considering the neoliberal restructuring process at Wits University, South Africa, some of its internal contradictions and the resistance that it provoked.

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L'Enragé No. 1

L'enragé no. 1

A reprint (in both French and in English translation) of no. 1 of L'Enrage, a satirical journal founded by Jean-Jacques Pauvert and produced in France during the May 68 events. Translated by…

“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.

Solidarity spoof exam paper, 1972

A satirical take on the examination and wider education process by the Solidarity Group.

The history of the Quebec student movement and combative unionism

An article by Jerome Raza on the history of student syndicalism in Quebec and the conditions which…