Abahlali baseMjondolo

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This is the full text of a talk given by S'bu Zikode to a group of students from the University of Chicago at the University of Cape Town today. Zikode is the leader of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a militant but very thoughtful, creative and democratic squatters' movement which is the largest social movement to have emerged in post-apartheid South Africa.

Mashumi ‘Lindela’ Figlan, a South African security guard, writes about his working life, the bosses and unions and conditions in the industry.

The South African Communist Party (SACP), long considered one of the most Stalinist Communist…

The School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal has just published an academic report on the attack on Abahlali baseMjondolo in the Kennedy Road settlement last year.

A letter from Abahlali baseMjondolo to their comrades in Germany (they have close ties to Basta! in Wuppertal).

Zodwa Nsibande and S'bu Zikode, both founding members of Abahlali baseMjondolo on poverty as a life sentence - policed with paranoid vigilance by both the state and the authoritarian (white) left.

Toussaint Losier, a student at the University of Chicago who has spent long periods…

Today the London Coalition Against Poverty organised a gesture of solidarity with political prisoners from Abahlali baseMjondolo in Durban, South Africa.

A reflection, from Morgan Rodgers Gibson, on the anarchist aspects in the praxis of two movements that have never called themselves anarchist.

This article by Lindela Figlan, security guard, former chairperson of both the…

As the ANC turns into an aggressive kleptocracy - and confronts a ongoing country wide revolt from poor communities - Chris Rodrigues brings some…