A Brief History of South Africa’s Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (1919-1931) The Industrial & Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) – a trade union, rural peasant movement, and urban…
No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way Early in 2007 hundreds of families living in shacks in Cape Town were moved into houses they had been waiting for since the end of apartheid. But…
On the politics of protest in Cape Town Jared Sacks on popular protest, disruption, and violence in South Africa in the wake of the Lonmin Massacre.
Blikkiesdorp photo gallery Blikkiesdorp (i.e. 'tin can town) is one of a number of 'Temporary Relocation Areas', concentration camps, set up to house the urban poor in Cape…
Cape Town: Attempt to occupy Rondebosch Common Yesterday more than forty people were arrested in a major police operation to prevent the occupation of the Rondebosch Common in an elite suburb of Cape Town - the most unequal city in South Africa, which has now surpassed Brazil as the most unequal country in the world.
Anarchism and syndicalism in an African port city: the revolutionary traditions of Cape Town's multiracial working class, 1904-1931 - Lucien van der Walt A paper by Lucien van der Walt examining the development of anarchism and…
The Cape Town model, state violence and military urbanism A Mike Davis style analysis of Cape Town, South Africa's most unequal city, from a libertarian…
Two Reports from Occupy South Africa Two reports from Occupy South Africa from a libertarian perspective.
The Land belongs to the People: The Government of Cape Town Violates the Rights of the Poor Carmen Ludwig on the struggle from Cape Town - appropriation from below and repression from above.
The Politic of Land & Housing 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.
South African Communist Party Attacks Road Blockades as 'anarchist and reactionary' The South African Communist Party (SACP), long considered one of the most Stalinist Communist…
Cape Town housing activist's trial begins Mzonke Poni, Chairperson of Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape, is scheduled to stand trial on the charge of public violence on Tuesday 29 September 2009.
