Direct Action #63 (March/April 1990) Issue #63 of Direct Action, with articles on the release of Nelson Mandela and legalisation of the ANC, different strategies for the anti-poll…
Direct Action #51 (September 1988) Issue #51 of Direct Action, with articles on the Stalinist leadership of the ANC and COSATU, racist attacks, workfare-type schemes, the…
Direct Action #37 (March 1987) Issue #37 of Direct Action, with articles on the need for cross-sectional solidarity to win strikes, the lessons of Wapping, disputes at Ardbride…
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…
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.
South Africa: the partial reemergence of workers autonomy - Mouvement Communiste and Kolektivně proti Kapitălu A text about the wave of strikes which swept South Africa starting in late 2012,…
A house divided: The state of the trade union movement in South Africa Benjamin Fogel on the attempt by the South African Communist Party to take over the trade union movement in South Africa.
Uprising in the Cape Winelands - self-organised farmworkers reject union attempts to end their strike Driving through the Hex River Valley after Wednesday’s chaotic protests feels like…
Are the strikes In South Africa good for mining companies? As the dispute continues in Marikana, and appears to be spreading to both other platinum mines and…
Armageddon at Implat's wildcat strike? Mine eruptions escalate in South Africa 22 February 2012. South African miners are in the fifth week of a wildcat strike that has paralysed…
COSATU’s response to the Crisis: an anarcho-syndicalist assessment and alternative Black Flame co-author Lucien van der Walt on the South African Trade Union Federation.
South African unions call off massive strike Unions have agreed to a government pay offer just 0.5% above inflation, describing it as "fantastic."
