The South African Wobblies: The Origins of Industrial Unions in South Africa - John Philips John Philip’s pioneering, hard-to-get study of syndicalism in South Africa,…
Syndicalism on the Shopfloor: the Denver Shop-Stewards Strike, Transvaal, November-December 1919 - EA Mantzaris This paper by Evan Mantzaris provides a critical chronicle of a strike by radical…
'Sifuna zonke!’: revolutionary syndicalism, the Industrial Workers of Africa and the fight against racial capitalism, 1915-1921 - Bikisha Media Collective Pamphlet from the Bikisha Media Collective on the development of revolutionary…
Syndicalists in South Africa, 1908-17 - Baruch Hirson Baruch Hirson, South African Trotskyist, provides some insight into the South African syndicalists…
“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.
Bakunin’s heirs in South Africa: race and revolutionary syndicalism from the IWW to the International Socialist League, 1910–21 Lucien van der Walt disputes the prevailing discourse of the Communist school,…
