Get rich or lie trying: Why ANC millionaire Julius Malema posed as a radical This article aims to explain, from an anarchist / syndicalist perspective, the rapid rise and fall…
T.W. Thibedi: The life of a South African revolutionary syndicalist The son of a Wesleyan minister, Thibedi William Thibedi was one of the most important black African…
'Anarchism and syndicalism in the colonial and postcolonial world, 1870-1940: The praxis of national liberation, internationalism, and social revolution': A review A review of this edited book by Andrew Lawrence.
“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,…
Neoliberalism, bureaucracy and resistance at Wits University A 2006 article by Lucien van der Walt and James Pendlebury considering the neoliberal restructuring…
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…
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, the Wobblies) was the main influence on the radical left…
Black Flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism - Lucien Van Der Walt and Michael Schmidt NOTE: In 2015 it came to light that one of the authors of this work, Michael…
Crossing the Color Lines, Crossing the Continents: Comparing the Racial Politics of the IWW in South Africa and the United States, 1905–1925 In two of the planet’s most highly racialized countries, South Africa and the…
Why May Day matters - A reflection from Johannesburg When we celebrate May Day we seldom know or reflect on why it is a holiday in South Africa and in many parts of the world. Sian Byrne, Warren…
Counterpower, participatory democracy, revolutionary defence: debating Black Flame, revolutionary anarchism and historical Marxism Lucien van der Walt, co-author of "Black Flame", responds to Marxist critiques of…
