Solidarity with mine workers at Marikana Platinum This statement from South African shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo on the massacre at Marikana Platinum has just come out on their…
Striking miners killed by security forces in South Africa Earlier today at least seven striking miners have been gunned down and killed by security forces at…
Protesters vow to make Cape Town “ungovernable” Protesters have occupied a highway in Cape Town and clashed with security forces during a protest against a lack of government services and…
South Africa: victory for student hunger strike against staff sackings Micah Roshan Reddy reports from Wits University, South Africa, where a hunger strike by students against a proposed abusive sacking of 17 catering staff became an international campaign and secured a remarkable victory.
South African human rights Day Assembly Today has been a particurlarly shit day for me at school and in light of me being lazy about posting the update on Pro Share I thought I could do…
Report on the recent South African miners' strike Report on the recent 6 week wildcat strike at Impala Platinum's Rustenberg operation, the biggest platinum mine in the world, including a…
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…
From people's politics to state politics: aspects of national liberation in South Africa 1984-1994 This article, written in 1994, the first year of the 'new South Africa', examines…
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…
Marx’s economics for anarchists: an anarchist’s introduction to Marx’s critique of political economy Wayne Price's pamphlet on Marxism from an anarchist perspective.
“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.
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.
