South Africa

Black Flame co-author Lucien van der Walt on the South African Trade Union Federation.

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.

In this February 1990 article from Searchlight South Africa, Paul Trewhela details the motives behind capitalist support for financial sanctions of South Africa against apartheid.

Mashumi ‘Lindela’ Figlan, a South African security guard, writes about his working life, the bosses and unions and conditions in the industry.

A defence of the road blockade as a tactic.

The South African Communist Party (SACP), long considered one of the most Stalinist Communist…

Miners in South Africa plan to join the massive public sector strike that has already crippled the the government in recent weeks.

More than one million South African state workers have gone on strike to press for an increase in…

The School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal has just published an academic report on the attack on Abahlali baseMjondolo in the Kennedy Road settlement last year.

A letter from Abahlali baseMjondolo to their comrades in Germany (they have close ties to Basta! in Wuppertal).

Zodwa Nsibande and S'bu Zikode, both founding members of Abahlali baseMjondolo on poverty as a life sentence - policed with paranoid vigilance by both the state and the authoritarian (white) left.

In 2007 Fazel Khan was fired from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa, after leading a long strike the previous year for workers' rights, student rights and academic freedom. In this letter to his union he makes a case for a democratic university and, against the extraordinary authoritarianism of much of the South African left, a non-authoritarian radicalism.