South Africa

Serving our Life Sentence in the Shacks

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.

Open letter to all COMSA members from Fazel Khan

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.

Moscow Anarchists Protest at the South African Embassy in Solidarity with AbM

Moscow Anarchists Protest at South African Embassy

Today (10 July) a group of anarchists stages a protest at the South African embassy in Moscow. Their protest raised a number of issues related to…

South African miners launch indefinite strike

Miners at four sites owned by Shanduka Resources Ltd have downed tools to demand the equalisation of pay and working conditions.

Stewards strike at World Cup leads to violence, may spread

A walkout at the World Cup venue in South Africa has been met with police violence as unions…

The Poor People's World Cup

The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, the oldest of the post-apartheid social movements and, in terms of its tactics, perhaps the most confrontational, his running a Poor People's World Cup.

Five more Landless People's Movement militants arrested in Soweto

The crackdown on the Landless People's Movement in Johannesburg continues. Two LPM militants have…

Abahlali baseMjondolo Demand the Right to the City in Cape Town

A Quiet Coup: South Africa’s largest social movement under attack as the World Cup Looms

Toussaint Losier, a student at the University of Chicago who has spent long periods…

The Shacks of Two Landless People's Movement Activists are Burnt Down in Johannesburg as the Police Look On

On Saturday one Landless People's Movement activist was killed, another seriously injured and many more beaten and arrested in a vicious police attack in the eTwatwa settlement in Johannesburg. Early on Sunday morning the homes of two LPM activists were burnt down as the attack on LPM degenerated into what threatens to become a full fledged ethnic pogrom in the settlement.

Police kill Landless People's Movement militant in Johannesburg

The Landless People's Movement in Johannesburg continues to face repression. A number of its leaders…

Maureen Mnisi (centre) of the Landless People's Movement in her shack in Soweto.

Landless People's Movement Attacked in Soweto

The Landless People's Movement (LPM) has been attacked in Soweto, Johannesburg. Their partners in the Poor People's Alliance (PPA), Abahlali…

No Land! No House! No Vote!

Resistance not ballots; mass organisation not authoritarian leaders

The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front issue a call for fidelity to the Poor People's Alliance 'No…