General Strike in South Africa Cities and rural towns across South Africa were shut down today as the new South African Federation of Trade Unions, which is independent of the…
Forced Development, Demolitions, Flooding & Threats in Vusimuzi, Tembisa Vusimuzi settlement was founded in 1995 and is now being subject to forced demolition and flooding…
Recent development in South Africa's land occupation movement Statement from the South African land occupation Abahlali baseMjondolo, on their growth in…
Unfreedom Day Rally: Freedom a figment of elite imagination, say 50,000 shack dwellers An article from the mainstream media on the annual 'UnFreedom Day' rally held each year by Abahlali…
New Boss, Same as the Old Boss Essay by Dennis Webster, first published in The Jacobin, on the ascension of Cyril Ramaphosa to the Presidency of the African National Congress.
New Labour Bills in South Africa attack worker rights and democracy In South Africa the Minister of Labour announced the state intends to carry out a new round of…
The 'Workerist-Populist' Debate in South Africa in the 1980s In the 1980s there was a bitter debate in the anti-apartheid struggle between 'workerists' and …
Practices of Self-Organisation in South Africa: The Experience of the 1980s and its Implications for Contemporary Protest Text of a talk given by Daria Zelenova in 2017
Manichean Delirium (In the Time of Jacob Zuma) An essay by Richard Pithouse that, drawing on Frantz Fanon, looks at Manichaeism as ideology in the postcolony. The essay makes specific…
South Africa: Land Expropriation from Below Faces Brutal Repression As the ruling African National Congress promises, with an eye on a coming election and the collapse…
The real land expropriation movement in South Africa There has been a massive international reaction to the vote in South Africa to begin the process of land reform, but the ANC is not interested in…
Exceptional Space: Concentration Camps and Labor Compounds in Late Nineteenth-Century South Africa Lindsay Weiss explores the relationship between the 1886 'closed labour compounds'…
