To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps South African military historian Peter Dickens on the black concentration camps during the Second…
Year of Fire, Year of Ash. The Soweto Revolt: Roots of a Revolution? Baruch Hirson's seminal 1979 book on the Soweto Uprising.
General strike, South Africa 1922 - Baruch Hirson Baruch Hirson on the 1922 South African general strike. HIrson deals at length with the racial politics of the strike, which despite militancy…
The Angolan massacre of May 27 1977 - Paul Trewhala Two articles by South African communist Paul Trewhela on the 27 maio 1977 massacre in Angola. Paul Trewhela was a member of the South African…
Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo Written by a leading Fanon scholar, and with an acute philosophical intelligence, Fanonian Practices…
Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments…
Strikes in Durban, 1973 Gerhard Maré's study of the 1973 strikes of nearly one hundred thousand workers in Durban, South Africa.
Thinking freedom: achieving the impossible collectively An interview with Michael Neocosmos first published by the Transnational Institute.
New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism This is the first book to compile workers’ struggles on a global basis, examining…
Smashing H&M in South Africa: not the first attack on the garment supply chain (and not the last either!) Hand-wringing over the trashing of a few H&M branches in South Africa ignores the…
South Africa 1985: The organisation of power in black and white Also known as "What 'Appen to South Africa?" by S. Thompson and N. Abraham.
Abahlali baseMjondolo activists kidnapped then tortured at house of local ward councillor On Monday two members of Abahlali were attacked by unknown people in their Silver…
