Richard Turner & the Politics of Emancipation This is the text of the first Richard Turner Memorial Lecture delivered at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, on 12th August, 1987, by…
Collaboration and Debate in the ‘Durban Moment’: Steve Biko, Richard Turner and the politics of Black Consciousness, 1970-1974 This essay by Ian Macqueen examines the philosophical and political contributions…
Dis/placing political illiteracy: the politics of intellectual equality in a South African shack-dwellers’ movement The production and abandonment of surplus people also depends on rendering them as…
Let's Talk About Rick Turner Personal reflections on Rick Turner, the South African philosopher and trade unionist assassinated in 1978, by Peter Hudson.
The Eye of the Needle: Towards Participatory Democracy in South Africa This book, by the South African philosopher and trade unionist Rick Turner (assassinated in Durban…
Educating Resistance by Anna Selmeczi, 2010 While deeply sympathetic to David Harvey’s commitment to a politics that can move to a new and more just order this paper,…
The Philosopher as Functionary: An Open Letter to David Benatar This essay by Aragon Eloff, on academic responses to student protest in South Africa, was first published in The Con. It was written in response to a piece by David Benatar.
In the ANC's battle of factions there are no superheroes The article looks at the background to the struggle to control the state by factions within South…
Ovambo migrant workers general strike for rights, Namibia: 1971-72 In the winter of 1971-72 the economy of South West Africa (Namibia) was shutdown by a general strike…
Views and Comments No. 39 (August 1960) The No. 39 (August 1960) issue of Views and Comments, an anarcho-syndicalist leaning publication produced out of New York by the Libertarian…
From a South African notebook - Maurice Goldman An eyewitness account of the brutality of South Africa's apartheid system.
Digging into IWW history: South Africa – John Philips A brief history of the South African Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) by John Philips…
