SAASHA

It is always saddening to hear of someone dying in a prison, with cold concrete and steel preventing them from being comforted by loved ones in their time of need. However, and not to place any more value on one life over another, but when I hear of yet another anarchist, whom I believe often have a... Read more

Letter from the late Sam Mbah, of the now-defunct Nigerian anarcho-syndicalist formation, the Awareness League, to the South African-based Workers Solidarity Federation (WSF). Dated 12 April 1999, the letter arrived in South Africa around the time the WSF was heading for dissolution. In the letter,... Read more

“Anarchism and Ecology” (Purchase) – ca. 1996 – Workers Solidarity Federation (WSF) Work by Graham Purchase, who was linked to the Australian anarcho-syndicalists, had been published in South Africa in the early 1990s by the unfortunately named Backstreet Abortions distro, linked to the Anarchist... Read more

The following 1993 text by the late Baruch Hirson, South African Trotskyist, provides some insight into the South African syndicalists of the early twentieth century. A reader can quibble over the focus on Archie Crawford and Mary Fitzgerald (whose ideas were always rather mixed), as well as regret... Read more

“Sifuna Zonke ! they cried. – “We want the works!”. In that society most infamous for its racism and most implacable in its hatred of “reds”, the IWW once tried to organize revolutionary industrial unions of class-conscious workers from every race, tribe; and religion. South Africa in the early 20... Read more

Christians Slaughter Their Christian Brethren. Great Empire Day Celebration. How appropriate and how much in keeping with the Matabele Massacre and other of their brutal empire-building tactics. And the Bullhoek tragedy was either by fate or circumstances enacted on their very Empire Day. We acc... Read more