Anarchism and South Africa: Policies and Politics of the WSF
Click here for PDF A 67 page pamphlet detailing the Policies and Politics of the Workers’ Solidarity Federation
The Banks have Raised the Interest Rates, Workers Solidarity Federation
Click here for PDF WORKERS SOLIDARITY FEDERATION SAYS: THE BANKS HAVE RAISED THE INTEREST RATES! THIS MEANS: MORE EXPENSIVE FOOD, TRANSPORT AND SERVICES! THIS MEANS: HIGHER CHARGES ON LOANS! THIS MEANS: WORKERS SUFFERING AND PLENTY OF PROFIT FOR THE EXPLOITERS! THE BANKS ARE DEMANDING THAT THE POOR PAY BACK THEIR LOANS- NOW! THEY ARE AFRAID [...]
1998 WSF Manifesto
Click here for PDF WHAT WE BELIEVE AGAINST CAPITALISM AND THE BOSSES The struggle of the Black working class in South Africa is a struggle against the slave bondage of capitalism. Capitalism is based on the ruling class minority (capitalists, generals, top officials, professional politicians) exploiting and oppressing the working class majority (workers of all [...]
“A History of the IWW in South Africa”, Lucien van der Walt, 2001
This article was published by Lucien van der Walt in Direct Action (Australia, Summer 2001) as “Many Races, One Union! The IWW, revolutionary syndicalism and working class struggle in South Africa, 1910-21.” It was reprinted in Bread and Roses (Britain, Autumn 2001) as “A History of the IWW in South Africa.” Note: An incomplete version [...]
“Anarchism and Syndicalism in an African Port City: the revolutionary traditions of Cape Town’s multiracial working class, 1904–1931″, by Lucien van der Walt (2011)
Lucien van der Walt, 2011, “van der walt – Anarchism and Syndicalism in an African port city – the revolutionary traditions of Cape Town’s multiracial working class, 1904-1931,” Labor History, Volume 52, Issue 2, 137, pp. 137-171 Click here for PDF This paper examines the development of anarchism and syndicalism in early twentieth century Cape Town, [...]
“‘Sifuna Zonke!’: revolutionary syndicalism, the IWA and the fight against racial capitalism, 1915-1921″, by Lucien van der Walt
Click here for PDF Revolutionary syndicalism – the strategy of bringing about a stateless socialist society through a revolutionary general strike in which organised labour, through its trade unions, seizes and places under self-management the means of production – played a central, but today, largely forgotten, role in the early twentieth-century South African labour movement. [...]
“The IWW, Revolutionary Syndicalism and Working Class Struggle in SA, 1910 – 1920″, by Lucien van der Walt
Click here for PDF The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and the ideas, goals and organisational practices for which it stood, had an important influence on the early labour movement and radical press in South Africa. It also had an impact on neighbouring Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Furthermore, at least five unions were founded [...]
Class struggle without Borders: The Recolonisation of Africa and the Future of the Left
Talk given by comrade MS of the WSF at the University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, August 1998 I would like to thank the Socialist Caucus for extending an invitation to a speaker from the Workers Solidarity Federation (WSF) in South Africa. I would also like to thank the University of Zambia for hosting me this [...]
Only the Workers can free the Workers: An Introduction to the South African Workers Solidarity Federation
This pamphlet is a short introduction to the politics of the Workers Solidarity Federation (South Africa). We are a libertarian socialist (anarchist) political organisation. PART1: THE POLITICS OF THE WSF WORKERS STRUGGLE AGAINST BOSSES The WSF believes that at the moment we live in a capitalist society in which there are two major classes : [...]
Statement to the International Anarchist Movement on the Dissolution of the WSF
26 September 1999 The Workers Solidarity Federation of South Africa (WSF) has been dissolved by unanimous mutual agreement of all its active membership in its Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town branches. The former WSF comrades will, however, be involved in several new projects including Bikisha Media Collective and Zabalaza Books (formerly Land and Liberty). Both [...]
