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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 [...]
“Obituary: Hamba Kahle Wilstar Choongo!”, by Michael Schmidt, AInfos, 2002
“Obituary: Hamba Kahle Wilstar Choongo!”, (Anarchist & Workers’ Solidarity Movement, Zambia), by Michael Schmidt, AInfos, 2002 Source: Ainfos, 5 March 2002 THE international anarchist movement will be saddened at the belated news of the death of Wilstar Choongo, founder of the Anarchist & Workers’ Solidarity Movement (AWSM) of Zambia.A self-taught anarchist activist, Wilstar first came to [...]
“Murder! Murder! Murder!!! The Bullhoek Massacre”, 1921, W.H. Harrision
A 1921 leaflet by Cape Town anarchist W.H. Harrison, condemning the South African state’s 24 May massacre of a millenarian black Christian group at Bullhoek, near Grahamstown, the Eastern Cape. 24 May, Empire Day, was a British Empire holiday (phased out in South Africa in 1952 for Van Riebeeck’s Day). Expecting the apocalypse, 3000 “Israelites” led [...]
“The Bolsheviks are Coming”, 1919, by D.I. Jones and L.H. Greene
“The Bolsheviks are Coming” was distributed in Pietermartitzburg by David Ivon Jones and L.H. Greene. Jones was a senior figure in the syndicalist International Socialist League (ISL). The two were prosecuted in March under the Riotous Assemblies Act. What did they mean by “Bolshevism”? Syndicalism, not Leninism, as Jones made clear in court: the ISL [...]
