south africa

Tribute to an Anarchist

From The Namibian
October 20, 2023

The unexpected death of Ian Liebenberg on 11 October terminated a life grounded in the belief and hope that open conversation may continue – a conversa continua.

Ian understood that it is the free mind that ennobles, not the blood.

ANARCHIST AT HEART

At heart Ian was an anarchist in the sense that he affirmed freedom, justice, equality and human well-being as basic values.

Video: Lucien van der Walt - Anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism in Africa

From Kantine Festival
August 3, 2023

Live from the Kantine Sabot 2023

This talk will provide an overview the two main phases of anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism in Africa. The focus will be on southern Africa, and North Africa, but there will be some mention of developments in the eastern and western regions. Tracing the African history of the anarchist/ syndicalist current from the 1860s onwards, it will pay close attention to how it was shaped by the larger context as well as by specific national and regional dynamics. The first phase, from the 1860s-1930s, developed against the larger backdrop of Western colonial expansion, and an early epoch of globalisation; the second phase, from the 1990s onwards, started in the wave of struggles against authoritarian African regimes, and the onset of neo-liberal globalisation.

A Workers’ Party and Elections or Class Struggle?

From zabalaza.net

The Question of State Power and the Anarchists’ Answer

The question of state government elections and running a Workers or Socialist political party continues to be raised in the working class movement and the Left globally. As we may know, there was excitement about the rise of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party in Britain, left political parties in certain parts of Europe and Latin America and, more recently, certain shifts to more centrist positions in the United States amongst a section of the Democratic Party calling themselves “Democratic Socialists”. In South Africa, many workers and some activists seem cautiously optimistic by NUMSA’s[1] formation of the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party that will seek to participate in the 2019 general elections.

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