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international / miscellaneous / opinion / analysis Tuesday May 19, 2020 05:12 by Lucien van der Walt
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The crisis of the statist politics that dominated working-class politics -- social democracy, Marxism-Leninism, and anti-imperialist nationalism -- and the rise of neoliberalism, has aided the rediscovery of society-centred, anti-capitalist forms of bottom-up change “at a distance” from the state. This article critically assess the three main modes of “at a distance” politics: “outside-but-with” the state, which combines using the state with popular movements; “outside-and-despite” the state, aiming at disintegrating the system by building alternatives in its cracks; and “outside-and-against” the state, associated with anarchism/ syndicalism, rejects the state for building autonomous working class counter-power that can resist, then defeat, state and capital. While each mode has limits, the anarchist/ syndicalist approach is arguably the most convincing, and its implications are serious. And it directs militants to work within the mass movements of the popular classes read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / the left / debate Sunday September 08, 2019 05:38 by Lucien van der Walt
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This is a lightly edited transcription of a talk given by Prof. Lucien van der Walt on a panel on the eve of the 2019 national elections in South Africa: the International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG)/ Workers World Media Productions (WWMP) Public Forum, Isivivana Centre, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa 25 April. read full story / add a comment 
international / anarchist movement / opinion / analysis Tuesday June 11, 2019 05:47 by Lucien van der Walt
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To have a discussion about anarchism's relevance to (black) working class strategy in the face of ongoing capitalist restructuring, we need to dispel myths about anarchism and syndicalism, to reclaim the revolutionary core of the anarchist tradition. read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / workplace struggles / opinion / analysis Tuesday May 28, 2019 17:53 by Lucien van der Walt
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Don't abandon the unions, or take sides in inter-union rivalries. Build a serious, organised, non-sectarian project of democratic reform and political discussion that spans the unions, including a rank-and-file movement that fosters debate, and opens the treasure-chest of union and left history and theory. Recover the politics of disconnecting from the state as raised by, for example, Occupy and the Rojava Revolution. Replace reliance on the state and parties with struggle, and destructive inter-union rivalry with a serious project of working class counter-power. read full story / add a comment 
international / workplace struggles / opinion / analysis Thursday December 13, 2018 20:16 by Lucien van der Walt
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Trade union renewal is essential but should not be reduced to democratising structures or new recruitment methods. Renewal should centre on a bottom-up movement based on rank-and-file reform movements, and the direct action of workers as a precondition for radical redistribution of power and wealth to workers, community assemblies and councils in a self-managed, egalitarian order based on participatory planning and distribution by need. It must be rooted in an anarcho-syndicalist understanding that unions can profoundly change society. read full story / add a comment 
Ιβηρική / Αναρχική Ιστορία / Γνώμη / Ανάλυση Friday November 16, 2018 17:23 by Thabang Sefalala-Lucien van der Walt
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“Η μελλοντική κοινωνική οργάνωση πρέπει να γίνει μόνο από τα κάτω προς τα πάνω, από την ελεύθερη ένωση ή ομοσπονδία των εργαζομένων” αρχικά σε τοπικό επίπεδο και εν τέλει “σε μια μεγάλη ομοσπονδία, διεθνή και καθολική,” που θα αγκαλιάζει όλη την ανθρωπότητα που υποφέρει, και είναι ικανή να ξαναφτιάξει τον κόσμο πάνω στη βάση της κοινωνικής δικαιοσύνης, της ισότητας και της ελευθερίας. read full story / add a comment 
international / workplace struggles / opinion / analysis Thursday May 10, 2018 05:52 by Leroy Maisiri & Lucien van der Walt
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The remarkable “recovered factories” (fábricas recuperadas) movement saw hundreds of closed factories reopened by the workers, run democratically, creating jobs and helping working class and poor communities. It showed that there is only so much protesting can accomplish – at some point you have to create something new. But it also shows it is essential that such alternative sites of production form alliances with, and become embedded, in other movements of the working class, poor and peasantry, including unions and unemployed movements. This assists them in building larger struggles, and provides them with some protection from the capitalist market and the state. It is meanwhile important for unions and social movements to start to systematically develop alternatives to capitalist- and state- run social services and media. However, it is simply impossible to escape capitalism by creating cooperatives, social centres or alternative spaces –almost all means of production remain in ruling class hands, secured by force and backed by huge bureaucracies. It is essential to build a mass revolutionary front of unions and other movements, embracing popularly-run social services, media and production, and aiming at complete socialisation of the economy and of decision-making through a revolutionary rupture. read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / miscellaneous / opinion / analysis Saturday March 17, 2018 21:59 by Lucien van der Walt
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This commentary, an input at a Globalization School debate in Cape Town, engages current labor and Left debates on building alternatives, drawing on the experiences of the radical wing of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, and on anarchism and syndicalism. It argues for a strategy of bottom-up mobilization based on debate and pluralism, and building structures of counter-power and a revolutionary counter-culture that can prefigure and create a new social order. The aim is to foster a class-based movement against exploitation, domination, and oppression, including national oppression, that can win reforms through self-activity, unite a range of struggles against oppression, and develop the capacity and unity needed for deep social change. This should be outside parliament, the political party system and the state. The outcome, ultimately, would be the replacement of capitalism, the state, and social and economic inequality, by a universal human community based on self-management, the democratization of daily life, participatory economic planning, and libertarian socialism. read full story / add a comment |
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