Building Working Class Unity in South Africa: Lessons from United Fronts in Germany, Italy and Russia

A South African Anarchist Pamphlet

This pamphlet is a collection of articles exploring the concept, history and anarchist/syndicalist approaches to United Fronts – and their relevance and potential for building working class unity in South Africa – written in the context of the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa)’s resolution, following its historic 2013 Special National Congress, to break with the ANC-led Alliance and form a ‘United Front against neoliberalism’

First Zabalaza Books edition, July 2019

Building Working Class Unity in South Africa:
Lessons from United Fronts in Germany, Italy and Russia

by Jonathan Payn, Jakes Factoria, Tina Sizovuka and Warren McGregor
(ZACF)

Contents:

Introduction: Class Struggle, the Left and Power by Jonathan Payn (ZACF)
Chapter 1: NUMSA and the ‘United Front against Neoliberalism’ by Jonathan Payn (ZACF)
Chapter 2: Anti-Militarist United Fronts and Italy’s “Red Week”, 1914 by Jonathan Payn (ZACF)
Chapter 3: The 1917 Russian Revolution and United Front by Jonathan Payn (ZACF)
Chapter 4: United Working Class Action and the Workers’ Council Movement in Germany, 1920-1923 by Jonathan Payn (ZACF)
Chapter 5: The General Approach of Anarchists/Syndicalists to the United Front and NUMSA by Jakes Factoria and Tina Sizovuka (ZACF)
Chapter 6: Left Unity, Left Co-Operation or a Working Class Front? by Warren McGregor (ZACF)

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