Zabalaza
South African platformist anarchist group and printing project producing valuable libertarian perspectives on African working class struggles.
Zabalaza
South African platformist anarchist group and printing project producing valuable libertarian perspectives on African working class struggles.
Anarchism in South Africa - An interview with Michael Schmidt of the ZACF, 2007
The ZACF is one of the most active libertarian formations in the southern part of the African continent. In order to better understand its history, its intervention in southern African society and the fights which it impels and supports, AL interviewed one of its militants, Michael Schmidt.
Anarchism in South Africa
An interview with Michael Schmidt of the ZACF
by Alternative Libertaire
Alternative Libertaire: Could you tell briefly in which conditions/context and how Zabalaza, and then the ZACF, were built?
South Africa: ZACF statement of support for public sector strike
Statement of support by the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (southern Africa) for the public sector strikes which are currently sweeping South Africa.
ZACF Statement of Support for the Public Sector Strike
After ten years of GEAR: COSATU, the Zuma trial and the dead end of alliance politics
An analysis from the ZACF journal Zabalaza #7 of the African National Congress (ANC)'s neo-liberal Growth Employment And Redistribution (GEAR) policy and its relation to the ANC-aligned Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP).
Lost in Transit
Interview with southern African anarchists, 2006
A detailed and interesting interview between Black Flag magazine and members of the South African Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation covering their organisation, and the situation for workers in South Africa at present.
First, perhaps you could say something about yourself and the organisation you are part of?
1816-1939: Syndicalism in South Africa
A short history of radical trade unionism, class struggle and race in Southern Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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.
