Leaflets & Talks
Here you will find all Leaflets, Talks, Interviews, Statements and other Articles written by southern African Anarchists
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We, the landless and homeless people and associated activists of South Africa, decry the secret campaign by the so-called Workers' Party (PT) government of the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul to criminalise, outlaw and otherwise illegitimately harass our landless comrades of the MST. Source:
ZACF Statement - 7 August 2008
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Landless
Peoples Movement (LPM), Shack-Dwellers' Movement (Abahlali |
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The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) expresses its solidarity with the rank and file workers of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), as their national campaign of rolling mass action against the electricity crisis culminates in a national strike and stayaway throughout the country on Wednesday, 6th August. Source:
ZACF Statement - 6 August 2008
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The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front wishes to express its heartfelt solidarity with Mr Jerome Daniels and Mr Ridwaan Isaacs - two Delft Anti-Eviction Campaign members who, on Wednesday 2nd July, were sentenced to 12 months in prison for their political and social activism. Source:
ZACF Statement - 9 July 2008
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A member of the ZACF poses the same set of questions to two activists from Zimbabwe. The first interviewee, Biko Mutsaurwa, is an anarcho-communist from the Uhuru Network and facilitator for the Toyi Toyi Artz Kollektive in Harare. The second interviewee is Comrade Fatso, AKA Samm Farai Monro, a cultural activist and artistic facilitator for Magamba! The Cultural Activist Network. The interviews were conducted in Johannesburg on 21st of June, 2008 - the day before MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai announced his decision to not participate in the June 27 presidential election run-off. Source:
ZACF Release - 6 July 2008
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Joaquin has been known to us for some years now as a voice of militancy and reason in the Los Angeles area, working with Cop-Watch LA, Anarchist People of Color, and Revolutionary Autonomous Communities. His arrest at the end of June on a felony charge of possession of a concealed weapon – a legally-purchased firearm kept in the boot of his car while he was driving it – appears to be concocted by members of the Los Angeles Police Department who have come under the uncomfortable community scrutiny of Cop-Watch Los Angeles. Source:
ZACF Release - 2 July 2008
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We, Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF), were recently shocked to hear about another homophobic murder in Johannesburg and extend our sympathy and solidarity to the LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex) community of South Africa, that has had to suffer from oppression and discrimination so often within a short period of time. The murder of drag queen Daisy Dube is yet another horrible chauvinistic murder and adds to the escalating number of people killed in homophobic violence in South Africa in recent times, including 10 lesbians killed since just 2006. Source:
ZACF Release - 14 June 2008
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As the media, the politicians and the "experts" rack their brains in search of the cause of the "criminality" and "xenophobia" that has killed 42 people in 10 days and driven 15 000 from their homes, organisations of the working class have come closer to the truth than any of these wise men and women.... Source:
ZACF Release - 23 May 2008
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The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) recognises that the crisis in Zimbabwe, ongoing xenophobic attacks and rising food prices are of great importance to the working class, both in South Africa and internationally. Resolving these crises in favour of the poor and working poor will require mass direct action and solidarity. Source: ZACF Statement - 16 May 2008 |
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A comrade fighting for water and housing in Sebokeng, south of Johannesburg, was murdered by police on the night of April 30. The ZACF condemns the latest outrage in a long tale of repression of working class movements, and calls on the oppressed to stand firm in struggle. Source: ZACF Statement - 1 May 2008 |
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Towards
a new international movement of the exploited, Source: Joint FdCA/WSM/ZACF Statement - 1 May 2008 |
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We welcome and support the decision by the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union for their workers neither to unload nor transport the shipment of Chinese-made armaments destined for Zimbabwe. This is a very encouraging sign of working class solidarity and internationalism, and we hope that such actions will indeed prevent this weapons consignment from reaching its destination - the Zimbabwean Defence Force. Source: ZACF Statement - 18 April 2008 |
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The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front was saddened and concerned to learn of the murder of Pudemo Deputy President Dr. Gabriel Thandokuhle Mkhumane. Source: ZACF Statement - April 2008 |
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The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front declares its support for the Anti-Privatisation Forum and Coalition Against Water Privatisation activists who have recently been victims of police intimidation and violence. Source: ZabFront Statement - April 2008 |
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South Africa is said to have one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. It enshrines the rights of every person, of every background, from workers and immigrants to women and homosexuals. As such you would think that, especially for people from oppressed groups, South Africa would be a safe haven. Source: ZabFront Statement - 26 March 2008 |
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All too often across South Africa women are assaulted and abused at the hands of sexist and chauvinist men. If a woman wears long pants, she may be stripped and humiliated; if she wears a mini-skirt she may be assaulted; if she loves another woman she may be raped and/ or murdered; or all of the above just for being a woman. In this country, in which everyone is so proud of their so-called progressive constitution, a woman is not free to be herself unless the image of herself conforms to that narrow-minded image of how a woman should act and behave held by so many bigoted men. Source: ZabFront Statement - 8 March 2008 |
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In response to Trevor Ngwane's comment (on Anarkismo.net, see full article here), we must acknowledge that our article "Collective Bargaining by Riot" contained errors and misleading statements. We regret any statement or suggestion that Ngwane was a candidate either for the Johannesburg metro council in 2006, or for any position as an office-bearer of the Anti-Privatisation Forum at the time of the election of Bricks Mokolo as chairperson. We know of nothing in APF policy that denied Ngwane and his comrades the right to stand in the local elections via the Operation Khanyisa movement, nor would we have denied them that right, although we have consistently rejected electoral politics as an authoritarian method that can only undermine the struggles of the oppressed classes. Let them stand if they want, but we will neither vote for them nor in any way support them... Source: ZabFront Statement - February 2008 |
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It is clear that what is happening at Wits - the fee increases, privatisation of residence etc – is part of the ANC government's plan for the general neo-liberal restructuring of the universities in order to turn them into "market universities" orientated first and foremost towards generating profit. This is a hard fact which both the ANCYL and Sasco students leading the protests have tried studiously to avoid admitting. Source: ZabFed Release |
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On Tuesday morning, 14th of August, over 1000 community members from Sebokeng's "informal settlement" attempted to blockade the Golden Highway between Sebokeng and Johannesburg in protest at the ANC government's inadequate service delivery since its election in 1994. Source: ZabFed Release |
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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, we interviewed one of its militants, Michael Schmidt - Alternative Libertaire, July 2007 Original French version here |
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Text based on a Red and Black Forum workshop given by the ZACF, held on 5th May at Khanya College in Johannesburg, about the relevance and impact of the 2010 Soccer World Cup for the poor and working poor in South Africa. Source: ZabFed Release |
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The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (southern Africa) supports the public sector strikers, not just in their demand for a wage increase of 12%, which has now been reduced to 10%, but also in their struggle to improve the standard of all public sector services. Source: ZabFed Release |
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Speech made by a ZACF member at the "Freedom in our Lifetime" resistance festival in Newtown, Johannesburg, 10 December 2006 Source: ZabFed Speech |
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Recent reports in The Star (25/11/06) allege that the development of the “armed struggle” tendency within a section of the pro-democracy movement in Swaziland could be accelerating. Given that the pro-democracy movement has set itself the goal of liberation in 2008, it is understandable that frustration has led some comrades in this direction. Source: ZabFed Release |
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"MK", a member of the ZACF's underground structures in Swaziland was among eight Swaziland youth congress (SWAYOCO) members arrested by police following a SWAYOCO demonstration in the city of Manzini on Saturday, October 1st. Source: ZabFed Release |
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ZabFed Statement released on July 8 2005 following the bombings in London on July 7 that year. |
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Revolutionary syndicalist greetings to the FWUCI from the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (ZACF) of southern Africa. ["Zabalaza" means "Struggle" in Zulu & Xhosa]. Source: ZabFront Statement - 25 March 2005 |
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ZabFed Statement released following the bombings in Madrid. |
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No
War But The Class WarAgainst capitalism - Against the US government - Against state and fundamentalist terrorism South African anarchist statement on the New York / Washington DC attacks - September 2001 |
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Evict the bosses and politicians - Stop Privatisation Now |
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The UN World conference against Racism (WCAR) was held in August 2001 in Durban, South Africa. This critique was Produced by the Anarchist Union and Bikisha Media Collective - 2 South African Anarchist groups |
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An interview done by the British anarchist magazine Black Flag (issue 224). This interview was done collectively by 2 Durban and 2 Johannesburg members of the ZACF over December '03/January '04 |
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Interview that appeared in the Spring/Summer 2003 issue of the Northeastern Anarchist (#6), the journal of the Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists, under the title "The Global Influence of Platformism Today". |
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Towards
a History of Anarchist Anti-Imperialism
Published in the first issue of Against War and Terrorism in October 2001, which was compiled by an international group of anarchists just after the September 11th 2001 attack on the World Trade Centre |
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Revolutionary
Anarchism and the Anti-Globalisation Movement
Published in Red & Black Revolution #5, May 2001 (Ireland) |
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Class
Struggle Without Borders: The Recolonisation of Africa and the
Future of the Left
Talk given by comrade MS of the WSF at the University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, August 1998 |
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Racism:
Where it comes from, How we should fight it?
Published in Red & Black Revolution, 1998 (Ireland) |
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After
Apartheid: Anarchism and the 'new' South Africa
Published in Red & Black Revolution, 1997 (Ireland) |
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