Black Consciousness 1977-1987: The dialectics of liberation in South Africa Article on the Black Consciousness movement by Nigel Gibson from 1988.
Legacies and meanings of the United Democratic Front (UDF) period for contemporary South Africa This essay by Raymond Suttner, former UDF militant and political prisoner, examines…
Towards a People's Democracy: The UDF View This is the text of a speech given by UDF militant Murphy Morobe in 1987.
The Third Day of September (The Sebokeng Rebellion of 1984) An eyewitness account, by Johannes Rantete, of the 1984 uprising in the township of Sebokeng.
In the ANC's battle of factions there are no superheroes The article looks at the background to the struggle to control the state by factions within South…
Ovambo migrant workers general strike for rights, Namibia: 1971-72 In the winter of 1971-72 the economy of South West Africa (Namibia) was shutdown by a general strike…
Views and Comments No. 39 (August 1960) The No. 39 (August 1960) issue of Views and Comments, an anarcho-syndicalist leaning publication produced out of New York by the Libertarian…
From a South African notebook - Maurice Goldman An eyewitness account of the brutality of South Africa's apartheid system.
From people's politics to state politics: aspects of national liberation in South Africa 1984-1994 This article, written in 1994, the first year of the 'new South Africa', examines…
Rugby and Apartheid A documentary about the history of South Africa v New Zealand international rugby matches and how apartheid affected this.
Mandela v the working class Subversion's communist critique of the anti-working class nature of the African National Congress (ANC) and its leader, Nelson Mandela, during…
