Webinar on world’s health crisis: Zabalaza joins global anarchist-communist panel Saturday 11th April 2020

April 3, 2020April 3, 2020 / griffin36

Are you bored sitting at home? Feel like you’ve watched everything on every streaming service twice over?

Instead of binging the same series for the tenth time, join Black Rose/Rosa Negra as we launch our quarantine livestream. Over the coming weeks we’ll be hosting a series of live panel discussions on a variety of topics relevant to building popular power in precarious times.

On Saturday, April 11th we’ll be livestreaming a historic panel discussion on the current global health crisis, featuring delegates representing half a dozen anarchist-communist organizations around the world.

Panelists include members of Solidaridad (Chile), Acción Socialista Libertaria (Argentina), Black Rose Anarchist Federation (U.S.), Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (South Africa), Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland), Anarchist Federation (Britain), and Union Communiste Libertaire (France).

All of our livestream events will take place via Zoom webinar. Space is limited, so please register below. If you’d like to tune in, but missed your chance to register, don’t worry! Each one of our livestream events will simultaneously be broadcast via our YouTube channel, which you can subscribe to here: http://tiny.cc/BRRNyoutube

If you’d like to attend the International Discussion on COVID-19 via Zoom, please register here: http://tiny.cc/intdiscussion

Otherwise, please tune in via our YouTube livestream!

We hope you’ll join us for this and other exciting upcoming online events!

Hamba kahle comrade Bobo Makhoba (1975-2016)

October 1, 2016October 1, 2016 / Sifuna Zonke

by Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF)

C’de Bobo at the “Reclaim June 16” demonstration in Soweto, 2009.

The ZACF is saddened to learn of the passing away of comrade Bobo Makhoba in Soweto this Thursday 29 September, at the age of 41, after a long illness. He is survived by his son, to whom we extend our deepest sympathies and condolences – as we do to the rest of his family, friends and comrades.

Bobo was a founding member of the ZACF as well as one of the original guerilla electricians for the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee’s Operation Khanyisa campaign, which illegally reconnected thousands of households’ electricity after it was cut off for non-payment – forcing Eskom, the state electricity utility, to scrap arrears for thousands of Sowetans.

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Revolutionary New Year’s Greetings for 2016 from Zabalaza

January 10, 2016April 26, 2016 / griffin36

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Redone ZACF Position Paper pamphlets

December 10, 2015December 10, 2015 / griffin36

The Role of the Revolutionary Organisation in the Class Struggle

Friends and comrades,

The PDF pamphlets of the ZACF’s Position Papers have just been redone with a new and modern layout. We invite all those interested to download them from the links on the Theoretical Positions of the ZACF page.

The texts that are republished in the new PDF pamphlets have minor corrections, but otherwise remain virtually unchanged from the originals.

Yours in the struggle,
the ZACF

Troubled SA must take May Day seriously

April 30, 2015May 6, 2015 / griffin36

This is a time to embrace working-class unity and challenge the status quo of capitalist oppression.

May Day – a call to build an international movement of working class and poor people across lines of race, nation and religion for workers’ control and democracy from below, social justice and freedom from political and economic oppression – remains critical. In a country racked by anti-immigrant violence, racial and ethnic tensions, the fragmentation of the labour federation Cosatu, corporate scandals and political corruption, it is time to remember May Day’s roots and aspirations.

Download PDF here

The day has become an institutionalised festival, yet its origins lie in powerful struggles for a united, anticapitalist, bottom-up, global justice movement, affirming the common interests of people, worldwide, against ruling elites and their divide-and-rule policies.

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Greetings to the Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro (FARJ) on its 10th Anniversary

September 6, 2013 / Sifuna Zonke

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Dear comrades of the FARJ,

It is with great honour that we send greetings to you on your tenth anniversary (30th August 2013) and in commemorating ten years of militant commitment to the arduous task of building a counter-power that can advance towards libertarian socialism, to anarchy.

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Tribute: last to witness Algerian anarchism, Léandre Valéro has passed away

November 24, 2011February 11, 2013 / griffin36

Bigger than life, the militant and syndicalist path trodden by Valéro took him from the struggles in support of Indochinese independence to that of Algeria. From 1954 to 1956, he was also to play a pivotal role in the North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)

Among the last of the well-known MLNA militants of the ‘50s, Léandre Valéro, died in Auxerre , France, on the 21^st of August.

Son of an Andalusian anarchist, Léandre was born in the town of Oran, Algeria, on the 12^th of October 1923. He owed to his multiple origins the ability to speak Spanish, Arabic and French, all as fluently.

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Zabalaza #12 (July 2011)

July 8, 2011February 9, 2013 / nestormachno

Anarchism in Tunisia: Nicolò (Nicolantonio) Converti, 1855-1939
Why May Day Matters: History with Anarchist Roots – Sian Byrne (ZACF), Warren McGregor (ZACF) and Lucien van der Walt
The Spanish Revolution: A New World in their Hearts – 19th of July: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the start of the Spanish Revolution

Theory

What Anarchism and Syndicalism offer the South African Left – Lucien van der Walt
Organisational Dualism, Active Minority and the discussion between ‘Party’ and ‘Mass Movement’ – Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro
Worker Co-operatives, Markets and the South African State: an Analysis from an Anarchist Perspective – Oliver Nathan (ZACF)

Counter-Culture/Sport

Kicker Conspiracy: How football fell foul of the State – Interview with Gabriel Kuhn

New Site Announcement

April 10, 2011April 10, 2011 / griffin36

Welcome to the new Zabalaza website. As folks might have noticed, the old Zabalaza site has had a problem with the navigation buttons for a while. We are now slowly starting to rebuild the site using new software.

However, due to a severe lack of time, its going to be a while before we migrate the whole of the old site to this one, so please bear with us.

We are also in the process of sorting out the registration of the domain name for the new site, therefore we would like to ask our sister organisations not to change their links to the current URL of the new site as this means you will have to do it again when we change Zabalaza.net to point to it.

Your Zabalaza.Net tech crew

8th of March: Commemorating the International Day of Struggle for Womens Liberation

March 8, 2011April 26, 2011 / nestormachno

New pamphlet published with a collection of essays analysing feminism and sexism within the anarchist movement

This pamphlet is published on the 8th of March 2011 (International Women’s Day) to commemorate the struggles against oppression waged by women everywhere. It is published in the hope that these texts will spark much needed debate and sorely-needed change within us as individuals and within the anarchist movement.