Download Issue #4 of the Newsletter of the Tokologo African Anarchist Collective

November 19, 2014February 9, 2015 / griffin36

Click above picture to download Issue #4 of Tokologo,
the Newsletter of the Tokologo African Anarchist Collective

The 1976 Struggle and the Emancipation of the Future: Developing of Self-determined and Self-motivated Youth despite Looming Fate by BONGANI MAPONYANE (TAAC, ZACF)
Our History of Struggle: the 1980s “Workerist-Populist” Debate Revisited – Compiled by WARREN MCGREGOR (TAAC, ZACF)
Bernard Sigamoney, Durban Indian revolutionary syndicalist by LUCIEN VAN DER WALT

INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE’S

Build a Strong People: Latin American Lessons in Leadership by JONATHAN PAYN (ZACF)

EDITORIAL:
Election Circus: Zuma not the problem, the whole system is rotten

2014’s national and provincial election circus saw the ANC retain its big majority. Two opposition parties – DA and EFF – grew; the rest fell sharply. Over 13 million never voted, more than the total who voted for the ANC and far more that voted EFF (1 million) or DA (4 million). Four out of ten youth (18-29 year olds) did not even register.[1]

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CSAAWU: Plea for assistance

November 19, 2014November 19, 2014 / griffin36

Help keep CSAAWU’s doors open – An injury to one is an injury to all!

Dear Comrades,

We are writing to you out of solidarity for CSAAWU, a union based amongst farmworkers in South Africa with which we have relations. In 2012/3 South African farmworkers rebelled against the deplorable conditions in the sector – for which hundreds were dismissed and victimized. CSAAWU is one of the few unions that organises in this difficult and under-represented industry. In the aftermath of the rebellion it took a decision to take up the struggle, including by defending close to 100 workers in the labour court.

Unfortunately the union lost two of the cases and has been issued with cost orders in excess of R600 000 (US$ 53 500 or EUR 43 000). This is a very high amount in South Africa, one that is potentially fatally crippling for a smaller union like CSAAWU. (Anyone needing more information can have a look at this article)

We are therefore forwarding you their plea (see below) and hope that you will consider supporting their request for help. Please also considering forwarding this to sympathetic organisations and/or publishing it widely.

Red and Black regards,

The ZACF

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Tokologo supports the community march on the Merafong municipal offices

October 31, 2014October 31, 2014 / griffin36

The Tokologo African Anarchist Collective supports the protest march held by members of the Khutsong community – where we have active members – to the Merafong municipal offices.

We support the community’s demand for the removal of the long-acting Municipal Manager on the following grounds:

Being implicated in mis-spending of public funds in Westonaria to the tune of R1.5 million, allegedly paid to a Pretoria-based law firm for personal interests. Being implicated in Merafong Municipality mismanaging over R28 million, allegedly for building a website that doesn’t exist
Spending over R50 000 per month for a travel allowance without consulting the supply chain.

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Tokologo supports the Khutsong community march on the Teba offices, Carltonville

October 31, 2014October 31, 2014 / griffin36

The Tokologo African Anarchist Collective supports the protest march held by members of the Khutsong community – where we have active members – to the Teba Bank offices in Carletonville.

We support, albeit critically, the Khutsong residents’ demand that local mining companies should provide them employment and job opportunities by sourcing labour from the surrounding community instead of busing in workers from the Eastern Cape and other provinces; workers who can be more easily exploited and oppressed by the mining bosses due to their status as migrant workers. While we do not want to deny our Eastern Cape brothers and sisters employment opportunities we also recognise that this practice perpetuates the legacy of the super-exploitation of migrant black labour as practiced under apartheid and further entrenches the inequalities created by that system of racial capitalism.

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In the rubble of US imperialism: the PKK, YPG and the Islamic State

September 25, 2014November 19, 2014 / Sifuna Zonke

This article highlights how the US state created the conditions in the Middle East in which a right-wing reactionary force like the Islamic State (formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) could emerge. Along with this – and central to the article – it discusses how the US state is refusing to back the only two effective forces that are fighting the Islamic State: the Kurdish Workers’ Party and the People’s Protection Units. Indeed, this article is also written to express solidarity with the People’s Protection Units that are currently fighting a key battle against the Islamic State to hold onto the city of Kobani in Syria.

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TAAC Statement of Intent (isiZulu)

July 20, 2014July 20, 2014 / griffin36

A. TAAC ke eng?

Tokologo African Anarchist Collective ke mokgatlo o o ekemetseng wa di anarchist (go ipusa ga batho) le ba ema nokeng ba go ipusa ga batho ba e reng ba batla phetogo setjhabeng le ditirong. Ba tsa karolo ba dira jaaka barutisi TAAC e kopana gangwe le gape go ithuta le go atisa megopolo ya go ipusa ga batho mo bathong ba ba di kobo khutswane mo Afrika borwa.

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TAAC Statement of Intent (isiXhosa)

July 20, 2014July 20, 2014 / griffin36

A. Yintoni iTAAC?

iTokologo African Anarchist Collective yindibaniso ye zimvo ezidityaniswe phantsi kwe anarchist kunye nabantu abavumelana, abaxhasa umhlanhlandlela nezimvo ze anarchism. Abanje nga abahlali kunye nabasebenzi. Ifuna ukukdibanisa rhoqo ukufundisa kunye nokusebenzela ukusaphaza imfundiso phakathi kwabasebenzi abahlala eMzansi Afrika.

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