A Brief History of South Africa’s Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (1919-1931) The Industrial & Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) – a trade union, rural peasant movement, and urban…
South Africa: Land Expropriation from Below Faces Brutal Repression As the ruling African National Congress promises, with an eye on a coming election and the collapse…
The First Globalisation and Transnational Labour Activism in Southern Africa: White Labourism, the IWW, and the ICU, 1904–1934 Lucien van der Walt on transnational labour activism in Southern Africa in the…
Class Contradictions and Class Alliances: The Social Nature of ICU Leadership, 1924-1929 An examination of the class character of the leadership of the ICU by Helen…
The South African Wobblies: The Origins of Industrial Unions in South Africa - John Philips John Philip’s pioneering, hard-to-get study of syndicalism in South Africa,…
The Rise and Fall of the ICU: a Case of Self-Destruction? - Phil Bonner This essay, which first appeared in the South African Labour Bulletin, sought to draw the lessons of…
