It's fuckin' hard to feel anything for some numbnuts who retails the
worst of Mongo...
Suffer jya...no one is irreplaceable especially you lately.
THE GLOBAL INFLUENCE OF PLATFORMISM TODAY: SOUTH
AFRICA
NEFAC interviews the Bikisha Media
Collective
South Africa is a country where platformist influence has had
a huge impact on the burgeoning anarchist movement. The Bikisha Media
Collective is a young platformist organization that formed out of the
remnants of the Workers Solidarity Federation, which dissolved in 1999.
They have a very active presence in numerous social movements and popular
struggles, and continue to provide an inspiring example of what can be
accomplished when anarchists get organized. Those of us from NEFAC have
always maintained good relations with comrades from the BMC, and we are
very pleased to be able to include them in this series. Below is an
interview with Michael Schmidt, who is the group�s international
secretary.
- interview by MaRK, Class Against Class (NEFAC-Boston)
NEFAC: Could you start by giving a a general history of class
struggle anarchism in South Africa?
BMC: The first known anarchist activity in southern Africa
occurred in the 1870s when the black flag flew over the Kimberley diamond
diggings during an industrial dispute. It is thought that several exiled
Communards participated in this uprising. Between 1896 and 1905,
anarchist militants deported from Portugal spent time in jails in
Mozambique. It was there, in the early days of the 20th Century, that the
anarchist printer Jose Estevam, having been released from prison,
established the first known anarchist organization in the region, the
Revolutionary League (RL) of Lourenco-Marques, a city which today is the
capital Maputo.
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