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Anarchism in Africa

Index Anarchism in Africa

Anarchism in Africa refers both to purported anarchic political organisation of some traditional African societies and to modern anarchist movements in Africa. [1]

51 relations: Abahlali baseMjondolo, Africa, African National Congress, Anarchism, Anarchist Black Cross, Anarcho-syndicalism, Anti-Privatisation Forum, Apartheid, Awareness League, Axum, Barbacha, Black anarchism, Black Spring (Algeria), Brill Publishers, Cairo, Cape Colony, Cape Town, Collective responsibility, Communist International, Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, Durban, Egypt, Egyptian revolution of 2011, Especifismo, Hausa Kingdoms, Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union, Industrial Workers of the World, International Socialist League (South Africa), Johannesburg, Kabylie, Labor History (journal), Landless People's Movement, List of anarchist communities, Lucien van der Walt, Military dictatorship, Muslim Brotherhood, New social movements, Nubia, Platformism, Port Elizabeth, Rand Rebellion, Routledge, Russian Revolution, Sam Mbah, Social class, South African Communist Party, Soweto, Uruguayan Anarchist Federation, Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front, ..., 2010s. Expand index (1 more) »

Abahlali baseMjondolo

Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shack Dwellers), also known as AbM or the red shirts,Richard Pithouse, ‘Our Struggle is Thought, on the Ground, Running'.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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African National Congress

The African National Congress (ANC) is the Republic of South Africa's governing political party.

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Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions.

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Anarchist Black Cross

The Anarchist Black Cross (ABC, formerly the Anarchist Red Cross) is an anarchist support organization.

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Anarcho-syndicalism

Anarcho-syndicalism (also referred to as revolutionary syndicalism) is a theory of anarchism that views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and with that control influence in broader society.

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Anti-Privatisation Forum

The Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) was established in Johannesburg in July 2000 by activists and organisations involved in two key anti-privatisation struggles: the struggle against iGoli 2002, and the struggle against Wits 2001 at Wits University.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Awareness League

The Awareness League (AL) is a Nigerian anarchist organisation active since the 1990s, estimated to have had several thousand members at one time in its history.

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Axum

Axum or Aksum (ኣኽሱም, አክሱም) is a city in the northern part of Ethiopia.

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Barbacha

Barbacha is a small region containing 34 separate villages in northern Algeria in the region of Kabylie.

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Black anarchism

Black anarchism is a loose term sometimes applied in the United States to group together a number of people of African descent who identify with anarchism.

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Black Spring (Algeria)

The Black Spring (Berber: Tafsut Taberkant) was a series of violent disturbances and political demonstrations by Kabyle activists in the Kabylie region of Algeria in 2001, which were met by repressive police measures and became a potent symbol of Kabyle discontent with the national government.

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Brill Publishers

Brill (known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill Academic Publishers) is a Dutch international academic publisher founded in 1683 in Leiden, Netherlands.

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Cairo

Cairo (القاهرة) is the capital of Egypt.

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Cape Colony

The Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), was a British colony in present-day South Africa, named after the Cape of Good Hope.

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Cape Town

Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.

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Collective responsibility

Collective responsibility refers to responsibilities of organizations, groups and societies.

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Communist International

The Communist International (Comintern), known also as the Third International (1919–1943), was an international communist organization that advocated world communism.

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Confederación Nacional del Trabajo

The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labour; CNT) is a Spanish confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labour unions, which was long affiliated with the International Workers' Association (AIT).

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Durban

Durban (eThekwini, from itheku meaning "bay/lagoon") is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third most populous in South Africa after Johannesburg and Cape Town.

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Egypt

Egypt (مِصر, مَصر, Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.

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Egyptian revolution of 2011

The Egyptian revolution of 2011, locally known as the January 25 Revolution (ثورة 25 يناير), and as the Egyptian Revolution of Dignity began on 25 January 2011 and took place across all of Egypt.

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Especifismo

Especifismo ("specifism") is one of the two main forms of anarchist activism championed by FARJ (Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro) and other South American anarchist organizations, the other being social insertion.

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Hausa Kingdoms

The Hausa Kingdom, also known as Hausaland, was a collection of states started by the Hausa people, situated between the Niger River and Lake Chad (modern day northern Nigeria).

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Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union

The Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU) was a trade union and mass based popular political movement in southern Africa.

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Industrial Workers of the World

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America.

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International Socialist League (South Africa)

The International Socialist League of South Africa was a syndicalist group, influenced by the Industrial Workers of the World and Daniel De Leon.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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Kabylie

Kabylie, or Kabylia (Tamurt en Yiqbayliyen; Tazwawa; ⵜⴰⵎⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⵍⴻⵇⴱⴰⵢⴻⵍ), is a cultural region, natural region, and historical region in northern Algeria.

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Labor History (journal)

Labor History is a peer-reviewed academic journal which publishes articles regarding the history of the labor movement in the United States, Europe, and other regions and countries.

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Landless People's Movement

The Landless People's Movement is an independent social movement in South Africa.

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List of anarchist communities

This is a list of anarchist communities representing any society or portion thereof founded by anarchists that functions according to anarchist philosophy and principles.

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Lucien van der Walt

Lucien van der Walt (born 8 September 1972) is a South African writer and professor of Sociology.

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Military dictatorship

A military dictatorship (also known as a military junta) is a form of government where in a military force exerts complete or substantial control over political authority.

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Muslim Brotherhood

The Society of the Muslim Brothers (جماعة الإخوان المسلمين), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood (الإخوان المسلمون), is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928.

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New social movements

The term new social movements (NSMs) is a theory of social movements that attempts to explain the plethora of new movements that have come up in various western societies roughly since the mid-1960s (i.e. in a post-industrial economy) which are claimed to depart significantly from the conventional social movement paradigm.

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Nubia

Nubia is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between Aswan in southern Egypt and Khartoum in central Sudan.

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Platformism

Platformism is a tendency (or organized school of thought) within the anarchist movement.

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Port Elizabeth

Port Elizabeth or The Bay (iBhayi; Die Baai) is one of the largest cities in South Africa; it is situated in the Eastern Cape Province, east of Cape Town.

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Rand Rebellion

The Rand Rebellion (or Rand Revolt, or Second Rand Revolt) was an armed uprising of white miners in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa, in March 1922.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.

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Sam Mbah

Sam Mbah was a Nigerian author, lawyer, activist, and anarchist.

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Social class

A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.

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South African Communist Party

The South African Communist Party (SACP) is a communist party in South Africa.

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Soweto

Soweto is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south.

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Uruguayan Anarchist Federation

Federación Anarquista Uruguaya, commonly known as FAU or Uruguayan Anarchist Federation, is a Uruguayan anarchist organization founded in 1956.

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Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign

The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign is a non-racial popular movement made up of poor and oppressed communities in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front

The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF, also known as ZabFront or simply as Zabalaza), formerly known as the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (ZabFed), is a platformist–especifista anarchist political organisation in South Africa, based primarily in Johannesburg.

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2010s

The 2010s (pronounced "twenty-tens" or "two thousand (and) tens").

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Africa

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