Lucien van der Walt

Professor Lucien van der Walt is an author and worker educator, and director of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) at Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa. Long involved in working-class movements, and widely published, his books include Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1880-1940 (201 0/201 4, ed. with Steven Hirsch), Negro e Vermelho: Anarquismo, Sindicalismo Revolucionario e Pessoas de Corna Africa Meridional nas Decadas de 1880 a 1920 (2014), Politics at a Distance from the State: Radical and African Perspectives (2018/2022, ed. with Kirk Helliker) and Labour Struggles in Southern Africa, 1919-1939: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) (2023, ed. with David Johnson & Noor Nieftagodien). Much of his work can be found at https://lucienvanderwalt.com/