** Introduction: What is Anarchism?

*** Introduction

*** Anarchism

*** The Road to Revolution

*** Building a Counter-Power

*** In Defense of the Revolution

*** Conclusion

** Module 1: Anarchism and Class Struggle: Why Anarchists Oppose Capitalism, the State, with the Struggle of the Popular Classes.

*** What is Capitalism?

*** The Class Struggle

*** What is the State?

** Module 2: Race and National Liberation: From Apartheid to Neo-Liberalism: The Black Working Class.

*** PART 1: Roots of racism and national oppression

**** What is a “Race”?

**** Racism

**** Who is a Racist?

**** Non-Racialism

**** What is National Oppression?

**** Diagnosing the Illness: The Roots of Racism and National Oppression

**** 1. The Role of Imperialism

**** Local Elites Join with Imperialism (Sometimes)

**** 2. Imperialism: Link to Capitalism and the State

**** 3. How the Ruling Class Uses Racism and National Oppression

**** 4. Imperialism Today

**** Summary

*** PART 2: South Africa: from apartheid to neoliberalism

**** VOC and Racism

**** The Mines and Cheap Black Labour

**** Divide and Profit

**** The Role of the Black Elite

**** From Imperialism to Apartheid

**** White Working Class Divided

**** Summary: Capitalism or “The Boers”?

**** The Collapse of Apartheid

**** 1994 A Massive Victory

**** Incomplete National Liberation

**** Limits of Elections

**** The Elite Pact Against the Working Class

**** Legacy Continues

**** Proof of the Elite Pact: Neo-Liberalism

**** South African Imperialism

**** Summary

*** PART 3: The anarchist way forward: proletarian national liberation

**** Basic Anarchist Approaches

**** Class Struggle

**** Anarchist Society Needed

**** Can the Black Elite Unite with the Black Masses?

**** Reject Nationalism

**** Why Do Elite Nationalists Fight Racism and National Oppression?

**** Local Elites Fight With Imperialism (Sometimes)

**** Class Unity Across Race, Not Race Unity Across Class

**** White Workers Do Not Benefit From Racism

**** Myth Of Western Labour Elite

**** Benefit From Unity Against Racism, National Oppression & Imperialism

**** Defend the Immigrants

**** Direct Action, Working Class Autonomy, Counterpower

**** Immediate Demands

**** Progamme as Bridge to Counterpower

** Module 3: Anarchism and Strategy: Revolution, Counterpower, Counterculture and Problems of Organisation.

*** 1. Introduction

*** 2. What is a Strategy?

*** 3. Anarchism and Strategy

*** 4. Mass Anarchism

*** 5. Social Revolution

*** 6. Counterpower: Building Tomorrow Today

*** 7. What Changes What?

*** 8. Counterculture

*** 9. How is “ruling class culture” promoted?

*** 10. Divisions in the Working Class

*** 11. The role of ideas

*** 12. Defence of the Revolution

*** 13. After the Revolution

*** 14. Social and Political Levels of Organisation

*** 15. The Role of the Anarchist Political Organisation

*** 16. Structure of the Anarchist Organisation

*** 17. Theoretical and Tactical Unity: The Need for a Programme

*** 18. Collective Responsibility

*** 19. Cadre Organisation

** Module 4: Anarchism & Its Rivals Part 1: Why Anarchists Oppose Nationalism, and the ANC.

*** 1. Rivals to anarchism in the working class and peasantry

*** 2. Revision: what is anarchism?

*** 3. The battle of ideas

*** 4. What is “nationalism”?

*** 5. Nationalism in the South African Context

**** The ANC Example

*** 6. Anarchists Reject Nationalism

**** EXAMPLE: the real aims of the Freedom Charter

*** 7. Nationalities, Cultures and Anarchism

*** 8. Nationalism: Whose Class Interests Does It Serve?

*** 9. Are We Against Nationalists?

*** 10. Can We Work With Nationalists?

*** 11. Liquidating itself into nationalism :: the error of the SACP

**** Communist Party history in SA

*** 12. Further Discussion: Nationalist Politics Cannot Deliver Freedom From Internal Domination

*** 13. Further Discussion: Postcolonial Nationalist Ruling Classes And Imperialism.

*** 14. The Way Forward

*** Bakunin Sums This Up Well

** Module 5: Anarchism & Its Rivals Part 2: Why Anarchists oppose Marxism, the SACP, Trotskyism and Social Democracy.

*** 1. Rivals to anarchism in the working class and poor

*** 2. Marxism

**** 2.1 What is “Marxism”?

**** 2.2. Exploitation and class

**** 2.3 “Historical Materialism” and “Economic Determinism”

**** 2.4. Means, mode, forces and relations of production

**** 2.5. Stages of History

**** 2.5. Theory of Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

**** 2.6. Trade Unions, Social Movements and the “Vanguard” Party

*** 3. Marxism in the South African Context

**** 3.1. The SACP

*** 4. Why anarchists disagree with Marxists and the SACP

*** 5. Trotskyism

**** 5.1 Is Trotskyism “socialism from below”?

**** 5.2 Why do anarchists reject the idea of “a workers’ state”?

**** 5.3 Was the USSR a “degenerate workers’ state” or not?

**** 5.4 Why do anarchists reject “nationalisation under workers’ control”?

**** 5.5 What is a “minimum programme”?

**** 5.6 “Socialism in one country,” National Democratic Revolution and Internationalism

**** 5.6.1 Historical background

**** 5.6.2 Anarchist and Trotskyist “internationalism”

**** 5.7 Neither “mass workers’ party” nor “workers” state”

*** 6. Social Democracy

**** 6.1 Social welfare and reformism

**** 6.2 Nationalism and imperialism

**** 6.3 Social dialogue and cross-class alliances

**** 6.4 The demise of social democracy

**** 6.5 The anarchist road to socialism: neither “welfare state” nor “workers’ state”

*** Way Forward