Category: T-shirts and banners

1990s, 2000s, Bikisha Media Collective (BMC), South Africa, T-shirts and banners, Workers Library and Museum

Cap (from structures): Workers Library and Musem, Johannesburg (BMC role)

Members of the Bikisha Media Collective (BMC) played a key role in the Workers Library and Museum (WLM), a non-sectarian labour service organisation then based in Newtown Johannesburg, from the late 1990s into the early 2000s. The WLM was run by an elected committee, with various subcommittees, and BMC members were active in these structures. Below is a cap produced by the WLM for a … Continue reading Cap (from structures): Workers Library and Musem, Johannesburg (BMC role)

SAASHA
2000s, Bikisha Media Collective (BMC), South Africa, T-shirts and banners

T-shirts (from events/ summits): CNT-F (“Vignoles”) t-shirt from 2000 Paris “Le Autre Future” event (BMC)

Members of the Bikisha Media Collective attended the April / May 2000 “Le Autre Futur” international anarchist and syndicalist congress hosted in Paris by the National Confederation of Labour-France (“Paris”/ “Vignoles”, hereafter CNT-F). This brought together a number of formations, internationally, mainly the bigger revolutionary and anarcho-syndicalist unions. These included the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) from the United States, the anarcho-syndicalist Unicobas from … Continue reading T-shirts (from events/ summits): CNT-F (“Vignoles”) t-shirt from 2000 Paris “Le Autre Future” event (BMC)

Lucien van der Walt
2000s, Bikisha Media Collective (BMC), South Africa, T-shirts and banners, Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front

T-shirts (from campaigns): Anti-Privatisation Forum, BMC and ZACF role (2000+)

Early T-shirt from  the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), of which the Bikisha Media Collective (BMC), and then the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (later “Front”, the ZACF) were affiliates. BMC members, active in the campaign against “Wits 2001” restructuring at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in 1999/2000, can be considered among the founding members of the APF, as they were part of the Wits 2001 Crisis … Continue reading T-shirts (from campaigns): Anti-Privatisation Forum, BMC and ZACF role (2000+)

Lucien van der Walt
1990s, 2000s, Bikisha Media Collective (BMC), South Africa, T-shirts and banners

T-shirts (from campaigns): Campaign against “Wits 2001”, BMC role (1999/2000)

T-shirt from campaign against neo-liberal “Wits 2001” restructuring at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in 1999 and 2000. T-shirts were sponsored by the National Health, Education and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU), an affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) (the front of the shirt has the NEHAWU logo). NEHAWU was the main support service workers’ union on campus, perhaps 600 strong … Continue reading T-shirts (from campaigns): Campaign against “Wits 2001”, BMC role (1999/2000)

Lucien van der Walt