The focus of this bibliography is Rick Turner’s writings on philosophy and politics, several in collaboration with his wife Foszia and colleagues. Many references are to the Richard Turner & Foszia Fisher-Turner Papers, 1950s-2000 collection, at Historical Papers Archive, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa https://researcharchives.wits.ac.za/a3454. And there are some references to SA History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/collections/9169 which has an extensive collection of photos, media and writings. This bibliography is a work in progress.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
a) Richard Turner published writings and talks
Turner, Richard. 1968a. “Sartre and Ryle on the Imagination”, South African Journal of Philosophy, April, pp. 20-28. https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/Sartre%20and%20Ryle%20on%20the%20imagination.pdf
——–. 1968b. “What is Political Philosophy”. Radical, pp. 1-5. https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/What%20is%20political%20philosophy.pdf
——–. 1968c. “The Political Philosophy of Sartre”, Oracle: UCT NUSAS Journal, 1(2), September, pp. 10-13. https://uct1968sitin.wordpress.com/?_gl=1*1q792ip*_gcl_au*MTczNzk2NjE5NS4xNzM2NjIzNjYz
——–. 1970a. “Marcuse: The Power of Negative Thinking”, Bolt, 1(2), pp. 14-16 & 29-32. https://sahistory.org.za/archive/bolt-magazine-literary-society-university-natal-durban-vol1-no2-1970
——–. 1970b. “Human Models and Economic Systems”, Reality: A journal of liberal opinion. 2(5), pp. 22-24. https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/Human%20models%20and%20economic%20systems.pdf
——–. 1970c. “In search of a new South Africa”, Pro Veritate, 9(5,) 15 September, pp. 3–8.
——–. 1971a. “The Relevance of Contemporary Radical Thought”. Peter Randall (ed.) Directions of Change in South Africa, Johannesburg. Spro-Cas, pp. 72-85. https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/relevance-of-contemporary-radical-thought-from-sprocas-1.pdf
——–. 1997 [1972]. “Black Consciousness and White Liberals”, Reality, July 1972. Reproduced in Thomas G. Karis and Gail M. Gerhart, From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa. Volume 5. Nadir and Resurgence, 1964-1979, Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.pp. 427-432. https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/black-consciousness-and-white-liberals-richard-turner
——–. 2015 [1972] & 1980 The Eye of the Needle: Towards Participatory Democracy in South Africa. 3rd edition, London: Seagull Books, 2015 (first published by Sprocas, Johannesburg. 1980 edition, Ravan Press, Johannesburg) https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/eye-needle-rick-turner
——–. 1973.“Dialectical Reason”. Radical Philosophy, no. 4., pp. 30-33. https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/dialectical-reason-richard-turner
——–. 2023[1973]. The Durban Strikes 1973, South African History Online [1973 edition entitled, Human Beings With Souls: The Durban Strikes 1973, published under the name of Gerry Maré). Durban: Institute for Industrial Education]. https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive_files/The_Durban_Strikes_1973_by_Rick_Turner-online-book.pdf
——–. 1973. [writing as Gerry Maré]. The East London Strikes, South African Labour Bulletin, 1(5), pp. 26-32. https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/east-london-strikes-richard-turner
——–. 1977[1973]. “Pouvoir blanc et stratégie de libération en Afrique du Sud”, Apartheid NON, Numéro spécial, pp. 7-63. In, Richard Turner & Foszia Fisher-Turner Papers, 1950s-2000, Historical Papers Archive, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, A3454, Box K5. https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/k5-pouvoir-blanc-et-strategies-de-liberation-en-afrique-du-sud-2.pdf
——–. 1978[1974]. “Letter to Parliament”, South African Outlook, June, pp. 84-87. https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/South%20African%20Outlook%20June%201978.pdf
b) Richard Turner–major unpublished manuscripts
Docteur de l’Universite thesis, Sorbonne
———1966. Quelques implications de la phénoménologie existentielle. pp. 139. Thèse présentée à la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Paris pour obtenir le titre de Docteur de l’Université. In, Richard Turner & Foszia Fisher-Turner Papers, 1950s-2000, Historical Papers Archive, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa,, Box C1.1. https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/c1.1-rick-turners-doctoral-dissertation-copy-french.pdf
——–. n.d. “From Rousseau to Sartre”. Docteur de l’Universite, Sorbonne thesis (revised and enlarged). pp. 236. Ibid. Box C1.2. https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/c1.2-from-rousseau-to-sartre-copy.pdf
Review of Philosophical thinking
Contents pages. pp 2. https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/review-of-philosophical-thinking-rick-turner-contents-pages.pdf
A: “Rousseau and the Problem of Reason” [“finished while banned”]. pp. 1-36. Ibid. Box C3.2.1 [Link below B: is to PDF which contains both A: and B:]
B: “Kant: Time & the Kingdom of Ends” . pp. 1-84. Ibid. Box C3.2.1 [Link below is to PDF which contains both A: and B:] https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/c3.2.1.-rousseau-and-the-problem-of-reason-1.pdf
C: “Understanding the Dialectic in Kant, Hegel, Marx, Engels & Lenin”. [“final version, for publication, finished while banned”]. pp. 92. Ibid. Box C3.3.1. https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/c3.3.1.-understanding-the-dialectic.pdf
D: “Althusser: Reflections on an Uncritical Self-Critic” [final version it seems; from hard copy held by M.Hubbard]. pp.65. https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/althusser-reflections-on-uncritical-self-critic-1.pdf
“Reading Althusser”. pp. 56. Ibid. C3.4.2 [typed draft. Final version of this seems to be the above: “Reflections on an Uncritical Self-Critic”] https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/c3.4.2-reading-althusser-typed-version.pdf
———1977 “Reading Althusser” pp.163 ibid. [handwritten draft of typed version above?] https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/c3.4.1.draft-reading-althusser-1977-finished-while-banned.pdf
c) Richard Turner and Foszia Fisher-Turner–other unpublished writings, including drafts
Fisher, Foszia. 1977. “TUACC & Co.” In, Richard Turner & Foszia Fisher-Turner Papers, 1950s-2000, Historical Papers Archive, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, A3454, Box J.3. https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/j3-tuacc-co-copy-1.pdf
——–. n.d. “Some Notes on Women’s Liberation”. Ibid https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/j3-some-notes-on-womens-liberation-incomplete-copy-1.pdf
——– & Harald Nxsana. n.d. “The Labour Situation in South Africa”. Ibid https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/j3-labour-situation-in-sa-copy-1.pdf
——– & Richard Turner, 1974. Class Consciousness Amongst Colonised Workers in South Africa”, 27 pages. Unpublished paper to Workshop on the Social and Economic History of Southern Africa, Oxford University conference on South Africa (October). Ibid. https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/j3-class-consciousness-amongst-colonised-workers-in-south-africa-copy.pdf
Richard Turner n.d. “Kant: Time and the Kingdom of Ends”. Ibid. Box C3.2.2 [Is this identical to the final version, above Box C3.2.1?]
——–. n.d. “Kant and the Nature of Freedom”. Ibid. Box C3.3.4
——–. n.d. “Marx, Engels and the Dialectics of Nature”. Ibid. C3.3.2.
——–. n.d. “Notes on an uncritical self-critic”. pp. 40. Ibid [draft]
——–. n.d. “Christians and Politics”. Ibid. C4.1 (hand written) https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/c4.1-christians-and-politics.pdf
——–. n.d. “Vorster’s détente policy”. Ibid,
——–. n.d. “Talk on The Eye of the Needle”. Ibid. https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/c4.1-talk-on-the-eye-of-the-needle.pdf
——–. n.d. “African Unions: Strategies and policies” [Incomplete]. Ibid. C.4.2. https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/c4.2-african-unions-various-texts.pdf
——–. n.d. “Report on East Asiatics”. Ibid.
——–. n.d. “Memorandum on assistance to Trade Unions”. Ibid.
——–. n.d. “Trade Unions and Strikes”. Ibid,
——–. n.d. “The Politics of Migrant Labour”. Ibid.
——–. 1972. “Teaching social justice”, In Horst Kleinschmidt (ed.), White Liberation. Sprocas: Johannesburg, pp. 65-76.
d) On Richard Turner and/or his times
Alexander, Neville. 2023. Against racial capitalism: Selected Writings. London: Pluto Press.
Allsobrook, Chris. 2012. “Book Review: The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa”, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 59(130), pp. 87-92.
Ally Shireen. 2005 “Oppositional Intellectualism: As Reflection, not Rejection, of Power: Wits Sociology, 1975-1989”, Transformation, 59, pp. 66-97,
Anon, 2012. “South Africa in the 1970s”. South African History Online. https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/south-africa-1970s
Anon. 2025. “Rick Turner”. South African History Online. https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/rick-turner
Badat, Saleem. 2009. Black Man, You Are On Your Own. Johannesburg: Steve Biko Foundation.
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Becker, Heike. 2018-2019. “South African Student Protests, 1968-2016: Dissent, Disruption, Decolonization. International Socialist Review, 111. https://isreview.org/issue/111/south-african-student-protests-1968-2016/index.html
Biko, Steve. 2002[1978]. I Write What I Like: Selected Writings. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bozzoli, Belinda & Peter Delius. 1991.“Radical History and South African Society”. In Joshua Brown, Patrick Manning, Karen Shapiro, Jon Wiener, Belinda Bozzoli & Peter Delius (eds.), History from South Africa: Alternative Visions and Practices. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. 5-26.
Cheadle, Halton. 2022. “Philosopher-Organiser: Rick Turner and the revival of the trade union movement in the early 1970s”. Daily Maverick. 21 February.https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-02-21-philosopher-organiser-rick-turner-and-the-revival-of-the-trade-union-movement-in-the-early-1970s/
Clarke, Simon. 1977. “Marxism, Sociology and Poulantzas’s Theory of the State”. Capital and Class, 1(2), p. 1-31.
Clarke, Simon. 1978. “Capital, Fractions of Capital, and the State: ‘Neo-Marxist’ Analysis of the South African State”. Capital and Class, 2(2), 32-77.
Cole, Peter & Christopher J. Lee. 2022. “Remembering the Durban moment after fifty years: a conversation with Peter Cole.” Safundi,
Davie, Grace. 2007 “Strength in Numbers: The Durban Student Wages Commission & the Poverty Datum Line 1971-1973,” Journal of Souther African StudiesS, 33 (2, pp.: 401-420
De Kadt, Raphael, D. Usher, S. Meer, T. Morphet, and J. Noel.“Why We Need Rick Turner.” South African Outlook 108 (6) 1978
De Kadt, Raphael. 2017. “Editorial”. Theoria, 64(151), Special Issue. Turner and His Times, pp. v-vii https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40194249__;!!CF15FET90Tp8!AqFXdKQkSZDjgYeKK5JHI-oWunyz8WmsX28m8m3FeQwIBqfQX51NNzr5fBTgNOSx4Z_H4_ZZ-juz5ZNhpqg$
Degenaar, Johan. 1988. “In Search of Justice”. Paper to the 15th Congress of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa. University of the Western Cape. January https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/j-degenaar-in-search-of-justice-1988.pdf
Drew, Allison. 2022. “A Gendered Approach to the Yu Chi Chan Club and National Liberation Front During South Africa’s Transition to Armed Struggle”, International Review of Social History, 67(S30). pp. 179-207.
——–, 2023. “Neville Alexander and South Africa’s New Left, c. 1957-1964”. In Lungisile Ntesebaza (ed). Rethinking Africa Series. No, 6 https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/neville-alexander-and-south-africas-new-left-c-1957-1964-allison-drew
Dialego [pseud. John Hoffman]. 1987[1975]. Philosophy and Class Struggle: The Basic Principles of Marxism as Seen in the Context of the South African Liberation Struggle. London: Inkululeko Publications. https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/dialego/philosophy/ch01.htm
Driver, C.J. 2003. “Used to be great friends”. Granta, 1 January.https://granta.com/used-to-be-great-friends/
Dunn, Hilary. 2010. ‘Hippies, radicals, and the Sounds of Silence’: Cultural Dialectics at Two South African Universities 1966-1976. Ph.D Thesis, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Howard Campus. https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/26447f15-1f4a-44f6-85e4-29133f3ad624/content
Egan, Anthony. 2017. “Rick Turner as …Theologian?”. Theoria, 64(151), Special Issue. Turner and His Times, pp. 58-71.
Ensor, Paula. 2024. “Women in the Frame: Reading Rick Turner’s The Eye of the Needle through Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex”. In Eze et al., Rick Turner’s Politics as the Art of the Impossible. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 71-90.
Erbmann, Robert. 2005. Conservative Revolutionaries: Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town. Honours dissertation, Oxford University. https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/conservative-revolutionaries-anti-apartheid-activism-university-cape-town-1963-1973-robert
Eze, Michael Onyebuchi, 2024a. “Rick Turner and Steve Biko were leading liberation thinkers in South Africa in the 1970s – why their ideas still matter”. The African Mirror, March 22. https://theafricanmirror.africa/thought-leadership/rick-turner-and-steve-biko-were-leading-liberation-thinkers-in-1970s-south-africa-why-their-ideas-still-matter/
——–, 2024b. “Decolonising Resistance: Political Freedom in Rick Turner”. In Eze et al., Rick Turner’s Politics as the Art of the Impossible. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 2-25
——–, Lawrence Hamilton, Laurence Piper & Gideon van Riet (eds). 2024. Rick Turner’s Politics as the Art of the Impossible. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
——–. “Introduction”, ibid., p. ix-xxiv
Fluxman, Tony & Peter Vale. 2004. “Rereading Rick Turner in the New South Africa”. International Relations, 18(2), pp. 173-189. https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/re-reading_rick_turner_in_the_new_south_africa.pdf
Freire, Paolo. 1970. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum
Friedman, Steven. 2014a. “The Ambiguous Legacy of Liberalism: Less a Theory of Society, More a State of Mind?”. In Peter Vale, Lawrence Hamilton & Estelle Prinsloo (eds.). 2014. Intellectual Traditions in South Africa. Ideas, Individuals and Institutions. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, pp. 29-50.
——–. 2014b. “From Classroom to Class Struggle: Radical Academics and the Rebirth of Trade Unionism in the 1970s”, Journal of Asian and African Studies, 49(5), pp. 525-543.
——–. 2017. “The Nemesis of the Suburbs: Richard Turner and South African Liberalism”. Theoria, 64(151), Special Issue. Turner and His Times, pp. 10-19.
Fullard, Madelaine. 2004. “State Repression in the 1960s”, in South African Democracy Education Trust, The Road to Democracy in South Africa. Volume 1: 1960-1970, Cape Town: Zebra Press, pp. 363.
Glazer, Daryl. 2024. “Should We Take Turner’s Democratic Model Seriously?” In Eze et al., Rick Turner’s Politics as the Art of the Impossible. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 113-133
Greaves, Duncan. 1987. “Richard Turner and the Politics of Imagination”. Richard Turner Memorial Lecture, University of Natal Pietermaritzburg, 12 August. https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files2/theoaug87.pdf
Gunther, Magnus. 2004. “The National Committee of Liberation (NCL)/African Resistance Movement (ARM)”. In Bernard Magubane (ed.), The Road to South African Democracy. Johannesburg: South African Education Trust/Zebra Press, pp. 193-233.
Hamilton, Lawrence. 2014. “The Power of the Past: The Future of Intellectual History in South Africa”. n Peter Vale, Lawrence Hamilton & Estelle Prinsloo (eds.). 2014. Intellectual Traditions in South Africa. Ideas, Individuals and Institutions. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, pp.333-348.
Heywood, Mark. 2014. “Is the Continuation of the Present a Possible Future? In Honour of Richard Turner. Daily Maverick, 4 August. https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/is_the_continuation_of_the_present_a_possible_future.pdf
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Ilyich, Ivan. 1972. Deschooling Society. New York: Harper & Row.
Kasrils, Ronnie. 2020. “The legacy of Fidel Castro for Southern Africa and beyond”. Daily Maverick, 14 August. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2020-08-14-the-legacy-of-fidel-castro-for-southern-africa-and-beyond/
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Keniston, Billy. 2010. Rick Turner’s Contribution to a Socialist Political Culture in South Africa, 1968-1978. M.A. Dissertation, University of the Western Cape.
——–. 2013. Choosing to be Free: The Life Story of Rick Turner. Johannesburg: Jacana Media.
——–. 2014. “Comment. Response to Eddie Webster’s review of Choosing to be Free: The life story of Rick Turner”, in Transfomation 85”, Transformation 86, pp. 78-81.
——–. 2017. “The Weight of Absence: Rick Turner and the End of the Durban Moment”, Theoria, 64(151), Special Issue Turner and His Times, pp. 20-28.
——–. 2021. Cover Stories and Undercover Stories: Apartheid South Africa, 1969-1984. Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
——–. 2023. “Dust in the eyes: the murder of Rick Turner was not supposed to be solved”, Safundi 24(4), pp. 276-294.
———. 2024a. Apartheid Spies and the Revolutionary Underground: The Assassination of Jeanette Schoon. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
——-. 2024b. “Rick Turner, an Aboveground Radical”. In Eze et al.,Rick Turner’s Politics as the Art of the Impossible. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 181-198.
Lambert, Rob. 2010. “Eddie Webster, The Durban Moment and New Labour Internationalism”. Transformation, 72/73, pp. 26-47.
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——–. 2008. “Debating the revival of the workers’ movement in the 1970: The South African Democracy Education Trust and post-apartheid patriotic history”, Kronos 34(1).
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——–. 2016. “South Africa: The Radical Thought of Rick Turner”. Marxist Internet Archive, https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/4817.html
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——–. 2017. “Class versus Nation: A History of Richard Turner’s Eclipse and Resurgence”. Theoria, 64(151), Special Issue Turner and His Times, pp. 29-39.
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——–. 1990. “Brushing History Against the Grain: Oppositional Discourse in South Africa”. Theoria, 76 (Oct.): 89-99. https://rickturner.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/tony-morphet-brushing-history-the-wrong-way-1990.pdf
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——–. 1999. “The Moment of Western Marxism in South Africa”. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, XIX(1), pp. 66-81. https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/moment-western-marxism-south-africa-andrew-nash
——–. 2009. The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa. New York: Routledge
——–. 2014. “The Double Lives of South African Marxism”. In Peter Vale, Lawrence Hamilton & Estelle Prinsloo (eds.). 2014. Intellectual Traditions in South Africa. Ideas, Individuals and Institutions. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, pp. 51-72.
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