About the Author

Michael Schmidt is Executive Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism and Administrative Secretary of the Professional Journalists Association of South Africa. An active participant in the international anarchist milieu, he is an investigative journalist, a researcher, an amateur song-writer and a tireless advocate for journalistic freedom. With Prof Lucien van der Walt, he is the author of "Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism," published in 2009 by AK Press. He lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa."