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250 posts
16 May
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03:09
02HONDA-articleLarge.jpg Gongchao on the attempts of the Chinese state to handle growing unrest and struggle. In spring 2010, workers at a Honda plant in the industrial city of Foshan, Guangdong went on strike. They overcame the split between permanent employees and technical student interns (...) -- China, Gongchao, strikes
15 May
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13:29
RaggedTrouseredPhilanthropistsCoverDetail.jpg In this essay from 2011, novelist DD Johnston presents a communist analysis of the definition and purpose of working class fiction. Last week, for the second time in my life, I found myself agreeing with Margaret Thatcher. The first time was many (...) -- DD Johnston, writers, class, communism, fiction
13 May
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18:54
payback.jpg An article written by a contributor who is currently serving a 120 hour community payback order, in which they are required to do a program of unpaid work for the terrible “community”1. This article forms the first part of a short series detailing different aspects and analysis of (...) -- UK, prisons, accounts, London, serco
12 May
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22:03
china_in_revolt.png Eli Friedman on some of the recent strikes in China. The Chinese working class plays a Janus-like role in the political imaginary of neoliberalism. On the one hand, it’s imagined as the competitive victor of capitalist globalization, the conquering juggernaut whose rise (...) -- China, Eli Friedman, Jacobin, strikes
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02:25
image_preview.jpg An overview of a strike by the syndicalist union Workers Initiative, at a contract manufacturing plant in Poland that produces components for the Korean electronics multinational, LG. An electronics factory in a special economic zone, low wages, long working hours, (...) -- Gongchao, manufacturing and materials, Poland, Workers Initiative, strikes
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01:00
cropped-hk-dockers-strike-web3.jpg An article by Frido Wenten based on talking with a dockworker in Hong Kong during the Spring 2013 strikes. As the Hong Kong dockworkers strike enters its third week, around 100 workers still camp outside the gates to Hong Kong International Terminals (HIT). (...) -- China, docks, Frido Wenten, strikes, Hong Kong
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00:35
gongch.jpg An overview of the effects and causes of strikes and labor unrest in China over the last decade, and how what some leftists and NGOs advocate is inadequate for the advancement of class struggle in the country. 1 | introduction read (...) -- China, Gongchao, strikes
10 May
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22:41
rusty.jpg An article by Colin Bossen about membership growth and how the IWW might deal with it. If you have been active in the IWW for a while, you have probably come across a pamphlet called “Rusty’s Rules of Order”— the pamphlet that serves as a guide to running effective union meetings. read (...) -- Colin Bossen, USA
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21:57
pizza.jpg An account by a Pizza Hut worker in the UK about remembering to be creative in workplace organizing. There is no denying that organizing, and class struggle more generally, is hard work—it can be boring and really tiring. However, we need to remember not to get stuck in a pattern (...) -- UK, retail and food, Pizza Hut, Sheffield
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21:08
r-STARBUCKS-OWES-MASSACHUSETTS-BARISTAS-large570.jpg An account by Liberté Locke about working at Starbucks in New York over the Christmas season. Starbucks is a job in which the boss is so shitty that he can lose everything in Hurricane Sandy and his sympathy only lasts a couple weeks. read (...) -- Liberté Locke, retail and food, Starbucks Workers Union, USA, accounts, Starbucks
7 May
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20:16
Friedman.jpg A sex worker's response to columnist Mia Freedman's blog in which implied that she does not respect the right of women with mental illness to become sex workers. A few weeks ago both Dr Brooke Magnanti and Mia Freedman appeared on an all women panel on Q and A. Quite a (...) -- Australia, sex industry, feminism, mental health, sex and sexuality, women
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11:53
work-lips.jpg Spitzenprodukte considers autonomist anti-work politics through the lenses of songs by Dolly Parton, Le Tigre and Shangela Laquifa. Workin 9 to 5 What a way to make a livin’ Barely gettin by Workin 9 to 5/ What a way to make a livin’/ Barely gettin by/ It’s all takin’/ And no (...) -- music, spitzenprodukte, work
3 May
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14:43
BristolCommuteG_468x314.jpg An article about transit, it's relationship to work and capitalism, and an exploration of a revolutionary anti-capitalist orientation towards transit struggles. The film Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a surreal comedy-fantasy depiction of a city run on (...) -- buses, rail, Scott Nappalos, trams, USA, anarchism, Florida, Miami, prices
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14:40
Fel_chile_en_valparaiso_2005.JPG Using the concept of the intermediate level, an exploration of what a new workers movement in the US might entail. It’s a tired truism that the workers movement in the US is floundering without a real base or path forward. A new generation of experimentation, (...) -- Scott Nappalos, anarchism, unions, workplace activity
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14:33
cigarworkers.jpg This piece looks at Malatesta's anti-syndicalist arguments, and critiques them for not having a perspective that looks at workers struggle across time. Looking at the role of struggle in cognition, it argues for seeing workplace struggle as a shifting plane of social (...) -- Errico Malatesta, Scott Nappalos, anarchism, unions
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13:54
Lunch-Atop-a-Skyscraper-a16.jpg A response to a debate on unions in the United States today started between a number of groups and individuals including Unity & Struggle and Advance the Struggle. This piece attempts to argue against militant reformism growing in the union movements towards (...) -- Advance the Struggle, Scott Nappalos, Unity & Struggle, USA, unions, workplace activity
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14:05
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14:25
483px-popova_air_man_space.jpg A look into revolutionary cognition that argues for the necessity of cultivating radical subjectivities. Arguments for automatic consciousness are critiqued, and the role of struggles, ruptures, and breaks is explored. How is liberation possible? Or (...) -- Scott Nappalos, anarchism, psychology
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14:15
Occupy-Wall-Street-Anti-B-007.jpg An exploration of the 2008 global crisis and responses. This article looks at militant reformism and the role of existing means and channels of settling disputes in society. Equilibrium and social forces of stability are identified for their central role in (...) -- Scott Nappalos, anarchism, insurrectionism, social movements, state socialism
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13:59
Riot_Porn_by_liquidroot.jpg An essay on the form and content of struggles, and the fetishization of militant forms of action. Moving away from believing tactics to have inherent potential, it argues for the central role of the social relationships and process of protagonists in struggle. (...) -- Scott Nappalos, anarchism, insurrectionism, violence
1 May
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19:17
482478_372434359523496_1193501142_n.jpg The full of autobiographies of each of the Haymarket martyrs: eight Chicago anarchists who were sentenced to death and in whose memory we celebrate May Day, International Workers' Day. Originally written for the Knights of Labor journal. Digitised (...) -- Knights of Labor, USA, 8-hour day, anarchism, autobiographies, killings, May Day, PDFs, repression, strikes
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00:36
foto-1.jpeg Over the past ten years, many squats across Italy have begun opening self-organized sports centres, offering mostly (but not exclusively) combat disciplines and promoting anti-fascist values alongside a non-commercial training philosophy. In this article, we provide an overview of (...) -- Italy, fascism, mixed martial arts, social centres, sport
30 April
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19:31
tumblr_m88iffsS8o1rz1nmdo1_1280.jpg Libcom.org's guide to class struggle films, showing realistic portrayals of the working class and revolutionary situations. To watch any of these films, install uTorrent. Search using The Pirate Bay and click the magnet or arrow to start the download. (...) -- film, media and culture
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13:20
fireworks.jpg Gilles Dauvé and Karl Nesic look back over 12 years of their Troploin project and where to go from here amidst austerity and working class defeat. troploin stands at a turning point. We owe it as much to us as to our friends and readers to assess what we have been trying to do (...) -- Gilles Dauvé, Karl Nesic, Troploin, communisation
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12:09
1980 essay by George Caffentzis examining capitalist society following the 1973 energy and economic crisis amidst the widespread refusal of work by women and the young. The litany of natural stuffs - petroleum, natural gas, uranium, coal, wood, water, sunlight - apprehension about their limits, (...) -- work-energy crisis.epub, education, George Caffentzis, crisis, epub, feminism, mobi, women
28 April
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02:05
pinkcollar.jpg Kathi Weeks examines immaterial and affective labour from a feminist perspective, drawing on the work of both Arlie Hochschild and C.W. Mills. Feminist theorists have long been interested in immaterial and affective labor, even if the terms themselves are a more recent (...) -- Kathi Weeks, gender, work
26 April
22 April
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11:51
strike-cover.jpg In possibly the best book on the American working class movement ever written, Jeremy Brecher narrates the hidden history of mass strikes from 1877 to 1970 from the point of view of the workers themselves. Attached in PDF format is the 1972 version of this book. We heartily (...) -- strike-Jeremy-Brecher.pdf, AFL, CIO, Jeremy Brecher, transport, USA, PDFs, strikes, unions, wildcat strikes
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09:32
Joseph_Brant_by_Gilbert_Stuart,_1786.jpg Fantastically researched historical fiction about the Iroquois, a group of native American tribes who side with the British during the American war in independence. -- Wu_Ming_Manituana_EN.epub, USA, Wu Ming, epub, fiction, mobi
18 April
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21:27
121205-mondragon.jpg A critical look at co-ops, worker-owned and collective businesses, ethical banking, the entrepreneurial spirit, competition, and “independent” contract work and the limitations of the concept and practice of self-management in the context of the totalitarian logic of (...) -- Terra Cremada, capitalism, co-operatives, ethical consumerism, reformism, self-management, workers control
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00:45
Picture 13.png Check out this interview with Noam Chomsky about the growing housing justice movement, the future of Occupy, and how direct action can play into all of this. As a commentator, educator, public intellectual, and one of the best-known anarchist voices in the U.S., Noam Chomsky (...) -- Noam Chomsky, Shane Burley, USA, direct action, occupy movement, housing, interviews
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12:38
16 April
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00:43
phoca_thumb_l_spanien108.jpg Libcom.org's reading guide on literature with a focus on work and accurate representations of working class life, culture and resistance to power. American Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination - In a world where transportation is possible with a thought, (...) -- writers, fiction
14 April
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21:28
congresfora.jpg This piece has a number of intriguing ideas that were circulating in the FORA. Lopez Arango counterposes a static view of unions and anarchism to one inherently grounded in trajectories of struggle, and puts the dynamics of change in struggle at the core of revolutionary work. (...) -- Argentina, Emilio Lopez Arango, FORA, Scott Nappalos, anarchosyndicalism, unions
13 April
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23:02
11.jpg In this article, Madaline tells the story of how she fell into organizing and the IWW – pushed both by terrible bosses and by amazing solidarity among her coworkers. If the first week of work at Artistry Bakery and Cafe was any indication, there was no way this four-month experience (...) -- Canada, food service, IWW, Madaline Dreyfus, Recomposition, accounts, on-the-job action, work life, workplace activity
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13:22
welfare-spending.PNG Excellent document from the New Economics Foundation debunking government and media rhetoric about benefit "skivers" and showing that only 2.6% of welfare spending is on the unemployed. Executive Summary The myth ‘Strivers versus skivers’ purports to sums up our welfare (...) -- Strivers_vs._skivers_full-publication.pdf, UK, welfare, reports, UK against austerity
12 April
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19:47
photo (20).JPG In 2012, workers at a small moving company in New York City rose up against bad pay and dangerous work conditions. In the course of the struggle, much was revealed about how exploitation operates; how the enticements of 'self-expression' and a 'laid back' (...) -- A moving story.mobi, distribution, James Frey, Jocelyn Cohn, USA, accounts, anarchism, mobi, New York, occupy movement, workplace activity
11 April
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01:05
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12:16
mp087[1].jpg A critique of liberal conceptions of 'intersectionality' and an outline of an anarchist, class struggle approach. We need to understand the body not as bound to the private or to the self—the western idea of the autonomous individual—but as being linked integrally to (...) -- Abbey Volcano, J. Rogue, anarchism, class, feminism, gender, race, sex and sexuality, women
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00:30
9 April
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22:31
Nin.jpg An essay on the Soviets published in 1932 by the co-founder of the Spanish POUM, sympathetic to Lenin and critical of the “profound errors committed, after the death of Lenin, by the leadership of the Communist Party”, that characterizes the Soviets as “a system of government that is (...) -- Andreu Nin, Bolsheviks, Leon Trotsky, USSR, Vladimir Lenin, Russian Revolution, workers councils
7 April
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12:10
06-get-rich-or-lie-trying-ii.jpg This article aims to explain, from an anarchist / syndicalist perspective, the rapid rise and fall of Julius Malema, the controversial and corrupt multi-millionaire leader of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress’s (ANC’s) “youth league” (...) -- Get rich or lie trying Why ANC millionaire Julius Malema posed as a radical.pdf, ANC, Julius Malema, Lucien van der Walt, South Africa, Tina Sizovuka, PDFs, politicians, privatisation
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09:53
Van-Gogh-069.jpg A number of us have begun work on a pamphlet/online text which seeks to offer advice to those who suffer from depression. While the bulk of the text is complete, we’re still looking for submissions from those who’ve dealt with depression, how it’s affected their involvement in (...) -- health and medicine, mental health
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10:12
5 April
2 April
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21:00
gruel.jpg A blog about welfare reform from a social care worker's perspective, and the creation of the "welfare addict" as a recession-era scapegoat. Inspired largely by today's Novara show, and the people I work with. I've got a personal grudge against a colleague of mine. I know (...) -- UK, claimants and unpaid, ECAP, public and third sector, Ramona, Scotland, social care, welfare, UK against austerity
30 March
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20:29
166968585450272133.jpg An exhaustive article by Scott Nappalos on the Leninist conception of 'democratic centralism'. In this piece, Nappalos examines everything from what Lenin and Gransci said on the subject, to what it looked like in practice in organizations such as the Communist (...) -- Scott Nappalos, USA, Leninism, Russian Revolution
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19:57
lenin1.jpg Adam Weaver reviews Ron Taber's 1988 book, A Look At Leninism, which is available in PDF format here. From Theory to Practice, Taking a Critical Look at Leninism A Look At Leninism by Ron Taber. 104 pp. New York , New York : Aspect Foundation, 1988 read (...) -- Adam Weaver, Ron Taber, USA, Leninism, reviews, Russian Revolution
21 March
17 March
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16:06
winterofdiscontent304.jpg An analysis of a major 1970s highpoint of class struggle in the UK; its character, implications and consequences. Discontents Preamble and Introduction: History & Class Consciousness in the UK: Now Is The Winter Of Our Discontent 1: Preparing the fire: The (...) -- UK, BM Blob, endangered phoenix, Henri Simon, 1970s, strikes, winter of discontent
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15:23
14 March
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22:41
SupportTheMinersRightToAFuture.png Set of 4 Xmas cards produced by Rhymney Valley Miners Support Group in South Wales during the strike of 1984-85. Images on the outside and writing by miners on the inside. Black & white scans. MinerCard01_out.png MinerCard01_in.png MinerCard02_out.png (...) -- UK, coal, mining, NUM, Rhymney Valley Miners Support Group, Wales, Miners Strike
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09:28
PunchingOutCover.jpg Seminal text by Marty Glaberman detailing his experiences of wildcat strikes and union policing of the workforce during the heyday of the UAW in Detroit's auto factories. Not long ago two men in a Detroit auto plant were discussing their steward. Both had known him (...) -- PunchingOut.pdf, car industry, CIO, Martin Glaberman, UAW, USA, Flint sit down strikes, PDFs, strikes, unions, wildcat strikes, workplace activity
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23:53
ManBriefcase.jpg A public statement on a labour conflict by a group of anarchists and radicals in Minneapolis. The statement resembles typical union-busting strategies, combined with the language of anti-capitalism. We do not agree with this article, but reproduce for reference, and have (...) -- IWW, USA, Best of the worst, Minneapolis
12 March
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11:21
bwgpix1.jpg Pamphlet about the UK rank-and-file Building Worker Group within the UCATT union, published as issue 8 of the series Revolutions Per Minute. Issue 8 is dedicated to the 3,000 building workers who have lost their lives in so-called ‘site accidents’ since the advent of the Health and (...) -- UK, Building Worker Group, construction, UCATT, workplace groups
11 March
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21:45
885178_221932167950867_494295414_o.jpg Victimisation, by bosses and the state, of those who try to organise in the workplace is nothing new. But recently a spate of high profile cases have focused wider attention on the issue. Last year, William Hill bookmakers announced plans to extend their (...) -- UK, PAMSU, PCS, Phil Dickens, RMT, UCU, direct action, strikes, unions, wildcat strikes, workplace activity
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RMT.jpg We reproduce below the statement made by RMT member Caroline Leneghan on her personal blog, in solidarity with her and other women speaking out about gender violence. [trigger warning: descriptions of domestic violence, pictures of injuries sustained] Today I would like to show my (...) -- UK, Caroline Leneghan, RMT, transport, gender, women
9 March
8 March
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18:13
Alfie-Meadows-court-case-008.jpg After years of uncertainty and two mistrials, Alfie Meadows and Zak King have been found unanimously not guilty of violent disorder on a demonstration against tuition fees and cuts to education of December 9, 2010. Alfie was beaten so badly by police on that (...) -- UK, Alfie Meadows, Defend The Right To Protest, education, police, Zak King, repression, students, UK against austerity, violence
7 March
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02:48
420607_10150639042957065_790649534_n.jpg An article by Juan Conatz replying to some of the Direct Unionism discussion paper responses. Cleaning out my numerous Google Doc drafts, I found this, which continues the direct unionism debate by taking on most of the responses to the original (...) -- Juan Conatz, Recomposition, direct unionism
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02:24
pink.png Dave Stannton's account of his experiences as a “pink collar” militant working at an immigrant-serving non-profit organized by a large public-sector union in Northern Alberta. This article is an account of my experiences as a “pink collar” militant working at an immigrant-serving (...) -- Canada, Dave Stannton, Recomposition, accounts
6 March
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00:27
chavezgun.jpg When an illness becomes serious, when medical attention becomes a vehicle for myopic, politically motivated decisions and when a patient becomes drunk with power, it can only end this way. The strongman has died, and in so doing, he has initiated a substantial shift in the (...) -- El Libertario, Venezuela, deaths, repression, social movement
5 March
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00:35
sabino.jpg The official statement of the El Libertario collective following the murder of Sabino Romero, Yukpa indigenous rights activist, in Zulia, Venezuela last night. During the night of March 3, 2013 Yukpa Cacique Sabino Romero, well known for his defense of the rights of the Yukpa (...) -- El Libertario, Venezuela, killings, repression, indigenous
3 March
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18:35
grillo-movimento-5-stelle[1].jpg This is an interview by Roberto Ciccarelli, whom we thank, and it appears in today’s (Friday’s) issue of “Il Manifesto”. We couldn’t be more clear and straightforward than this. It synthesises what we think about the Movimento 5 Stelle (henceforth M5S) and about its (...)
2 March
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02:34
12270_10200175047437843_299975466_n.jpg Information on a just begun strike at a non-profit mobile food shelf and soup kitchen in Minneapolis. From the Twin Cities IWW blog: read more -- IWW, USA, Minneapolis, strikes
1 March
28 February
23 February
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15:49
maude_strike_1934019c.jpg Stories about the government threatening a “crack down” on trade union power emerge almost on a loop. Particularly in times of heightened class antagonism. But far from showing the unions as threats to society, such threats are a demand that the unions tighten up their (...) -- UK, CSRF Network, Phil Dickens, public and third sector, UK against austerity, unions
21 February
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23:06
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20:44
Cork-harbour--010.jpg New York Times article where dock workers took control and expropriated money to pay wages. DAIL EIREANN HALTS CORK HARBOR STRIKE Intervenes and quiets a tense situation when workers seized board offices, had hoisted a red flag. Men return to jobs after Sinn Fein Labor (...) -- 109822993.pdf, Ireland, PDFs
19 February
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22:55
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Tim-Burgess-scab.jpg As journalists at the BBC strike to defend their jobs while senior execs get huge payoffs, former front man of middle-of-the-road Britpop act The Charlatans, scabs on them by covering for Lauren Laverne who joined the walkout. Presumably, as he is so desperate, being a (...) -- UK, journalism, NUJ, radio, BBC, celebrity scabs, job losses, strikes, UK against austerity
18 February
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19:13
zerowork.gif Online archive of the Zerowork journal, an autonomist Marxist-influenced magazine based in the US which published two issues between 1975 and 1977. -- USA, Zerowork, autonomist Marxism, publications
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16:21
downhills.jpg Documentary detailing the community campaign against the forced academisation of Downhills Primary in 2012. Some interesting scenes in this documentary. Effectively charting the campaign against something that was clearly a done-deal long before parents or school workers were (...) -- UK, Choccy, education, NASUWT, NUT, academies, London, privatisation, schools, tottenham
17 February
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17:20
commies-party.gif A number of pieces have been written recently on “unity” amongst the left and the ways we can achieve that. What follows are the reasons I reject left unity as a notion and the kind of real unity that the workers' movement needs – and, to a large extent, already has. (...) -- UK, Phil Dickens, anarchism, state socialism, Trotskyism, UK against austerity
13 February
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17:11
Banner.JPG libcom.org's reading guide around trade or labour unions and the role they play in modern society. Key texts Unions - an introduction - libcom.org's clear and concise guide to unions, their function and how we think workers should relate to them. read (...) -- reading guides, unions
11 February
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14:19
frntcvr.jpg Ronald Lawson's history of New York City's rich tradition of tenant mobilization during the 20th century. Edited by Ronald Lawson with the assistance of Mark Naison. This document including all associated files, may not be published, re-transmitted or otherwise reprinted (...) -- Mark Naison, Ronald Lawson, USA, New York, rent strikes, housing
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12:40
viome.jpg Striking workers at the Vio.Me factory in Thessaloniki, Greece who have not been paid since May 2011 have decided to restart production under workers' control on 12 February 2013. With unemployment climbing to 30%, workers’ income reaching zero, sick and tired of big words, (...) -- Greece, manufacturing and materials, Greece against austerity, occupations, strikes, Vio.Me, workers control
8 February
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01:55
want-to-see-exactly-what-happened-at-the-action.jpg John O'Reilly on the Occupy movement in the United States and the direction it took. “Those who make revolution halfway only dig their own graves” – Jacobin leader in the French Revolution, eventually put to death by Robespierre read (...) -- John O'Reilly, Recomposition, USA, occupy movement
7 February
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12:57
88376548_0176d2c6dc.jpg A member of the Solidarity Federation Tech & Digital workers network recounts the building of a collective identity in their workplace, pushing a collective grievance and building on workplace victories. I was sat at home during the christmas holidays when I (...) -- UK, Solidarity Federation, IT, accounts, workplace activity
6 February
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12:21
adlib_image.jpg A short account of anarchist connections to Hanbury Street in the East End of London. The article A Rose By Any Other Name (here at libcom) dealt with Rose Street (later Manette Street) in central London and its continuing links with anarchism. read (...) -- UK, Nick Heath, anarchists, Jewish, London, Tower Hamlets
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11:57
THUMBS UP!.JPG A blog entry detailing my recent experiences as a language worker--examining the structure of my particular workplace and potential opportunities for organising in the industry. For a little over a year I've been employed teaching English at a school in Eastern Europe. The (...) -- Eastern Europe, TEFL, accounts
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16:43
GrapesOfWrath.jpg Nobel prize-winning author John Steinbeck's realist masterpiece looks at the plight of a family of tenant farmers forced to leave Oklahoma during the great depression. Wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop (...) -- grapes of wrath.pdf, agriculture, John Steinbeck, USA, epub, fiction, Great Depression, mobi, PDFs
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11:10
southlondonwomenshospital.JPG Past Tense tell the inside story of the work-in and occupation of a women's hospital in South London faced with closure. First I’ll give you some background on hospital occupations, which goes back to the late 1970s. In the early 1970s both the private and (...) -- UK, health and medicine, Past Tense, London, occupations, workers control
3 February
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19:05
book.jpg Libcom.org's guide to reading around the subject of work and wage labour in capitalist society, and struggles against them. Key texts Work - an introduction - libcom.org's, clear, short introduction to work, what is wrong with it, and what we can do about it. read (...) -- reading guides, work, work life
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work-2.jpg libcom.org's brief introduction to work, what we think is wrong with it and what we, as workers, can do about it. This is a draft version for comments so please let us know what you think in the thread linked to below. What is wrong with work? For the majority of us, most of (...) -- libcom.org, work
1 February
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72898_10151473864771873_1823619268_n.jpg London based anarchist bookshop Freedom was damaged in an arson attack in the early hours of Friday morning. Nobody was hurt in the fire which partially gutted the ground floor and damaged the building's electrics. Freedom Press is Britain's (...) -- UK, Freedom Press, anarchism, terrorism
31 January
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Screen Shot 2013-01-31 at 4.02.04 PM.png When thinking about what kind of housing model we really want for the future, we can see the new structures sprouting in the very acts of resistance we have today. Resistance, in the political and social sphere, is both the means and the ends. Direct (...) -- North America, Rochester Red & Black, housing
30 January
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Lincoln.jpg Historian Howard Zinn on Abraham Lincoln and the eventual abolition of slavery in the US. Which shows that Spielberg's new film, Lincoln, is far from historically accurate. John Brown1 was executed by the state of Virginia with the approval of the national government. It was (...) -- Abraham Lincoln, Howard Zinn, USA, American civil war, race, slavery
29 January
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12:11
9781844673728-frontcover[2].jpg This work presents a myth-busting account of how class conflict and economic development, and not only interstate rivalry, led to the emergence of the modern state system. Inspired by the groundbreaking historical work of Robert Brenner, Teschke argues that (...) -- [Benno_Teschke]_The_Myth_of_1648_Class,_Geopoliti(BookFi.org).Pdf, Benno Teschke, 1600s, capitalism, class struggle, geopolitics, Marxism, PDFs, state
28 January
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AAA.jpg Letter from Emma Goldman and Alex Berkman written to warn workers of the persecution of revolutionaries in Russia by the Bolsheviks, originally published in Freedom in 1922. We have just received the following letter from our comrades Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, who are now (...) -- Alexander Berkman, Bolsheviks, Emma Goldman, Freedom Press, Russia, USSR, Working Class Self Organisation, anarchism, repression, Russian Revolution
27 January
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AAA.PNG Two stories of revolts by US troops, including the shooting of a top sergeant and the mutiny of Bravo Company at Firebase Pace near Cambodia, written by Richard Boyle, a war correspondent who spent three tours in Vietnam. The Vietnam War was one of the least popular in American (...) -- richard-boyle-gi-revolts-the-breakdown-of-the-u-s-army-in-vietnam.pdf, army, Richard Boyle, USA, Working Class Self Organisation, anti-war, epub, mutinies, PDFs, Vietnam war
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54.jpg 1954. Hollywood actors, cold warriors, mobsters, drug dealers and homing pigeons. What will Yugoslavian president Tito do, now that Joe Stalin is dead? What is the hidden link between Lucky Luciano in his Italian exile, Cary Grant in schizophrenic combat with himself and a stolen TV set (...) -- 54_english.pdf, Cary Grant, Wu Ming Foundation, fiction, mobi, PDFs
25 January
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1.jpg American anarchist Lucy Parsons writes on what it means to be an anarchist in 1913. I am an anarchist. I suppose you came here, the most of you, to see what a real, live anarchist looked like. I suppose some of you expected to see me with a bomb in one hand and a flaming torch in the (...) -- Lucy Parsons, USA, Working Class Self Organisation, anarchism
24 January
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05:41
Grocery-store.jpg An organizer's overview of an ended Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) campaign in the Twin Cities. Oftentimes as workplace organizers, we have a difficult time admitting our mistakes. We are driven and strong-willed, and though these attributes often aid us in the (...) -- Grace Parker, IWW, Recomposition, retail and food, supermarkets, USA, accounts, Minneapolis, workplace activity
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23:17
gove_michael_pob-e1293722468110-300x210_1.jpg NUT executive votes against strike action in March despite accelerated attacks on education The National Union of Teachers Executive Committee today voted 22-20 against strike action in March. An initial date of 13 March had been expected. This (...) -- UK, Choccy, education, NASUWT, NUT, schools, unions
23 January
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600px-Fukushima_I_NPP_1975.jpg An industry-specific response to David Harvey's popular claim that anarchists can neither run nor combat 'tightly-coupled systems', specifically nuclear power plants and air-traffic control. This paper is examines the the former and critiques (...) -- David Harvey, nuclear power, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, organisation
21 January
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14:12
Downout_paris_london.jpg Tramping memoirs from Orwell, where he worked in Paris as a dishwasher and then travelled around London, going from one bedsit to another. O scathful harm, condition of poverte! - Chauser I The Rue du Coq d’Or, Paris, seven in the morning. A succession of furious, (...) -- Down and out in Paris and London.mobi, UK, France, George Orwell, restaurants, accounts, London, mobi, Paris, work life
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fightingforourselves_0.jpg Collective Action's review of Solidarity Federation's recently published book 'Fighting for Ourselves: Anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle'. Fighting For Ourselves: Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Class Struggle (from this point on referred to as (...) -- UK, Collective Action, anarcho-syndicalism, reviews
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censored.jpg George Orwell's original preface to Animal Farm about unofficial censorship of the press in the UK, a supposedly "democratic" country. In a shocking bit of Orwellian irony, this preface is unofficially censored from almost all print editions of the book. This book was first (...) -- UK, George Orwell, journalism, newspapers, censorship
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ffdffs.jpg A world with constant surveillance, perpetual war and a militarised police state, George Orwell's most famous novel was a warning against totalitarian governments, all the more relevant now then when it was written. PART ONE Chapter 1 It was a bright cold day in April, and the (...) -- 1984 - George Orwell.mobi, George Orwell, fiction, mobi, PDFs, state socialism, surveillance
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lunch.jpg Some thoughts on low-income cooking, health, guilt, and the punishment of the poor. Food has always been characterised with angst, guilt, and worry for me. As a teenager I was dangerously underweight and tried to remedy this by stuffing my face with processed food, fizzy drinks, (...) -- Ramona, food
20 January
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genderbinary[1].jpg Christine Delphy on the social construction of sex, gender, hierarchy and division. 1 1. An earlier version of this article, Tenser le genre: Quels problemes? ’, appeared in Marie-Claude Hurtig et al. (Eds) Sexe et genre: de la hierarchie entre les sexes, 1991, Paris, (...) -- rethinking_sex_gender[1].pdf, Christine Delphy, feminism, PDFs, sex and sexuality, women
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1177216.jpg An attempt to sketch out my attitude as an anarchist towards the prison system. Why do we oppose them? Why does our solidarity go to the jailed over their jailers? How do we view the role of trade unions such as the Prison Officers Association? Outsourcing and privatisation is a (...) -- UK, Phil Dickens, POA, prisons, anarchism
17 January
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14:15
307601_499261106763538_1024574500_n[1].jpg Last weekend in the largest show of strength in over a decade thousands of anarchists marched to protest against the violent eviction of the squats of Villa Amalias and Skaramagka and Patision Sts in Athens and also the very repressive climate that (...) -- Greece, anarchism, interviews
16 January
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22:28
lies.jpg An angry study of the UK media campaign of distortion and lies against miners during the great strike of 1984-5, written by one of the participants. -- lies-miners.pdf, UK, coal, Dave Douglass, journalism, mining, newspapers, Miners Strike, PDFs, strikes
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22:26
Santini 2 image.jpg A harrowing intellectual biography and review essay devoted to the life and works of Giorgio Cesarano, interwoven with an account of the Italian “radical current” of 1968-1978, when revolutionary expectations ran high but, for the few consistent revolutionaries caught between (...) -- Autonomia Operaia, Azione Libertaria, Francesco Santini, Giorgio Cesarano, Italy, anarchism, autonomism, council communism, Italy 60s-70s
15 January
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01:41
Spain-barricade.jpg A discussion of the rise and fall of the revolutionary institutions that were the foundation of the Spanish Revolution in the anarchosyndicalist stronghold of Barcelona, the social and organizational context of the anarchosyndicalist movement during the Civil War at the (...) -- Agustín Guillamón, Alasbarricadas, CNT, FAI, Spain, anarcho-syndicalism, Barcelona, guerrillas, Spanish civil war, state socialism, interviews
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14 January
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22:43
hippies.jpg A Belfast comrade writes about the "Peace Gathering", called in response to Loyalist protests about the removal of the Union Flag from Belfast City Hall. On 16th December 2012 about 1000 people gathered at Belfast City Hall in the wake of 2 weeks of demonstrations, some of them (...) -- UK, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Solidarity Federation, nationalism
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16:35
A short account of little known episodes in the history of anarchist opposition to World War One There have now been a reasonable number of publications on British anarchist opposition to World War One- the trailblazing and well-documented book on opposition in North London by Ken Weller, the (...) -- Nick Heath, Abertillery, anarchists, anti-militarism, Stockport, World War I
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14:13
Transphobic feminism makes no sense, argues Laurie Penny. For decades, the feminist movement has been split over the status of trans people, and of trans women in particular. High-profile feminists such as Germaine Greer, Jan Raymond and Julie Bindel have spoken out against what Greer terms (...) -- Germaine Greer, Laurie Penny, feminism, gender, LGBTQ, women
13 January
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22:01
YoungGirl_web1.png Nina Power's critical review of Tiqqun's Theory of the Young-Girl. How best to describe the colonization of the body at this particular juncture of capitalist life? Much recent theorizing has focused on a kind of war of affects where depression, euphoria and other (...) -- Nina Power, Tiqqun, feminism, reviews, women
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16:14
cameron minshull.jpg Greater Manchester Hazards Centre and Families Against Corporate Killers statement on the death of Cameron Minshull, 16, at an engineering company in Bury, Thursday 10th January 2013. WE are so very sad for Cameron Minshull, who was only 16 years old when he was killed at (...) -- UK, Cameron Minshull, Families Against Corporate Killers, Greater Manchester Hazards Centre, health and safety, obituaries, youth
12 January
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23:09
NewJobNextExit1.png This essay is the second in a series articulating a methodological framework for developing Wobbly organizers and identifying key features of workplace committee building at the micro level. Much of the content of the Industrial Worker, as well as the Organizer Training (...) -- IWW, Recomposition, USA, x370559, workplace activity
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20:00
Citroen-occupied.jpg A demystifying review essay and analysis summarizing the events of May-June 1968 in France with an almost exclusive focus on the strikes of the workers, based on reports and testimonies garnered from a voluminous bibliography, providing a sobering reassessment of the (...) -- Bruno Astarian, CFDT, CGT, France, France 1968, general strikes, strikes, unions
9 January
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22:25
1.jpg Lucasville tells the story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history. At the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, prisoners seized a major area of the prison on Easter Sunday, 1993. More than 400 prisoners held L block for eleven days. (...) -- lucasville.pdf, prisons, Staughton Lynd, USA, Working Class Self Organisation, occupations, PDFs, uprisings
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mujeres libres.jpg Libcom.org's reading guide on feminism, women and women's struggles against patriarchy and capital. Key texts Socialism, anarchism and feminism - Carol Ehrlich - Essay arguing that to be effective, feminism must not simply be socialist (opposed to capitalism), but (...) -- feminism, reading guides, women
8 January
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21:00
general.jpg Barry Burke's account of the UK general strike of 1926 in the East London borough of Hackney. When the strike was declared in May 1926, the Hackney Council of Action took over a local boxing hall, the Manor Hall in Kenmure Road [I think at number 16], as the headquarters and (...) -- UK, Barry Burke, 1926 general strike, general strikes, Hackney, London, strikes
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16:46
Theorizing-Patriarchy---Sylvia-Walby-1.jpg Silvia Walby's 1990 book sets out a dual-systems approach to theorizing capitalism and patriarchy, synthesising Marxist and radical feminist perspectives. Sylvia Walby provides an overview of feminist theoretical debates – Marxism, radical and (...) -- Theorizing Patriarchy - Sylvia Walby.pdf, UK, housework, Silvia Walby, feminism, housework, PDFs, sex and sexuality, women
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problem.jpg In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal pay, better work conditions, (...) -- the-problem-with-work_-feminism-marxism-kathi-weeks.pdf, housework, Kathi Weeks, feminism, Marxism, PDFs, women, work
7 January
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22:34
iStock_000005580858Small.jpg An overview of the way in which with increasing autonomisation of finance capital, models come to shape the real economy and influence its restructuring. Arbitrage is defined as any technique to profit from differences in price between identical assets in (...) -- finance, capitalism, economics
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fist.jpg A delivery driver's account of, well, punching his boss in the face after being threatened with a pay cut. Which strangely enough got his boss to reverse the cut! “You just punch the clock / Too scared to punch your boss!” - Dead Kennedys read (...) -- couriers, Jarrod Shanahan, USA, accounts, sabotage, workplace activity
3 January
1 January
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13:32
state.jpg Werner Bonefeld argues that the prominent role of the state since the financial crisis of 2008 is not a break with 'neoliberalism', because a free market and a strong state require one another. Abstract Whether one refers to it as neoliberal, post-neoliberal, Keynesian, (...) -- UK, Werner Bonefeld, capitalism, credit crisis, neoliberalism, state
29 December
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19:44
img_606X341_2012-india-rape-protest.jpg The following article was written in April 2012, before the recent anti-rape protests of December 2012 in India. Though we may take issue with some of its political conclusions and general orientation, it nevertheless provides some useful analysis and (...) -- India, Kavita Krishnan, legal, police, feminism, sexual violence, women
27 December
26 December
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kids.jpg An account of working at a daycare center, reflecting on how gender relations evolved with the privatization of childcare, how capitalism uses childhood to indoctrinate us - and what the hell the structural function was of all the damn creepy propaganda romanticizing this low-wage (...) -- social care, USA, accounts, gender, women, work life, youth
24 December
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23:07
1.jpg This definitive documentary history collects manifestos, speeches, articles, and letters from the German Revolution—Rosa Luxemburg, the Revolutionary Stewards, and Gustav Landauer amongst others—introduced and annotated by the editor. Many documents, such as the anarchist Erich (...) -- Allpower to the councils.pdf, Germany, Working Class Self Organisation, council communism, German Revolution 1918, workers councils
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22 December
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547014_449003295160537_694289372_n.jpg On 12 December 2012, the workers at Careggi hospital in Florence went on strike against the proposal by the company, made unilaterally and signed by the mainstream CGIL and CISL unions, setting new working hours and annual scheduling of holidays, a shift (...) -- health and medicine, Italy, USI, strikes
20 December
19 December
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12:16
A short account of the attack on the anarchist speaker Sydney Hanson The bus conductor and anarchist Sydney Albert Hanson had just delivered a fiery speech in Hammersmith Grove in April 1920 and started walking home with his wife and child. Hammersmith Grove had long been a site for anarchist (...) -- UK, legal, Nick Heath, anarchists, crime, London, repression
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London.jpg A short history of the partially successful wildcat strike of women workers in London's public transport network during World War I for a war bonus payment and equal pay with men. As World War I progressed, thousands of jobs normally done by men were taken over by women, and (...) -- UK, buses, Ken Weller, trams, London, strikes, wildcat strikes, women, World War I
18 December
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23:36
Plaistow Landgrabbers.preview.jpg A short history of the unemployed agitation in West Ham and the Triangle Camp events The first decade of the 20th century was devastating for the British working class with rising unemployment. In 1902 with the demobilisation of soldiers after the Boer War (...) -- UK, Nick Heath, unemployment, London, social movements
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13:07
Trafalgar-square.jpg Ken Weller of Solidarity's excellent and detailed historical account of working class opposition to World War I in North London, which offers a snapshot of the anti-war movement nationally. Digitised by libcom.org, December 2012. Text version to be completed (...) -- don't be a soldier.pdf, UK, Ken Weller, anti-war, London, PDFs, social movements, war, World War I, Islington
17 December
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20:57
media09.jpg Partial archive of a series of small 'pocketbooks' in the late 1970s/early 1980s entitled 'Spectacular Times' by Larry Law. They serve as a brief introduction to situationist ideas. Each consists of newspaper clippings, quotations, handwritten text by Law and (...) -- Larry Law, Spectacular Times, writers, PDFs, publications, situationist
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tumblr_mf38jg0wcF1r57oj0.png An excellent, friendly critique of UK Uncut's call to boycott Amazon, from By Strategy. There are currently circulating calls for a boycott of Amazon this holiday season called by UKUncut and [url=http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/com read (...) -- By Strategy, communications, UK Uncut, Amazon, Ethical consumerism
16 December
15 December
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13:52
fighting.jpg This excellent book by Solfed aims to recover some of the lost history of the workers' movement, in order to set out a revolutionary strategy for the present conditions. In clear and accessible prose, the book sets out the anarcho-syndicalist criticisms of political parties (...) -- fighting_for_ourselves_-_solidarity_federation.mobi, Solidarity Federation, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, epub, mobi, organisation, PDFs, syndicalism
11 December
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IM.0010_zl[1].jpg Chapter 3 from Patriarchy and capital accumulation on a world scale: women in the international division of labour, 1986. The dialectics of ‘progress and retrogression’ On the basis of the foregoing analysis, it is possible to formulate a tentative thesis which will guide my (...) -- colonization-and-housewifization.pdf, housework, Maria Mies, capitalism, colonialism, feminism, imperialism, PDFs, women
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15:52
article-2114865-1229FB93000005DC-773_468x313.jpg A lecture by John Stockwell given in October, 1987 on the inner workings of the national security council and the CIA's convert actions in Angola, Central America and Vietnam. John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave (...) -- Angola, John Stockwell, USA, Vietnam, CIA, speeches, US intervention
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riskypopcorn.jpg Solidarity with the Workers of Natais popcorn factory in France! Exposed to hazardous substances, forced to work on precarious conditions, the workers tried to fight back. On Thursday, two former employees will be in court for supposedly "defaming" their former employer! On (...) -- Akai, France, retail and food, strikes, internet
10 December
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19:52
hesla_get_rich_die_striking.png This is a very rough and hardly exhaustive summary of recent two weeks of strike in education sector in Slovakia. The strike is still on despite being put on hold by its initiator, the mainstream union OZ PŠaV. The relations between key players are mentioned very (...) -- education, Priama akcia, Slovakia, strikes
9 December
8 December
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Miguel.jpg The fascinating memoirs of Spanish anarchist, former newspaper boy, civil war and resistance fighter, Miguel Garcia Garcia. Published as Miguel Garcia's story in 1982, this pamphlet includes comments and tributes from Stuart Christie, Albert Meltzer and more. Digitised by (...) -- Miguel-Garcia.pdf, CNT, Miguel Garcia Garcia, Spain, biographies, PDFs, Spanish civil war, Spanish Resistance
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12:51
chavs.jpg Two parallel definitions of the word are used in political discussion. It's a perennial problem that radicals don't define what they're talking about when discussing class, or worse, making sweeping statements about it. There were plenty of things wrong with last (...) -- UK, claimants and unpaid, unemployment, welfare, class, socialism
6 December
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12:20
zombies.png The growing popularity of the zombie apocalypse genre represents growing elite anxiety about revolutionary insurrection, argues Gastón Gordillo. The trailer of the Hollywood blockbuster World War Z forthcoming this summer is characterized by the dramatic appearance of huge masses (...) -- film, culture
5 December
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10:51
empty-home[2].jpg The Guardian today reports a rise in homelessness. This is a predictable (and predicted) consequence of benefits cuts, but it has nothing to do with a shortage of homes. The 'housing shortage' has become something of a received wisdom amongst the political (...) -- UK, Joseph Kay, welfare, homelessness, housing
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10:18
tumblr_m77o6ceFOT1ryplx0o1_1280.jpg An article from the website of The Imaginary Party exposing the relationships between tuition fees, rents, student debt, university funding, and private equity funds, in the context of UCL's £1bn plans to dispossess the 300 residents of the Carpenters (...) -- UK, Imaginary Party, universities, debt, London, Newham, students, UCL, housing
4 December
29 November
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21:47
hall20121114151422170.jpg On November 14th 2012, thousands of people took to the streets of Portugal as part of a European wide general strike. Until recently, the International Monetary Fund held Portugal as an ideal example of the effectiveness of austerity policies, but today, its economy (...) -- Brandon Jourdan, Global Uprisings, Portugal, general strikes, strikes, videos
27 November
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12:54
monthly.png Partial archive of the regular publication of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) revolutionary union in the US, the One Big Union Monthly, which was produced from 1919. -- IWW, The One Big Union Monthly, USA, publications
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01:05
factory-Nov2012-2.jpg Comments on the horrific fire of Saturday 24th November 2012 that swept through a Bangladeshi garment factory. Another fire in a Bangladeshi garment factory, over 120 lives lost and more than a hundred injured - the only difference this time from the many other factory (...) -- Bangladesh, Red Marriott, textiles, Bangladeshi garment workers, health and safety
23 November
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16:58
914769-15213102-640-360.jpg A look at some of the context behind the vicious attack by fascists on Tottenham fans in Rome before the teams met for their Europa League tie. Considering last weekend's result, it feels pretty odd for me - as an Arsenal fan - to sit down and try to write (...) -- UK, Ed Goddard, Italy, libcom.org, fascism, football, Jewish, race, sport
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13:16
cameron.jpg Apparently we're in an economic war. Who with, and to what end? I've blogged before about the project of the political class to attack working conditions and living standards, in some cases with calls for British workers to give up leisure activities and (...) -- UK, UK against austerity, unemployment
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01:47
natl day of mourning.jpg When we attempt to tell a history from the bottom up of Thanksgiving, we need to remember to tell the whole thing. As a revolutionary who lives in New England and was born and raised in Massachusetts, I feel a particular obligation to help propagate a (...) -- Gayge Operaista, USA, indigenous
21 November
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strudenti-senato.jpg A potted history of the book bloc - often students demonstrating against cuts to education using shields decorated as giant books. 23rd November, 2010: Book bloc hits the streets of Rome Italian students begin actions, occupations and blockings using mock books as (...) -- Italy, universities, Wu Ming Foundation, demonstrations, students
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01:05
Cable_Street_1936.jpg A critical look at some assumptions of communisation theorists - considering that their often determinist historical predictions are not the only possible outcomes. "Communisation resulting in a classless society is only one of the possibilities on the horizon". It is (...) -- communisation, fascism
19 November
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13:14
electric_pylons.jpg A SolFed member who has worked as an electrician since the late 1970s shares his experience of the electric supply industry, privatisation and the trade unions. I started an apprenticeship at 16 from school in the local electric company. It was then a nationalised industry (...) -- UK, electricity, Solidarity Federation, accounts, privatisation, unions
18 November
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15:13
Notting-Hill.jpg A personal account covering 20 years of working class history in Notting Hill, including the Carnival, the 1987 riot and the conflicts on All Saints Road. Published by BM Blob in the spring of 1988. Preamble The following is a personal account covering a more or less (...) -- Notting-Hill-blob.pdf, UK, BM Blob, accounts, London, PDFs, riots
17 November
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18:31
148778039_10.jpg Some American and European comrades have asked me, Why didn’t you have an Occupy movement in Italy? Why is the NO TAV movement the only expression of social struggle? The NO TAV, despite their strong success, despite their original expression of post-modernity class war, lack (...) -- Antonio Negri, Italy, Italy Calling, No TAV, occupy movement, social centres, social movements, students
16 November
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20:54
Qatar_stadium_WP.jpg My latest piece I wrote for Freedom magazine, published in the October issue. On migrant workers' conditions in Qatar, where the World Cup of 2022 is supposed to be held. Basically the original version, but with a few small corrections. One of the Arab countries (...) -- Middle East, construction, Equal Times, Human Rights Watch, Peter Storm, football, migration, sport
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519013471995e020200f6a706700ad3a.jpg Driving through the Hex River Valley after Wednesday’s chaotic protests feels like entering a ghost town. Yet when one manages to find residents and speak to them, it becomes crystal clear that the farm workers are planning to hold out for their wage demands (...) -- agriculture, COSATU, Jared Sacks, South Africa, riots, strikes, wildcat strikes
15 November
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12:42
tumblr_lyvgujoSXe1roynxgo1_500.jpg The following presents a commentary on a three-part debate (part 1, part 2 and part 3) conducted, within the pages of ultra-left journal Socialisme or Barbarie, by different representatives of the libertarian communist tradition on the trade unions. The (...) -- George Fontenis, Socialisme Ou Barbarie, debates, unions
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14 November
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large_Fire-Dec8-08_GREECE_RIOTS_Meye.jpg.scaled696.jpg Short documentary looking at the current social crisis in Greece, the growth of alternative economies, general strikes, and the rise of the anti-fascist movement in response to violent attacks by the far-right. After six years of (...) -- Brandon Jourdan, Global Uprisings, Greece, Greece against austerity, videos
12 November
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17:49
hapoelhatzair.jpg A piece written as a university dissertation. I don't claim it's reliably academic material, but I do hope it offers a libertarian exploration of the early Zionism movement: secular and socialist rhetoric, but inevitably compromised by the national project integral to (...) -- Israel, Palestine, Jewish, nationalism
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15:53
Spanish-revolution.jpg PDF archive of Spanish Revolution, a newspaper published in New York by United Libertarian Organizations, a coalition of anarchist groups. Published 1936-1938, it reported on the Spanish revolution and the working class's attempts to introduce libertarian communism (...) -- Spanish-revolution-1936.08.12.pdf, CNT, Spain, United Libertarian Organizations, USA, PDFs, publications, Spanish civil war
10 November
8 November
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20:39
tools.jpg Links to helpful online tools for assisting with putting together articles and content for libcom.org. FWO Formatter: A tool for getting rid of excess of line breaks in your text. HTML table generator: This handy page generates the HTML code for tables, so you don't have to. (...)
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060708-14.jpg A Marxist critique of society dressed up as a novel, Ragged Trousered Philanthrophists follows construction worker Frank Owen trying to convince others about socialism, a figure based on Trussell himself. He would face rejection and death before his work was published. CONTENTS (...) -- Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, The - Robert Tressell.mobi, UK, construction, Robert Tressell, capitalism, epub, fiction, mobi
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drippingblood-1.png An account written by Abbey Volcano about non-profit employment, lack of medical insurance and divisions in the workplace. This is a story about anger, “non-profits,” and pissing blood. I was in my fifth year working at an independent health food store run by religious (...) -- Abbey Volcano, charity, Recomposition, USA, accounts, work life
6 November
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05:10
Online-radio.jpg I've been off blogging recently for various reasons, but having put together a few audio files recently it struck me that there's not really anywhere that such things are being collated (or the specific files at least). This might be something for a dedicated section (...) -- media and culture, Rob Ray, anarchism, audio
5 November
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06:15
tumblr_mczfo602Ns1r18cqr.jpg James Butler responds to a Mark Fisher article on 'neo-anarchism'. Some quick thoughts on Mark Fisher’s recent piece for the Weekly Worker on the present state of things, and ‘neo-anarchism’ in particular. read (...) -- UK, James Butler, Mark Fisher, anarchism
4 November
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08:18
Stan Weir.jpg This is the transcription of a 1990 interview with Stan Weir for the Virtual Aural/Oral History Archive at California State University Long Beach (the audio is available here interview #3, section "3 of 9 items" ). In this segment Stan talks about his involvement in the 1946 (...) -- Stan Weir, USA, general strikes, Oakland
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07:45
happy_gwen1.jpg This article by Richard Boyden is the most comprehensive account of the 1946 Oakland General Strike. It relies extensively on first-hand sources, such as Boyden's good friend and comrade Stan Weir. Additionally, it shows the continuity between the San Francisco General (...) -- AFL, Richard Boyden, USA, 1940s, general strikes, Oakland
3 November
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22:54
Untitled.jpg An article by Colin Bossen about the IWW's decline and if there are lessons to learn from that period today. For more than 100 years it has been a Wobbly tradition to remember all of those who gave their lives to struggle for a better world during the month of November. The (...) -- Colin Bossen, USA
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15:07
2 November
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21:32
Society-of-the-spectacle.jpg Libcom.org's reading guide to the Situationists, a revolutionary Marxist group who wrote extensively on culture and were highly influential on the events of May 1968 in France. Key texts Situationists - an introduction - Short and clearly-written introduction (...) -- Situationist International
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Hull-school-strike-1911.jpg Dave Marson's excellent 1973 pamphlet on the little-known mass walkouts of schoolchildren in the UK and Ireland in 1911, the same year that saw widespread industrial unrest and strikes. Their demands included shorter hours and an end to corporal punishment in (...) -- children-strikes-1911.pdf, UK, Dave Marson, Ireland, schools, demonstrations, PDFs, school students, social movements, strikes
31 October
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November-30.jpg Steven Johns' detailed account of how the union has handled the recent dispute over pensions. It sheds light on the role unions play in contemporary society, and argues that if ever us workers are going to start winning things again, we will have to go beyond them. (...) -- vote-yes-letter.pdf, UK, health and medicine, local government, schools, Steven Johns, Unison, accounts, pensions, strikes, UK against austerity, unions
30 October
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21:26
solfed.org_.uk_.png Having been gainfully unemployed for a number of months, I’ve recently returned to take a swim in the shark-infested, soul-destroying, disease-ridden hell hole that is the job market. It’s also the first time I’ve been, ehhem, lucky enough to be able to claim dole. This means (...) -- UK, unemployment, welfare, accounts, DWP
29 October
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10:53
csf937.gif French cities burst back into flames after President Sarkozy’s election on a ‘clean the scum off the streets with a high-pressure hose’ ticket. It won't be the last time, as long as the factors necessitating the mass revolt of November 2005 remain in place, in France and elsewhere. (...) -- Emilio Quadrell, France, Mute, gender, race, riots, interviews
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09:07
against-blackmailtumours.jpg A "committee of free thinking residents and workers" is demanding that the bosses pay to clean up Italy's biggest steelworks, rather than close it down Workers at Taranto, Italy’s biggest steel works – which is threatened with closure under anti-pollution rules (...) -- Italy, People & Nature, steel industry, environment, health and safety, job losses
27 October
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22:07
felchile.jpg An overview by Scott Nappolos of the anarchist movement in Chile. Chile is a country with a rich history of struggle, and of deep connections to both the domination by and solidarity from North America and Europe. Perhaps more than other Latin American countries, Chile bears a (...) -- Chile, Miami Autonomy & Solidarity, Scott Nappalos, anarchism
23 October
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20:40
whitneyheichel6.jpg In memory of assaulted and slain Starbucks barista Whitney Heichel. TRIGGER WARNING FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE Dear Whitney, This letter is for each woman walking in the dark to a minimum wage job while holding their keys between their fingers, hopefully ready to strike back. (...) -- fast food, food service, Liberté Locke, Starbucks Workers Union, USA, women
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08:16
Break-bulk longshoring.jpg This chapter in Stan Weir's Singlejack Solidarity tells the history of how, from the victory in the 1934 General Strike through the first Mechanization & Modernization (M&M) Agreement in 1961, longshore workers in San Francisco had 27 years of near-total (...) -- docks, Stan Weir, USA, ILWU, technology
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07:27
1901 Waterfront Strike.jpg This chapter from Carey McWilliams, California: The Great Exception (1949) tells the history of class war in San Francisco, when "all of labor [was] pitted against all of capital." The conditions were unique: "Nowhere in the world has there been a more favorable (...) -- IDP, truckers, USA, California, San Francisco, strikes
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22 October
20 October
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rtr38e5h[1].jpeg James Butler analyses both the poverty of the TUC's 'alternative', and of radical theory divorced from questions of organisation and tactics. October 20th will see hundreds of thousands of people marching in the TUC’s ‘A Future That Works’ demonstration, billed (...) -- UK, James Butler, UK against austerity
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16:18
OaklandCommune1.jpg An overview on the rise and decline of Occupy Oakland. For those of us in Oakland, “Occupy Wall Street” was always a strange fit. While much of the country sat eerily quiet in the years before the Hot Fall of 2011, a unique rebelliousness that regularly erupted in militant (...) -- Some Oakland Antagonists, USA, Oakland, occupy movement
17 October
16 October
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cartoon_20100423081449.jpg Loren Goldner's 'bare-bones history' of Maoism. [i]Note to the Reader: The following was written at the request of a west coast comrade after he attended the August 2012 “Everything for Everyone” conference in Seattle, at which many members of the “soft (...) -- China, Insurgent Notes, Loren Goldner, Maoism, state socialism
14 October
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tumblr_m7ks9rTifo1rubozqo1_1280.jpg Libcom.org's reading guide to the 1956 Hungarian uprising against the Communist dictatorship which saw a general strike declared and workers' councils spring up across the country. Key texts 1956: the Hungarian revolution - A short and clearly (...) -- Hungary, Hungary 56
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460_0___30_0_0_0_0_0_tresca2.jpg Iain McKay reviews Nunzio Pernicone's book Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel. Carlo Tresca is one of those rebel workers whose memory deserves to be honoured and Pernicone's excellent biography does just that. Pernicone's has previously produced an (...) -- Carlo Tresca, Iain McKay, Italy, Nunzio Pernicone, USA, anarchism, reviews
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kristof.jpg Melissa Gira Grant on the framework in which sex work is discussed. The following books were not published in 1972: The Happy Secretary, The Happy Nurse, The Happy Napalm Manufacturer, The Happy President, The Happy Yippie, The Happy Feminist. The memoir of a Manhattan madam was. (...) -- Jacobin, Melissa Gira Grant, sex industry, capitalism, feminism, gender
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actionthemusicinspires.jpg An article by Aaron Lake Smith about the anarchist rock group Chumbawamba, who broke up in 2012. “Tubthumping became known to some purely as a drinking song. Which is fair enough, because, if nothing else, it didn’t belong to an elite group of musicians—it belonged to (...) -- UK, Aaron Lake Smith, Jacobin, anarchism, music, punk
13 October
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06:53
hiphop_by_leviticussss.jpg An article by Crudo about hip-hop as culture of the working class and some of the problems within the music. Punk rock was the first style of music that really meant anything to me. That’s not really true, I was into grunge and radio rap for a while, but punk was the (...) -- Crudo, USA, hip-hop, music, punk, women
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petition.jpg A critique of activism, both liberal and anarchist. Many within the current revolutionary movement have known activism. The specialized role in society that creates managers of social change. Many of us became radicalized through being involved in leftist political parties, (...) -- Crudo, USA, activism, anarchism
11 October
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10:07
Geldtransport.jpg A fellow IWW member sent us this article about the importance of relationship building in our organizing, and the importance of not limiting our relationships to being narrowly about work. When I first started out as an IWW a number of years ago my organizing was very (...) -- IWW, Recomposition, USA, x359217, on-the-job action, work life, workplace activity
10 October
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06:56
rad_stack.jpg A history of the magazine Radical America, which emerged out of, and eventually outlasted, Students For A Democratic Society. Radical America was a product of the campus-based New Left of the late 1960s, specifically the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), but the magazine (...) -- Paul Buhle, Radical America, SDS, USA, groups
9 October
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15:20
nothing stays the same.jpg Sometimes, when you think your contract is already pretty bad, you can end up putting your guard down, thinking it can't get any worse. This, as I've recently discovered in my job as a TEFL teacher, is not the case. So there's been a lot of stuff going (...) -- Ed Goddard, libcom.org, schools, work life
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0506000533-l.jpg Transcript of a talk given by 5 people who were involved in CIO organizing in the 1930s. This is an edited transcript of a community forum on “Labor History From The Viewpoint Of The Rank And File” held at Saint Joseph’s College in East Chicago, Indiana on March 24 and March 31, (...) -- car industry, CIO, Communist Party (USA), IWW, Radical America, Staughton Lynd, steel industry, UAW, USA, 1930s, 1940s
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03:48
51rnx1b5UHL._SL500_AA300_.jpg A critical review by Martin Glaberman of the book, The Negro and the American Labor Movement. Originally appeared in Radical America (September-October 1968) The Negro and the American Labor Movement, Julius Jacobson, editor. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, (...) -- AFL, CIO, Martin Glaberman, Radical America, USA, race, reviews
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02:47
i-wont-work2.jpg An article by Fred Thompson contesting the myth that the IWW was smashed by repression during World War I. Originally appeared in Radical America (September-October 1967) There is a widespread misunderstanding that the government and big business suppressed the IWW during (...) -- Fred Thompson, IWW, Radical America, USA, 1910s, 1920s, repression
8 October
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10:16
torino4.jpg On October 5th, thousands of school students in Italy took to the streets to protest against the government's austerity measures. Demonstrations were held in cities across Italy under the slogan "Against crisis and austerity, we take back the schools and cities!". (...) -- Italy, schools, demonstrations, school students
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08:54
Untitledr.jpg A brief biographical sketch of an incredible man named Robert F. Williams, along with several chapters excerpted from his famous 1962 book Negroes with Guns. Though less well known than more urban groups like the Black Panthers, the words and actions of Monroe, NC’s militant NAACP (...) -- williamszinetotal.pdf, NAACP, Robert F. Williams, USA, civil rights movement, PDFs, race
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06:11
jerk.gif An article by John O'Reilly on how to handle people with bad ideas for an organization. It would be great if we lived in a world where all ideas about organizing were right, but the blunt fact is that sometimes people with really good intentions do things that waste their time (...) -- IWW, John O'Reilly
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7 October
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15:35
547398_10150758746726023_1766635136_n.jpg Libcom.org's reading guide on the Spanish civil war and social revolution from 1936-1939 which, sparked by a military rising lead by right-wing General Franco, was arguably the most far-reaching revolution in history. Key texts 1936-1939: The (...) -- Spain, Spanish civil war
4 October
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00:52
Women, Free Huey Rally, Oakland (1968) PHOTO BYPirkle Jones_jpg.jpg Libcom.org's reading guide on the American black power movement of the 1960s-70s and its key groups as well as some readings on the civil rights movement. General recommended reading Black particularity reconsidered - (...) -- USA, black power
3 October
1 October
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21:05
Blog Pic - Protesters.jpg An article by Kevin S about the problems of using Unfair Labor Practice charges in IWW organizing. We stand up against the boss, demanding change and stopping work. The boss fires us. We immediately mobilize, rushing to...the office of some government lawyer. What’s (...) -- Jimmy Johns Workers Union, Kevin S, USA, direct unionism
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13:44
535708_10150795996062182_1508645110_nanti.jpg Clashes during an anti-fascist patrol leave some injured and arrested on Sunday night in Athens. On Sunday night people clashed with fascists and police during an anti-fascist patrol around Athens. In response to continuing attacks by fascist (...) -- Golden Dawn, Greece, Athens, fascism, migration
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la-zine Cover.preview.jpg Excerpts focusing on the lead-up and aftermath of the LA riots from Jeff Changs Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Introduction read more -- la-zine Cover.pdf, Institute For Experimental Freedom, Jeff Chang, USA, LA riots, organised crime, PDFs, race, riots
30 September
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19:28
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11:06
563387_10150756556931023_270955416_n.jpg Libcom.org's reading guide on the events in May 1968 which saw students occupying the universities, intense fighting in the streets and a general wildcat strike of ten million workers across France. Key texts Paris: May 1968 - Maurice Brinton's (...) -- France, France 1968
29 September
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16:14
Clifford-Harper-illustrat-007.jpg Libcom.org's reading guides, organised by subject, including other media like film and photographs. -- libcom.org, reading guides
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16:06
russian-rev-1918.jpg Libcom.org's reading guide on the 1917 Russian revolution. Key texts The Bolsheviks and workers' control: the state and counter-revolution - Maurice Brinton - Amazing pamphlet exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces between workers and (...) -- Russia, Russian Revolution
26 September
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00:14
120917124939-chicago-teachers-strike-02-horizontal-gallery.jpg John Jacobsen reports on developments in the tentative contract between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union in the context of increasing school privatizations. For the full, original article, feel free to visit (...) -- John Jacobsen, schools, USA
25 September
24 September
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17:58
1277881_d0d66dd5.jpg Libcom.org's reading guide on anarchism, anarchist theorists and their development through history. Recommended introductions An Anarchist FAQ - Absolutely massive archive of frequently asked questions, with clear and highly detailed responses drawing on the theory and (...) -- anarchism
23 September
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00:27
ngo van 1.jpg The last essay completed by the veteran Vietnamese council communist, written in 2004 when he was 91 years old, is a brief introduction to the history of peasant revolts in China, with special emphasis on their Taoist origins and utopian and libertarian inspirations, and features (...) -- China, Ngo Van Xuyet, libertarian communism, peasants, religion, revolutions
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18 September
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03:29
NLRB - GIF.gif An article by Chris Agenda coming out against contractualism in the IWW, based on experience with a contract shop in Portland. During a two-month period I met with representatives from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on three different issues. All of the issues were (...) -- Chris Agenda, claimants and unpaid, IWW, USA, Industrial Worker, Portland
17 September
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15:27
246527_10151208848746023_532919055_n.jpg Libcom.org's reading guide on the Italian social movements of the 1960s-70s, which saw massive strikes, protests, occupations, directly democratic assemblies and widespread radicalism across society. Key texts 1962-1973: Worker and student struggles (...) -- Italy, Italy 60s-70s
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15:35
Ordinary Day.jpg As unemployment rate continues to increase and social discontent mounts, unpaid layoff workers of different sectors protest in Rome, in Sardinia and in Naples on September 10. It’s been an ordinary day in a country where unemployment has risen to 10,7% and is growing faster (...)
15 September
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01:21
First-Job.jpg Recomposition started at the end of August, 2010. We’re pleased with what’s happened in the last two years, and we hope you are as well. It seems appropriate to celebrate the two year mark with a work story and by getting more more interactive for a change. Below, Siobhan writes (...) -- food service, Recomposition, Siobhan Breathnach, accounts, work life
14 September
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21:35
chomsky-on-anarchism.jpg This book is a collection of essays by and interviews on anarchism. The bulk of the items have been published elsewhere but some are presented here for the first time. Now it is important to remember that Chomsky himself does not consider himself an anarchist (...) -- 1345266991261.pdf, Noam Chomsky, USA, Working Class Self Organisation, anarchism
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09:34
10140.jpg A follow on to my post Lobbying for the limited yet impossible, now that the Trades Union Congress has voted in favour of a motion on calling a general strike. The British left is jubilant. read more -- UK, Phil Dickens, TUC, general strikes, Trotskyism, unions
13 September
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17:52
skouries.jpg Last weekend saw further clashes between residents groups and police over the beginning of mining operations. Over the weekend there were further protests against the start of mining works around Skouries in northern Greece. Hellenic Gold, a part of the Eldorado mining company (...) -- Greece, mining, community activity, environment
12 September
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19:12
A2b7UZkCYAIeDPE.jpg Thousands of Palestinians take to the streets to protest rising prices and unpaid wages as a result of the Paris Protocol, the latest joint agreement between the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority. nightbethlehemryan1.jpg nightbethlehemryan2.jpg (...) -- Palestine, blockades, demonstrations, prices, riots, strikes
11 September
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01:40
Plabourposter3.jpg An account of the foundation and development of the Labour Party and how it has acted in power and in opposition, effectively countering many of the claims for Labour having once been a working class, socialist party. The Origins of the Labour Party Unlike most of its (...) -- UK, Labour Party, Subversion, TUC, unions
10 September
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21:48
120831-chicago-teachers-140a.photoblog600.jpg The following is from a Chicago member of First of May Anarchist Alliance. It is an overview of the situation and was drafted over the weekend in the lead up to the strike that has started September 10, 2012. It is looking increasingly likely that (...) -- First of May Anarchist Alliance, schools, USA, Chicago, strikes
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20:56
kids_protest.png Teachers unions announce industrial action plans Today the two largest teaching unions, NUT and NASUWT, who represent the majority (90%) of school teachers in England, announced plans to begin action short of a strike on 26th September. The industrial action will include a (...) -- UK, Choccy, NASUWT, NUT, schools, education, strikes
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11:53
DSCF1522.JPG Photo gallery of left-wing graffiti around Milan in 2012. 5970519917_a69b926055_o.jpg 5970520169_8746421f5c_o.jpg dax_pesce_131007_1.jpg dax_pesce_131007_2.jpg DSCF0825.JPG DSCF0826.JPG DSCF0828.JPG DSCF1522.JPG DSCF0827.JPG DSCF1523.JPG DSCF1490.JPG DSCF1493.JPG DSCF1515.JPG (...) -- Italy, art, graffiti, Milan
9 September
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00:53
1993-13-2_1a.jpg An essay on Ben Fletcher's efforts as an IWW organizer. Originally appeared in Pennsylvania History, Vol. 46, No. 3 (July, 1979) -- BEN_FLETCHER.pdf, Ben Fletcher, docks, IWW, USA, William Seraile, 1910s, 1920s, PDFs, race
7 September
5 September
2 September
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19:59
jeff-monson.jpg Jeff Monson was the guest on 'No Holds Barred' this week discussing politics, history, and the economics of mixed martial arts. Monson starts by talking about his last fight in Russia, criticises Bolsheviks and Stalin,simplistic but definitely not yer average MMA show (...) -- Choccy, Jeff Monson, mixed martial arts, sport
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