1911: Liverpool general transport strike
The strike movement of Liverpool occurred during the great period of industrial unrest that was to grip Britain between 1910 and the outbreak of the First World War. Beginning with…
Collectives in the Spanish Revolution – by Gaston Leval (2018 Updated & Improved Edition)
Can anarchism work? People ask the question with reference to all sorts of things, but a common enough one is economics. The failure of the Soviet-style planned economies, in particular,…
The Soviet Union: A Regime of Capitalist Development
Inadequate Theories of State Capitalism For most anarchists, the answer to ‘what was the USSR?’ is simple: it was ‘state capitalist’. A class of wage labourers clearly continued to be…
1001 ways to beat the draft – Tuli Kupferberg and Robert Bashlow
Antiwar pamphlet from 1966, co-authored by Kupferberg of Fugs fame, listing humorous ways to avoid the American draft for the Vietnam War. Source link
The birth of the Hosheng Myanmar Garment Union
Since the coup, both international and local corporations have eventually decided not to abide by the labour law when it comes to workplace ethics. In some companies, they even went…
The politics of Britain’s Asian Youth Movements – Anandi Ramamurthy
The Asian Youth Movements (AYMs) of the 1970s and 1980s were powerful examples of political movements influenced by black politics and a version of secularism that became a unifying force…
Socialism for Young Folks and everybody else
This is basically an introduction to left communism/council communism written for high school kids. I made copies to hand out for free for local demos and rallies. Source link
Gender, power, and struggle
This series of articles considers the construction of gender roles and the consequences this has upon our society, including the existence of rape culture. The relationship of gender to the…
Anti-capitalism as an ideology… and as a movement?
The recent series of international Summit mobilizations have been referred to by some as a 'movement', and have often been treated by the state as a unitary entity. Yet the…
This is Provo – Roel Van Duyn
PROVO is a monthly for anarchists, provos, beatniks, layabouts, tinkers, jailbirds, saints, sorcerers, pacifists, charlatans, philosophers, germ carriers, major domos, happeners, vegetarians, syndicalists, hustlers, incendiaries, marionettes, infant teachers, and of…
Negroes with guns – Robert F. Williams
Frustrated and angered by violence condoned or abetted by the local authorities against blacks, the small community of Monroe, North Carolina, brought the issue of armed self-defense to the forefront…
The factory-society relationship as an historical category – Sergio Bologna
The editorial collective of La Classe have drawn up a "Questionnaire on Perspectives for Marxist Research in Italy". This questionnaire is addressed to various organisations and journals in Italy involved…
