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On the buses - Solidarity

London buses, 1976. © Copyright Martin Addison

An excellent pamphlet from 1976 by libertarian socialist group Solidarity about work and struggle on London's buses. Includes strikers' leaflets.

Originally published December 1976 as Solidarity pamphlet #53.

Solidarity spoof exam paper, 1972

A satirical take on the examination and wider education process by the Solidarity Group.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

B.Sc. (Unemployment) Examination 1972

PART II

COMMON SENSE

Monday 24th May, 2.30 to 2.45

Answer FOUR questions, at least TWO of which are on the paper

1. ‘If a question is worth doing, it can’t be done in forty minutes. If it can be done in forty minutes, then it’s not worth doing,’ Consider.

Workers power and the Russian Revolution: a review of Maurice Brinton's For Workers Power

Tom Wetzel reviews the sections concentrating on the Russian Revolution in For Worker's Power, a collection of Maurice Brinton's writings.

I was attracted to radical politics in the late 1960s/early '70s when I was in my twenties. Most of the people who were drawn to serious revolutionary politics back then ended up in Leninist organizations of some sort, if only for a time. Third World revolutions were one influence.

Solidarity Aberdeen No.3

Editorial
INSIDE CONSOLIDATED PNEUMATIC
K.a.p.d. and the german revolution
HOUSING IN ABERDEEN
technology and workers' control

Editorial

Vietnam: Socialism or pacifism? - John Sullivan

Article written by John Sullivan, expert on Spanish politics and famous for his satirical pieces on the British left in 1966. This article is significant because it demonstrates the plurality of views within Solidarity and was also written during the group's move away from 'the peace milieu'.

As the war in Vietnam increasingly becomes a central issue, the uneasy alliance between socialist and pacifists which has been a feature of political life during the past few years must inevitably disintegrate.

Feldman, Arnold, 1922-1977

A very short biography of Jewish socialist and member of the Solidarity group, Arnold Feldman.

Arnold Feldman died suddenly on Tuesday, April 19, 1977 of a heart attack, at the age of 55.

Solidarity: For Workers' Power (Aberdeen) No. 6

Issue 6 of the Aberdeen group of Solidarity's magazine, covering disputes of bus workers, fishermen and others. Probably from 1970.

Contents

Introduction
Scots bus strike & the aberdeen crews
Hotel Work
Consumer Society
Community Action
Trawlermans diary

Introduction

This being the sixth issue of Solidarity (Aberdeen), it is a convenient point at which to evaluate the successes and failures of the magazine so far.

Housing rents and the tenants struggle in Scotland - Solidarity

This is a Solidarity pamphlet by Tom Woolley on housing and rents in Scotland

Introduction

Comments on organisation - Solidarity (Swansea)

A member of Solidarity criticises 'elitism' in the organisation.

SOLIDARITY AND ELITISM.

This small piece is occasioned by the’ Solidarity’ Conferences of Liverpool and Oxford, both 1976, and by the written offerings of some of the members that appeared during the same period.

The illusion of 'Solidarity' - David Brown

David Brown's letter of resignation from the Solidarity group, and critique of the groups' - and by extension Cornelius Castoriadis' - fundamental misunderstanding of Marx's critique of political economy.

Editorial notes by the Hobgoblin Collective, 21 January 2011