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Mount Isa: the great Queensland strike - Solidarity

Pamphlet by the UK Solidarity group on the 1964-1965 strike and lockout at the Mount Isa copper mine in Queensland, Australia, which placed miners in direct opposition to their union, employer and the Queensland State Government for almost seven months.

Revolution betrayed - the Workers Revolutionary Party and Iraq

Gerry Healy early on, sharing the stage with Ted Grant and Sid Bidwell

Two articles from Solidarity on corruption in the Workers Revolutionary Party and its links with Saddam Hussein and other Middle Eastern governments.

THE REVOLUTION BETRAYED

A review of Joe Jacob's 'Out of the Ghetto' - Al Richardson

A review of the late Joe Jacob's excellent autobiography. Growing up in London's Jewish East End, Joe was variously a Communist Party militant, anti-fascist, Trotskyist, and in his later years a member of the Solidarity libertarian socialist group.

Originally published in Vol. 5, No. 1 of the Trotskyist journal Revolutionary History.
Reprinted in Echanges et Mouvement no 80/81, 1996.

(A chapter from Out of the Ghetto is here; http://libcom.org/library/battle-cable-st-1936-joe-jacobs)

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On the Content of Socialism III - Socialisme Ou Barbarie

French libertarian socialist group Socialisme Ou Barbarie's third part of the Content of Socialism: The workers' struggle against the organization of the capitalist enterprise.

We have tried to show[1] that socialism is nothing other than people's conscious self-organization of their own lives in all domains; that it signifies, therefore, the management of production by the producers themselves on the scale of the workplace as well as on that of the economy as a whole; that it implies the abolition of every ruling apparatus separated from society; that it has to bring ab

Under new management - Fisher-Bendix occupation, 1972

Solidarity's excellent eyewitness account, with background information, of the Fisher-Bendix factory and offices against closure. The workers also implemented certain new aspects of work policy.

The workers at Fisher-Bendix, Kirkby near Liverpool, occupied the entire factory and offices on Wednesday, January 5, 1972. This action by all the workers, manual and non-manual, represents an advanced form of struggle.

On the Content of Socialism II - Socialisme Ou Barbarie

Very detailed article by French libertarian socialist group Socialisme Ou Barbarie on "the development of modern society and what has happened to the working-class movement over the last 100 years" and how they "have compelled us to make a radical revision of the ideas on which that movement has been based."

The Labour Government vs. The Dockers 1945-1951

Solidarity's account and analysis of the "socialist" Labour government's war against dockworkers.

LABOUR GOVERNMENT VS THE DOCKERS 1945-1951
SOLIDARITY PAMPHLET 19 / 5p

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INTRODUCTION TO FIRST REPRINTING ( SPRING 1965 )

Castoriadis, Cornelius, 1922-1997 - John Barker

An obituary and overview of the work of Cornelius Castoriadis, whose early theoretical writings had a strong influence on the UK Solidarity group, among others.

John Barker is an ex-member of Solidarity and the Angry Brigade.

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Cornelius Castoriadis
1922-1997
(By John Barker)

The New Movement - Henri Simon

Influential in its day and expressing the optimism of its times, this text describes the characteristics of the New Movement of class struggle of the 1960s and 70s and its relationship to the Old Movement...

Recollections of my time in Solidarity

A personal reflection on membership of the Solidarity group.

Recollections of my time in Solidarity

I thought I'd try and put down some recollections of my time in Solidarity and what I remember about the organisation. I actually joined in the late 70s and was a member for about four years, during the time that we were producing the magazine Solidarity for Social Revolution.

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