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Latin american workers in Unite: from heroes to pariahs

Justice for Cleaners

In September 2009, Unite evicted the Latin American Workers Association from the office space which they had been providing. LAWAS had not only been backing migrant workers agains the bosses: they had also been backing them against the union. From The Commune (20.11.09)

In September 2009 Unite the union ordered the Latin American Workers Association (LAWAS) without notice to vacate the office which it had provided the Association with in its southeast region HQ in Manor House, thus ending a five year partnership.

Takalar people demand the imposible...!!!!

this picture was taken from direct situation that still heating till now in takalar (south sulawesi, Indonesia), it was conflict between peasants and one biggest corporation that called PTPN (sugar cane corporation, one of corporation that controlled by the state)
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The Shop Stewards’ Movement and Workers’ Control 1910-1922 by Branko Pribićević

This is the first chapter taken from the book with the above title. It is a brief look at how the concept of 'workers control' developed in the period of the 'syndalicalist revolt' and the subsequent development of the shop stewards movement. Despite Branko Pribićević being a political scientist in Tito's former Yugoslavia and member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia. It is a fairly balanced and reasonable description looking at the three main currents;Industrial Unionism, Syndicalism and Guild Socialism.

The Movement for Workers’ Control

Black Flag 229

Issue 229 saw a widening out of content for the magazine, with both internal looks at issues of interest to the anarchist movement and analysis of events in the wider world, including the headline article on the aftermath of the Grek riots at the end of 2008 and over the economic crisis gripping the world.

In focus: In the first of a three-part series, Tom Gaynor looks at New Labour’s time in power.
News: Laura Norder enters the Sparrow’s Nest, Nottingham’s archive of liberty.
Interview: Black Flag talks to Irish anarchist Andrew Flood about his recent journey into the weird and wonderful world of US activism.

Black Flag 230 - Sneak Preview

Following a fantastic response at the London bookfair to this issue, Black Flag is even more proud than usual (so that's pretty damn proud) to do our usual giveaway of one particularly thoughtful article from the latest magazine, issue 230 to show roughly what we're about and encourage people to buy, distro and volunteer to help out the real deal in paper, thus keeping us running.

This issue, Brighton SolFed writes in Black Flag about the class logic behind the destruction of the post war social contract...

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

  • Cover story: Examining the new welfare bill and why its regressive politics must be fought
  • Theory: Exploring the roots of anarchist economics

King Mob poster and image gallery

Posters, stickers and images produced by Situationist-influenced group King Mob.

Taken from www.revoltagainstplenty.com

Autoreduction movements in Turin, 1974

Eddy Cherki and Michel Wieviorka's account of the workers' self-reduction of prices movement in the Italian city of Turin in the 1970s.

To consider the new developments in social struggle within Western Europe since 1968, one must turn to Italy. The organization of the worker's movement, often on a mass scale, has assumed original forms. Urban struggles have led to organized union and political neighborhood actions with stakes tied to consumption.

Young Detroit Radicals 1955-1965 - Dan Georgakas

CLR James

Dan Georgakas's personal recollections of radicals in Detroit and the people who formed the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.

Young Detroit Radicals 1955-1965 (1)

The Greek Makhnovists

A short account of the role of the Black Sea Greeks in the Makhnovist movement.

Greeks had settled along the north coast of the Black Sea in what is now Ukraine and Crimea from at least the 5th Century BC. At the time of the Revolution of 1917 there were around 180,000 of these Pontic Greeks in the region.

The Kind Hearted Executioner

Article about the assassination of police chief Colonel Ramon Falcon, responsible for the killings of 1500 workers, by anarchist Simon Radowitzky.

Next Monday the 9th, 100 years will have passed since an event that shook Buenos Aires. A young 18 year-old Russian threw a bomb at none other than the all-powerful chief of police of Buenos Aires, Colonel Ramón L. Falcón.

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