1960s

Detroit: I do mind dying. A study in urban revolution - Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin

Submitted by wojtek on Jun 2 2013 20:53

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, as they became two of the most vital political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. Widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement and labor struggles in U.S. history.

The struggle of Asian workers in Britain - Race Today

Submitted by wojtek on May 28 2013 13:19

Pamphlet published in 1983 by the Race Today Collective containing three articles and sets of interviews on the struggles of Asian workers in the UK.

Queens, hookers, and hustlers: Organizing for survival and revolt amongst gender-variant sex workers, 1950-1970

Submitted by wojtek on Mar 13 2013 15:30

A selection from Mack Friedman’s Strapped for Cash: A History of American Hustler Culture.

“Rusty Calley is a Scapegoat”: Culpability in the My Lai Massacre

Submitted by Rebelde on Feb 9 2013 14:22

This piece I wrote provides a critical historical analysis of the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, specifically looking at culpability at all levels within the military leadership.

Toward a student syndicalist movement

Position paper by Carl Davidson delivered at the August 1966 Students For A Democratic Society (SDS) Convention in Clear Lake, Iowa.

SDS: The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society

Submitted by Juan Conatz on Oct 8 2012 12:49

Kirkpatrick Sale's massive book on Students For a Democratic Society, a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the country's New Left.

The Deacons for Defense: armed resistance and the Civil Rights Movement

Submitted by Juan Conatz on Oct 8 2012 12:29

A pamphlet about the Deacons for Defense, an armed self-defense African-American civil rights organization in the U.S. Southern states during the 1960s.

Anarchy and Organization - Murray Bookchin

An essay by Murray Bookchin written in reply to an attack by Huey Newton on anarchist forms of organization.

Theoretical anarchism and anarchist ideology - Miguel Amorós

An essay on post-1939 Spanish anarchism and its ideological fossilization, with special emphasis on the CNT and the role it played in Spain during the1970s, during the Spanish “Transition”, when it attracted large numbers of workers who sympathized with anarchism—it had over 250,000 members in 1978—but soon lost most of them when it became a trade union indistinguishable from the others except for its revolutionary rhetoric, having been founded by a disparate assortment of people who, according to the author, had only one thing in common: “the desire to build a trade union federation that could contend with the Workers Commissions for preeminence in separate class representation.”