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.
"To delightful measures changed..." - Reflections on the 1978-79 Winter of Discontent
Submitted by Red Marriott on Mar 17 2013 15:06
An analysis of a major 1970s highpoint of class struggle in the UK; its character, implications and consequences.
Here to stay, here to fight - Kenan Malik
Submitted by wojtek on Dec 11 2012 13:52
An extract from Kenan Malik's From Fatwa to Jihad that delves into the roots of the Asian Youth Movements of the 1970s and 1980s and how they came to be formed.
Black militancy: notes from the underground
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Oct 8 2012 08:35
A brief history by Rashad Shabazz of the Black Liberation Army, a Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group with roots in the Black Panther Party.
Mr. Benn's wage slavery
Submitted by wojtek on Sep 24 2012 16:10
A Freedom artice dated 7th December 1974 criticising Tony Benn's support for workers' co-operatives. Taken from The State Is Your Enemy: Selections From Freedom 1965-86.
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.”
From gang-bangers to urban revolutionaries: the Young Lords of Chicago
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Aug 29 2012 03:34
An essay on Chicago's Young Lords Organization, a Puerto Rican radical group started by former gang members in the 1960s.
The Young Lords Party: examining its deficit of democracy and decline
A critique of the Young Lords lack of internal democracy and its contribution towards their decline. We do not agree with some aspects of this article (positive perspective on nationalism, democratic centralism), but feel it provides some other valuable information.
Born in Bradford - Kenan Malik
Kenan Malik analyses how the development of state multiculturalist policies in response to the struggles of asian youth in the 1970s diverted struggles from a politicised class terrain into battles for recognition of cultural identities.
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