No go, P&O! - Thames Valley Class Struggle Group
Submitted by Spassmaschine on Jul 26 2009 06:40
Leaflet produced as an intervention into the 1988-1989 strike by P&O ferry workers against attacks on their working conditions.
Seafarers fight on
Towards a Citizens' Militia: Anarchist Alternatives to NATO and the Warsaw Pact
A semi-legendary anarchist how-to guide to irregular warfare. Written in the early 1980s by the International Revolutionary Solidarity Movement (First of May Group), Towards A Citizens' Militia details the principles of libertarian armed resistance, organization, and the conduct of guerilla warfare (from train traps to attacking a power system) and the organization and operation of the civilian resistance movement.
It can be bought at AKPress or Amazon if a hard-copy should be required.
Long lost wildcat strikes in the UK, 1960s - 1990s
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 15 2008 13:43
Interesting article with snippets of analysis and often personal anecdotes about a number of unofficial strikes in the UK since the 1960s.
An introduction…
Picket: bulletin of the Wapping printers' dispute, 1986-1987
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 5 2008 19:22
PDFs of all 43 issues of Picket, the unofficial newsletter of the News International printers' dispute of 1986.
digitised by libcom.org
The Scum - comic about the Wapping dispute, 1986
A contemporary spoof of The Sun newspaper containing a "Tintin" cartoon about the Wapping printers dispute of 1986.
digitised by libcom.org
The working class in Iran: some background - class struggles from 1979-1989 - Mostafa Saber
Submitted by Red Marriott on Nov 18 2007 15:39
Some excerpts from A Brief Look at the Situation of the Working Class in Iran, a short description of workers' history and conditions - and their struggles during and following the 1979 Revolution.
Of particular interest is the observation that "in practice the [workers'] councils, due to their complete accordance with workers' direct and immediate exercise of power, won an indisputable victory vis-a-vis the unions. The few attempts at creating unions remained irrelevant to the real workers' movement."
This Is England - review
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Aug 12 2007 13:20
Tom Jennings' review of Shane Meadows' film based in the early skinhead scene and how it changed when fascists began to recruit within it.
The Archaeology of Aggro
The latest project from the foremost cinematic chronicler of contemporary Britain is, unexpectedly, a period piece depicting the 1983 rites of passage of 12-year-old Shaun (Tommo Turgoose) finding acceptance among skinhead scoundrels convivial enough to include Milky, a Black lad (Andrew Shim), punks, and even New Romantics.
Yugoslavia: Imperialist war against the world proletariat, 1990s - ICG
Submitted by Mike Harman on Jul 22 2007 14:47
The ICG's analysis of the war in Yugoslavia, with information about the preceding wave of workers struggles in the region.
For us the analysis of the war in Yugoslavia is indispensable. This war is not only of the greatest importance for its direct consequences for the conditions of life and struggle of proletarians in the region - it is also important for the international proletariat, and because it announces and prefigures the military conflicts that are to come.
From Communism #9
- "Is that you, Mladic?"
Workers of the world tonight: International dockers struggles of the 1980s
Submitted by Mike Harman on Jul 22 2007 12:49
BM Blob's pamphlet on the struggles of dock workers across the world during the 1980s.
Translated and produced by individuals in Lisbon, Barcelona, Arhus, London, New York
Introduction by BM Blob
Like a summer with 1000 Julys …and other seasons…
Submitted by Mike Harman on Jul 22 2007 12:37
An overview of the early 1980s strikes and riots in the UK.
This text has been reproduced without most of the original pictures and their captions due to space. Some captions which were thought to be useful additions to the main text have been included in boxes.
Like a Summer with a Thousand Julys …and Other Seasons…
INFANT SORROW
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