Direct action victory on health and safety at Starbucks, 2006
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 1 2007 11:17
Making work safer through direct action - Daniel Gross and Joe Tessone recount the actions of workers winning a small but significant victory on health and safety at a Chicago Starbucks outlet in 2006.
Requests have been routinely made and ignored for the purchase of a stepladder. It is vital for our safety that we have a stepladder available to use for such tasks as changing light bulbs, reaching boxes on high shelves, and cleaning ceiling tiles. Currently, we are forced to balance ourselves on unstable café tables to accomplish tasks in hard to reach places.
Bash the Fash - Anti-fascist recollections, 1984-1993
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 19 2007 10:30
This is literally a no-punches pulled account of militant group Anti Fascist Action’s fight against fascism in Britain by a grassroots anarchist member of AFA. Highly recommended.
It is important, not because he makes any pretence at being a leading light but because the many small (or not so small) contributions such people make are key to the success that AFA achieved.
Written with honesty and a sense of humour, the tale of challenging the fascists for control of the streets – and winning – never descends to political cliché or reads like a pools forecast.
15. Waterloo, Blood and Honour gig, London, 1992
A personal account of the battle of Waterloo, when Anti Fascist Action trashed a gig by neo-nazi label Blood and Honour by disrupting their redirection point at Waterloo station.
13. Norwich BNP election meeting, 1990(?)
A short account of militant opposition to a British National Party election meeting in Norwich in 1989.
11. Marble Arch Blood and Honour gig, London, 1989
A brief account of Anti Fascist Action trashing a neo-nazi Blood and Honour gig in London in 1989. They did so by occupying the redirection point for the venue.
9. Trafalgar Square, London
An account of opposing fascist attacks on the regular anti-apartheid picket outside South Africa House in Trafalgar Square, London, in the 1980s and 1990s.
8. Brick Lane - fascism and anti-fascism, London
An account of running confrontations between fascists and anti-fascists on London's Brick Lane in the 1980s and 1990s.
6. Bury St. Edmunds National Front demonstration, 1986
A short personal account of militant opposition to a fascist National Front demonstration against the local American Nuclear base and against immigration.
4. Maidstone, National Front demonstration 1984
A personal account of opposing a fascist National Front demonstration in Maidstone, Kent, 1984.
The Anarchist Youth Network (AYN), personal recollections, 2002-2004
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 14 2007 13:43
Brief historical notes on the organisation the Anarchist Youth Network (AYN). The AYN was a loosely-organised grouping of young anarchists, supposed to be based in Britain and Ireland.
Lasting only from 2002 to 2004, it suffered many of the weaknesses common in the contemporary anarchist movement of the English speaking world.
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