Beyond Thatcher : militant testimonies on miners’ struggles and British syndicalism from yesterday and today
This year, Margaret Thatcher’s death reminded us of the economic policies she initiated in Britain and her anti-social and anti-union fights. In the last months, Autre Futur [French syndicalist website and association] wished to go further and to conduct a series of interviews with different British unionists and syndicalists, about these past struggles but also about the present, in order to get a better grasp of issues which have emerged in recent decades.
[Video] Modibo Kadalie on the "bat patrols": Community self-defense and the 1981 Atlanta child murders
Submitted by TeflonMaster on Oct 7 2013 21:47
Scholar/actvist Modibo Kadalie discusses helping to organize community self-defense in the Techwood Homes housing projects during the 1981 Atlanta Child Murders.
Maurice Brinton interview (1990)
Submitted by wojtek on Oct 2 2013 10:18
Interview with Chris Pallis (aka Maurice Brinton) produced by Agora International during the Cerisy Colloquium. He talks about the importance of Cornelius Castoriadis’ (aka Paul Cardan)’s ideas in his break from Trotskyism, and the ‘Solidarity’ group, of which he was the most prominent member.
The North Sea 3. Coal, oil and after
Submitted by wojtek on Sep 15 2013 12:17
The third part of an interview with Neil Rothnie about North Sea oil workers’organisation.
The North Sea 2. The OILC and the unions
Submitted by wojtek on Sep 15 2013 12:10
The second part of an interview with Neil Rothnie about North Sea oil workers’organisation.
The North Sea 1. The reaction to Piper Alpha
Submitted by wojtek on Sep 15 2013 12:01
In this interview, Neil Rothnie describes the surge of organisation among oil workers in the British section of the North Sea in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The shock of the explosion on the Piper Alpha oil rig on 6 July 1988, in which 167 oil workers died, was a catalyst for rank-and-file organisation. Activists established the Oil Industry Liaison Committee (OILC), after the Piper Alpha disaster, to coordinate action by workers who were members of different trade unions.
Belarusian anarchist political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich released
Submitted by S2W on Sep 15 2013 01:09
He will be under police supervision for 6 months after the release.
Aliaksandr Frantskevich, who served his term in No. 22 Ivatsevichy correctional colony, was released early in the morning of 3rd September. His mother and activists from the opposition organisation met him outside the prison. He will go to Navapolatsk to register with the police.
The voice from below: Zambian workers speak out
A 1997 article in which Sakhela Buhlungu and Lucien van der Walt talk with Zambian workers about the country's economic liberalisation and its effects on their conditions and militancy.
Social cleansing in Tower Hamlets: interview with Balfron Tower evictee - James Butler
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 20 2013 16:22
James Butler interviews Sara, a single-parent in Tower Hamlets, East London, which illustrates the impossible situation especially social housing tenants are being put in, squeezed on both sides by government cuts and gentrification.
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