interviews
Archive of interviews with radicals and working class activists on libcom.org.
Intellectuals & Power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
This is a transcript of a 1972 conversation between the post-structuralist philosophers Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, which discusses the links between the struggles of women, homosexuals, prisoners etc to class struggle, and also the relationship between theory, practice and power (4,000 words).
The lessons of the bin tax struggle
The opening years of the century saw a mass community based struggle against the shifting of taxation further onto the working class in Dublin. Thousands of households were paid up members of the campaign and tens of thousands refused to pay this new tax over a period of years despite prosecutions, media hysteria and the jailing of over 20 activists.
An interview with Tony Mcqade, former shop steward.
Tony Mcqade worked at British Leyland’s site 2 car plant in Speke from the late 1960s until its closure in 1978, as well being a shop steward at the plant for a number of years, and is now a full time official with the TGWU.
Why do you think that the motor industry was more prone to strike action than other areas of industry in the 1960s and 70s?
Mental health worker interview
Following reports that the mentally ill are being abandoned, Robert Allen interviewed Jim, a worker in the mental health system.
RA: The Healthcare commission are saying that mental health for over 65s virtually does not exist. Are you aware of this concern?
Jim: I used to work in a unit that worked exclusively with people over retirement age with mental health problems. I'm certainly not going to say it was a gold star service but "virtually does not exist" seems a little strong.
Interview with a member of the Sussex University SortUSOut Campaign
Today, students at the University of Sussex are occupying a business centre on campus against privatisation and as linked to the wider SortUS[1]Out campaign.
We at libcom.org news spoke to one of the students taking part, and interviewed him about the students' last occupation of their library (pictured left) in March in protest against cuts.
What happened on the night of the occupation?
McRevolution! Who are the shadowy burger flippers plotting to bring down McDonalds? - Loaded
Article about MWR which appeared in men's magazine Loaded in March 2002, which was written following this interview with the group.
McREVOLUTION
Who are the shadowy burger flippers plotting to bring down McDonalds?
Interview with McDonalds Workers Resistance - Face magazine, 2000
Full transcript on an informative and amusing interview carried out between the Face style magazine and members of McDonalds Workers Resistance. This article was subsequently published.
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Interview with a Swedish syndicalist about the SAC, 1998
Entitled "SAC: The Swedish connection" this is an interview with an SAC member about the anarcho-syndicalist union, the largest anarcho-syndicalist organisation in the world relative to its host country's population
Interview with a CGT member about the union, 1998
Entitled "Integrity - the voice of Spanish anarchism" this is an
interview with a member of the anarcho-syndicalist CGT union in Spain, with a
general introduction by Freedom. The interview contains some interesting
details, but the interviewee glosses over the huge issue of the Workers'
Committees and the split with the CNT, as well as understating the membership of
the CNT
Interview with an eyewitness from Rennes
libcom.org interviews 'vanou' a student from Rennes who has been photographing the protests against the CPE up close, including from her apartment balcony.
For a different view of the struggle in Rennes, see our report "Five Days in Rennes" from 1st April.
Over the past couple of weeks libcom.org/blog has been sourcing photos of the events from various French indymedias and directly from people on the ground in France to accompany our news coverage of the event.
