interviews
Archive of interviews with radicals and working class activists on libcom.org.
Interview with an ex-sex text worker
In the wake of the first unfair dismissal case for a sex worker, libcom.org interviews another sex worker about the industry, the work, and the possibilities for struggle
Last week, GMB member Irene Everett won the first ever unfair dismissal case for a sex worker, against Essex-based Datapro Service Limited. She had worked on their live adult chat lines for eight years. The GMB, following its merger with the International Union of Sex Workers in 2002, has been trying to organise in the UK, and this was their first victory.
Interview with an Edelweiss Pirate - Walter Mayer
Transcript of a short interview with Walter Mayer, a member of the German youth anti-Nazi organisation, the Edelweiss Pirates.
The Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD) in Retrospect - Bernard Reichenbach
Bernard Reichenbach: The KAPD in Retrospect - An Interview with a Member of the Communist Workers Party of Germany
Revolutionary History, Vol. 5, No. 2 Spring 1994
Interview with an RMT member: The New Year tube strikes
With two tube strikes in as many weeks, and more still to come, libcom.org conducted this interview with a long standing London Underground worker and RMT member on the eve of the second strike.
The interview is presented here in full.
Why are station staff striking?
Contrary to public perception, it has nothing to do with greedy drivers!
Interview: Anarchism, the USSR, alternative media and Belarus
The Anarchist Federation interviews two members of the Belarusian Anarchist Federation (BAF).
The AF recently hosted a meeting of the International of Anarchist Federations. Two comrades, Pauluk and Maryna, from the BAF, an organisation applying to join the International, attended the meeting and made a presentation on the situation in their country at the 2005 London Anarchist Bookfair.
Meetings in the Kremlin in Moscow 1921 - interview with Bernhard Reichenbach
An interview conducted in 1964 with former KAPD (Communist Workers Party of Germany) member Bernhard Reichenbach about the 1921 Communist International Congress in Moscow, after which the KAPD withdrew from the Comintern.
Moscow 1921 - Meetings in the Kremlin
(Interview with Bernhard Reichenbach - 1964)
L.K. Do you remember your visit to Moscow in 1921 clearly? What were your first impressions?
A view from inside the Gate Gourmet dispute
Corporate Watch presents an interview with Mrs Kaur, one of the striking workers at airline catering company Gate Gourmet. Mrs Kaur has worked at Gate Gourmet for over six and a half years.
Have conditions changed over the past few years?
TPTG's Conversation with George Caffentzis
Interview with George Caffentzis on Zerowork, Midnight Notes, autonomist Marxism and American social movements, amongst other things.
TPTG's Conversation with George Caffentzis
PREFACE
George Caffentzis, an offspring of Greek immigrants from Lakonia, a place in southern Greece, is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine. But, as you will see it for yourselves, the 15th of October, 2000, was not for us "an evening with a philosopher". George is an activist to a fault. We met him for the first time in Athens on the 14th of October, 2000, but we have been in correspondence with Midnight Notes editors since 1993.
An Interview with Harry Cleaver
Interview with American autonomist Marxist, Harry Cleaver.
A prominent American autonomist, Harry Cleaver lives in Austin, Texas, where he is active in Accion Zapatista. A range of his writings can be found on the Internet at ht tp://www.eco.utexas.edu:80/Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/index2.html. This interview was recorded in London during July 1993 by Massimo De Angelis. It first appeared in Italian in the autonomist journal vis-a-vis 1 (Autumn 1993).
Interview with Friedrich Engels in Le Figaro, May 1893
... Having learnt the purpose of my visit, Engels told me the following:
