A brief account of the Stop 'The City' protests - Dave (London Greenpeace)
A brief account of the Stop 'The City' protests (1983/4 London) concentrating on attitudes to police repression.
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Stop The City 1983/4 - Documentation and Attitudes To Policing
A brief account of the 'Stop The City' protests 1983/4, concentrating on attitudes to possible and actual police repression - and efforts to ensure effective protests.
For The Conference Against Police Repression
Haringey, 14th September 1985
Also includes leaflets and discussion documents produced by those involved at the time:
Occupied Zuccotti, Social Struggle and Planned Shrinkage
Submitted by solisoli1956 on May 5 2018 15:59
A pamphlet written during the height of the Occupy Wall Street struggles in New York City, which looks at how class composition and decomposition developed in the park. The pamphlet is composed of two pieces. First, a reflection and analysis of how class composition functioned in the movement space. The second part of the pamphlet is an interview conducted with Deborah Wallace looking at the history of planned shrinkage in New York City. Given this pamphlet is more than 6 years old, the specifics on resources available to people have changed over time - this pamphlet should be seen as a reflection at a specific point in time.
Political repression beyond the baton
Submitted by Scott Jay on Mar 23 2017 19:10
Mike King's new book, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, describes how movements are repressed when overt police violence is unsuccessful
I've got 99 problems but a class analysis ain't one
Submitted by Mike Harman on Mar 2 2017 23:06
Some things should have been left in 2011, the mystifying 99 percent slogan is one.
A Return to Occupy Wall Street : what lessons can we learn ?
An interview by Fabien Delmotte of Marisa Holmes, Mark Bray, Nathaniel Miller and Jason Freedman about the occupy movement.
Electoral folly: no matter how good the candidate, business as usual rules elected office - Michael Reagan
An article by Michael Reagan that looks at the Kshama Sawant's time as a Seattle city councilperson and the compromises she's made.
Standing at night, or taking it lying down? - Mouvement Communiste/Kolektivně proti Kapitălu
A byproduct of the recent protests against the new "Labour Law" in France was an Occupy-style protest movement (known as "Nuits Debout") based around gatherings in public squares, notably Place de La République in Paris. This is a translation of a highly critical leaflet which Mouvement Communiste distributed at the gatherings. The original French version is provided as a PDF.
Building a revolutionary anarchism - Colin O'Malley
An article by Colin O’Malley on the failures of the anarchist movement to grow, despite numerous social movements, and ways he thinks anarchists need to take to move forward.
Necessary steps in tough economic times: New York students take to the streets in the wake of Occupy
Submitted by Recomposition on Sep 13 2015 07:35
A piece by Marianne LeNabat that takes us through an overview of how students in recent decades have become saddled with debt, how a student movement rose up in NY during the height of Occupy Wall Street, some of the lessons we can draw from organized resistance, and the ripples that student fights caused spreading solidarity throughout various sectors of society.
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