organisation

Getting Organised

Article from Class War Issue 73 looking at revolutionary organisation.

Letter from Internationalism to Red and Black Notes on revolutionary organisations and class consciousness

Letter from Internationalism to Red and Black Notes, referring to this meeting on revolutionary organisation and class consciousness.

Comment by Red and Black Notes on letter from Internationalism

Red and Black Notes comment on this letter from Internationalism, related to this meeting on revolutionary organisation and class consciousness.

Revolutionary Organisation and Class Consciousness - Red and Black Notes

The following article is the text of a speech delivered at a public meeting to discuss revolutionary organizations and class consciousness on Saturday February 26, 2005 in Toronto.

The Socialist Party of Great Britain - One Hundred Years - Red and Black Notes

Red and Black Notes critically look back on the history of the SPGB at the time of the 100 year anniversary.

Organization and Spontaneity - Chicago Revolutionary Network

Article in response to the Red and Black Notes pamphlet Organization and Spontaneity by the Chicago Revolutionary Network, discussion the need to combine both.

From repression to revolution - speech by Kenneth V. Cockrel

Philadelphia Black Panthers stripped and handcuffed, 1970.

Kenneth V. Cockrel's speech at a repression conference in Detroit outlining some problems with the focus of radical black groups away from struggle and towards fighting repression.

Blocking progress: consensus decision making in the anti-nuclear movement

Howard Ryan argues that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."

The organisation question - Joe Jacobs

After Camatte/Collu's 'On Organisation' was published in Detroit in 1974 there was a debate about it over several issues in Fifth Estate. Joe Jacobs, a former Solidarity(UK) member, had been reflecting on the 'organisation question' for a long time prior to reading this debate and he sent them a contribution partly based on some previous writings. Before it could be published in June 1977 he died.