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The anarchist movement in Japan: the martyrs of Tokyo - Ba Jin

Submitted by Alias Recluse on Jul 21 2013 22:35

A short article originally written in 1930 for the French press by the Chinese anarchist Li Pei-Kan (more commonly known as Ba Jin in the English-speaking countries) passionately recounting the right wing terrorist campaign against anarchists, communists, socialists and Koreans in Japan in the wake of the great earthquake of 1923 and the subsequent response of some anarchists who sought to avenge the murders of their comrades.

On February 20, 1928, the Japanese comrade Wada Kyutaro died in the Akita prison, in the coldest part of northern Japan. The news of his death was a hard blow for me. For a long time now I have been writing articles for the Chinese press about the events that led to Wada’s conviction and the martyrdom of Furuta Daijiro.

Khamsin #11: Modern Turkey - development and crisis

Issue 11 of the Khamsin journal from 1984 about Turkey, its political economy, international relations and its working class, socialist and feminist movements.

Contents

Editorial
Capital and state in contemporary Turkey - Turgut Taylan
The origins and legacy of Kemalism - A. Ender
The women's question and difficulties of feminism in Turkey - Pembenaz Yorgun
The Turkish working class and socialist movement in perspective - Mehmet Salah
Turkish foreign relations - Ron Ayres

The moral economy of the English crowd in the eighteenth century - E. P. Thompson

Submitted by tolern on Jul 16 2013 23:34

E. P. Thompson's ground-breaking article on the English food riots of the 1700 and 1800s.

See his book, Customs in common, for an interesting follow-up article.

Customs in common - E. P. Thompson

Submitted by wojtek on Jul 16 2013 22:55

Eighteenth-century Britain saw a profound distancing between the culture of the patricians and the plebs. E. P. Thompson explains why in this series of brilliant essays on the customs of the working people, which, he argues, emerged as a culture of resistance towards an innovative market economy.

He discusses 'wife sales' as a form of unofficial divorce, the 'rough music' or ritual mockery directed at transgressors, the ways a rebellious traditional culture fought back against the enclosure movement, 'free markets' in grain and the work-discipline of early industrial capitalism. The result is a vividly original book, a superb companion volume to E. P.

Khamsin #07: Communist parties in the Middle East

Issue of Khamsin from around 1979 mostly about various communist parties in the Middle East.

Contents

Editorial
Eli Lobel

Central theme

The early history of Lebanese communism reconsidered - Alexander Flores
The Arab CPs and the Palestine problem - Alexander Flores
Recent studies on the history of the PCP - Alexander Flores
Revolution in Iran: was it possible in 1921? - Fred Halliday
Selected bibliography in the history of the CPs in the Arab east
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Abortion: the inside story - Solidarity

Scanned PDF of a leaflet produced in the late 1970s by libertarian socialist group Solidarity on the Karman technique of abortion. This is not a DIY abortion guide and under no circumstances should anyone who is not a fully qualified medical professional carry out a termination. We reproduce this leaflet for historical reference only.

Subversion #19

Issue 19 of Subversion with articles about fighting the introduction of Job Seekers Allowance and the "three strikes" tactic, the Merseyside dockers dispute, strikes in Detroit newspapers and Royal mail and more.

Contents

Introduction
Three strikes and you're out! Building claimants' counter power
What's the best way for claimants to fight back?
Spain 1936: the end of anarchism? Reader responses
Merseyside dockers dispute… The struggle continues
Detroit newspaper strike
Democracy and rights discussion
Open letter to Class War
Trouble at Royal Mail
Manchester Bombing

Student struggle and assemblies of neighbourhoods

Reflections on the Quebec student strike and neighborhood assemblies movement in 2012 by the Internationalist Communists - Klasbatalo of Montreal.

Table of contents

Spring 2012 student movement

- An international economic crisis, drastic austerity measures worldwide ... and rising tuition
- The struggle against tuition fees is part of the struggle against capitalist attacks on our living
conditions
- Student unionism
- The student movement isolates itself and is isolated from the labor movement

The Russian revolution in Ukraine (March 1917 - April 1918) - Nestor Makhno

Submitted by Reddebrek on Jul 12 2013 15:43
Meeting of the Makhnovists

Ukrainian anarcho-communist revolutionary Nestor Makhno's history of the revolution in Ukraine and the role of the Makhnovist movement.

Dedication

I dedicate this volume to the memory of my dead friends and comrades who struggled with me to organize revolutionary Ukrainian workers to bring about a free, anarchist communist society:

Radical America #09.06: Alternative education project, Nov.-Dec. 1975

Constituent articles:

- Introduction
- Portugal at the crossroads (Cliff, Tony)
- Documents of the workers' struggle
- To do away with managers, we need to do away with owners
- What are bosses needed for?
- Communique from Lisnave shipyard workers
- Women at Sogantal
- Manifesto of the REPUBLICA workers
- Revolutionary councils
- Glossary