René Riesel

Riesel, René

Algerian member of the Situationist International.

Preliminaries on councils and councilist organization - René Riesel

A look at workers' councils and the historical contexts in which they were created. A useful analysis - which challenges some aspects of the standard anarchist analysis of the events in Spain during the 1936 Revolution.

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Council workers and civil servants strike in Scotland
Tens of thousands of striking council workers disrupted public services across Scotland today while Scottish civil servants also struck for their own pay dispute.

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2001: Brighton bin men's strike and occupation
A short history of a victorious strike and occupation of their workplace by contracted-out bin workers that was assisted by local residents.

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1961-1973: GI resistance in the Vietnam War
History of the widespread mutiny of US troops in Vietnam that brought the world's most powerful military machine to its knees.

Tea Break

Tea Break July 2008
First issue of an irregular workers' bulletin put together by users of the website, libcom.org. This issue focuses on the 2008 pay dispute over sub-inflation pay offers.