State, social movements and unions in El Alto, Bolivia
An excerpt from El Alto, Rebel City on organisation among market traders, the informally-employed and community organisations in the notably militant Bolivian city.
Poor people's movements : why they succeed, how they fail - Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
Examinations of four different periods of struggles in the US, from the depression to the civil rights movement, suggesting formal organisationalism led them to fail.
Poll tax rebellion - Danny Burns
Submitted by Steven. on Apr 10 2013 22:30
Full scanned version of the definitive grassroots history of the mass working class movement which defeated Margaret Thatcher's poll tax. 17 million people refused to pay the tax, which defeated it and brought Maggie's time as Prime Minister to a premature end.
The battle for Middle Earth is being fought in Bologna: Blu's new painting defending social space XM24
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Mar 26 2013 10:21
Bologna is burning, while just outside its ancient walls a battle is being fought, under the single eye of Sauron, looking down from one of the two towers that are the symbol of the city.
No Dash For Gas: We climbed those chimneys to kick-start protest and debate
Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Mar 7 2013 08:58
EDF, the power company, has been denounced for attacking the right to protest, after it launched a damages claim for £5 million against 21 activists. Here one of them explains what No Dash For Gas is aiming at
Facing the enemy: A history of anarchist organisation - Alexandre Skirda
Submitted by working class s... on Dec 27 2012 19:52
The finest single volume history of European anarchism is finally available in English in Paul Sharkey's elegant translation. Drawing on decades of research, Alexandre Skirda traces anarchism as a major political movement and ideology across the 19th and 20th centuries.
The unemployed struggle in West Ham in the 1900s
Submitted by Battlescarred on Dec 18 2012 22:36
A short history of the unemployed agitation in West Ham and the Triangle Camp events
'Don't be a soldier!' The radical anti-war movement in north London 1914-1918 - Ken Weller
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 18 2012 12:07
Ken Weller of Solidarity's excellent and detailed historical account of working class opposition to World War I in North London, which offers a snapshot of the anti-war movement nationally.
The history of the Quebec student movement and combative unionism
Submitted by wojtek on Dec 8 2012 23:39
An article by Jerome Raza on the history of student syndicalism in Quebec and the conditions which gave rise to Classé.
The poll tax rebellion in Haringey
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 8 2012 17:05
Great pamphlet about the successful fight against the poll tax in Haringey, north London. Produced by Haringey Solidarity Group in 1999, this pamphlet gives an excellent snapshot of the struggle in one London Borough.
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