Wildcat (UK)

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History
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

The year 1842 was a very significant one for the proletariat of the British Isles. On the positive side it was the occasion of a great struggle against wage cutting and on the negative side it marked the formation of the first modern national trade union.

The phrase "New World Order" was originally used by George Bush following the destruction of social democracy in Eastern Europe and the massacre of the proletariat in Iraq. Between 1989 and 1991, a dramatic series of events culminated in cooperation between all the major powers, with the USA in overall charge.

From issue no. 17 of the Wildcat (UK) journal.

Poll Tax Rebellion by Danny Burns - reviewed by Wildcat (UK), 1993.

A critical but supportive review of a historical survey of the anti-Poll Tax struggle.

A redefining of some economic terms.

It may seem smug to knock the Zapatistas from the sidelines. But this is a perennial red herring. The fact that the Zapatistas and their supporters live in hardship and risk their lives does not in any way demonstrate that their program is what the Mexican proletariat needs. This article should provide an alternative to the almost universal uncritical laudation which Marcos and co. have received.

METHOD

This is the long version of the pamphlet, it contains "Good Old-fashioned Trade Unionism" as well as "Outside and Against the Unions".

This is the short version of the pamphlet, it only contains "Outside and Against the Unions".

Warfare has significantly changed in the last thirty years. From 1945 until about 1975 most wars were
part of the worldwide movement of decolonisation that saw the formation of dozens of new states in
Africa and Asia. Since then most wars have been civil wars within the decolonised countries, sometimes

Collection of articles about Iraq, the Gulf War and class struggle in tidy PDF format.

The two texts in this pamphlet are communist critiques of democracy. Not just “bourgeois democracy”
but democracy as such. Democracy implies the separation of people into isolated, warring individuals.
This isolation will be overcome in struggles against capitalism (and thus democracy). These struggles

There are so many ideological views conflicting about Russia 1917-1985 that revolutionaries should almost be able to see the nature of modern ideology and non-dialectical critique without even considering what actually happened.

The 70th anniversary of the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union, giving us two convenient excuses to reexamine the Russian revolution. This brief history of the naval fortress-town in the Gulf of Finland gives us a particular viewpoint on the revolution itself: the viewpoint of some of its most combative participants.

The Hunt for Red October - Ten Days That Didn't Overthrow Capitalism
By Wildcat (UK)

An account of the uprisings in Southern Iraq and Kurdistan in 1990-91 which involved large numbers of mutinous troops who had deserted during the Kuwait Gulf War. The uprisings were crushed by Saddam, with the complicity of US and Allied forces

Read a short history of the Gulf War on libcom.org/history

OUTSIDE AND AGAINST THE UNIONS

A communist response to Dave Douglass' text "Refracted Perspective"

by Wildcat (UK)

INTRODUCTION