PDFs
The moral economy of the English crowd in the eighteenth century - E.P.Thompson
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.
Ceylon: the JVP uprising of April 1971
Excellent pamphlet by Solidarity London about the uprising launched by the socialist youth organisation the JVP in Sri Lanka in April 1971.
In PDF format. Published as Solidarity London pamphlet 42.
Porto Marghera – the last firebrands
Excellent booklet on the widespread class struggle in the chemical factories of the Italian industrial zone of Porto Marghera in the 1960s and 70s.
Originally compiled to accompany a DVD, the booklet is highly informative in its own right.
Contents
1.From reconstruction to the Hot Autumn: The class struggles in Italy 1968 -1973
2.Unions vs. workers autonomy
3 Operaismo
4.The History of Potere Operaio
5.The History of the Workers’ Committee of Porto Marghera
Political Testament of Lenin and Bukharin and the Meaning of NEP
Lars T. Lih on Lenin, Bukharin and the new economic policy of the Bolsheviks. In PDF format.
Some aspects of the class struggle in Portugal in 1976 - Red Notes
A pamphlet produced in 1976 about the development of class struggle in Portugal.
Notes from the class struggle: small group workplace organising
This pamphlet aims to show what small groups and unions can achieve in workplace disputes. These examples and analyses of successful small-scale actions should prove instructive to workers in a variety of fields from a variety of backgrounds, whether they are in the transport or manufacturing sector, students or illegal immigrants, or are employed in another branch of industry. The articles collected here show that through creativity, organization and fighting spirit small groups of workers and activists are more than able to hold their own against the bosses. With examples from Amsterdam, Berlin, Bremen, Hannover u.a.
We do not agree with all the comments on unions in the text, but the accounts of the events are very instructive and useful.
December 2008, Greece: An attempt to detect the power and the limits of our struggle - Blaumachen
A thorough account of the December 2008 rebellion in Greece
‘From borders to police departments, democracy murders’ (slogan on a wall)
έκλειψη και επανεμφάνιση του κομμουνιστικού κινήματος - Gilles Dauvé and François Martin
πρόλογος της εκδοτικής ομάδας
«Eίναι δυνατόν», μπορεί ν’ αναρωτηθεί ο υποψήφιος αναγνώστης αυτού του βιβλίου, «σε μια εποχή όπου τα κομμουνιστικά καθεστώτα έχουν καταρρεύσει εδώ και δέκα χρόνια και ακόμη κι οι εναπομείναντες μαρξιστές δε θεωρούν τον κομμουνισμό έναν επείγοντα, εφικτό πολιτικό στόχο, να κυκλοφορεί ένα βιβλίο που μιλάει για επανεμφάνιση του κομμουνιστικού κινήματος;»
The coming insurrection - The Invisible Committee
Insurrectionary communist call to arms, originally published in France in 2005, in text and PDF format.
Revolutionary defeatists in Greece in World War II - Aghis Stinas
Selections from the memoirs of the Greek socialist Aghis Stinas, focusing on class struggle, internationalism and revolutionary defeatism during the Second World War.
Taken from the Antagonism website.
