Class War
Northern Ireland, the IRA and Class War
Subversion #21 saw the first two parts of a discussion with a member of London Class War. This represents the third part of the correspondence. From Subversion #22 (1997)
You are still not trying to understand what I'm saying, which is amusing when you say "we have never claimed to be Marxist or Anarchist, and if that means people find it harder to put a neat label on us, tough". Your efforts to avoid a label is strange considering the absolutely dogmatic line you have got.
What's the working class anyway?
A letter exchange in Subversion about the nature of class.
Dear Comrades,
Unfinished business - review by Subversion
Class War Federation's book Unfinished business - the politics of Class War, is reviewed by the Subversion group which points out several important flaws, including on class and nationalism.
This long awaited book represents a serious and welcome attempt by the Class War Federation to sort out its own politics and present them to the working class in a clear and comprehensible language.
Subversion shares some important areas of political agreement with Class War which are hammered home in this publication. In Summary these are:-
Class War Issue 73 - Postscript
Postscript from the final issue of Class War
Sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or cry with Class War. Our most bitter rows have always been amongst ourselves, and the ones during the production of this paper are no exception. After six months of increasingly personalised arguments, the majority of London Class War have decided to part company with the rest of us and have gone their own way. We wish them luck.
Class War Issue 73 - Beyond the Bullshit: In A Galaxy Far, Far Away...
Article from Class War Issue 73 looking at the future beyond the dissolution of the Class War Federation
In this issue of the paper we have been as honest and as frank as we can. We have taken the bold step of getting our dirty washing out in public. Being self-critical can seem negative, but we believe that this is now the most positive thing to do.
Class War Issue 73 - Getting Organised
Article from Class War Issue 73 looking at revolutionary organisation.
When Class War started, we saw ourselves as standing in opposition to virtually every other political organisation existing in the UK. Arrogant? Maybe. But we stood in total opposition to the Left's traditional hierarchical way of doing things and we wanted some new form of organisation to match our politics.
Class War Issue 73 - Make Your Own Tea: Women's Realm and Other Recipes and Patterns
Article from issue 73 of Class War looking at the reasons why so few women joined Class War (and other revolutionary groups).
This piece is written for all revolutionaries. This is not the token 'women's bit' that's stuck in for the sake of appearances. This is an attempt to look at how and why the Left, and Class War in particular, has not just failed to attract women, but alienated, patronised and looked upon them as a minority group. How can half the working class be treated as a minority?
Class War Issue 73 - The Party's Over: The State of the Left in the 1990s
Article from Class War issue 73 surveying the remains of the left
The Left in Britain is at its feeblest for decades, probably since the mid-1960s and maybe even since WWI. And yet this is at a time of lowering living standards and worsening working conditions, and when the institutions of social, economic and political control - the government, police and monarchy - command the least respect since the Victorian era.
Class War Issue 73 - Class War and the Media
An article from Class War issue 73 looking at Class War's populism and relationship to the mainstream media.
Class War has been criticised for being populist or even media whores. But what does 'populist' mean, apart from wanting our ideas to be popular, and aiming to make them that way? We've even been criticised for selling our paper: apparently it's a 'Trotskyist' tactic. But why produce a paper if you just want it to gather dust in someone's back room?
Class War Issue 73 - Peace Off!
Article from Class War issue 73 on pacifism, lifestylism and the 1990s anti-roads movement.
Class War came into being with the aim of sticking the boot into anarcho-pacifism and lifestyle politics. We had some success in this respect - although, ironically, we have gone full circle and these things have returned once again.
