Death of a Walrus Published at the beginning of 1981, shortly after his assassination, this is a text on the death of John Lennon, whose subject is not Lennon himself, but the great lamenting public. The…
1986-1987: France goes off the rails Documents about and analysis of the mass workers struggles of students and workers in France from November 1986 to January 1987.
For a dignified and effective demonstration The following was handed out at a demo against the increase in London's fares by the House of Lords in 1982. At the top were the photos on the…
"Shakespeare was a fake!" horror shock! A kind of jokey leaflet produced in the autumn of 1984 to be handed out for a performance of Shakespeare's "A Winter's Tale".
Oil refinery sackings spark further walkouts Hundreds of workers across England and Wales have walked out in support of nearly 650 construction contractors sacked from the Lindsey Oil…
The theming of the countryside The following article, completed in December 2005, is based on the experience of a relatively short stint living in the rural West Country. This…
No forgiveness: Algeria 2001 In June 2001 Algeria experienced almost an insurrection which progressively spread throughout the whole country. There was nothing in the media…
Kaplan, Iacov aka Jacob Caplan, 18??-1933 A short biography of Jacob Caplan, stirring anarchist orator, active in Leeds and London.
The War On Terror The following text, written in English by some Greek friends (the TPTG), was published in July 2003 as a discussion document. Though it sometimes has some stodgy ultra-leftist phraseology…
Energy wildcat strikes spread across UK The oil refinery wildcat strike over redundancies has escalated as workers from several power stations and oil terminals across the UK took…
Taxi drivers strike in China More than 5 000 taxi drivers Xining, a city in the western province of Qinghai, went on strike during the night of Saturday the 13th of June over new licensing regulations.
Abahlali baseMjondolo: ‘a homemade politics’ Matt Birkinshaw, a researcher from London, spent three months living in Abahlali baseMjondolo communities in Durban and Cape Town in 2008. This paper, prepared for a conference in Manchester, gives a brief but useful overview of the movement.