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Working and Not-Working at the Toronto Post Office (1974)

A personal account of working night shifts in the Canadian postal service. Published Toronto, 1974.

Syria: “We carry a new world on our hearts!”

Statement from Têkoşîna Anarşîst, a revolutionary anarchist organization working in north-eastern Syria (Rojava), on the overthrow of Syrian…

Anton Pannekoek’s Workers’ Councils: a Concrete Utopia of the Proletarian Revolution

Article by Lucas Maia where he sketches out the convergences between Anton Pannekoek's Council…

Dialectical Butterflies archive on Libcom

An index of material available on Libcom relating to the now defunct Dialectical Butterfiles website, which included a number of texts relating…

The Formation of Local Councils - To Live in Revolutionary Time

English translation of the posthumous paper on councils in Syria, written by Omar Aziz before his…

What is Burmanization?

Burmanization is a form of oppressions that minority ethnic communities across Burma had to endure for centuries. It became more severe and…

Photo of an attack on a Palestinian Arab village in 1948 by a Zionist paramilitary

1948: Einstein-Arendt letter to the New York Times

An open letter to the New York Times expressing great alarm that Zionists implicated in atrocities were given a warm reception in the United…

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Communisation - Troploin

An attempt to describe what Troploin means by "communisation."

‘A spontaneous loss of enthusiasm’: workplace feminism and the transformation of women’s service jobs in the 1970s - Dorothy Sue Cobble

An analysis of the gendered dynamics in the class struggle in the 1970s US service…

The power of women and the subversion of the community - Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James

An influential pamphlet by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James in 1972 that used…

Reclaim the ‘state debate’

Looking at the text The state debate by Simon Clarke, Aufheben analyse the role of the state in capitalist society against the background of the…

Back from hell: Black power and treason to whiteness inside prison walls

A personal account by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin of a cross-race alliance of prisoners against conditions…

Collectives in the Spanish revolution - Gaston Leval

Detailed account of worker-controlled agriculture, industry and public services in revolutionary Spain during the civil war.

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Flux: a magazine of libertarian socialism

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