A series of two page anarcho-syndicalist newsletters produced by Albert Meltzer, Joe Thomas, Albert Grace and others in support of the British dockers’ strike.
PDFs courtesy of Kate Sharpley Library.
The dockers strike afforded an ideal opportunity to do something to help the strike and perhaps to advance anarcho-syndicalism. We started a strike sheet Ludd... With recollections of The Syndcalist, we made sure that Freedom didn’t print it, and it was run off on the Gestelith I had. Bill Christopher and Pete Turner, from Freedom, participated as well as people from the SWF and other anarchist and councillist groupings. The main inspiration was Joe Thomas, a print union militant who became a long-time friend. The paper was typeset and laid out in the early evenings, rushed off on my offset press, and Albert Grace, ‘Digger’ Walsh and others were handing it around the docks in the early morning. It was free, with a run of some thousand and was subsidised by printing greetings cards (reproductions of Tenniell as an alternative to Father Christmas) and ephemera on the same machine, largely thanks to Anna Blume. Though the daily distribution could not be sustained more than a month, it marked a major revival in what could at last be called anarcho-syndicalist activism.
Albert Meltzer - I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels
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Ludd-1-15-May-1966.pdf
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Ludd-2-29-May-1966.pdf
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Ludd-3-13-June-1966.pdf
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Ludd-4-22-June-1966.pdf
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