The Rebel Worker journal

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Complete online archive of the journal produced by members of the Industrial Workers of the World in Chicago from 1964-66.

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Rebel Worker was notable for including IWW articles as well as contributions from Solidarity UK, surrealists and jazz musicians. The Rebel Worker group also collaborated with individuals who would go on to form the short-lived English Section of the Situationist International.

Seven issues were published.

Libcom also hosts a review of the Rebel Worker anthology Dancin' in the Streets, published by Charles H. Kerr in 2004 and edited by former Rebel Worker editors Franklin Rosemont and Charles Radcliffe - and including interesting memories and reflections from both.

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The Rebel Worker #1 (1964)

Uncle Sam pointing the finger "I'm Organized, are you?"

Debut issue of Rebel Worker published Spring 1964.

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Contents

  • Why Rebel? - Fred Thompson
  • "The Wobblies Return" in Chicago - Franklin Rosemont
  • May Day 1964
  • A Longshoreman's call (portworkers and peace - Solidarity UK reprint) - Jimmy Jewers
  • Agricultural workers
  • The Great Magician - Rene Daumal
  • Education: What is it? - Jack Sheridan
  • Preamble to the IWW constitution
  • Will we all go together when we go? - Barbara Garson
  • Selectons from the works of T-Bone Slim: Introduction
  • Selections
  • IWW literature
  • Cartoon

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The Rebel Worker #2 (1964)

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Summer 1964 issue including: organising blueberry pickers, bureaucracy, Salvation Army vs IWW and folk music.

Contents

  • IWW Preamble
  • On the job - Franklin Rosemont
  • Organizing Blueberries: This year's I.U. 110 drive - Torvald Faegre
  • Kitten in the wheat (verse)
  • Thoughts on bureaucracy - Bob Potter (Solidarity UK)
  • Letters
  • Starvation Army 1964 - Daniel R Thompson
  • Barbara - Robert R Green
  • Poets and Pearls (a rhapsody) - T-Bone Slim
  • A contemporary culture document: Peter, Paul & Mary album notes
  • IWW literature
  • Cartoons
  • Press cuttings on blueberry pickers strike

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The Rebel Worker #3 (1965)

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Winter 1965 issue including: children, Harlem riot, mods & rockers, bureaucracy, etc.

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Contents

  • IWW preamble
  • The IWW here and now
  • The unfree child - A.S. Neill
  • The victims of the benefactors of the poor - Torvald Faegre
  • Egyptian trouble - Murray Steib
  • Harlem Journal, or homage to pandemonia - Richard S Calese
  • Heresy - T-Bone Slim
  • The fleas of the field - Benjamin Peret
  • Mods, rockers and the revolution - Franklin Rosemont
  • Conditioning for bureaucracy - Robert Green
  • Letters
  • Book reviews (Hungary '56, IWW anthology, Anarchism by an academic)
  • Wobbles
  • The basic question - Lionel Bottari
  • Youth for Freedom - Tony Gibson
  • IWW literature

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The Rebel Worker #4 (1965)

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An issue of The Rebel Worker with an international focus.

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Contents

  • IWW preamble
  • Internationalism
  • How to make friends and influence no-one - Craig T Beagle
  • Modern Capitalism and Revolution (synopsis) - Paul Cardan
  • Toward a renewal of libertarian researches - Rene Forain
  • Miraculous Noon - Rene Crevel
  • Perspective of the revolutionary movement of Japan: Zengakuren - Joji Onada and Torum Kurokawa
  • Inaugural Break: Declaration of the International Surrealist Movement
  • Song in time of drought - Benjamin Peret
  • Scots against the war - Ian Sutherland
  • Letters
  • News from Spain - Frank B Gould
  • What is what in the world of Labor? - Dust
  • Notes on the world revolution of youth - Franklin Rosemont
  • Berkeley was only the beginning (book review) - Penelope Rosemont
  • Everything must be made anew (book review) - F.R.
  • Malatesta (book review) - Bernard Marszalek

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The Rebel Worker #5 (1966)

"what time is it? time to organize!" [clock]

Early 1966 issue including: obscene publications in the UK, opposition to war, Berkeley student protests, anti-work, etc.

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Contents

  • Editorial comment
  • Cartoon by Dust
  • Watching the war - Tom Faegre
  • The unwholesomeness of honest toil - Louise Crowley
  • Black intervention in American's dreams - Peter Allen
  • Popularly appauled and sciolistically obfuscated (Berkeley student revolt book reviews) - B Marszalek
  • 5 o'clock world - Jim Evrard
  • Letters
  • How to make work for the unemployed - Joe Hill
  • The rebel's toast - Joe Hill

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The Rebel Worker #6 (1966)

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An issue of the Industrial Workers of the World cultural journal published by Charles Radcliffe with Franklin and Penelope Rosemont in England.

Contents

  • IWW Preamble
  • Freedom -- The Only Cause Worth Serving (Collective Preface)
  • A Very Nice, Very Respectable, Very Useless Campaign - Charles Radcliffe
  • Souvenirs of the Future - Franklin Rosemont
  • Humor or not, or less, or else! - Penelope Rosemont
  • Consciousness at the Service of Desire - Pierre Mabille
  • The Haunted Mirror (Surrealist text) - Franklin and Penelope Rosemont
  • Crime Against the Bourgeoisie - Ben Covington (Charles Radcliffe)
  • I am not Angry; I am Enraged! - Archie Shepp
  • Money - Karl Marx
  • I Hate the Poor - Kenneth Patchen
  • Letter from Chicago (Excerpts) - Bernard Marszalek
  • Lobster - Benjamin Peret
  • Solidarity Bookshop (Revolutionary Literature)
  • Secrets

PDF courtesy of Sabine Press.

Charles Radcliffe, one of the editors of this this issue, went on to publish two issues of Heatwave magazine in the same year.

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The Rebel Worker #7 (1966)

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The final issue of Rebel Worker.

Contents

  • Wild celery
  • New pamphlets, etc
  • Editorial
  • I saw it on TV and then we proved it at home - Bernard Marszalek
  • The forecast is hot! (manifesto-leaflet)
  • Post no bills (poem) - Benjamin Peret
  • Vengeance of a black swan: notes on poetry from Maldororian Zoology to the barricades of the revolution - Franklin Rosemont
  • The colors of freedom - Andre Breton
  • Elementary structures of reification - Jean Garnault
  • Reminiscences of T-Bone Slim - Skidroad Slim
  • Ante-bellum jitters and the calm after the storm - T-Bone Slim
  • Five o'clock world #2: hobbies - Jim Evrard
  • Fantastic fables - Ambrose Bierce
  • Manifesto of the Durruti Column
  • Sabotage: Makhno cocktails etc
  • White rabbits (story) - Leonora Carrington
  • A plea to all - Robert D Casey
  • Prophetic mutterings - James Cain
  • "Every paradise is not lost" (Andre Breton 1896-1966) - Franklin Rosemont
  • Delight not death (excerpts from a letter) - Lawrence Decoster
  • Message from the gangsters of love - Nikki Black
  • Letters
  • Index to Rebel Workers #1-7
  • Smash urban renewal!!!

Libcom note: This issue has January 1966 as its publication date, but refers to #6 being published on May Day 1966.

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