Issue #7 of Libertarian Communist. With articles on mass unemployment, the need for a mass anti-cuts campaign, the Labour Party and Labour left after their election defeat, Northern Ireland, a review of a pamphlet about the class nature of the Soviet Union, reviews of books by the Marxist-Humanists CLR James and Charles Denby, an anti-cuts group planning to run candidates in the Leeds local elections and more.
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No, it wasn't the final
No, it wasn't the final issue. Read the boxed announcement in issue above which states that LC would start coming out in magazine format. One issue (at least) did come out in that format
Ah, OK - it seems to be the
Ah, OK - it seems to be the final issue in the Sparrow's Nest collection so I wasn't sure if they ever managed to produce the magazine format. How long did the LCG last for after this?
Not much longer , most
Not much longer , most members went into Big Flame.
Oh, and Sparrows Nest should have that magazine issue, I 'm sure I donated my copy.
https://bigflameuk.wordpress.
https://bigflameuk.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/libertarian-communist-group/
https://bigflameuk.wordpress.
https://bigflameuk.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/libertarian-communist-group/
OH, and PDF of number 8, definitely confirmed as final issue, is here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/osdms09jrcdtais/AACEyJrvDGPF83qrMS6i8wXya?dl=0&preview=Libertarian+Communist+no8.pdf
No 8 contains the last
No 8 contains the last special supplement of the ORA/AWA/LCG current: The Peasantry in Action., written if I remember correctly, by Keith Nathan. Billy Williams, as I've said before was one of my nom de plumes, Terry Sheen was an alias for Anthony Zurbrugg who has written a couple of books on anarchism.
Ah, and that Big Flame
Ah, and that Big Flame article led me to the Anarchist Commuism in Britain 1870-1991 one, from which I learn that the "other side" of the AWA became the ACA and put out yet another paper, Bread & Roses, which the Sparrow's Nest have at least a few copies of, so that'll keep me busy in quarantine for a little bit longer.