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 comrades of the TPTG was published in July 2003 as a discussion document. It is an interesting summary and analysis of some important aspects of…
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.
Zabalaza, Unfinished Struggles against Apartheid: The Shackdwellers’ Movement in Durban This article by Nigel Gibson gives an overview of the emergence of Abahlali baseMjondolo in 2005. Much has changed since then - the movement has grown enormously and the early ambivalence about the ANC on the part of some militants was decisively broken in 2006 - but this is a classic account of the early days of the movement.
