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A look at training, apprenticeships and de-skilling in the construction and engineering industries

As the scramble for work inside the engineering and construction industries…
Occupied Bloc Salt, Salt, Cataluna, Spain

Salt of the earth: PAH-occupied flat block in Cataluña is a foot in the door of something new for the involuntarily homeless

For the last five months, sixteen families – from a broad range of backgrounds and…

Summer time in Greece

The traditional August summer holidays were not a time of peace and relaxation this year in Greece.
Battle of Cable Street

Battles of Cable Street - Michael Richmond

One of the hundreds of anti-fascists arrested opposing the EDL march in Tower Hamlets takes a detailed look at how the state response compares…

The North Sea 3. Coal, oil and after

The third part of an interview with Neil Rothnie about North Sea oil workers’organisation.

The North Sea 2. The OILC and the unions

The second part of an interview with Neil Rothnie about North Sea oil workers’organisation.

The North Sea 1. The reaction to Piper Alpha

In this interview, Neil Rothnie describes the surge of organisation among oil workers in the British section of the North Sea in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The shock of the explosion on the Piper Alpha oil rig on 6 July 1988, in which 167 oil workers died, was a catalyst for rank-and-file organisation. Activists established the Oil Industry Liaison Committee (OILC), after the Piper Alpha disaster, to coordinate…

Belarusian anarchist political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich released

He will be under police supervision for 6 months after the release. Aliaksandr Frantskevich, who…
David Edetkin

Edetkin, David Chaimovich aka Skitalets (The Wanderer) (1893- 1937)

A short biography of David Edetkin, active in the Russian anarchist underground
Tobolsk Prison

Makaryants, Vladimir Abramovitch (1909-1938)

A short biography of the anarchist Vladimir Makaryants , murdered by the Soviet regime.
Cover of a Fine Balance

A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

Story set in Mumbai between 1975 and 1984 during a period of increased government power and crackdowns on civil liberties called 'The Emergency',…

Reaching beyond Palestinian Nationalism: Reply to Salim Tamari - Mohammad Ja'far

Mohammad Ja'far's criticism of the idea that the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (and…
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