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Protests in France March 2023

We're Fed Up! - Raoul Vaneigem

A Vaneigem text from April 2023 on unrest in France, the yellow vests and a great deal more. Translated by David Wise.

La Revolution Proletarienne (1848–1914) Histoire, contradictions et impossibilité de l’affirmation du travail - Theorie Communiste

Article from Theorie Communiste #12 (1995), a historical examination of the workers' movement.

1907 Congress cover

Amsterdan Anarchist Congress 1907 - Freedom

An account of the International Anarchist Congress held in Amsterdam 26-31 August 1907. Published as a pamphlet by Freedom Press.

Sketch of the trial of Gaetano Bresci

The defense of Gaetano Bresci - Francesco Saverio Merlino

The defense of Gaetano Bresci made by his anarchist lawyer, the Court of Assizes in Milan: a page of…

list of pamphlets page from a pamphlet

Freedom Press pamphlets

An overview of the early pamphlets published by Freedom Press. Written by Barry Pateman for Kate Sharpley Library.

cover of concentration of capital

Concentration of capital - Warlaam Tcherkesoff

"A Marxian fallacy". Freedom Press pamphlet published 1911 - and largely disproved by subsequent events.

"It's good to torch" - photo of a burning police car

Class War #72 1996

August 1996 issue including: Anti-Election Alliance launched, Liverpool dockers, Scotland round up, Albert Meltzer obituary, Prisoners Justice…

Anarchist Lev Skoryakin kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan

In night between 16th and 17th of October in Bishkek, according to DOXA, unknown people kidnapped activist of Left Bloc, anarchist Lev Skoryakin. Lawyers do not know about his whereabouts. In Russia, Skoryakin is accused of ”hooliganism with weapons”, due to action against a FSB office in the South-West of Moscow with another activist of the Left Bloc Ruslan Abasov.

Voor een kritische theorie van het heden. In gesprek met Moishe Postone over de nieuwe lezingen van Marx, de crisis en het antisemitisme.

Moishe Postone (1942-2018) was professor geschiedenis en Joodse studies aan de universiteit van Chicago. Hij is echter vooral bekend om zijn nieuwe studie en lezing van Marx, gepubliceerd in zijn hoofdwerk Time, Labor and Social Domination (1993). In dit werk ontwikkelde Postone een lezing van Marx die voorbij de impasses wou gaan van het traditionele marxisme dat niet langer in staat leek de veranderingen en de…

The Narrowing of Marxism: A Comment on Simon Clarke’s Comments - John Holloway

John Holloway responds to Simon Clarke about the nature of capitalist labour. Part of 3 of 3 in the 2002 collection The Labour Debate: An Investigation into the Theory and Reality of Capitalist Work. Clarke's article is here. Part 1 by Holloway is here.

Simon Clarke

Class Struggle and the Working Class: The Problem of Commodity Fetishism - Simon Clarke

Simon Clarke debates John Holloway about the nature of capitalist labour. Part of 2 of 3 in the 2002…

John Holloway with Mike Neary and Ana Dinerstein

Class and Classification: Against, In and Beyond Labour - John Holloway

John Holloway debates Simon Clarke about the nature of capitalist labour. Part of 1 of 3 in the 2002…