BM Blob

Texts by David and Stuart Wise - and others - from the 1980s and 1990s.

BM Blob rubber stamped address

Building workers rally in Liverpool against a union sell-out

Reflections on The lump by Dave Lamb - Dave Walton

A couple of decades on after the publication of the controversial Solidarity pamphlet on the lump (a way of casualising construction work),…

"To delightful measures changed...": reflections on the 1978-79 Winter of Discontent

An analysis of a major 1970s highpoint of class struggle in the UK; its character, implications and…

Once upon a time there was a place called Nothing Hill Gate…

A personal account covering 20 years of working class history in Notting Hill, including the…

The picture here was produced as part of a leaflet by vocational students working at LEP electronics.

1986-1987: France goes off the rails

Documents about and analysis of the mass workers struggles of students and workers in France from November 1986 to January 1987.

Riot police in Newcastle, Meadowell Estate, 1991

Hot time: Summer on the estates - Riots in the UK 1991-2

A short article on the various riots in the UK during 1991-92, focusing on the North of England,…

Front cover

Workers of the world tonight: international dockers struggles of the 1980s

BM Blob's pamphlet on the struggles of dock workers across the world during the 1980s.

Riot in St. Pauls, Bristol, 1980

Like a summer with a thousand Julys …and other seasons…

Expansive overview and analysis of the early 1980s strikes and riots in the UK.

Tito

Some basic ingredients of Yugoslav ideology

BM Blob's pamphlet on Yugoslavia including details of the strike wave in the mid-late '80s.

Yugoslav partisans

Yugoslavery: Yugoslavia - Capitalism and class struggle 1918-1967

An overview of developments in Yugoslavia between 1918 and 1967, including the wildcat strikes of…

Kurdish rebels, 1991

1991: The Kurdish uprising

The following is an account of the uprising in Kurdistan in 1991, which buries the lies of the western media which presented this proletarian…

The Winter of Discontent: an introduction

An overview of the UK's 1979 "Winter of Discontent" strike wave, from the Revolt Against an Age of Plenty site. Subtitled History and class…

The Destruction of Toytown UK - BM Blob

A collection of accounts and analysis of the Poll Tax riot, 1990, published by BM Blob.