Reflections on "The Lump" by Dave Lamb Text by Dave Walton (aka David Wise) reflecting on a pamphlet by Dave Lamb casualisation in the building industry in the 1970s.
Five Theses on the Class Struggle - by Anton Pannekoek Anton Pannekoek's classic manifesto against state socialism (democratic or otherwise) and for…
Green bans people 1971-75 Historical information about many of the key individuals and groups involved in the "green bans" by Australian construction workers in the early…
List of green bans, 1971-1974 A list and map of green bans in New South Wales from 1971, compiled in June 1974. Green bans were refusals of construction workers to work on…
East Germany, June 1953 A short account of the East German working class mass strike and uprising in 1953, which was crushed by Russian tanks, written by Andy Blunden in…
A half-blind communist with a sharp eye for the future. Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-1934) and his Reichstag Fire Interesting history of Marinus van der Lubbe, the young communist building worker…
Lucio, the good bandit: reflections of an anarchist - Marie Trigona A conversation with Spanish anarchist, forger, bank robber, Franco-resister and bricklayer, Lucio…
Workers' control in the building industry - James Lynch James Lynch on UK builders' guilds, and other attempts at workers' control in the construction industry.
Building a community: construction workers in Stevenage 1950-1970 Interesting pamphlet about the workers who built the new town of Stevenage, commissioned by the…
Battles on the Barbican: the struggle for trade unionism in the British building industry, 1965–7 - Charlie McGuire, Linda Clarke and Christine Wall History of the industrial disputes and workers' struggles on the Barbican…
Building the Barbican 1962-1982: taking the industry out of the dark ages Fantastic pamphlet on the workers' struggles during the construction of the brutalist masterpiece…
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),…
