Image Five Theses on the Class Struggle - by Anton Pannekoek Anton Pannekoek's classic manifesto against state socialism (democratic or otherwise) and for…
Image 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…
Image 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…
Image 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…
Image 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…
Image 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.
Image Building a community: construction workers in Stevenage 1950-1970 Interesting pamphlet about the workers who built the new town of Stevenage, commissioned by the…
Image 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…
Image 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…
Image 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),…
Image The lump: an heretical analysis - Dave Lamb 1974 pamphlet by Solidarity criticising the standard left and union response to "the lump": the paying of building workers by lump sums for a job…
