community activity

Forever in Debt

Article on the stranglehold that debt has on working class communities, with some suggestions on resistance.

From Black Flag #220 (2001).

In 1976, the Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan declared that the "English disease" of indiscipline and labour militancy was undermining the profitability of UK capital. Curing the "English disease" became the raison d’etre of the ruling class.

Article on New Labour and plans for resistance from Black Flag #220 (2001)

We’re All Staying? Anti-Gentrification Struggles in 1990s Berlin

"Stop Leaving Buildings Empty - Flats For All - Affordable Rents"

Article from Black Flag #220 (2001) on struggles against the gentrification of Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin.

What Does the Communist Left Do?

Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 24 2020 11:55

What we will focus on in the following is how we understand the inseparable link between theory and practice and how that reflects on our activity.

Black liberation organisations in Britain: the 1970s and 1980s

Submitted by Ed on Jan 28 2019 22:19

Overview of the array of black liberation organisations active in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s, which included a range of workplace, community and black women's groups as well as bookshops, newspapers, advice centres, supplementary schools and hostels for black unemployed and homeless.

A World Without Police - Audio Book

A reading of a pamphlet stressing the need to abolish police as an institution which provides some practical steps for communities to take in that process.

Koreatown popular assembly shuts down ICE van

Submitted by Mike Harman on Feb 17 2018 19:34

About 70 activists and community members surrounded and blocked an ICE van in front of LA’s Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles the evening of Thursday, February 15. The action was called for by the Koreatown Popular Assembly 24 hours prior as an emergency response to reports of ICE detaining over a 100 individuals across the city.