Independent Working Class Association (IWCA)

Content by or about the Independent Working Class Association, a British political party founded in 1995 by groups including Red Action and Anti-Fascist Action.

Anti-Fascist Action: an Anarchist perspective

An overview of Anti-Fascist Action and the shifts in focus that led to its demise, by an ex-Liverpool AFA member. Written for Black Flag magazine…

Privatisation and Gentrification, Reaction and Resistance, in Hackney's 'Regeneration State' – Black Flag

Article on gentrification in the London Borough of Hackney, from Black Flag #222…

Drugs and Guns – Black Flag

Article on drug related violence in North West London and the Nation of Islam’s community based response. From Black Flag #218 1999.

A finger points at the moon at a mass assembly, Porto Real

Anarchism and Community Politics

An anarchist critique of the community politics of the Independent Working Class Association from Black Flag issue 224, 2004.

Fighting On Home Turf: Community Politics & the IWCA

A Black Flag article on the working class community politics of the Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) from 2003.

The Party's Over: The State of the Left in the 1990s

Article from Class War issue 73 surveying the remains of the left

Veneer of respectability: the "new" BNP

Filling The vacuum - London AFA

1995 document by some people within Anti-Fascist Action following the BNP's decision to abandon the streets. The document led to the creation of…

If Voting Changed Anything...

A critical article on the electoralism of Murray Bookchin and the Independent Working Class Association from Black Flag #207 (1995)

Crime and community

John Shute looks at leftist political group IWCA’s relationship to crime in the communities they serve.