Phil Mailer/Meyler

Content by or about Phil Mailer (aka Phil Meyler) (1946- ) translator, teacher and participant in the King Mob group in the late 60s, and in the events following the revolution in Portugal of April ’74.

Phil Mailer

Misfit: Introduction to a book on Captain Jack White - Phil Meyler

Introduction to "Misfit: a revolutionary life" by Captain Jack White (Livewire Publications, Dublin)…

Chinese Takeaway: or a slow boat back from China

A critique of Western Maoism. Written collectively by Stuart Wise, Phil Meyler, David Wise: 1978-9. Originally published on Revolt Against Plenty…

Social Struggles in China - João Bernardo

Translated by Phil Meyler from the Portuguese "Lutas Sociais na China", published by Contra a Corrente, Lisbon, 1976. Text taken from the now…

Notice from the survivors of the late King Red

An early text by Phil Mailer/Meyler (following on from The Gurriers), published in Ireland: 4th April 1972.

Lost Ones Around King Mob

Miscellaneous King Mob (and associated) leaflets and declamatory statements, compiled by David Wise for the Revolt Against Plenty Website.

Part 2 Situ Reorientation debate: The Red Brigades in Italy

Part 2: On the 1970 Situationist Reorientation Debate, the Never Work(ing) worker. Mayakovsky /…

Lucas: An Alternative Plan

The Redirection of Production: The Lucas Aerospace Plan of the Mid 1970s

A 1980 critique of the reformist nature of the Lucas Plan and green capitalism by Stuart Wise, David…

King Mob Coleridge graffiti: "A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,. A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief,. "

Part 2 (A kind of appendix)

Some of the individuals involved. Seeing we have said so much about King Mob ranging far and wide and always reflecting theoretically, perhaps it…

Photograph of the collision of two galaxies

And Yet It Moves - Boy Igor

A situationist critique of science and technology published in New York in 1985.

O Jornal Combate

A reflection on the journal, O Jornal Combate by its participants 30 years later. Combate was a journal published during the Portuguese Revolution which assisted the working class in…

Gurriers

The Gurriers 1969

This text was produced in 1969 and handed out at University College, Dublin and also at the anti-apartheid demonstration against the Springbok Rugby tour that year. It was produced by Phil…

Portugal: the impossible revolution? - Phil Mailer

Phil Mailer of Solidarity's excellent history and analysis of the Portuguese Revolution from 1974-1976.