Solidarity

Content by or about the UK libertarian socialist group, Solidarity, active from the 1960s until the 1990s.

Solidarity: For Workers' Power

The black horse of famine

History as creation - Cornelius Castoriadis

Castoriadis examines the interrelation between religious, Hegelian and Marxist philosophies of history, arguing that a true appreciation of human…

Ceylon, 1971

Ceylon: the JVP uprising of April 1971 - Solidarity

Excellent pamphlet by Solidarity London about the uprising launched by the socialist youth organisation the JVP in Sri Lanka in April 1971.

Leibnecht speaks to workers - 1918

Spartakism to National Bolshevism - the KPD 1918-24 - Solidarity

An account of the emergence of the KPD (The German Communist Party) in the early days of the German…

A worker at the Tonsley Park Chrysler plant

Anatomy of an industrial struggle: Chrysler factory at Tonsley Park in Adelaide 1976-1978

An account of two years of struggle at an Australian Chrysler plant by one of the…

Women in the Spanish revolution - Liz Wills

Liz Willis writes on the conditions and role of women in and around the Spanish Civil War and revolution of 1936-1939. Originally published by…

Review - For Workers Power by Maurice Brinton - Red and Black Notes

Red and Black Notes review of For Workers' Power - The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton.

On the Content of Socialism I - Socialisme Ou Barbarie

On the Content of Socialism, Part One. From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy From Class Against Class

Strikers attack scab bus during the general strike

Belgian general strike diary, 1960 - Maurice Brinton

Maurice Brinton's vivid and captivating first hand account of the massive general strike in Belgium in 1960-61 against a new law "loi unique" to…

The Lordstown struggle and the real crisis in production - Ken Weller

Fascinating pamphlet by Solidarity on the informal workers struggle against the frenetic pace of…

Galvanising the steel strike, 1980 - Solidarity

An article from Solidarity on the British Steel Corporation strike of 1980, which was one of the early blows of the Thatcher government against…

The organisation question - Joe Jacobs

After Camatte/Collu's 'On Organisation' was published in Detroit in 1974 there was a debate about it over several issues in Fifth Estate. Joe Jacobs, a former Solidarity(UK) member, had been reflecting on the 'organisation question' for a long time prior to reading this debate and he sent them a contribution partly based on some previous writings. Before it could be published in June 1977 he died.

Mount Isa: the great Queensland strike - Bretta Carthey and Bob Potter

Pamphlet by the UK Solidarity group on the 1964-1965 strike and lockout at the Mount Isa copper mine…