Solidarity

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

Solidarity: For Workers' Power

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…

Alexandra Kollontai at the International Women's Conference, 1921

The Workers' Opposition - Alexandra Kollontai

Kollontai's pamphlet was one of the central theoretical works of the Workers' Opposition movement within the Bolshevik Party, arguing for…

Gerry Healy early on, sharing the stage with Ted Grant and Sid Bidwell

Revolution betrayed - the Workers Revolutionary Party and Iraq

Two articles from Solidarity on corruption in the Workers Revolutionary Party and its links with…

A review of Joe Jacob's 'Out of the Ghetto' - Al Richardson

A review of the late Joe Jacob's excellent autobiography. Growing up in London's Jewish East End, Joe was variously a Communist Party militant, anti-fascist, Trotskyist, and in his later years a member of the Solidarity libertarian socialist group.