Solidarity

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

Solidarity: For Workers' Power

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.

On the Content of Socialism III - Socialisme Ou Barbarie

French libertarian socialist group Socialisme Ou Barbarie's third part of the Content of Socialism:…

cover of fisher bendix occupation

Under new management? The Fisher-Bendix occupation - Solidarity

Solidarity's excellent eyewitness account, with background information, of the Fisher-Bendix factory…

On the Content of Socialism II - Socialisme Ou Barbarie

Troops working as scabs during 1945 dock strike

The Labour government vs the dockers 1945-1951

Solidarity's account and analysis of the "socialist" Labour government's war against dockworkers.

Castoriadis, Cornelius, 1922-1997 - John Barker

An obituary and overview of the work of Cornelius Castoriadis, whose early theoretical writings had a strong influence on the UK Solidarity…

The New Movement - Henri Simon

Influential in its day and expressing the optimism of its times, this text describes the characteristics of the New Movement of class struggle of the 1960s and 70s and its relationship to the Old Movement...

Recollections of my time in Solidarity

A personal reflection on membership of the Solidarity group.

The Commune: Paris 1871 – P. Guillaume and Martin Grainger

P. Guillaume and Martin Grainger, a pseudonym of Maurice Brinton, in Solidarity pamphlet #35, write…

Mutinies 1917-1920 - Dave Lamb

Solidarity's excellent pamphlet on mutinies in the British armed forces towards the end of World War I.