Solidarity

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

Solidarity: For Workers' Power

Invergordon mutineer book

Invergordon mutineer by Len Wincott review - Joe Jacobs

Joe Jacobs of Solidarity reviews a book written by a leading Invergordon mutineer about the strike…

Cornelius Castoriadis, a.k.a. Paul Cardan

The ‘Solidarity’ group: not so solid - Socialist Party of Great Britain

Article critical of the market socialism of Cornelius Castoriadis and some others in the Solidarity…

What is libertarian socialism? An interview with Ken Weller

Interview between Flux magazine and Ken Weller, a member of Solidarity, about the nature of libertarian socialism, conducted in 1995.

Ken Weller

Looking back at 1956 from 30 years after - Ken Weller

Ken Weller from the Solidarity group is interviewed 30 years after the Hungary 56 events about…

Solidarity and me - Paul Anderson

A personal account of involvement in the libertarian socialist group Solidarity and the Oxford Anarchist Group.

Social revolution: the problem of organisation (and the organisation of problems) - Charlie Bloggs

Possibly an internal document which was produced around the time discussions were ongoing about a merger between the Social Revolution and Solidarity libertarian socialist groups.

Building workers rally in Liverpool against a union sell-out

Reflections on The lump by Dave Lamb - Dave Walton

A couple of decades on after the publication of the controversial Solidarity pamphlet on the lump (a way of casualising construction work),…

Solidarity motor bulletin #03: Datsun: hell's battlefield

Issue of Solidarity's auto industry newsletter from July 31, 1974 containing an interesting article…

The Lump: an heretical analysis - Dave Lamb

1974 pamphlet by Solidarity criticising the standard left and union response to "the lump": the paying of building workers by lump sums for a job…

Belgium: the general strike - Solidarity

Pamphlet from January 1961 with first-hand news and accounts of the huge general strike in Belgium which was ongoing against the introduction of…

The great Flint sit-down strike against GM 1936-37 - Walter Linder

A history of the Flint sit-in strike by Walter Linder, slightly abridged by Solidarity and published…

The BLSP dispute: the story of the strike - Ken Weller

A detailed account and analysis of an important strike at the British Light Steel Pressings plant…