Employment service strikes An article by Subversion examining the employment service workers' strike of 1995-1996, and arguing for benefit claimants to support the strike.
Auld Reekie anarchy Article about the Edinburgh Unemployed Centre and its sabotage by the local Labour Party from 1995 in the libertarian communist journal, Subversion.
Gunnar Soderburg and the Unemployed Workers Organisation A short account of Gunnar Soderburg and his part in the foundation of the Unemployed Workers Organisation.
The new war on claimants: blaming the victims With unemployment increasing, and hundreds of thousands more jobs facing the axe as a result of the cuts, the government is setting out new ways…
Two approaches to wage theft in the U.S. A study conducted in 2008 by the UCLA in conjunction with the National Employment Law Project found that, amongst non-managerial and non…
Student protests - what next? After another successful day of action yesterday, we look at what lies next for the growing movement against the UK government's austerity…
Get on the bus ... to the Jobcentre Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith may well have blown his carefully-cultivated image as a 'compassionate conservative' with his…
A glimpse into the future of outsourced Britain - expensive, inefficient and on its way Last month the government's spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, published its report…
Vagabonds, criminals, paupers & gangrels? An article from Variant magazine on Welfare Reform and an interview with Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty
A Public Nuisance - Tales of adventure and a spirit of revolt: Glasgow Anarchists 1974-1986 Notes on the activities and organisations of anarchists in the Glasgow and Clydeside area in the 1970s and 1980s.
Berlin 2006: The long road Organizing the unemployed can be as strenuous as trying to repel the Labour Exchange's impudences An account of welfare claimants' collective organising for their rights in Germany.
3 strikes and a funeral: comments on the anti-JSA struggle A reply to the Brighton article by a member of Subversion who was active in the Manchester Anti-JSA group. From Subversion #20 (1996)
