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Revolutionary syndicalist internationalism, 1913-1923: the origins of the International Working Men’s Association - Wayne Thorpe

International Workers Association

A highly detailed 1979 PhD thesis about the origins of the anarcho-syndicalist international, the International Workers Association.

Revolutionary syndicalism constituted a variant ideology within the labour movement which advocated direct industrial action, federalist policy of local autonomy, antistatism and a divergent vision of the purpose of labour organizations and the role of labour in modern society.

Armed struggle in Italy, 1976-1978

Aldo Moro's body, left by the Red Brigades in the back of a car in Rome.

Full text of a booklet containing a chronology of and documents on the armed struggle during the decline of the mass social movements in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION
INTRODUCTION
PREFACE
OUR ROLE IN THE PRESENT CONFLICT
DIFFUSED URBAN GUERRILLA
PRISON REVOLTS
PRISONS, COURTS AND THE LEGAL HIERARCHY
EXPROPRIATION
VICTIMS OF REPRESSION
SWEAT LABOUR
POLITICIANS AND PARTY HEADQUARTERS
TRADES UNIONS
FACTORIES AND THE INDUSTRIAL HIERARCHY
STATE OFFICES
HEROIN PUSHERS

Short history of Neo-Nazi skinhead subculture in Croatia

Hrvatski Nacionalisti

Short history of Croatian Neo-Nazi skinhead subculture. This text was used for article Neonazi-Gewalt in Kroatien published in Antifaschistisches Infoblatt #88, German antifascist magazine.

The Neo-Nazi skinhead subculture emerged from the nationalist hysteria of the 90’s. Before the 90’s, in “socialist” Yugoslavia, the existence of this kind of subculture was impossible. Still, there was one isolated incident that opposes this claim.

The Angry Brigade - documents and chronology

Full text of a booklet about the British urban guerrilla group the Angry Brigade in the 1960s and 1970s containing timelines, communiques and contextual information.

Libcom introduction

The Tradition of Workers' Control - Geoffrey Ostergaard

The Tradition of Workers' Control

In this book the English anarchist writer Geoffrey Ostergaard sets out to sketch the historical development of the concept of workers' control in Britain, to clarify and assess the significance of the concept, and to explain why, both in theory and in practice, the idea has met with such little success.

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.

The final purging of the Makhnovists 1937-1938

Vlas Sharovsky

A short account of the repression that fell on old members of the Makhnovist movement in 1937-38.

The years 1937-38 were a terrible period in the Soviet Union. Stalin turned on his perceived enemies within the Communist Party, murdering those organised around the Trotskyist Opposition as well as many other Old Bolsheviks like Bukharin, Kamenev and Zinoviev.

Sorting out the postal strike, 1971 - Joe Jacobs

Joe Jacobs investigates the 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike, which was the country's first national postal strike.

This pamphlet was written by a worker recently dismissed from the Post Office as a result of an injury on the job. He had worked in the Post Office for some time and remained in close contact with the strikers throughout the dispute.

Background

Days of June '98: days of class struggle in Greece - TPTG

Greek communist group TPTG on the militant movement against a new education law 2525, with new proposed examinations for teachers in Greece in 1998.

Timex strike ~ time for a change, Summer 1993 - Subversion

Subversion look at the Timex workers' illusions in their trade union, regular mass pickets and the need for solidarity strikes.

The courageous resistance of 343 Timex strikers in Dundee to massive cuts in their wages and conditions and the subsequent threat to close the factory has been well documented else where.