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Thatʹs Funny, You Donʹt Look Anti‐Semitic - Steve Cohen

An anti-racist analysis of left anti-semitism, originally written in 1984. Available online (http://you-dont-look-anti-semitic.blogspot.be) and as a pdf (see below).

The Decimation of the English Working Class

Submitted by Whatever-ism on Dec 21 2015 15:00
The Decimation of the English Working Class

A history of working class housing and some bleak speculations about a future that is coming unless we can change it's course.

A Brief History of the Communist Workers’ Party of Poland

Submitted by Dyjbas on Dec 19 2015 18:48
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The history of the German and Italian left is relatively well known, even if mainly within left communist circles. We know that similar currents existed in other communist parties, although much of that history is yet still to be documented. This article is an attempt at that. The first section is an introduction to the history of the Communist Workers’ Party of Poland (KPRP) and the second a more thorough look at its left-wing.

Anti State, Anti Capital, Anti Psychiatry

Anti-psychiatry is the belief that the psychiatric system is a system of social control masquerading behind made-up science. The Marxist anti-psychiatry movement failed because of it's overly intellectual focus and the inability of its key thinkers to put theory into practice. However, with mental health very much on the political agenda, there are lessons that can be learned from the work of R D Laing and David Cooper.

Introduction to Emma Goldman's Living my life - Miriam Brody

Emma Goldman's deportation photo. Dec. 31, 1919.

Introduction to the Penguin Classics edition (2006) of Emma Goldman's Living my life, ed. Miriam Brody.

The Rebel Chronicles #1: The Paris Commune

Submitted by panic_rant on Dec 15 2015 07:52

This is the first episode of The Rebel Chronicles, a short podcast taking a look at revolutionary history. In this first episode, I investigate The Paris Commune.

Free Social Spaces: Small autonomous communities in the urban space

Within the current context, the free social spaces can be the core cellular example of a small autonomous community.

The 1937 and 1938 San Francisco retail strikes - Michael B Reagan

Submitted by Steven. on Dec 13 2015 16:37
Retail strikers, San Francisco 1938

A history of the Department Store Employees Union Local 1100 and the 1937 and 1938 San Francisco retail strikes.

ײַנע ערשטע יאָרן אין פֿילאַדעלפֿיע

אין פֿרילינג 1903, בין איך מגולגל געוואָרן קיין פֿילאַדעלפֿיע. דער קרײַז אין וועלכן איך בין אַרײַנגעפֿאַלן איז געווען אַ קאָנסערוואַטיווער, געשפּײַזט פֿון כּתריאל שׂרהזאָנס „טאַגעבלאַט“, וועלכע איז מיר פֿון ערשטן טאָג אָן געווען שטאַרק דערווידער.

My first years in Philadelphia - Joseph Cohen

Submitted by Steven. on Dec 10 2015 16:40
Philadelphia Jewish Workman's Circle

A chapter from the autobiographical memoirs of Joseph Cohen, a Philadelphia-based Jewish anarchist at the to and of the 19th/20th centuries. Translated by Emil Kerenji.