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"Workers Solidarity" (WSA) - # 2 - July / August 1992

1990s bio-monthly national publication of the Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA).

Trafalgar Square Riots of 1848

Submitted by Reddebrek on Aug 18 2016 23:11

This page reports how disgruntled workers took over a planned peaceful protest and set off a week of rioting in central London. It names more than 100 of those arrested.

Ashton-under-Lyne rising of1848

Submitted by Reddebrek on Aug 18 2016 22:43

This account of the events of 14 August 1848, when an armed Chartist “National Guard” shot dead a police officer in the town of Ashton-under-Lyne is adapted from Herbert Davies’ chapter in Victorian Ashton (Tameside Libraries and Arts Committee, 1974).

The General Strike of 1842

Submitted by Reddebrek on Aug 18 2016 21:52

As many as half a million workers may have been caught up in a strike wave which linked demands for the Charter and an end to pay cuts. This page tells the story and names the leaders.

The Spanish Revolution 70 years later

An outline of the social revolution which exploded at the start of the Spanish Civil War, touching on how it happened and how it was crushed, as well as its significance for anarchists.

Capital and state - Jean Barrot

A section from 'Le mouvement communiste', Editions Champ Libre, 1972, Troisième partie : Révolution et contre-révolution., pp 166-176. Gilles Dauvé, who wrote 'Le mouvement communiste' (under the name Jean Barrot) was also involved with a group called 'Le mouvement communiste', which produced six issues of a journal of the same name between 1972 and 1974.

Media, Roma, and Capitalism

Recently, one morning a national television station invited a “model Roma” to repeat the cliché excuses that are given as liberal propaganda... The “educated Roma” however, although not involved with radical thought, often puts his finger in the wound and looks to official state statistics which he deviates from and engages the host and other guests in debate. He will probably not be invited again.

Chapter 5 – From the critique of work to the overcoming of programmatism: a theoretical transition: the Situationist International

Chapter 5 of the book, partially translated.

Fondements critiques d’une théorie de la révolution - Roland Simon

'Fondements critiques d’une théorie de la révolution'/'Critical foundations for a theory of the revolution: Beyond the affirmation of the proletariat' - Roland Simon, 2001.

Einige Stunden bei Karl Marx - Karl Kautsky

Karl Kautsky Karl Marx

'A few hours with Karl Marx', Arbeiter-Zeitung 12 March 1933. Kautsky recalls his visits at Marx's home.