Why create space?
Submitted by Amongst the Elder on Mar 29 2016 19:56
Reflections on why we occupy. Ideas behind our autonomous spaces.
The anarchist cookbook - Keith McHenry with Chaz Bufe
Unlike the original Anarchist Cookbook, which contained instructions for the manufacture of explosives, this 2015 version is both a cookbook in the literal sense and also a “cookbook” of recipes for social and political change.
Damn his charity, we'll have the cheese for naught! Nottingham's great cheese riot and other 1766 food riots - Valentine Yarnspinner
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 5 2016 19:08
Superb pamphlet by Valentine Yarnspinner published by the People's Histreh group about a cheese riot in Nottingham in 1766, and other food riots of the time.
Alcoy bakery workers strike
Submitted by Karetelnik on Sep 13 2015 23:02
The Inter-Professional (cross-trade) Union of the CNT (Spanish section of the International Workers' Association IWA-AIT) in the city of Alcoy (pop. 60,000) has been engaged in an indefinite general strike of workers of the Mariel Bakery and its retail outlets since August 10 2015.
Contemporary agriculture: climate, capital, and cyborg ecology
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Jul 17 2015 10:38
Climate change will put pressure on world food production. We must disentangle the potential benefits of agricultural science and technology from agribusiness' centralised control of the food chain.
Forest of Dean, UK community farmers resist land grab
Submitted by Jambalaya on Mar 18 2015 17:22
ON one side is a millionaire land-grabber propped up by fellow rich landowners, councillors, a judge, planning officers, freemasons and a recently retired police inspector... and on the other a group of gardeners of Yorkley Court Community Farm backed by much of the wider community. The siege is on now, which side will prevail?
The scene of the action: a wildcat strike in Barbados - Constance R. Sutton
Submitted by Khawaga on Mar 9 2015 23:09
Constance R. Sutton's dissertation on the 1958 wilcat strike by Barbadian sugar workers.
Food and climate
A series of articles by Out of the Woods looking at the past, present and future of food production and climate change.
Capitalist agriculture: class formation and the metabolic rift
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Mar 6 2015 18:25
In this fourth installment on our series on food and climate, we look at the dynamics of capitalist agriculture in terms of production, class formation, and the ‘metabolic rift’ in the nitrogen cycle.
Continuing the fight for economic justice: the Barbadian sugar workers' 1958 wildcat strike - Constance R. Sutton
History of the 1958 sugar cane workers' wildcat strike in which workers at two adjoining plantations in Barbados refused to cut cane unless they were given a 15 cent per ton wage increase, before spreading plantations around the country.
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