Anarchist social organization
Zimbabwe – crawling between imperialist masters
The removal of Mugabe means only that the ruling elite will seek new imperialist links to solve the economic mess the country is in. Zimbabwe demonstrates for the nth time that "national liberation" in the epoch of imperialism means liberation only for the indigenous bourgeoisie linked to the world order of capitalism.
The effects of the Hillsborough disaster and police cover up
Living The Dream in Global Union Federations
Latest episode of Living The Dream - a podcast hosted at The Word From Struggle Street blog
Albert Woodfox Black Panther and Prison Organiser in his own words
Albert Woodfox a Black Panther member in Louisiana helped found the Angola Prison chapter of the party to help organise prisoners and resist violence and exploitation from the guards. In retaliation he was forced to spend over 44 years in solitary confinement. The longest solitary confinement term given out in the US prison system.
The Communist Left and Marxist Humanism - Part 2/2 The ‘Unfinished American Revolution’
Living the Dream whilst #qldvotes2017
Latest episode of that Living The Dream podcast - hosted at the radical Brisbane blog The Word From Struggle Street
Universal Credit - Universal Torment: once more an attack on the conditions of the whole working class
The official line is that universal credit is being introduced to make things easier, simpler, gather a multitude of payments together to benefit people generally. As if fine-tuning bourgeois bureaucracy is a matter for anyone apart from itself and those it serves. The reality for those on the receiving-end is catastrophic to say the least.
Fighting to win: Thoughts on strike tactics
Workers' Inquiry: Class War Strategies, San Francisco Zinn Bookfair, 19 Nov 2017
San Francisco's unemployment rate is 2.8%, an all-time low. The causes are various, but it's clearly due to the tech boom and astronomically high housing costs creating a massive labor shortage. This inquiry draws on participants' workplace situation -- borrowing from Silver's Forces of Labor -- to find ways to strengthen workers associational and structural power to leverage this condition for working class advantage.
Solidarity appeal for the renovation of Gondolkodó Autonomous Bookshop, Budapest 2017
Liverpool 1981 - An Eye Witness Account of the Toxteth Riots
Dead fascist poets society: why CasaPound are no book club
Jeremy Irons: Actor Scab
Durham Teaching Assistants – Not Finished Yet?
Giuseppe Pinelli - Death of an Anarchist
The Communist Left and Marxist Humanism - Part 1 On Trump and Neo-Fascism
The 43 Group: an interview and evaluation
Bakkavor Factory Newsletter Issue #1
Bakkavor runs four factories and one warehouse in our area, employing around 3,500 permanent and agency workers. We have been in and around the factories for a while, this is our first newsletter specifically dedicated to Bakkavor workers, in Gujarati and Tamil translation. Main issue is the recent pay deal.
Durham Teaching Assistants – Conned by the Labour Movement
The solidarity against injustice and the self-organisation of the Durham Teaching Assistants was, as we wrote in July, an inspiration to other workers throughout the North East and beyond (see leftcom.org). Their refusal to allow 25% of their colleagues to be sacrificed for the sake of a sordid deal with Durham County Council has deservedly earned the TAs (or Lions of Durham as they were labelled) the admiration of many.