Trumpism and the American Working Class
Union-1125x635.jpg A suggestion for those hostile to Donald Trump's political platform, but have no faith in electoral politics. read more
View ArticleThe Vest Pocket Chairman by R. Heathwood and G. Horsman 1960
vest-pocket-chairman-front-cover.png The National Council of Labour Colleges (NCLC) was an organisation set up in the United Kingdom to foster working class self-education. Chairman. Person appointed...
View ArticleBefore the 'unity' of Grunwick: 40 years since the Imperial Typewriters...
imperial-typewriters-stike.jpg Article written 40 years on about the strike of predominantly East African Asian women in Leicester, with information about the relationships of the unions and the left...
View ArticleImages of the French CGT union's 'services d'ordre' stewards
SO & CRS.jpg The goons of the services d'ordre (SO), the stewards of the CGT (Confederation General de Travail) and FO (Force Ouvriere) side with the police to the disgust of many, including...
View ArticleWorkers Power in Lérida – Jordi de Gardeny
Tribunal Popular de Lérida.jpg A brief account of the revolution and its institutions in Lérida, Spain, in August-September 1936, written in 1965 by one of the former leaders of the POUM. read more
View ArticleAgainst the conceptual dumbing down of the 2016 “movement” in France -...
WholsaleFoodMarketBlockade.jpgThis is a leaflet criticising the wildly inflated claims made about the recent "movement" against the new Labour Law in France and the accompanying degradation of...
View ArticleStruggles and Union Issues at Honda and Bellsonica in Manesar, India
m1.jpg Translation of four recent articles from Faridabad Majdoor Samachar (Faridabad Worker' News, India), reflecting on the union question regarding two current struggles at Honda motor-cycle factory...
View ArticleInternational trade unionism helps weak Indian unions to integrate precarious...
SuzukiUnion.jpg Analysis of the situation of the working class and their relationship with trade unions in India's new industrial heartland around New Delhi. We can expect that trade unions will first...
View ArticleWhat we stand for – American Fraction of the Left Communist International (1949)
ibaflc.png Platform of the American Fraction of the Left Communist International. It was written by D.A. and appeared in the January-February 1949 issue of International Bulletin. read more
View ArticleWhat's Left after the election of Trump?
trumpfightfor15protest.jpg A council communist view from the Netherlands. It is not by supporting a middle-class program - be it left of right in the spectrum of bourgeois politics - that the...
View ArticleEchanges 11 – 1977
Issue of Echanges from the latter part of 1977 primarily about the trade unions and the role they play in Europe in undermining autonomous working class struggle.
View ArticleIs the working class movement dead?
winter1[1].jpg The following article is loosely based on the notes for a pre-discussion talk by an AF member to a libertarian socialist discussion meeting in Leicester, 25 January 2017. read more
View ArticleThis Is Not a Drill: Bracing for the Trump Era
Union-1125x635.jpg In our second installment in our Labor under Trump mini-series, Mark Brenner from Labor Notes explores what union members can do in the face of anticipated threats. At this point...
View ArticleAmerican labor isn’t dead, but definitely needs to wake up
Fleetwood_Strike.jpg The mood and discussions of late have largely been doom and gloom. Our series has tried to shine a light on some hope for workers resistance to counter the demobilize barrage of...
View ArticleUnions vs. Workers in the Seventies: The Rise of Militancy in the Auto Industry
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View ArticleA new concept of unionism: the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation...
greenbansdemo.png Meredith Burgmann's pioneering work on the history of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Builders Labourers' Federation. During the 1960s and 1970s the NSWBLF introduced...
View ArticleLa unua de majo en la "Tria Regno"
majo.png La historio de la uzo de la Maja Tago per le Nazi regno. read more
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