Issue #46 of Direct Action, with articles on NHS disputes, unofficial strikes at Ford, Linda Bellos overseeing "left Labour" cuts in Lambeth, abortion rights and sackings of pregnant workers, Clause 27/Section 28, a post dispute being called off, a call for a rank-and-file council workers group, an interview with Dave Douglass, the USI and struggles in Italy, the first Intifada, women in the Puerto Real struggle, a Moroccan miners' occupation, anarchism and theory with reviews of The Heavy Stuff, Attack and a pamphlet on animal liberation, the divided working class in Northern Ireland, and more.
Direct Action #46 (February 1988)
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Direct Action #47 (March 1988)
Issue #47 of Direct Action, with articles on a Manchester nurses' strike, unpaid work in the NHS, a dispute at Ford's, a Burton's boycott, "community care", mental health service users organising, new police weapons, the Economic League, Charlton Athletic, the Official Secrets Act, a Dave Douglass interview, Rudolf Rocker on anarcho-syndicalism, the COBAS and USI in Italy, legacies of 1917, modern slavery, the CNT/CGT court case, letters including a reply to the "Attack" and animal liberation reviews, rank-and-file health workers and an anti-apartheid conference, the environment, Edinburgh tenants' organising, and more.
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Direct Action #50 (July-August 1988)
Issue #50 of Direct Action, with articles on the threat of privatisation at the traditionally loyalist Harland & Wolff shipyard, British Rail disputes, miner's strike prisoner updates, the P&O Ferries dispute, football violence, the Burton's dispute, a racist prosecution in Leicester, an Orange Order march in Chesterfield, Clause/Section 28, the fight against library closures in Hackney, privatisation of steel and water, ID cards, the poll tax, a review of "A Very British Coup", an interview with a member of Brazil's COB, the FAU fighting steel closures, the CNT court case, a reply on Depo-Provera, and more.
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Direct Action #58 (June 1989)
Issue #58 of Direct Action, with articles on public sector disputes, poll tax resistance, union action against an AIDS prevention leaflet that didn't mention safe sex, Southwark's left Labour council enforcing the poll tax, a look at the use of poll taxes in British colonies, a local government pay claim, an interview with the CNT International Secretary about a general strike in Spain, the crumbling of the Soviet bloc, struggles in South Korea, South African militants being acquitted, the British army presence in Ireland, letters about nuclear power and rugby, Kurdish refugees in London, a victorious anti-deportation campaign, and more.
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Direct Action #48 (April/May 1988)
Issue #48 of Direct Action, with articles on a health service dispute and a Scottish demonstration in support of it, welfare restructuring and benefit cuts, the Burton's sacking dispute, a mass eviction of Stamford Hill squatters, a Third Position-influenced split in the NF, a TV technicians' dispute, sackings of union journalists on a Finchley local paper, Scottish pit closures, a Doncaster council strike, shoot-to-kill policies in Northern Ireland, the "corporals killings" and attacks on IRA funerals, an article from the USI about the COBAS movement, news from the Spanish CNT, the fight against Section/Clause 28 and more.
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Collectives in the Spanish Revolution - by Gaston Leval (2018 Updated & Improved Edition)
A new, updated, and improved edition of a classic of anarcho-syndicalist economics -- a detailed eyewitness and analysis of the successes and struggles of a libertarian socialist economy
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The Durruti column – Carl Einstein
A posthumous address on Buenaventura Durruti by German anarcho-syndicalist volunteer in the Durruti Column, Carl Einstein. It was broadcasted by the CNT-FAI radio station in Barcelona shortly after Durruti’s death in November 1936, and later published by the Official Propaganda Services of the CNT-FAI in the pamphlet Buenaventura Durruti.
The foundations of the column are comradeship and voluntary self-discipline. And the end of its activity is nothing else than libertarian communism.
Carl Einstein
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The Course of Libertarian ideas in Colombia - Black Flag
Article from Black Flag #216 1999.
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A Visit to the Paris CNT - Ben Debney
Between May and August 1998 I travelled from Melbourne. Australia to England, France and Spain. During my holiday in Europe I visited a number of revolutionary unions, including the "Vignoles CNT" in Paris and Lyon, who were expelled from the International Workers' Association at its last congress in Madrid.
Article from Black Flag #216 1999.
Perhaps there are some ... who find the application of the principles of revolutionary unionism to everyday life threatening to some niche they've carved for themselves
Ben Debney
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Abraham Guillén, Between Bakunin and Marx: Anarchism, Socialism, and the Economics of Self-Management
An introduction to the life and ideas of Abraham Guillén. A CNT partisan who fought in the Spanish Civil War, then exiled to South America he became a journalist, economist and theorist of guerrilla warfare.
On these matters [the next revolutionary wave] the social and political philosophy of Bakunin complements and completes that of Marx. For our part, we are obliged to explain the present epoch without making a fetish of the past.
Abraham Guillén
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North American Anarchist Vol. 1, No. 3, February/March 1980
Issue #3 of North American Anarchist, with articles on the CNT, the Persons Unknown trial, the 1980 Canadian election, letters from Dave Morris, Stuart Christie, Alan MacSimoin and others, Rock Against Racism in Toronto, anarchist feminist notes, acid rain, reviews including the Life of Brian, a critique of "back to the land" movements, prison news, independent workers' movements, the anti-nuclear movement, sexism in the USSR, a defeat for BART workers in San Francisco, and more.
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North American Anarchist Vol. 1, No. 4, April/May 1980
Issue #4 of the North American Anarchist, with articles on war, the Quebec independence referendum, technology and the land, the Kamalla Miller custody case, direct action against the proposed Seabrook nuclear power plant, repression against Greek anarchists, anarchist feminist notes, prison news including a Leonard Peltier update, reviews including The Guillotine at Work by Maximoff and Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist, unrest in Poland, a coal wildcat in Appalachia, a CNT congress and an interview with an FAI militant, Cienfuegos books, an ACF conference report and more.
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1 May 1937: Controllers and Controlled – Lucía Sánchez Saornil
An article by one of the founders of the Mujeres Libres grouping, which appeared in its review in April 1937, on the eve of the Barcelona May days. The article sets out the retrocession of the revolution begun in July 1936 and how its momentum might be regained.
And to those who say that the war comes before everything, we will respond: For the war everything, except freedom. Long live the revolution!
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1937: Speech by Juan García Oliver
Short filmed speech delivered at some point in 1937. Oliver talks about Buenaventura Durruti and several over Anarchists who had been killed in combat, and the history of the CNT's Action groups.
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Three interviews: CNT and Mujeres Libres Manifesto [1977]
Interviews from members of the CNT and Mujeres Libres- a women's anarchist group in post-Franco Spain.
Translated into English for the libertarian socialist journal Root & Branch issue #5.
We ought to begin building another society right now, and thus the CNT ought to be the organization which contains the premises of this new society in embryo.
Luis Burro
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