Communities of resistance unite! The Edinburgh Unemployed Workers Centre (1980-1994)
Submitted by bambule on Feb 6 2021 17:37
This paper looks into the history of the Edinburgh Unemployed Workers Centre (EUWC) and the struggles of anti-authoritarian revolutionary groups in Edinburgh during the 1980s and early 1990s. Grassroots and direct action oriented groups started to organise together in the early 1980s against the various attacks on the working class. They were often based in the EUWC and developed highly sophisticated forms of community resistance which culminated in their crucial role in the Poll Tax rebellion.
Fighting Talk Edinburgh: Broadsheet of Edinburgh Anti-Fascist Action
Submitted by R Totale on May 6 2020 10:45
An archive of Fighting Talk Edinburgh, a publication produced by Edinburgh Anti-Fascist Action in the early 1990s. First made available online by the Anti-Fascist Archive.
Transphobes at Out Of The Blue in Leith. Edinburgh Sisters Uncut and Co respond.
Submitted by Rory Reid on Feb 19 2018 17:42
A Report from Edinburgh on opposition to transphobia.
Stop the Evictions, Campaigners Tell Edinburgh Council
October 11, 2017
Resistance No. 162 ( Anarchist Federation)
Resistance is the Anarchist Federations publication on social struggles and analysis of them. This issue covers Grenfell, Fascism, Trump, the Racist vans, Deliveroo, the struggle to reclaim Pride, Edinburgh Mothers against the benefit cap, Rent Strike, No to Prisons and Anti-Fracking.
The Dawn No. 2 Sept-Oct 1923 (Edinburgh Anti-parliamentary Communist Group)
Publication produced by Edinburgh Anti-parliamentary Communist Group in 1923. As of yet no more information is known.
Scottish Anarchist -Fight the Rich, Not their wars
Leaflet and newsheet produced in 2001 against the Iraq War by numerous scottish anarchists and liberations including I believe the Scottish Federation of Anarchists(SFA).
My first meeting with Kropotkin - Thomas Hastie Bell
Submitted by Rory Reid on Jan 22 2017 15:02
Edinburgh anarchist Thomas Hastie Bell (aka Tom Bell) describes his experiences meeting Peter Kropotkin and gives insight into the Socialist League in Edinburgh in the 1880s and 1890s. Appears to have been published in 1942.
Scottish Anarchist Magazine Issue 1
Submitted by Rory Reid on Jan 3 2017 02:36
Scottish Anarchist is the Journal of the Scottish Federation of Anarchists (the SFA).
The SFA unites anarchists, libertarian socialists and autonomous revolutionaries
across this fair nation. It does this for the express aim of increasing the influence of
anarchist ideas and ideals in the class struggle.
produced 1994.
Up Against the State: The Battle for Broughton St Unemployed Workers Centre
The Edinburgh Unemployed Workers Centre existed from 1981 to 1994 during that time being based in Broughton Street. The Unemployed Centre was the predecessor to ACE. This book produced by the Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh(ACE) in 2015 by participants involved in the Unemployed Centre tells its story.
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