“Radical Gotham” – New York City, Just Like You Pictured It
Submitted by Alan W Moore on Sep 8 2017 09:51
Review of Tom Goyens, ed., Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City (2017). Describes the essays on 19th-20th century anarchist groups at first by ethnicity and the newspapers they produced in NYC – Johann Most and the Germans; Saul Yanovsky and the Jews; Luigi Galleani and his Italian followers; and the Spanish circle around El Despertar. Also a chapter on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker. Post-WWII, the essays discuss the Why? group of post-WWII anarchists; the Living Theatre; Black Mask/Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers; the artist Gordon Matta-Clark; the ABC No Rio cultural center; and finally anarchism in Occupy Wall Street.
Help us report on the class struggle
Submitted by libcom on Aug 8 2017 11:36
libcom.org is looking for volunteers to help us rejuvenate our news reporting, making it a better resource for all of us trying to organise and fight for a better world.
Stjepan Filipović: everlasting symbol of anti-fascism
Submitted by BratBrat on May 23 2017 19:06
Short account of the execution of Croatian communist partisan Stjepan Filipović by the Nazis in 1942, which was made famous by his final act of defiance.
1970: Feminist Sit in at Ladies Home Journal
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 26 2017 18:20
An account of a sit in by several feminist groups at the Ladies Home Journal, a popular women's magazine, that was staffed almost entirely by men.
Behind the camouflage; a new strike wave in the Bangladeshi garment sector
Submitted by Red Marriott on Dec 31 2016 17:45
Following a period of relative quiet after the 2013 Rana Plaza factory disaster, new struggles emerge from the garment factories.
Bloodshed in Bayonne
Submitted by Tom McDonough on Oct 4 2016 17:35
October 8, 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the strike at Standard Oil’s Bayonne, N.J., refineries. In the course of the ten-day strike, 4 people were killed and 86 wounded. The free press demonstrated collusion between the corporation and the city authorities in what John Reed described as a police riot. Yet, not a word of this is mentioned in the Rockefeller biographies.
West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State
In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt.
What Problems in Bolivarian Venezuela? What Tumeremo Massacre?
Submitted by Crossly on Apr 1 2016 22:17
While the left press continues to praise the "Bolivarian Revolution," it has brought the country to the edge of a humanitarian disaster. Here are just a few of the problems, and not even the major ones. And then there's the Tumeremo massacre...
If a strike turns you into a Tory, you probably were one anyway
Submitted by Phil on Aug 5 2015 16:11
In the Guardian, Jonathan Jones laments that workers standing up for themselves is getting in the way of him looking at art. Here are five reasons why he’s talking out of his arse and you should support the strikers.
Responding to Evening Standard bollocks on the tube strike
Submitted by Ed on Jul 8 2015 22:21
A commuter's rant about the (unsurprisingly) anti-worker coverage of the tube strike by the Evening Standard.
