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Algeria 2001: no forgiveness (2001)
Argentina
A (unorganised)
Bangladesh
Basque country – mendeku: revenge in the basque country (1987)
belarus 2020 and since
Belgium
Brussels, 26/5/19 – anti-election demo
bosnians against bosses, yugoslavs against yugoslavery (2014)
brazil
brazil against the world cup (2014)
B (unorganised)
cambodia garment workers
Catalonia: homage to catatonia (october 2017)
HOMAGE TO CATATONIA (original version, 4th Oct 2017)
chile
Chile, October and onwards, 2019 – 2020
chile: the Allende years (1970 – 1973)
china
china 2021 – 2018
Left’s Deafening Silence on China’s Ethnic Cleansing
china: jasic workers strike – a discussion (november 2018)
china 2017 – 2013
recent struggles in China (October 2016)
riots in china (2011)
Communisation and the Great Leap Backwards
Colombia – present day to 2019
C (unorganised)
colombia: some critical reflections (june 2021)
D (unorganised)
Ecuador – October 2019
E (unorganised)
Extinction Rebellion – 2019
France
The future belongs to those who rise up early
yellow vests
france 2019 – 2018
a glimmer of fire in the woods
paris, mayday 2018
yet another boring leaflet?
france, 2017
france: the CGT – sheepdogs in wolves’ clothing (oct 2017)
france, march 2016 – december 2016
france, feb. 2016 – april 2013
french letters: the paris massacre & islamophobia (2015)
introduction
french letter 1
french letter 2
brief notes on racism in france
what is the islamic state?
we are not charlie (2015)
france: occupations of secondary, primary and infant schools (2011)
france: class struggle in autumn 2010, september – november (2010)
france: all quiet on the french front (2006)
notes on the riots for all those who want to change the world (2005)
france 2005: brief notes on the movement of secondary school students (2005)
france: social movements (2003)
france 1995-6: the strike and after (1996)
france goes off the rails: 1986 – 1987 (1987)
os cangaceiros: freedom is the crime that contains all crimes, and other stuff…(1985-6), plus a critical introduction (2013)
the paris commune 1871 (2011)
Germany
the fall of the berlin wall…Auschwitz…and related stuff
on german guilt (2016)
leaflet on the german train drivers strike (may 2015)
Greece
greece: the big deception (july 2015)
60 days older and deeper in debt – by the tptg
on syriza…by the tptg
Hong Kong
HONG KONG latest!
Hong Kong – its relevance to the rest of us…
Hong Kong September 2019
Hong Kong: august 2019 – april 2011
Hong Kong – some reflections
Hungary tells Lenin what is to be done (1982)
H (unorganised)
Iran – November 2019 – January 2020
iran 2018 – 2014
Iraq – October 2019 – March 2020
iraq 2018
Israel/Palestine
protests in Israel 2020
work in Israel (feb. 2019)
ethiopian jews riot in israel (may 2015)
Covid, Israeli-style
Italy – class struggle, 1977
I (unorganised)
the appelistes & the all-too-visible committee
J (unorganised)
Kurdistan
the kurdish proto-state
iraqi kurdistan…
kurdish uprising (1991)
K (unorganised)
Lebanon – October 2019 – September 2020
L (unorganised)
mexico
mexico fucks the elections (2015)
zapatistas: behind the balaclavas of south-east mexico (1996)
M (unorganised)
nicaragua
notes on class, struggle and class struggle (2005)
N (unorganised)
Pakistan: riots, strikes, sabotage and sit ins in karachi (2011)
portugal, nov 2010 – march 2013: on the passage of a few thousand people through a brief period of time
Portugal 1974-5
P (unorganised)
pakistan
Russia
14th Russian-Turkish war? (February 2020)
the Russian economy & political tension (september 2019)
work & life in the USSR (May 2019)
R (unorganised)
south africa
south africa 2019 – june 2016
south africa may 2013 – may 2016
south africa: street-sweepers “arrest” mayor…& MORE!!! (september 2015)
third day of september – sebokeng, south africa, 30 years ago (1984)
south africa & some anarchist responses to mandela’s death (2014)
let us not mourn famous men (2014)
mandela can go to hell! (2013)
south africa: another man done gone & post-marikana notes (2012/13)
south africa – now & then (2005/1979/1983/1985)
the class struggle in south africa 1976 – 80
soweto ’76
spain 1980s: dockers’ co-ordinadora (early 1980s)
S (unorganised)
tunisia march 2018 – march 2013
T (unorganised)
Thailand
UK
uk fuel protests: looks as though we’ve got ourselves a convoy (2000)
london hospital occupations, early 1990s: occupational therapy (1995)
UCH – savaged not saved (1994)
covid: cures & obscures
the university, the car factory and the working class (1991)
emergency! (1990)
rebel violence v. hierarchical violence (1986)
so near – so far: a history of the british miners, part 1 (2005)
so near so far: a history of the british miners part 2 (2005)
daily riot (1981)
st. pauls, bristol 1980 (2006/2011)
uk, 1978-9: now is the winter of our discontent (1980/2001)
why we should occupy! (1972)
the 1919 u.k. police strike (2012)
U.S.A.
martyrdom
inoes
Blacks in the American Civil War
6th anniversary of FERGUSON uprising: a film
ferguson….
U.SS.A 2013
the storming of the bastille (St.Louis, July 14th 2013)
occu…POW! – the jolt of occupy st.louis (2013)
news of disalienation (1973)
the montgomery bus boycott -1955-6 (1978)
U (unorganised)
aspects of the situation in the USA
V (unorganised)
W (unorganised)
X (unorganised)
Y (unorganised)
Z (unorganised)
zoos
culture
genreation gap…
blinded by stars
Johnny Halliday…
poetry in motion (2009 – 2010)
the films of jean-luc hitchcock – the 1st 200 years (1823 – 2023)
howlings in favour of ourselves: a practical critique of situationism (2010)
some musical notes (2005/2008)
the closed window onto another life (2005/6)
escape from alcatraz (2005)
culture in danger? – if only… (2004)
moore is less (2004)
the poverty of french rock ‘n’ roll (2004)
soaps get in your eyes (2001)
1969: revolution as personal and as theatre (2001)
alternative comedy (1987)
“shakespeare was a fake!” horror shock! (1984)
the end of music as we know it (1984)
the famous thriller “the mystery of struggles defeated” (1983)
stonehenge (1983)
there’s something in the air….
death of john lennon (1981)
now is the winter of our poetry (1977)
from guerilla theatre to courtroom farce (1970)
the rolling stones free concert in hyde park (1969)
Aesthetics etc.
Music
Cinema
Theatre
Literature
daily life
graffiti as subject and as representation
porn brokers…
academia, sociology & the muddle class
ve haf vays of making you happy (2014)
frayed threads of friendship (2012)
suicide or revolution (2011)
france: facebook festivals (2010)
true confessions of a market trader (2001)
hope, faith, charity, lottery (2000)
shopping: who gives a toss? (1998)
education, stupefication, commodification (1998)
gay pride: new closets for old (1985)
school stopper’s handbook (1984/5)
the fraud’s prayer
partying is such sweet sorrow (1978)
“from decomposition to new constructions” (1978)
jealousy: the heart has reasons reason must understand (1977)
reflections on subjectivism and intellectualism (1977)
all things considered (1976)
cults & cultism: an example (1975/6)
something from nothing
sexuality for sale (mid-70s)
love…(mid-1970s)
money (1975)
happy saturnalia!…and all that
the anteater’s umbrella: a critique of zoos (1971)
true story of a true boat (1960s)
some writings by Jack Common
war/politics
why should we belong to the people? (june 2020)
non-remembrance day: lest we remember
50th anniversary of the death of CND…(1968)
chomsky – collaborator with the US state (august 2017)
asylum seekers in greece and germany (TPTG, March 2017)
thailand, buddha, the king & I (october 2016)
anarchist library threatened…by “anarchists”
communisation does not move in mysterious ways (june 2015)
BDS – Both Dubious & Shallow
how to vote…(may 2015)
minister of sic
to be or not to be a communisateur…?
tony benn – another left-wing capitalist pig (reproduced 2014)
thatcher’s death (2013)
anarcho-leftism & the politics of libcom (2013)
kamikaze kapitalism (2003)
“you make plans – WE MAKE HISTORY” (2001)
notes on the 1999 Balkan war & the media (1999)
kosovo: the contradictions of self-determination (1999)
haringey solidarity group: a critique (1999)
dear london forum (1997)
gulf war 1991: the daily horror (1991)
where we stand (1987)
the welfare state isn’t now, and never was, a “genuine gain for the working class” (1985/2011)
rest in peace: cnd, greenham common, etc. (1983)
elections (1983)
the u.k. left in the 1980s (1982 – 2004)
for a dignified and effective demonstration (1982)
the situationist international: a critique of the situationist international as an organisation (1977)
“alternative” “socialism” – the manifesto for radical diplomats (1976)
1945: “victory in europe” – defeat for the working class (1985/2012)
science
Bakunin on science
the science & technology of social control (august 2020)
the double-helixir of life (2018)
frankenstein’s monster (april 2017)
on the misery of scientists’ life (2011)
the thought of a thoughtless world (2000)
excerpts from “you make plans – we make history”
science: the myths of DNA…(1991)
unmask the physicists, empty the laboratories! (1958)
uncategorised
Contact
statues quo
Merry Covidmas & A Crappy New Fear!
good cop, bad cop
deleuzium tremens…
aufhebengate
cop-out – the significance of Aufhebengate (2013)
aufhebengate again: a response to responses (2013)
the strange case of dr. johnny and mr. drury (2011)
…the return of…aaaaghfhebengate & the libconartists (october 2017)
an article co-authored by john drury (2007)
mayday 2006, montpellier…
what’s new? 2013 – 2015
Only 28 Shoplifting Days Till….
screenshot libcom
an attempt at dialogue with a marxist (october 2017)
trial of anarchists arrested for actions in solidarity with prison uprising (june 2017)
mental illness & solitary confinement in texas prisons (july 2017)
christmas cheer (december 2016)
so far so good…?
merry crisis & a happy new fear! (december 2015)
site hits (july 2015)
hidden
cheeses crying over spilt milk
pique-nique
the impossibility of it all
the social crisis in greece
uncivil unrest, usa & elsewhere
when karl met fred: the secret life of marx and engels
The taboo against anal intercourse amongst the Trobriand Islanders , early 20th century
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