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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.
        • martyrdominoes
        • 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
        • “Seamen’s Semen”, a previously unpublished short story by Charles Dickens
        • Lesbianism