Accounts

The Dawning of a New Era

The Wee Man is Dead!

Robert Lynn has snuffed it. In the heart of Glasgow - the Calton - hundreds of people are genuinely mourning the loss of one of its best loved sons.

A Wobbly - a member of the Industrial Workers of the World - tells his story and describes his outlook. "The vision we had was that everyone would have to do a necessary share of social production and everyone would receive all the necessities without the need for money. And we wouldn't have to work eight hours a day. We would eliminate all useless work and all work that is detrimental.

An extract of Stuart Christie's book Granny Made Me An Anarchist which describes his involvement in an attempt to assassinate Spanish dictator General Franco. He describes his experiences from picking up the plastic explosive in France to his arrest by Franco's police in Spain. This extract first appeared in The Guardian newspaper on Monday August 23, 2004

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A short account by one worker in a local UK newspaper of a successful NUJ unionisation drive he was involved in in 2006

An account by Pablo Ruiz of his contact and activity with Jaime Balius in the Spanish Civil War and Friends of Durruti group, written after Balius's death in 1981

Entitled "SAC: The Swedish connection" this is an interview with an SAC member about the anarcho-syndicalist union, the largest anarcho-syndicalist organisation in the world relative to its host country's population

Report from Bangladesh

A summary of New Orleans reports from the ground in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, about community self-organisation

From Communism #7

On August 1st 1991 there was a loud bang during the night in Tehran and we heard that a food storage warehouse had been blown up in protest at delays in distribution of welfare food allowances. People had been waiting two months for their social security food supplies. Apparently, nighttime explosions are quite common, public buses being the most frequent targets.

From Communism #6

An account by a striking miner and Wobbly (Industrial Workers of the World member) who was deported with 1,185 other strikers to New Mexico by armed vigilantes hired by copper bosses to defeat the strike

Zeke, a records clerk, recounts his and workmate's sabotage of the Arizona police car registration information

A brief account of sabotage of a right-wing think-tank by one of its employees, Reggie, a mail room clerk

Everyday sabotage and work-reduction in a Hawaii pineapple plant, by Lance, a pineapple packer

Sabotage in the stock exchange - PJK, a stock broker, recollects...

Adam, a university maintenance worker recounts some small-scale collective sabotage and unofficial pay increase