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Class pervades every aspect of this website as it does every aspect of the contradictions we live. And class struggle is the essential 'impossible' escape from this mad mess of a life.
Most of the following text originally appeared on our homepage. It expresses our general perspective on class struggle:
Notes on class, struggle and class struggle. [updated October 24th, 2005 ]
In the rest of our texts we look at class struggle in specific situations:
A working class revolt in Bangladesh: Strike, riot and fire among the garment workers [May June 2006] Nepal 2006 (written end of April 2006)
All Quiet On The French Front - on the social movement in France 2006 [March 2006 ]
2 Petits Trucs Sur Les Emeutes [Nov. 2005 ] En français. A couple of texts in French, one of which is also in English, that have not yet appeared on the internet that deal provisonally with the October/November riots.
Brief notes on the movement of secondary school students, France, 2005 [June 2005 ]
South African Revolution 1976-85("South Africa Now and Then") with large introductory article about the current situation[1979 - 85/2005 ]
A History Of The British Miners [July 1984/2004-5]
Culture In Danger - If Only (English and French version) [October 2003/May 2004 ] A look at the movement of casualised cultural workers in France.
French Movement May-June 2003[July 2003]
Anti-globalisation/anti-capitalist movements/Reclaim The Streets etc. ("You Make Plans - We Make History")[Sept.2001]
Algerian Uprising 2001 ("No Forgiveness")[July 2001]
Fuel protests 2000("Looks Like We Got Ourselves a Convoy")[Nov.2000]
French Strikes 1995-6("The strike and after") [spring 1996]
(Version française: "La Grève et après" - Grèves Françaises 1995-96) [printemps 1996].
Occupational Therapy: the incomplete story of the University College Hospital strikes and occupations of 1992/3/4[1995 ]
Oxford riots, 1991 ("The University, the Car Factory and the Working Class")[late 1991]
UK strikes late 80s ("Emergency!")[Feb.1990]
Movements in France, November 1986 - January 1987 ("France Goes Off The Rails") [April 1987]
Winter of Discontent 1978-79 [1979/2001]
James Carr, The Black Panthers, etc.(afterword to "Bad")[1993]
History of Clerkenwell ("Reds on the Green")[2003]
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