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Is this the end? : as the CNT crumbles

An article by Terry Sheen & Billy Williams documenting the conflict in the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union, the CNT, that eventually resulted in a split, litigation and the establishment of the CGT. Originally appeared in Libertarian Communist #8

Anti-fascism vs Anti-fascism

An article contrasting the anti-fascism of anarchists and the anti-fascism of the Allied Forces of World War II. Originally appeared in Why Vol. 1, No. 5 .

YESTERDAY

Libertarian Communism in the Twentieth Century - Christiaan Cornelissen

An article by Christiaan Cornelissen which attempts to sketch out a constructive program for libertarian communism. Originally appeared in Vanguard .

On the 'lesser of two evils' logic of antifascism

An article released by the Argentina-based group Cuadernos de Negacion that deals with the rise of the extreme right. More specifically, it deals critically with the use of the term “fascist” to describe this tendency. Originally posted: July 13, 2025 at Internationalist Perspective

Crackdown on migrants in the United States: In the face of the raids, our solidarity is class struggle!

An article praising the resistance to the Trump Administration's anti-migrant policies and a warning to the movement about being co-opted by the anti-Trump faction of the bourgeoisie. Originally posted: July 13, 2025 at International Communist Current

Three-Way Fight: An Interview w/ Matthew N. Lyons and Xtn on Antifascism in 2025

Two veteran antifascist organizers and theorists discuss how antifascism is being reconsidered with Trump's second Presidency and the rise of right-wing governments. Originally posted: July 10, 2025 at Maiseh Review

Fight ICE. Build the Union.

An article by Natascha Elena Uhlmann & Sarah Lazare about unions in the US fighting against the Trump Administration's draconian immigration policies. Originally posted: July 8, 2025 at Labor Notes

JULY 17. 2025

Comments on the recuperation of The Dialectical Butterflies web on prime time TV

Via BBC's 2's Nature World Series: "Butterflies: A Very British Obsession" shown mid-December 2010. Comments by: David & Stuart Wise. Originally published on the Revolt Against Plenty site.

Successful wildcat at Hinkley C

An account of an unofficial strike at a nuclear power plant in July 2025.

JULY 16. 2025

Inside Story #9 1973

Including: Vietnam war - conditions of women political prisoners and the ceasefire, Spies For Peace, Phillipines: the next Vietnam? , accounts of conditions in UK prisons, book reviews, notes, small ads, etc.

JULY 15. 2025

Theory of decadence, decadence of theory. The worst product of imperialism: anti-imperialism

Source in French: Groupe Communiste Internationaliste, Le Communiste No. 25, November 1986

Decline and Rebellion in the UK over the last 50 years - Loren Goldner

An expansive look at working class conditions and class struggle in the UK in the last half of the 20th Century, through the lens of books by Nicholas Comfort and Owen Jones. Originally appeared on the Revolt Against Plenty website .

Liberating Moments of Subversive Communication. .... Loren Goldner & The Wise Brothers

. ..... Haphazard - often inspiring - sadly final - emails from 2013 to 2022 - between Loren Goldner and David & Stuart Wise plus Loren's lost text / critique of UK over the last 50 years which was on the now mysteriously redacted Revolt Against Plenty web. ......

JULY 13. 2025

Socialism: The Hope of the Working Class - Bill Haywood

Speech given by IWW co-founder "Big Bill" Haywood at the Cooper Union in New York City on 21 December 1911. While not eschewing political action, Haywood notably criticized the reformism of certain socialists within the Socialist Party of America and IWW, criticisms which would eventually lead to his recall from the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party in 1913 and his exit from the same organization shortly thereafter.