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Paul Flewers looks back at the flawed but insightful theory of state collectivism presented by John Fantham and Moshé Machover in the late 1970s

A look at the engagement of Asian Youth Movement activists with workers' struggles and the British trade union movement.

This article from late 1980 shows that even in the midst of general euphoria at the collapse of Ian Smith’s Rhodesia there was plenty of evidence on how things might develop under Mugabe, for those willing to look. The authors were active in the Anti-Apartheid movement.

Joe Thorne looks at the history of the “workers’ inquiry” idea: from Marx, to Italy in the 1960s, to the present day. This fairly long article touches on debates amongst those influenced by operaismo about how we should relate to the modern workplace.

This is a Solidarity pamphlet by Tom Woolley on housing and rents in Scotland

I’M old enough to remember seeing the BBC’s Wednesday Play of November 16, 1966. It was entitled Cathy Come Home and was by a writer called…

by Bethany Rielly SPECIAL branch kept tabs on journalists seeking to publicise how campaigners exposed a police spy who infiltrated protest groups in the 1970s, a public inquiry heard today.  Undercover officer Richard Clark spied on the Troops Out Movement (TOM), a campaign calling for British soldiers to be withdrawn from Northern Ireland, and quickly rose through the ranks. For a period of several months he even headed the entire movement.   Clark, who used the cover name Rick Gibson, lat...

AN UNDERCOVER officer “ruthlessly” clawed his way to the top of an Irish solidarity campaign in the 1970s and used his position as leader to destabilise the organisation.  Sinn Fein described the revelations, uncovered last week at the Undercover Policing Inquiry, as disgraceful and “very concerning” today. On Friday, the inquiry heard how undercover officer Detective Constable Richard Clark infiltrated the Troops Out Movement (TOM), a lawful and peaceful campaign group set up to h...

Met Police used dead childrens identities to infiltrate protest groups “Abhorrent” and "callous" practice continued for around 20 years and was "embedded" in secretive unit (Image: Daily Post) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you...

The mammoth Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) started on Wednesday It will look into at the activities of the Mets Special Demonstration Squad (SDS)  For around 20 years, the practice of using dead childrens identities became embedded in a secret police unit, Heather Williams QC said at inquiry on Friday She said relatives who had seen the callous misuse of their loved ones identities wanted to know if the abuse was necessary, or served a purpose