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Article tracing the origins and theoretical development of the 'unitary' current of the General Workers' Union of Germany.

A participant's account of their involvement in the November 1918 rebellion in Hamburg, and the movement of workers' councils that developed from it.

This response to the graffitiing of official monuments in London on May Day 2000 looks at the origins of war memorials in the social conflicts at the end of World War One and at the myth of the Second World War as an anti-fascist crusade. See also A good day out in London? for further reflections on May Day 2000.

An important article from Do or Die issue 9 criticising the activist mentality in the direct action movement.

Guidelines of the General Workers' Union Unitary Organisation, as presented at the Fourth Conference of the General Workers' Union of Germany in June 1920

Program of the General Workers' Union of Germany, adopted at their third national conference in Leipzig, December 12-14, 1920.

Extracts from the December 1920 Guidelines of the General Workers' Union of Germany

Article tracing the origins and theoretical development of the 'unitary' current of the General Workers' Union of Germany.

Undercurrent #8 Summer 2000 Editorial There seems to be a changing atmosphere in the UK. At a time when everything seemed to be relatively tranquil, when, despite the various mini-actions here and there, conformity was successfully maintained, the sudden explosion of the J18 events last summer came to shake the spectacle of social peace. After a while, and before anyone had managed to fully grasp the consequences and implications of J18, another explosion of violent confrontations with the sta...