New library additions

The Medicalisation of Everyday Life

xConorx — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:37:33 +0000

When you’ve been working with bullshit for as long as I have, you start to spot recurring themes: quacks and the pharmaceutical industry use the exact same tricks to sell their pills, everybody loves a “science bit” - even if it’s wrong - and when people introduce pseudoscience into any explanation, it’s usually because there’s something else they’re trying desperately not to talk ab

Learning to live, teaching to fail

Jason Cortez — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:33:52 +0000

The modern school is a crucial instrument for maintaining and justifying continued hierarchy and privilege in today's society. But that doesn't mean we should reject the idea of schools as centres of learning.

Anarcho-syndicalism in Puerto Real from shipyard resistance to community control

Jason Cortez — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:49:36 +0000

Foreword
The recent struggle in and around the shipyards of Puerto Real, Spain, in both workplace and community, against threatened closure witnessed the anarcho-syndicalist union CNT playing both a prominent and decisive role.

A short history of British anarcho-syndicalism

Jason Cortez — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:16:28 +0000

Education Worker 2008 issue 2

Jason Cortez — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:01:21 +0000

Bolivia: class struggle and social crisis

davidbroder — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:59:35 +0000

The Commune's pamphlet on the class struggle and right-wing coup attempts in Bolivia includes the following articles and documents:

- Evo Morales, the Bolivian oligarchy and the workers' movement, by David Broder
- Central Obrera [union federation]: 'neither Evo nor the oligarchy'

Bolivian union disapproves of Morales' negotiations with fascists

davidbroder — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:36:07 +0000

La Paz, September 18th 2008 - The leadership of the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) has declared that it does not approve of the negotiations president Evo Morales today opened with the fascist governors and the oligarchy in search of a great national accord.

Notes from Oaxaca

Rob Ray — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:21:02 +0000

The background:

In 2006 the Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least eighteen deaths and the temporary occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).

The Socialist Workers Party on the Iran-Iraq war, 1987

Steven. — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:06:11 +0000

“we have no choice but to support the Khomeini regime”

"...it would be wrong to strike...

“socialists should not call for the disruption of military supplies to the front… should not support actions which could lead to the collapse of the military effort”

Socialist Worker - 28/11/87

Workers' struggles and the development of Ford in Britain

pmargin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:52:19 +0000