What is the revolutionary potential of the cultural upheaval of the sixties and seventies? Irwin Silber, radical arts editor of The Guardian (the NY radical weekly, not the British daily paper), offers a crititcal analysis of "Woodstock Nation" from a long range, economic and class perspective. Original pamphlet from 1971!

The English Section of the Situationist International: The Revolution of Modern Art and the Modern Art of Revolution

At the age of 19 in 1902, MacLane published her first book, The Story of Mary MacLane, which sold 100,000 copies in the first month and was popular with young girls, but pilloried by conservative critics and readers. MacLane scandalized people with her memoir and her two subsequent books. She was considered wild and uncontrolled, a reputation she nurtured, and was openly bisexual as well as a vocal feminist. Some critics have suggested that even by today's standards, MacLane's writing is raw, honest, unflinching, self-aware, sensual and extreme. She wrote openly about egoism and her own self-love, about sexual attraction and love for other women, and even about her desire to marry the Devil.Cravan was known as a pugilist, a poet, a larger-than-life character, and an idol of the Dada and Surrealism movements. From 1911 to 1915 he published a critical magazine, Maintenant! (“Now!”) which appeared in five issues. It was gathered together and reprinted by Eric Losfeld in 1971 as J’étais Cigare in the dadaist collection Le Désordre. The magazine was designed to cause sensation: his rough vibrant poetry, and provocative, anarchistic lectures and public appearances (often degenerating into drunken brawls) also earned him the admiration of Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, André Breton, and other young artists and intellectuals.

The truth behind the legend of the heroic guerilla, Ernesto Che Guevara. A Kaleidoscope reprint of a Red Lion Press publication from Montreal 1997

Robert Kurz: No Revolution Anywhere, published by B.M.Chronos Minor storage wear

A Tribute To Guy Alfred Aldred. John Taylor Caldwell. Reprint of a pamphlet first published in 1966 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Aldred’s birth. Reprinted in 1986 for the 100thanniversary. Once again for the 120th.  Guy Alfred Aldred had worked ceaselessly at his propaganda, writing, publishing and public speaking, he took on injustices wherever he saw it. He had spoken at every May Day for 60 years except the years he spent in prison. He never once asked for a fee nor sought personal gain, throughout his 62 years of campaigning his principles never faltered.

What is meant and what do we mean by "communisation" ? Actually, we have often dealt with this theme, for instance in our answers to the German group Revolution Times' questionnaire, published in English as What's It All About ? (2007), and in other texts, including A Contribution to the Critique of Political Autonomy (2008)

In the Golden Age of 'actually non-existing socialism' journeys were organised to the countries of the radiant future. Believers were then invited to express their enthusiasm for a reality staged by the lords of the manor. In this way people visited the soviet socialism of the USSR, the Maoist socialism of China, the miniature socialism of Albania, the bearded socialism of Cuba, the Sandinista socialism of Nicaragua, etc. Woe betide those who contested the objective, scientific and unquestionable character of these fabricated realities. Until the day these systems collapsed. People thought they had seen but had seen nothing! Were lessons drawn from this? It would seem not! With a smile slung over their shoulder, people today again go off "to do revolutionary Chiapas" in convoys organised by fellow travellers of the Zapatistas. On a well-signed route, people have to agree to see only what they have to see and to believe in the leader's words. The irrefutable argument hasn't changed one iota: because the imperialist forces are threatening and the people are defence-less, we can only put our trust in commanders. In a world in crisis the demands for the future are revised downwards! People make themselves the advocates of realism - they give in to the essential and side with new oppressive projects. The groups of revolutionary tourists, seduced by the exoticism of the unique Indian culture 2, are incapable of giving out any information or direct account of what is happening in the Mexican countryside: about the occupations, the forms of organisation chosen by the peasants in struggle, their objectives and political perspectives. They are also incapable of expressing the slightest critical element which could enable us to deepen our knowledge of the avant-garde organisation running the armed struggle. Was it simply the evocation of Zapata's name and the memory of a "Mexico Above the Volcano" which was enough to mobilise people? How come they can throw themselves naively in support of a movement which is a vehicle for the values of ethnic identity and patriotism, which are nowadays at the heart of the most barbaric tendencies in the world? Those who have more radical pretensions about the world can only justify their solidarity with this Zapatista army of national liberation in the name of the tactics of circumstance. It's in this way that, in the name of tactical support, people consider as acceptable for others what is unacceptable for themselves! Rather than let the charms of the balaclavaed Saviour lull us to sleep, wouldn't it have been better to analyse what is new in this type of old organisation?

"WE WILL DESTROY THE AMERICANS! WE WILL SEND THEM TO HELL!"Osama bin Laden is an inspiration to millions, a man whose genius as a military strategist made him a household name. But like all great teachers, there is much more to Osama bin Laden than the leadership skills that have won him world-wide renown. Osama bin Laden is a family man, a man of peace and culture, a man who wields the pen every bit as skillfully as he wields the sword. Martyrdom Press are therefore extremely proud to present for the first time ever, the very finest of Osama bin Laden's early literary works, a story entitled The Islamic Millennium.In The Islamic Millennium, Osama bin Laden uses imaginative fiction as a means of revealing a great truth, not merely the necessity but also the absolute inevitability of the destruction of America. Set a thousand years in the future, The Islamic Millennium describes the tracking down and killing of the very last American, and ends with the infidel's head being severed from his body, so that his skull might be put on display in Teheran. The story will delight all those who long for the day when peace and justice will once again reign over the world.Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh. He holds degrees in civil engineering and economics, and has worked at the top end of the construction industry. Married since 1974, Osama bin Laden has written over a thousand short stories; this is the first one of them to be published.Issued by Martyrdom Press on 11 September 2006.

Short introduction to the aims, ideas and activities of Class War. Published by the Class War Federation, 1989/91.