Agitator

Vol. 1

• Agitator Volume 1 Number 1 – October 1960
  • “Agitator” introduced
  • Wanted! Tame youth by Sylvia Bishop and Nick Ralph
  • Song of the anti-partisan by Samuel Stuart
  • France and Algeria
  • Youth in industry by Ken Weller
  • Thrupp and Maberley strike by Tom Hillier
  • A letter from Exeter by Harry Forrest
  • The seamen’s strike by George Foulser
  • The medal or Fifty years a miner by Neil Sweeney
  • Cuba by McIntyre
  • History “a la carte” or Mr Pearce and all that
  • Sackings by Eric Morse
  • “A law unto themselves” or “Is the working class a great conspiracy?”

• Agitator Volume 1 Number 2 – December 1960
  • Work and war
  • Renault workers fight back by Martin Grainger and Bob Pennington
  • White-collar worker by Eric Morse
  • With the jargonologists (Department of Democratic Centralism)
  • Chasing the C.N.D. “march” hare by A. Anderson
  • Jobs for the boys by Tom Hillier
  • Review by K. Weller: The Sheffield shop stewards – 1916-1918
  • Napiers and frigidaires by Geo Graham
  • “The party” and polaris by Harry Mc Shane
  • A letter to readers
  • Document: Natalia breaks with the “Trotskyists” by Natalia Sedova
  • Was the beak a wildcat?
  • (First) class struggle by Marco Polo

• Agitator Volume 1 Number 3 – undated
  • Work and war
  • France: the farce continues by Michel Pradier
  • Song: The black sheep by Lizzie
  • “Lift up thine eyes!” by Sherwood Anderson
  • Stick-in-the-mud: A critique of direct action committee by L. Otter
  • Films by Norma Meacook: “Saturday night and Sunday morning”
  • Letter to readers by B.P.
  • Is our manager really necessary? By Seymour Papert
  • Document: This civil defence non sense by Dartford CND
  • Real progress at last

• Agitator Volume 1 Number 4 – undated
  • Revolutionary Organisation – 1. “What is not to be done”
  • Leading with the rear by Andy Anderson
  • “Battle of Belgravia” by Ken Weller
  • “My party, right or wrong!” by Jim Petter
  • Shaggy dog story by Tom Hillier
  • “Constitution way”: A study in strike-smothering by a printworker
  • Culture: “The WC mystery” by Andy with apologies to Bill (or Francis)
  • Reviews: Workers battle automation by Charles Denby and others

• Agitator Volume 1 Number 5 – undated
  • Revolutionary Organisation – 2. Why?
  • Sputniks and socialism by Daniel M.
  • Songs for Aldermarch
  • Rent strike by Grace Jacobs
  • Arsenal: narrow lead on points by Ken Weller
  • Book review by Martin Grainger: Abortion: law and reality: “Law for the rich” by Alice Jenkins
  • About ourselves

Solidarity

Vol. 1

• Solidarity Volume 1 Number 6 – May 1961
  • A thorn, by any other name…
  • Progressive tour: cheap day return to Scarborough by Bob Pennington
  • Revolutionary Organisation – 3. How?
  • Danish dock strike: The facts
  • Redundancy: A contribution to discussion by Jim Petter
  • Bricks… and bouquets
  • The commune by P. Guillaume and M. Grainger
  • Letter from Ireland by D.P.
  • Film review by Tom Lejeune: The sins of Rachel Cade

• Solidarity Volume 1 Number 7 – undated
  • The “Left” and the sitdown
  • The standard triumph strike by K. Weller and T. Hillier
  • Introducing: “bollocks!”
  • Dartford 1961: Council tenants fight back by A. Anderson and B. Weekes
  • All-night café by Norma Meacock
  • This society
  • Kronstadt, by Victor Serge
  • About ourselves
  • Victor Serge

• Solidarity Volume 1 Number 8 – undated
  • From civil disobedience to social revolution
  • The Renault story by Ken Weller
  • Labour advice bureau
  • Book review by Norma Meacock: Negro worker: The indignant heart by Matthew Ward
  • Notebook of an engineer by Jim Petter
  • About ourselves
  • Letter from Pouvoir Ouvrier, Socialism Reaffirmed, Unita Proletaria and Pouvoir Ouvrier Belge
  • Music review by E. Morse: Zak-cloth and hashes: “The party symphony”
  • Letters

• Solidarity Volume 1 Number 9 – undated
  • Civil disobedience and the working class
  • Four hours in a degenerated workers embassy by Ken Weller
  • BLSP strike
  • Sit-down critique by Jim Petter
  • Film review by Norma Meacock: “Rocco and his brothers”
  • On the social structure of the new Cuba by John Ball
  • “Some views on civil disobedience” by Grace Jacobs
  • About ourselves
  • Who grilled the cop?

• Solidarity Volume 1 Number 10 – undated
  • Civil disobedience and the state
  • Industry by Jim Petter
  • Stalinist swan song by E. Morse
  • Democracy and housing by John Reynolds
  • Humpty splits again: A political pantomime by E. Morse
  • Down with the Army! The pacifism of leaders and bosses! Long live the power of the workers’ councils
  • Algeria November 1st
  • About ourselves
  • The real conspiracy by Bertrand Russell

Vol. 2

• Solidarity Volume 2 Number 1 – February 24th 1962
  • A week at the circus by our man in the dock
  • Working to rule
  • The gospel: According to rule by E. Morse
  • Withdrawal of good will by Ken Weller
  • Solidarity 1913
  • Who sabots? By John Lane
  • Political economy: The crisis of leadership (A study in overproduction and underconsumption) by John Lane
  • Machine gun thy neighbour, reprinted from Student Peace Union Bulletin
  • Fan mail
  • About ourselves

• Solidarity Volume 2 Number 2 – April 19th 1962
  • Two marches
  • Sit-in at BMC: Longbridge plant immobilised! No arrests! by Ken Weller
  • Route 40 sit-in by Owen Cahill
  • Election sensation! Russia moves sideways!
  • A docker looks at the docks by Jimmy Jewers
  • About ourselves
  • Reviews: Strike strategy by K.W., Freedom riders speak for themselves by E.M.
  • Committee of 100: Towards industrial action… by M.W.
  • Working class consciousness

• Solidarity Volume 2 Number 3 – May 21st 1962
  • Whiter peanuts?
  • News from Fords by Colin Seal
  • Empty the gaols by Nick Ralph
  • The negro struggle by Owen Cahill
  • The long resolution by E. Morse
  • You, again…
  • The civil liberties fraud… :
    • 1. A case of civic disobedience by Andy Anderson
    • 2. Threat to right of assembly by Pat Arrowsmith
  • Peasant revolt in North Kent by Ron Bailey

• Solidarity Volume 2 Number 4 – June 30th 1962
  • Revolutionary politics today by Paul Cardan
  • The seamen:
    • 1. Conditions today by Larry Petersen
    • 2. Rank-and-file organisation by G. Foulser
  • The man without a country by Sylvia Pankhurst
  • Trotskyists and barrow boys by H. Mann
  • Indec? To sit or to stand by Harry Forrest
  • Make up the most of your telephone!
  • The shagness monster or The Labour Party illusion
  • Marxian clap-trap? by John Papworth
  • We don’t think so…
  • About ourselves
  • The 266 dispute: How we won by Colin Seal
  • Review: Democracy at work

• Solidarity Volume 2 Number 5 – July 16th 1962
  • Against all bombs: text of leaflet distributed in Moscow by supporters of the committee of 100
  • That leaflet
  • The falling rate of prophets by John Late
  • The truth about Vauxhall by Ken Weller
  • Jehovah’s vanguard by Shillelach
  • About ourselves
  • Skeleton staff at grave’s end by Brian Booker
  • Rates refusal by Andy Anderson
  • News from Zengakuren

• Solidarity Volume 2 Number 6 – October 23rd 1962
  • Freedom at work
  • Italy, 1962
  • Russian diary by Keiichi Suzuki
  • Don’t shoot the operator
  • Beat the heat by Jorrocks
  • Over to you
  • Busman’s holiday by a Timbuctoo Busman
  • About ourselves
  • White guards? Or workers? by Ida Mett

• Solidarity Volume 2 Number 7 – December 10th 1962
  • C.N.D. disarmed
  • What’s in the Package
  • Work sharing by Ken Weller
  • Getting ‘em young by Robin Kelsall
  • Councils of action:
    • 1. Twickenham by Edwin Berry
    • 2. Ilford by Ron Bailey
  • Had you W.E.D. yet, brother? by E.B.
  • Pied-pipers of Glasgow by a Glasgow correspondent
  • Free for all
  • White guards? Or workers? – 2 by Ida Mett
  • Review: The bomb, direct action and the state

• Solidarity Volume 2 Number 8 – February 11th 1963
  • A power in the land
  • The shop stewards movement in the power industry by John Sullivan
  • Workers power… A study of the work to rule in the power industry by Ken Weller
  • The settlement by an ETU shop steward in the power industry
  • Break it up! by Basil Druitt
  • Dirty work at Crawley: The story of the Edwards High vacuum co. Strike by Grace Jacobs
  • White guards? Or workers? – 3 by Ida Mett
  • About ourselves
  • Bureaucracy in action by Bert Bensen

• Solidarity Volume 2 Number 9 –1963
  • We’re allright, Jack!
  • Halewood story by Ken Weller
  • I work at Fords by B.J.
  • Opposition in CND by A.H.
  • We want work by Terry Milne
  • News, views… and abuse!
  • An afternoon with “The Party” by Bob Potter
  • White guards? Or workers? – 4 by Ida Mett
  • About ourselves

• Solidarity Volume 2 Number 10 – April 12th 1963
  • Canon balls
  • That was industrial action by K.S.
  • Danger! Party hacks at work by Maurice Briton
  • The Oxford conference or The divine dialectic in action
  • Two can play! by T.U. amateur bureaucrat
  • What’s left? by Frank Bardacke
  • The bourgeois revolution and the socialist revolution
  • Thoughts on bureaucracy by Bob Potter
  • Lessons from the past: Aldermaston 1962

• Solidarity Volume 2 Number 11 –1963
  • The King is dead
  • What’s wrong at Fords by Ken Weller
  • About ourselves
  • Beyond counting arses a document by 8 Committee of the 100 members
  • Jail house rock by Del Foley
  • Long day’s journey into Texas by Bill Mesinger
  • White guards? Or workers? – 5 by Ida Mett
  • Spice for peace?

• Solidarity Volume 2 Number 12 – July 29th 1963
  • A call to London’s building workers by the Building Stewards Committee of London sites and jobs
  • Into action by Chippie
  • Public order, 1963
  • Your rights in their hands by Bob Potter
  • A modern fairy tale… by Jim Paterson
  • …and some hints from Ireland!
  • The land-crab by Herbert Kelly
  • The scientist and the commissar by Edwin Berry
  • Tame dragons at the George by John Bell
  • Big Joe
  • Review: Painting the leopard’s spots by Jon Tinker
  • Will we all go together when we go? by Barbara Garson

Vol. 3

• Solidarity Volume 3 Number 1 – October 28th 1963
  • “Suddenly, last summer…”
  • “When the lights go out in England” by Ken Weller
  • Hot air
  • A docker’s call… by Jimmy Jewers
  • Letters: From Belgium by Marvin Garson
  • From another part of cloud Cuckooland by J. Lee
  • Bombe surprise by Alan Hollingum
  • Bullet in the ballot
  • Committee of 100: Athens convoy by Dick Wilcocks

• Solidarity Volume 3 Number 2 – December 19th 1963
  • Bobby liar
  • Unwritten history: A letter from a shop steward
  • About ourselves
  • Buses and bosses by Bob Potter

• Solidarity Volume 3 Number 3 – March 9th 1964
  • Politics 1964
  • The London workers association
  • Algeria today by Marvin and Barbara Garson
  • Eviction in Tunbridge wells by Brian Rose and T.J. Burton
  • The shop stewards: Another experience… by Les and Grace Jacobs
  • Song of justice
  • Letters
  • The general election by Harry Forrest, Alan Hollingum and Tony Clark
  • About ourselves

• Solidarity Volume 3 Number 4 – May 25th 1964
  • Theory and practice: The “brotherhood of man” by M. Brinton
  • The yellow peril by Dick Wilcocks
  • The shop stewards – 3 by Bill Hierons and Jock Graham
  • Labour advert?
  • As the busmen said
  • Direct action and the unemployed 1920-21 by Ken Weller

• Solidarity Volume 3 Number 5 – August 28th 1964
  • The Bensen affair by Bert Bensen
  • Cardanalysis by Paul Cardan
  • About ourselves
  • O.H.M.S.
  • Shop stewards – 4 by Jim Petter and Brian Jeffreys
  • Psycho – 1 by John Broadus Watson
  • Memo for Marxist mums by Politt Burroughs and Sidney Dingleberry
  • Czechmate, Czocke by Marvin Garson

• Solidarity Volume 3 Number 6 – October 19th 1964
  • The naked and the dead
  • Automation in the typing pool or “Take a hundred letters, Miss Smith!” by Maria Fyfe
  • News from dockland
  • Tea for two… hours by Sid Watson
  • In search of Harlem: The New York police buy H. W. Morton

• Solidarity Volume 3 Number 7 – February 3rd 1965
  • Berkeley: a follow up
  • About ourselves
  • The finger print myth
  • Marxism: a revision(ist) course
  • The techno-sex by Del Foley
  • Book review by Nicolas Walter: The disarmers: a study in protest by Christopher Driver
  • Behind the wall by John Last
  • News from Borstal by Philip C.
  • A docker remembers by Steve Dore

• Solidarity Volume 3 Number 8 – April 16th 1965
  • Back to the fold
  • About ourselves
  • Two fronts in the same war: The Free Speech Movement and civil rights by Jack Weinberg
  • Mommy in Toyland by Sharon Freedman
  • Ilya Ehrenburg and posthumous rehabilitation by Norma Meacock
  • News from abroad by N.M., Arthur Mendes-Georges and Jim Evrard
  • The defeat at Fords: some lessons by Ken Weller
  • The mudslinger by Nicolas Walter

• Solidarity Volume 3 Number 9 – June 16th 1965
  • The balkanization of utopia
  • About ourselves
  • Porto Marghera
  • Sex alienation by Del Foley
  • German May Day leaflet
  • Who’s kidding whom? by Robin Davis
  • The defeat at Fords: Some more lessons by Jim Petter
  • The Kevin Halpin story by Kevin Halpin
  • Clark Kerr in Scotland
  • For workers’ power

• Solidarity Volume 3 Number 10 – August 8th 1965
  • Strings with everything
  • Open letter from an angry commuter by Andy Anderson
  • The time of your life
  • The milk run by Brian Rose
  • School in the docks by Ron Bailey
  • The popular myth: Malatesta by John Sullivan
  • Consciousness and theory by Jim Evrard
  • Fords: Path of struggle
  • Fords: What happened inside the plant by Brian Jeffreys
  • Fords: What is to be done?
  • Sketches - Notting Hill by Andrew Lloyd
  • Cardan meeting
  • May Day in Munich by Council Socialist
  • Do it yourself schooling

• Solidarity Volume 3 Number 11 – 1965
  • About ourselves
  • Hands off the homeless
  • Motors, management and modern capitalism
  • I Compagni (The Organiser) by I.J.H.
  • Inside the Fords defeat
  • Down at the Devon coast
  • Letters from America by Marvin Garson

• Solidarity Volume 3 Number 12 – December 8th 1965
  • The King Hill story
  • About ourselves
  • Brickie’s broadside
  • Apprentices in struggle by John Chappell
  • A Maoist party in action
  • Malatesta - comment

Vol. 4

• Solidarity Volume 4 Number 1 – April 8th 1966
  • No noose is bad noose by Ken Weller, John Sullivan and Bob Potter
  • About ourselves
  • Bourgeois music by Jim Evrard
  • Borstal boy by Tom Lawrence
  • Busmen on the move by Bob Potter
  • Letters from John Sullivan and Steve Gordon
  • Malatesta by John Sullivan
  • Shop Stewards Defence Committee

• Solidarity Volume 4 Number 2 – 1966
  • You CAN fight County Hall
  • Communists gaoled in “communist” Poland
  • Nihilist song and Talking Stalin blues
  • About ourselves
  • After the Ford defeat: Fords today: too old at 50
  • “I don’t want to be an engine driver”
  • Pravda
  • Bourgeois music (Opus 2) by Jennifer Dawson
  • Blackout by H.W. Morton

• Solidarity Volume 4 Number 3 – August 1966
  • The A.S.S. story by Dudley Edwards
  • Book review by Ken Weller: Incomes Policy, Legislation and shop steward by T. Cliff and C. Barker
  • Poles apart by Huw Price
  • The fate of Marxism by Paul Cardan
  • Fords: too old at 50 by Brian Jeffreys
  • About ourselves

• Solidarity Volume 4 Number 4 – November 1966
  • A time for action
  • Victory at King Hill by Andy Anderson
  • Buses and people by Betty Reid
  • Polish socialists: what they said
  • Letter: …and now Abridge by Ron Bailey
  • Murder at Fords by “Old Un”
  • Review by John Sullivan: Militant trade unionism by V.L. Allen
  • C.N.T. in crisis
  • Detention centre
  • VIETNAM 1. Socialism or pacifism? by John Sullivan

• Solidarity Volume 4 Number 5 – March 1st 1967
  • Six years hard
  • Don’t pay the hangman by John Lawrence
  • The Caine mutiny by S.J.
  • Review by John Sullivan: The autobiography of Joseph Arch
  • Down you go, Jack! by Dave Douglass
  • VIETNAM 2. With the rulers or with the ruled? by Bob Potter

• Solidarity Volume 4 Number 6 – April 3rd 1967
  • Confrontation at LSE
  • School and factory
  • Roberts-Arundel by John Sullivan
  • Musical chairman
  • Beyond coition by Louise Crawley
  • As we see it
  • “Participation”: a trap by Ken Weller
  • A cautionary tale
  • Letters from Colin Barker and Dudley Edwards
  • More on Vietnam by Alan Esterson and R. Archbold

• Solidarity Volume 4 Number 7 – May Day 1967
  • May Day 1967
  • Roberts Arundel
  • Roll on Friday: A day in the life of a London engineer
  • Reviews by Bob Potter:
    • Russia in revolution 1890-1918 by Lionel Kuchan
    • The Russian terrorists by Ronald Seth,
    • Philosophy and revolution by Raya Dunayevskaya
  • About ourselves
  • West coast scene by Marvin Garson
  • Vietnam

• Solidarity Volume 4 Number 8 – July 1967
  • Police mob seize embassy! by Dan Thersites
  • More about Vauxhall by Peter Ashcroft
  • What’s left? by John Sullivan
  • Glasgow meeting
  • 72 hour week on the South coast by Dudley Edwards
  • Sexual thermidor
  • Vietnam by Maurice Brinton
  • Letter from Tony Southall

• Solidarity Volume 4 Number 9 – September 18th 1967
  • Vauxhall 1967
  • The Vauxhall struggle by “Spartacus”
  • The Oxford fiasco by Ken Weller
  • Ulysses dowsed by fire brigade by Bob Potter
  • The culture vultures
  • Letter from Maria Fyfe on Sexual thermidor
  • Reviews by J.S.:
    • The incompatible Trade Union militancy and the consensus
    • Participation or control by Ken Coates and Tony Topham
  • Review by B.P.: Taking London for a ride – The busmen’s case
  • Two poems by George Williamson
  • Vauxhall: the management’s proposals

• Solidarity Volume 4 Number 10 – November 1967
  • For a socialist industrial strategy by Ken Weller
  • The civil war game
  • The C.A.V. strike
  • Reviews:
    • By M.B.: Marxism in modern France by George Lichtheim
    • By P.M.: The German revolution of 1918 by A.J. Ryder
  • Sexual thermidor – 2 by Jenny James
  • King Hill revisited
  • Barbican post-mortem by J.S.
  • More from Vauxhall

• Solidarity Volume 4 Number 11 – January 1968
  • The trade unions: The royal commission reports…
  • Two leaflets:
    • 1. The new Vauxhall agreement by VAUXFAM
    • 2. CRB lockout: Betrayal of 72 hour workers by CBR lockout committee
  • The cement worker by D.L.
  • Reviews:
    • By M.B.: The Russian anarchists by Paul Avrich
    • By C.D.: Ben Bella by Robert Merle

• Solidarity Volume 4 Number 12 – 1968
  • The Seymour hall conference by T.H.
  • The land worker by Brian Whitby
  • Work study by Ken Weller
  • Points of view by L.S.
  • M.B. replies
  • About ourselves
  • Fight the closures!
  • Calling all London workers! by May Day Committee
  • Letters
  • Review by John King: Workers control conference proceedings edited by Tony Topham

Vol. 5

• Solidarity Volume 5 Number 1 – May 1968
  • May Day 1968
  • The Woodall-Duckham agreement and the C.E.U. by Ken Weller
  • Woodall-Duckham: some lessons by MAC
  • Vauxhall follow up by “Spartacus”
  • Solidarity conference report by F.P.
  • Sociologists in crisis by Edward Ludd
  • Pamphlets received

• Solidarity Volume 5 Number 2 – July 12th 1968
  • The meaning of France
  • French workers defence committee
  • Linwood-Rootes and the motor industry by Ken Weller
  • The Rootes (Dunstable) sackings by Spartacus
  • Big Brother is watching you! by Ron Bailey
  • Kellogg’s men break “consolidated” ceiling
  • Stop press

• Solidarity Volume 5 Number 3 – August 25th 1968
  • Injection moulders lock-out by Tom Hillier
  • Even in the army… by Caporal Le Bris
  • Horse and coach
  • Lying low
  • Literature and revolution
  • Review by K.W.: Know you enemy: A report on the reports by Bernard Ross
  • Hills precision (Coventry)
  • The Internationale unites the human race
  • Czechoslovakia: the end of an era

• Solidarity Volume 5 Number 4 – October 1968
  • The power struggle at Kingsnorth by E. Stanton
  • France: the theoretical implications by M.B.: France: the struggle goes on by Tony Cliff and Ian Birchall
  • The troubles in the valley by Mike Gonzales

• Solidarity Volume 5 Number 5 – October 27th 1968
  • Vietnam
  • 1945: the Saigon insurrection by Van
  • The revolt at Brentford nylons by Ernie Stanton and Ron Bailey
  • The Lucas empire (takes a bashing) by our Industrial Correspondent
  • About ourselves

• Solidarity Volume 5 Number 6 – December 9th 1968
  • The economic crisis
  • The Aberdeen paper mills by Aberdeen “Solidarity” Group
  • Review by T.W.: Student power: theory and practice
  • Strike at Ford Genk
  • Libertarian left v Regina
  • Capitalism and Socialism by Maurice Brinton
  • Furniture workers show the way by Mike French
  • October 14th labourer demands

• Solidarity Volume 5 Number 7 – undated
  • Kingsnorth: the struggle continues by Ernie Stanton
  • Aberdeen shipyard by a shipworker
  • Work – at whose expense? Work – to what end? Work – does life begin at 8 A.M. or end? by George Shaw
  • The Bristol sit-in by Rod Choler
  • Bread or freedom? (A comment on the article “Capitalism and Socialism” in Solidarity, Vol. 5, No. 6)

• Solidarity Volume 5 Number 8 – March 1969
  • Fords: the implications by Mark Fore
  • Student revolt in search of positive self-consciousness by Foreign Scum
  • Reviews:
    • By Peter Gibbon: Education, Capitalism and the student revolt by Chris Harman and others
    • By M.B.: Damned! (An adjudication on the Press Council) by Andy Anderson
  • Furniture workers’ struggle: a follow up by Pete Olstead
  • Document by the Council for the Liberation of Family Life
  • About ourselves
  • Link and chains by Ian R. Mitchell
  • Capitalism and Socialism: a rejoinder by M.B.
  • Teachers learn the hard way by Don Kirkley

• Solidarity Volume 5 Number 9 – April 1969
  • Ford: the settlement by Mark Fore
  • Will the workers manage production? Lenin and the workers councils by A.O.
  • Italy: The struggle at Lancia by the Lancia Struggle Committee
  • Reviews:
    • By K.W.: Revolutionary movements in Britain 1900-1921 by Walter Kendall
    • By I.M.: The human sciences and philosophy by Lucien Goldmann
    • By M.B.: Obsolete Communism: the left wig alternative by D. And G. Cohn-Bendit
  • Sheffield: party and police: Ad hoc and ad nauseam by the Sheffield Vietnam Campaign
  • About ourselves

• Solidarity Volume 5 Number 10 – May 1st 1969
  • May Day 1969
  • Aberdeen paperworkers: Follow up by I.M.
  • Students’ challenge to bourgeois education by Tom Fawthrop
  • Vauxhall: Militants beware! by Taurus
  • Solidarity conference

• Solidarity Volume 5 Number 11 – June 1st 1969
  • Neither castle nor feather, but job organisation
  • Derry: How the people fought by A. Berke
  • Holman’s of Camborne by “Jack Straw”
  • The industrial revolt by A.O.
  • About ourselves
  • Inside Vauxhall
  • Thoughts about May Day
  • On “active minorities”
  • Star letter from “Canuck”

• Solidarity Volume 5 Number 12 – July 15th 1969
  • The Punfield and Barstow strike by M.F.
  • Review by G.W.: The Hornsey affair by Students and Staff of Hornsey College of Art
    Working class consciousness
  • Letter from a teacher by G. Reynoldson
  • Vauxhall – the crisis nears by Black Pedro
  • Solidarity conference

Vol. 6

• Solidarity Volume 6 Number 1 – September 12th 1969
  • Ulster: withdraw the priests (and Parsons)
  • Wildcat at Ford Mahwah compiled from U.B.B. publications
  • Two, three, many S.D.S.s
  • About our other selves
  • The new proletariat by John King
  • Reviews:
    • By M.B.: Ultra-leftism in Britain by Betty Reid
    • By K.W.: Democracy in the motor industry published by the Institute of Workers’ Control

• Solidarity Volume 6 Number 2 – November 13th 1969
  • G.E.C.: the balance sheet
  • Ford: the second round begins by Mark Fore
  • About ourselves
  • Some thoughts on the thoughts of Chairman Mao by J.G.
  • Then and now: A K.A.P.D. veteran talks to a young German revolutionary, an interview between Bernard Reichenbach (founding member of the K.A.P.D.) and an activist of the German left extraparliamentary opposition
  • The ISRACA demo by the Editorial Board
  • Letter of reply by the ISRACA treasurer, A. Helibronn
  • Death pays a dividend by John King
  • Letter from Bob Potter

• Solidarity Volume 6 Number 3 – January 19th 1970
  • Ford workers, beware! by Mark Fore
  • Ford: round 2 begins
  • “Third worldism” or socialism? by A.O.
  • Film review by M.B.: Adalen ’31 by Bo Widerberg
  • Polemic: A letter from Munich
  • Book reviews by L.A.W.:
    • Holy war in Belfast by Andrew Boyd
    • Ulster: withdraw the priests (and Parsons) by Solidarity (North London)
    • Struggle in the North by Mike Farrell
  • Book review by A.O.: L.S.E.: the natives are restless – a report on student power in action by Paul Hoch and Vic Schoenbach
  • About ourselves

• Solidarity Volume 6 Number 4 – April 1970
  • The economics of self-management by John King
  • Film review by Barry Johnson: Z by Costa-Gravas
  • About ourselves
  • Nurses… by S.R.N.
  • Red Satan strikes again: A study in contemporary demonology by Paul Hoch
  • Woman’s week-end by S.L.
  • The K.A.P.D. by Bernard Reichenbach

• Solidarity Volume 6 Number 5 – August 1st 1970
  • Youth culture and the new revolutionaries by Tom Fawthrop and others
  • Vauxhall follow-up by Taurus
  • Reviews:
    • By Paul Hoch: Warwick University LTD edited by E.P. Thompson
    • By Ian Mitchell: Listen, Marxist from Committee for a Libertarian Students Federation
  • The lonely hours by Eugene Nelson
  • Out at last!

• Solidarity Volume 6 Number 6 – October 15th 1970
  • Socially-responsible scientists vs. “soldier-technicians”: 1-0
  • Pilkington ant the G.M.W.U. by Mark Fore
  • Reviews: The Pilkington strike by Colin Barker, C.I.R. exposed from 34 Pelidan Gardens, Birkenhead, Cheshire
  • The ambiguities of workers’ control by A.O.
  • Trotsky… and the suppression of Lenin’s testament
  • About ourselves

• Solidarity Volume 6 Number 7 – December 1st 1970
  • Black separatism and white sycophancy by Earl Price
  • “Social responsibility” LTD? by F.N. Stein
  • Letters
  • Unity for ever with I.W.C. by Robin Hood
  • Reviews:
    • By A.O.: Culture and commitment (a study of the generation gap) by Margaret Mead
    • By I.M.: Portugal: Capitalist strategy, workers’ offensive, and colonial war
  • Socialist societies meeting Manchester 13.11.70 by V.S.
  • About ourselves
  • Love me, love my dog…

• Solidarity Volume 6 Number 8 – February 6th 1971
  • Check the bill!
  • Review by M.F.: Strike at Pilkington by Tony Lane and Kenneth Roberts
  • Life under a legally binding contract
  • Foundations and empire by V.A. Tope
  • Letter from Trevor Pateman
  • About ourselves
  • Scientist’s dilemma: responsibility to whom? by Frank N. Stein
  • Their morals and ours by K.W. and N.R.
  • The postal workers’ strike by J.J.

• Solidarity Volume 6 Number 9 – May Day 1971
  • Authority in crisis
  • The politics of community action by Tom Woolley
  • Reviews by M.F., Joe Jacobs and Del Foley: Class struggle and the G.M. strike published by Philadelphia Solidarity, The million pound strike by Jim Arnison, with an introduction by Hugh Scanlon, The postal workers and the Tory offensive by Paul Foot, Theses on the Chinese revolution by Cajo Brendel
  • Occupied Ireland by L.W.
  • About ourselves

• Solidarity Volume 6 Number 10 – June 26th 1971
  • Stalemate at Halewood
  • About ourselves
  • Carbon black by Ian Bone
  • The U.P.W. is sick by Continental Telephonists
  • A day at the seaside by J.I.M.
  • Fords: news from the shop floor
  • Point of view: “Wife and mother” by Jan Williams, Hazel Twort and Ann Bachelli (three members of the Peckham Rye Women’s Liberation Group)
  • Letter from O.G. Pugh
  • Book review by A.O.: Marx’s Grundrisse
  • With a little help from our friends

• Solidarity Volume 6 Number 11 – October 15th 1971
  • UCS and Plessey
  • A war-time recipe by John S. Clarke
  • U.P.W.: The party is over
  • Reviews/1 by M.F.: Work-counterplanning on the shop floor by Bill Watson
  • Reviews/2 by M.H.: Italy 1969-70: New tactics and organisation
  • Ealing council and the housing crisis by S.W.
  • Point of view: A letter from E.A.S. on the article “Wife and mother”
  • Ireland: Another viewpoint by B.D. and answer by L.W.
  • Maoists of the world unite‼ by Chou En-Lai

• Solidarity Volume 6 Number 12 – December 25th 1971
  • The struggles continue
  • Conference report
  • Our man in Skegness by D.F.
  • Reviews:
    • By P.H.: The great brain robbery by Keith Paton
    • By M.B.: “Occupations” a play by Trevor Griffiths
    • By C.S.: Growing up (…and getting bored?) a film by Dr. Martin Cole
  • More about Ireland: Letter from Joe Hill, a Belfast reader
  • The economic fate of modern capitalism by John King

Vol. 7

• Solidarity Volume 7 Number 1 – April 9th 1972
  • The miners’ strike
  • Letters from W.H. and T.C.
  • Occupations: a follow-up by J.J.
  • Whose right to self determination? by A. Orr
  • Theses on Northern Ireland by Ian Mitchell and Norman Miller
  • Organising Burtons by W. Hodgson
  • BSSRS conference
  • About ourselves

• Solidarity Volume 7 Number 2 – June 30th 1972
  • Caught in the act by B.C.
  • The Manchester sit-ins by J.G.W.
  • On occupations… by M.F.
  • The kibbutz experience by A.O.
  • International meeting by C.S.
  • Reviews:
    • By M.B.: What is class consciousness? by Wilhelm Reich
    • By L.W.: Ireland, dead or alive? an analysis or Irish politics produced by the Belfast Libertarian Group

• Solidarity Volume 7 Number 3 – October 16th 1972
  • Some thoughts on the dockers’ fight by Joe Jacobs
  • Brum’s eye view on the building workers’ strike by S.C. Brum
  • Focus on Ford: review by Mark Fyfe: Ford strike: the workers’ story by John Mathews
  • Review by Steve Place: Dialectal materialism and psychoanalysis by Wilhelm Reich, The right to work? Or the fight to live! by Keith Paton
  • Discussion on Ireland: a letter from the Workers’ Association for the Democratic -**Settlement of the National Conflict in Ireland (Peter Brooke) and reply by Liz Willis
  • Discussion on women and the unions: a review by Anna and Liz: Women, the unions and work by Selma James, and Selma James replies

• Solidarity Volume 7 Number 4 – December 8th 1972
  • Ford report by M.F.
  • Ford facts
  • Change the political prisoners by M.B.
  • The tenants’ struggle in Manchester
  • Inside the Dagenham storage Co. by Jeff
  • Two replies to Selma James by Liz W. and J.G.
  • On the Solidarity wavelength by M.B.
  • Review by J.M.: Natalia Trotsky and the Fourth International

• Solidarity Volume 7 Number 5 –1973
  • Epitaph on Vietnam
  • What next: the lock-in?
  • Edinburgh tenants struggle by L.W.
  • Bombed out politics by Roger S.
-**Controversy: answer of Keith Paton to Steve Place
  • Christmas in Managua by J.M.
  • On the Solidarity wavelength
  • It’s the same the whole world over… General Motors Holdens by M.F.
  • Work-ins and the right to work by John D.

• Solidarity Volume 7 Number 6 – April 22nd 1973
  • Business as usual by B.C.
  • The Ford fiasco by M.F.
  • The Genk struggle
  • Letters from Ford workers
  • The discreet stink of the fellow-traveller by Donald Bateman
  • Political consequences of a philosophical illusion (Marx’s theory of “Being and Consciousness”) by A.O.
  • National Solidarity meeting
  • Reviews:
    • By L.W.: Women, resistance and revolution by Sheila Rowbotham
    • By Jack Cade: Dockers, the impact of industrial change by David F. Wilson

• Solidarity Volume 7 Number 7 – June 20th 1973
  • Northern Ireland reappraisal by L.W.
  • The orgasmic revolution by Des Truction
  • May-June ’68: It was only a beginning by C.S.
  • On the Solidarity wavelength by C.S.
  • The day after elections by Frank Adams
  • Letters from Ford workers
  • Controversy: Revolutionary class by L.W.
  • Reviews:
    • By Bob Potter: Rat, myth and magic a political critique of psychology
    • By D.B.: Revolution in Central Europe by F.L. Carsten
  • Solidarity reorganises by P.G.

• Solidarity Volume 7 Number 8 – October 13th 1973
  • The march on Besançon by Janet J.
  • Rumpus at Ford’s by M.F.
  • Manipulations at Halewood by H.F. Jnr
  • Letter from Amsterdam by A.R.
  • What sort of crisis? by J.K.
  • Socialism: utopian or scientific?
  • Review by L.W.: The tyranny of structurelessness by Jo Freeman
  • Reactions to the article “The orgasmic revolution”: Letters from John B. and Steve X., and reply
  • I.C.O… nography by H.S.
  • Getting it together by M.B.

• Solidarity Volume 7 Number 9 – January 26th 1974
  • Where is Britain going?
  • On the Solidarity wavelength
  • Defend the Shrewsbury 24: But don’t trust the union officials…
  • Talking to miners by Joe J.
  • Ireland: the debate continues: a letter from Martin C. and reply by Liz W., a letter from D.S.
  • Letter from Ford by T.C.
  • Review by H.F.: Working for Ford by Huw Beynon
  • Amongst ourselves by M.B. and J.K.
  • Lip readings by H.S. and J.J.

• Solidarity Volume 7 Number 10 – April 1974
  • Which “power” crisis?
  • The “good old days” by Joe Jacobs
  • Motor industry: From the workshop into the corridors of power by A.B.
  • The struggle continues by G.W.
  • Working for Ford - seen from Vauxhall by G.S.
  • - seen from Dagenham by T.C.
  • Goodbye sailor by D.B.
  • Last tango in Belfast by L.T.
  • Politics in all therapy by H.W.B.F.
  • Appeal to our readers

• Solidarity Volume 7 Number 11 – July 1974
  • U.W.C. general strike
  • “The pimp between man and his need”
  • Monkey business by Des. T.
  • Review by L.W.: James Connolly: selected writing
  • Letter from Ford’s by F.W.
  • Proletarian man by Russ
  • Revolutionary bureaucracy by A.O.
-**A new movement? by D.B. and J.J.
  • Eco-politics at Leeds by M.S.O.
  • Solidarity for worker’s power
  • Wot? No contradictions? by Paul Cardan

• Solidarity Volume 7 Number 12 – November 1974
  • The changing of the guard
  • The malaise on the left by M.B.
  • Gas board blues by D. Tate
  • Beware the wily boss! by B.P.
  • Amazing… but true! A letter from Martin Comack
  • “Progressives” into oppressors? by A.O.
  • Reviews:
    • By J.J.: Invergordon mutineer by Len Wincott
    • By M.B.: The failure of the sexual revolution by George Frankl
    • By D.B.: Post-scarcity anarchism by Murray Bookchin
      Windsor free festival
  • Sorry, folks…
  • Thou shall not laugh by Stuart Henderson
  • Party and class probably by Anton Pannekoek

Vol. 8

• Solidarity Volume 8 Number 1 – February 1975
  • What happened at Cowley: The industrial bankruptcy of the W.R.P. by Ken Weller
  • Women’s liberation and male sycophancy by J.Q.
  • Against all nationalism
  • Happy new year… or anything you can do, I can do better by P.R.
  • The man question by P.G.
  • Bouquets and brickbats… : Letters from Stuart H., Andy B., Harry Harmer, Julia H.
  • The lump pamphlet – some reactions

• Solidarity Volume 8 Number 2 – May 1st 1975
  • The Dagenham “occupation” by Ed Zell
  • More about Dagenham by H.F.
  • Marking time at Halewood by A.B.
  • International news: Eastern promises (Some problems of Singapore labour), There’s an awful lot of coppers in Brazil, Manifesto of the Czech workers councils party
  • About ourselves
  • Reviews:
    • By Roger S.: Meet your friendly social system by Peter Laurie
    • By Joe Jacobs: East end Jewish radicals 1875-1914 by W.J. Fishman
  • On the Solidarity wavelength
  • Gassing on… by Nick V.H.
  • Dissent in Yugoslavia by D.B.: “From affluence to praxis” by Mihailo Markovic, “Between ideals and reality” by Svetozar Stojanovic
  • Editorial comment: Once more, for the record: A reply to criticism

• Solidarity Volume 8 Number 3 – December 1975
  • Portugal
  • Postal workers’ manifesto (June 1974)
  • What workers’ councils? (Editorial of “Combate”, No. 27, July 1975)
  • Portugal: North and South by Phil Meyler
  • Portuguese diary: Struggles in Alentejo by A.O.
  • The unions: an objection: A letter from Marvin Mandell
  • Perception, philosophy, politics by A.O.

• Solidarity Volume 8 Number 4 – July 1976
  • State of the union
  • Portuguese diary by M.B.
  • A letter from Portugal
  • Counter-culture and repression in Czechoslovakia by P. Cerny
  • Spain: two documents: Barcelona telephones and Barcelona docks
  • Notes on Italy by Theleme Anarres
  • Review: Spain 1936: Practical example or theoretical lesson? by L.W.: The Anarchist collectives: workers’ self-management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936-39 by Murray Bookchin, Collectives in the Spanish Revolution by Gaston Leval
  • Review by Roger S.: The Angry Brigade by Gordon Carr

• Solidarity Volume 8 Number 5 – November 1976
  • The unions keep us weak
  • Unionism and the labor front by J. Zerzan and Comment by P.F.
  • More on the unions by Theleme Anarres
  • … and more by A.O.
  • Ballad of Norwich jail: A letter from G. Bird
  • Book review by P.F.: Leninism under Lenin by Marcel Liebman

• Solidarity Volume 8 Number 6 – April 22nd 1977
  • Mountains in Labour
  • Rearranging the deckchairs on the “Titanic”… but will the iceberg be fooled? by S.A.C.
  • Watch it stay up
  • A message for all Maoists
  • Review by M.B.: Eleanor Marx: the BBC2 television serial
  • By Gad, sir you cad, sir! A letter from Karl Marx to Paul Lafargue

• Solidarity Volume 8 Number 7 – August 8th 1977
  • Two struggles: Grunwick: a 19th century dispute and Lucas aerospace
  • Beyond trade unionism: A challenge to the CNT by David Urbano
  • Unpersons of the world, unite!
  • Letters
  • Listen, psychiatrist by Paul Cardan
  • Review by S.A.C.: Business civilisation in decline by Robert L. Heilbroner