Collective Action Notes

Introduction

Collective Action Notes is a publication from Baltimore which documents and discusses different struggles (strikes, occupations, etc.) world-wide. We are interested in understanding class struggle and the different forms it takes in the present period, forms ranging from overt and highly visible struggles such as the French public sector strike wave in the winter of 1995 to more 'hidden ' forms of class struggle such as absenteeism. sabotage (broadly defined ), etc.

Loosely, it could be said CAN is sympathetic to issues of worker's autonomy and self-activity. Although no formally agreed upon political perspective exists at the present point, probably most participants would define themselves in one way or another as being critical of the traditional left, and close to class struggle anarchist/council communist views, again without being obsessed by old ideologies or labels (such as the historical divide between anarchism and marxism), which in most cases have been superceded by capitalist development itself.

CAN cooperates informally with the Echanges et Mouvement network in Paris. We also produce pamphlets and distribute literature and texts on computer disk by other non-U.S. based groups. Our most recent pamphlet is "From The Bottom Up", a collection of short articles by Anton Pannekoek. Write for a free sample issue.

Collective Action Notes

POB 22962

Balto., MD 21203

USA

    New Additions

NEW June 20, 1999 - "Is Direct Democracy Really Possible?" - Theo Sander (1989)

NEW June 17, 1999 - "La Hez De La Humanidad" - Paul Mattick (1935)

NEW June 1999 - "Women's Subversive Individualism In Barcelona In The 1930s" - Michael Seidman (1992)

NEW June 1999 - "Worker's Opposition in Nazi Germany - Tim Mason (circa late 70s)

NEW May 1999 - "Karl Marx - Anti-Bourgeois or Neo-Bourgeois?" - Max Nomad (196?)

NEW May 1999 - "Drug Use, The Labor Market and Class Conflict" = John Helmer/Thos. Vietorisz (1974)

NEW: March 1999 - " Bolshevik Opposition To Lenin: G. Miasnikov and the Workers Group" - Paul Avrich

NEW: March 1999 - " Pasado, Presente Y Futuro Del Marxismo - Paul Mattick

NEW: March 1999 - "The League Of Revolutionary Black Workers: A Historical Analysis" - A. Muhammed Ahmad (no date, circa 1979?)

NEW: March 1999 - "When Insurrections Die" - Gilles Dauve (aka Jean Barrot)

    Pamphlets

"Wage Workers Self-Activity" - KK/Collectivities (1998)

"As We DON'T See It" - London Solidarity (circa 197?)

"Some Thought On Organization" - Henri Simon (1979)

"The New Movement" - Henri Simon (1974)

"A Ballad Against Work"(1996)

"Myths Of Dispersed Fordism" - Echanges (1990)

"Mexico is Not Only Chiapas Nor The Rebellion In Chiapas Only A Mexican Affair" - TPTG (1993)

"Goodbye To The Unions - A Controversy About Autonomous Class Struggle In Great Britain"(1990)

"Third Camp Internationalists In World War 2" - Pierre Lannert (197?)

Communism Is The Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today - Loren Goldner

"Reflections on Marx's Critique of Political Economy" (Kamunist Kranti)(1997)

Articles

Some Thoughts About On-Going Discussions Within The Ultra-Left Milieu - By Henri Simon (1996)

"Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed" - Anton Pannekoek

"Party and Class" - Anton Pannekoek

"Anton Pannekoek And The Politics Of Emancipatory Socialism - John Gerber (1989)

"The New Capitalism and The Old Class Struggle - Paul Mattick (1976)

Paul Mattick on Worker's Councils: Interview Feb. 1975

Lotta Continua Interview with Paul Mattick (October 1977)

On Anton Pannekoek - Paul Mattick (1962)

Council Communism - Paul Mattick

Otto Rühle and the German Labor Movement (Paul Mattick)

Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect - Paul Mattick

Paul Mattick Sr. Bibilography(English language texts only) - Part 1: A-J

Paul Mattick Sr. Bibliography - Part 2: L-Z

Interview With Paul Mattick Jr., November 17, 1991

Paul Mattick Sr. Bibilography(English language texts only) - Part 1: A-J

Paul Mattick Sr. Bibliography - Part 2: L-Z

Theory and Practice: an Introduction To Marxian Theory (Root and Branch #8, n.d. late 70s)

Root And Branch ( A short introduction to the political perpspectives of this now-defunct libertarian socialist journal; from issue # 7, 1979)

Karl Korsch: A Marxist Friend of Anarchism (1967)

Ten Theses On Marxism Today - Karl Korsh (1950)

Revolutionary Traditions: Council Communism - By Steve Wright (1991)(Good, brief intro.)

"International Liquidity Crisis And Class Struggle - First Approximation" By Loren Goldner (1998)

Class Struggle Beyond Unionism: Boston Public Workers' Ferment 1981-1982 - By Scott Mc Guire

Libertarian Socialism - Dave Lamb (1996)

What is Makhaevism? - Paul Avrich (1965)

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