Transcribing the Past

 The Two Nations; A May-day Message. NOTE: This is one of the four speeches which Guy Aldred recorded on tape. It was not the first to be recorded, though it is the first to be printed. The other three speeches are being transcribed and printed. The publication date will be announced shortly. Donors and Subscribers will receive these pamphlets as they appear. Please order extra copies, and help the circulation. Printed and published in United Kingdom by The Strickland Press, Glasgow C. 1. GUY A. ALDRED THE TWO NATIONS A May-Day Message The text of a Speech delivered on May 5th 1963 in Central Halls Glasgow. First Published 1968 Guy Aldred, November, 1962 We do change the world. One generation merges into another. The hopes of yesterday’s heroes and martyrs become the inspiring slogans of the martyrs and heroes of today, and by them are passed on to the heroes and martyrs that will be tomorrow. An unchanging yet changeless logic of development. —The Word; January 1961 Foreword This ...

Text of a leaflet distributed in Moscow by supporters of the Committee of 100 AGAINST ALL BOMBS The campaign in Britain against nuclear weapons is beginning to turn towards the working class. As it does so, it will create an increasing challenge to the capitalist state. This marks a development both in the activities and in the consciousness of the Campaign. It is a genuine turn to the masses of ordinary workers, not the bureaucracies of the Labour and Trade Union movements. Already, as a result of this emphasis, we have seen the beginnings of industrial action against the bomb. Workers directly involved have refused to handle nuclear cargoes. Others have held token strikes. THE BOMB IN CLASS SOCIETY More and more people in the campaign are seeing the deeper implications of working class action against the bomb. The class which dominates production controls society. It decides policy and, despite the democratic facade, enforces it through its state apparatus. U...

  Available on Kindle   Please support via ko-fi The Pyramid of Tyranny By F. Domela Nieuwenhuis Introduction   “The old man of the North, whose blue eyes and smiling face, framed by long white hair, indicate immense goodness”. Andre Lorulot. Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, born in the Netherlands on the 31 st of December 1846 was a very important socialist advocate and leader amongst the Dutch labour movement of the 19 th century. I confess I had not heard of him before stumbling upon a 1913 Esperanto translation of his pamphlet De piramide van tirannie (The Pyramid of Tyranny). But happily he has an English language wiki page and short biography written by Anarchist historian Nick Heath, which filled quite a few gaps. He was raised as Lutheran preacher but gravitated towards socialism. He resigned from the priesthood in 1879 after becoming an atheist and threw his energy into the labour movement. He initially became a leading personality within the Dutch S...