“The first of May is the symbol of a new era in the life and struggle of the toilers, an era that each year offers the toilers fresh, increasingly tough and decisive battles against the bourgeoisie, for the freedom and independence wrested from them, for their social ideal.” Nestor Makhno The idea of turning the 1st of May into a day of action for workers was first proposed at the 4th congress of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). It was decided to launch, starting from the 1st of May 1886, a wide campaign of agitation and struggle focused on limiting the working week to forty hours. The ..read more

The First of May is the date we remember Anarchists murdered by the State in Chicago. 137 years ago, these Anarchists, influential in the workers movement, helped lead a movement for the 8 hour day, in preparation for social revolution.  A date of May 1st 1886 was set by the workers movement in the USA on which workers create the eight hour day.  Half a million demonstrated throughout the States. In Chicago, a violent clash between police and demonstrators, led to repression and eight prominent Anarchists and labour organisers were arrested and prosecuted, in a campaign aimed at crus ..read more

Jackdaw May Day 2024 edition is out. With An Open Letter to Anti-Militarists, History of Mayday, and the Land Reform Bill. Get it from your usual places. Facebook Twitter Reddit WhatsApp Email ..read more

The following article was written by comrades of the Assembly group in Ukraine. It originally appeared in English on the libcom website. The Assembly comrades have requested that we post it on the ACG website as well. A little more than a month that has passed since the release of the “Assembly” winter interview fully confirms its thesis about the approaching revolutionary situation in the country. The Ukrainian parliament is on the verge of a crisis: few deputies want to take political responsibility for the bill on strengthening mobilisation, the adoption of which has been postpone ..read more

The Garrick Club is just one of the elitist institutions in London set up to enable networking within the various parts of the ruling class and the State. Other clubs for the rich and powerful, the so called “great” and “good,” include Annabel’s, the Athenaeum, Boodle’s, Brook’s, the Conduit,  the Marylebone Cricket Club, and many others. To this can be added the Bullingdon Club open to elite members of Oxford University. The Garrick is one of the oldest of these clubs, founded in 1831. It geared itself to the arts and theatre, naming itself after actor David Garrick, and had or has membe ..read more

This article is dedicated to all those who will turn their guns on their officers ‘We revolutionaries aren’t just chasing a scarlet flag. What we pursue is an awakening of liberty, old or new. It is the ancient Communes of France, it is 1703; it is June 1848; it is 1871. Most especially it is the next revolution on which is advancing under this dawn.’ Louise Michel ‘The Commune was the biggest festival of the nineteenth century. Underlying the events of that spring of 1871 one can see the insurgents’ feeling that they had become the masters of their own history, not so much on the level of “go ..read more

This issue has loads of interesting articles about struggles in Haringey and beyond. The front page focuses on the new campaign for Free London Transport with the protest outside City Hall, supported by the ACG. https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/web_newsletter_doublespread-1.pdf Facebook Twitter Reddit WhatsApp Email ..read more

Online Public Meeting Convened by Anarchist Communist Group Monday, March 18th 7-9pm We are going through an unprecedented time of human history, in which even the future of the planet is at stake. This was not inevitable. It is the result of the systems that have been brutally imposed by a ruling elite, including colonial expansion and imperialism, which gave rise to global capitalism. This system as spread to ever corner of the world, bringing with it exploitation, oppression, wars and environmental disaster. We believe that only anarchist communism can save the day. The ruling class is desp ..read more

Once again we have been reminded of the role of the Metropolitan Police with the recent BBC documentary and the first report of the Angiolini review on the murder of Sarah Everard by Met firearms cop Wayne Couzens. Couzens is not an isolated instance of criminal behaviour within the Met. We have firearms officer David Carrick who committed a huge number of sexual offences, 49 offences including 24 rapes, making him one of the UK’s most prolific sexual predators. We have Daniel Beegan, part of the Specialist Crime Command, arrested on March 31st last year and charged with sexual assault of a wo ..read more

The ACG republishes the following text from the Russian anarcho-syndicalist KRAS (Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists) with which we are in agreement. SECTION OF I.W.A. IN THE REGION OF RUSSIA ABOUT THE LAST PROTESTS FOR NAVALNY We, anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists, consider it completely unacceptable for ourselves to take any part in political shows organised by supporters of the right-wing populist Navalny, who is sadly “famous” for his openly nationalist, anti-immigrant, anti-Caucasian and anti-Semitic statements. To march in the ranks of the demonstrations they convened ..read more