One of the aims of World in Common is to try and facilitate communication, co-operation and collaboration between the individuals and groups that comprise the global anti-market, anti-state and anti-capitalist political sector. To help achieve this aim we will publish a contacts list in every issue of Common Voice. If you, your group or publication would like to be included please submit the following information either via e-mail to enquiries@worldincommon.org, or via post to World in Common, Box 44, Greenleaf Bookshop, 82 Colston Street, Bristol, BS1 5BB, UK.
Name of organisation: _____________________________
Contact Name: ___________________________________
E-mail address: ___________________________________
Website address: __________________________________
Postal address: ____________________________________
Telephone/Fax number: _____________________________
Year of formation (for groups/organisations): ____________
Publications (with subscription details): ________________
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A short description of your aims/objectives: _____________
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Aufheben; Autonomedia; CLASS WAR, Auckland; Bureau of Public Secrets; Design for Revolution; enrager.net; Freedom Press; Industrial Workers of the World (UK); Industrial Workers of the World (US); International Communes Desk; The Land is Ours; New Union Party; Processed World Magazine; Redline Publications; Socialist Labor Party; The Socialist Party of Great Britain (Ashbourne Court Group); Workers Solidarity Alliance;Working-Class-Studies;World of Free Access; World Socialist Movement (WSM)
Name of organisation: The Land is Ours
Contact Name: Mark. S. Brown
E-mail address: everythingincommon@tlio.demon.co.uk
Website address: www.thelandisours.org
Postal address: 16b Cherwell Street, Oxford OX4 1BG
Year of formation: 1995
Publications: The Land is Ours newsletter (Subscription: £1/donation per issue).
TLIO campaigns peacefully for access to the land, its resources, and the decision-making processes affecting them, for everyone, irrespective of race, gender or age.
Name of organisation: International Communes Desk
Contact Name: Anton Marks
E-mail address: anton@kvutsatyovel.com
Website address: www.communa.org.il
Postal address: Yad Tabenkin, Ramat Efal, Israel, 52960
Tel: 972 - 3 - 5344458, extension 4
Fax: 972 - 3 - 5346376
Year of formation: 1976
Publications: C.A.L.L. (Communes At Large Letter) - The bi-annual journal of the International Communes Desk features articles, stories, jokes and updates from communities all over the world.
Aims/Objectives:
- To spread the communal idea, in its many forms, out of the belief that the communal way of life is not only possible, but essential for the benefit of mankind.
- To maintain contact with as many as possible communes and intentional communities, in order to learn about their life styles and exchange information, opinions and ideas for mutual benefit.
- To provide an address for people from all over the world, who are seeking advice and information about the kibbutz in its different aspects and about communities the world over (including help in making contact for those wishing to visit a community or join one).
Name of organisation: CLASS WAR, Auckland
E-mail address: classwar@rome.com
Website address: http://go.to/ClassWar
Postal address: : P.O. Box 78-104, Grey Lynn, New Zealand 1032.
An anarchist group in Auckland city, New Zealand. For details on our present campaigns, please visit the website or contact us.
Name of organisation: Industrial Workers of the World (US)
E-mail address: ghq@iww.org
Website address: www.iww.org
Postal address: P.O.Box 13476, Philadelphia, PA 19101, USA
Tel: (215)222-1905
Year of formation: 1905
Publications: Industrial Worker (10 issues per annum - US$15)
Aims/Objectives:
The IWW is a member-run union for all workers, a union dedicated to organizing on the job, in our industries and in our communities. IWW members are organizing to win better conditions today and build a world with economic democracy tomorrow. We want our workplaces run for the benefit of workers and communities rather than for a handful of bosses.
Name of organisation: Industrial Workers of the World (UK)
E-mail address: info@iww.org.uk
Website address: www.iww.org.uk
Postal address: IWW, PO Box 74, Brighton, BN1 4ZQ, UK
The Industrial Workers of the World is a union run directly by its members, promoting global solidarity and direct action for the abolition of capitalist wage slavery.
Name of organisation: Redline Publications
Contact Name: Jim Plant
E-mail address: socliterature@btopenworld.com
Postal address: PO Box 6700, Sawbridgeworth, CM 21 0BS, UK
Fax: 01279 726970
Year of formation: 2001
Publications: The People , paper of the Socialist Labor Party of America, 6 issues surface mail £3.00, airmail £9.00, 12 issues surface £5.00, airmail &17.00. Free sample copy upon request.
Aims/Objectives:
Publication & distribution of socialist literature, particularly publications of the Socialist Party of America, but also a wide selection of other titles in the non-reformist, non-stateist, non-Leninist, non-Trotskyist tradition. Free illustrated catalogue available upon request.
Name of organisation: New Union Party
E-mail address: nup@minn.net
Website address: www.newunionparty.org
Postal address: 1821 University Avenue, W. #S-116, Saint Paul, MN 55104, USA
Tel: 651-646-5546
Year of formation: 1980
Publications: New Unionist (monthly[?] US$7 for 12 issues)
Aims/Objectives:
The New Union Party is an organization of men and women who are committed to building a rank-and-file working-class movement for fundamental social change. Our goal is to replace the present competitive, class-divided system of capitalism with the cooperative industrial community we call economic democracy, a society where the people will be in direct democratic control of their work, their workplaces and the product of their work.
Name of organisation: Socialist Labor Party
E-mail address: socialists@slp.org
Website address: www.slp.org
Postal address: P.O.Box 218, Mountain View, CA 94042-0218, USA
Tel: (408)280-7266 Fax: (408)280-6964
Year of formation: 1890
Publications: The People (bimonthly - $5 per year)
Aims/Objectives:
The SLP's goal is a classless society based on collective ownership and control of the industries and social services, these to be administered in the interests of all society through a Socialist Industrial Union government composed of democratically elected representatives from all the industries and services of the land. Production would be carried on for use instead of profit. The SLP program for achieving revolutionary change from capitalism to socialism is based on the Marxist tenet that socialism can be achieved only through the class-conscious action "of the working class itself".
Name of organisation: Workers Solidarity Alliance
E-mail address: WSANY@hotmail.com
Website address: www.workersolidarity.org (seems obsolete 9/8/05 – try Google search)
Postal address: 339 Lafayette St., Room 202, New York, NY 10012, USA
Tel: 212-979-8353
Fax: 973-773-9337
Year of formation: 1984
Publications: Ideas and Action (suspended)
Aims/Objectives:
WSA is an anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian organization of activists who believe that working people can build a new society and a better world based on the principles of solidarity and self-management. Our view is that such a society will be brought about only by working people building their own self-managed mass organizations from the ground up. Independent working class organization exists to some extent today in the form of rank-and-file committees, tenants unions, workers centers and other formations that might represent the forerunner of such a movement.
Name of organisation: World Socialist Movement (WSM)
E-mail address: enquiries@worldsocialism.org
Website address: www.worldsocialism.org/
Postal address: c/o Socialist Party of Great Britain, 52 Clapham High St., London SW4 7UN, England
Tel: 020 7622 3811 Fax: 020 7720 3665
Year of formation: 1904
Publications: Socialist Standard (Monthly journal of the Socialist Party - 1 year sub £12)
Aims/Objectives:
The World Socialist Movement is made up of people who have joined together because we want to get rid of the profit system and establish real socialism. Our aim is to persuade others to become socialist and act for themselves, organizing democratically and without leaders, to bring about the kind of society we advocate. We are solely concerned with building a movement of socialists for socialism. We are not a reformist party with a programme of policies to patch up capitalism.
Name of organisation: The Socialist Party of Great Britain (Ashbourne Court Group)
E-mail address: enquiries@spgb.org.uk
Website address: www.spgb.org.uk/
Postal address: 71 Ashbourne Court, Woodside Park Road, London N12 8SB, UK
Year of formation: 1991
Publications: Socialist Studies (50p per issue)
Aims/Objectives:
Object: the establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of the whole community.
Name of organisation: Bureau of Public Secrets
E-mail address: knabb@slip.net
Website address: www.bopsecrets.org
Postal address: P.O. Box 1044, Berkeley CA 94701, USA
Year of formation: 1973
Publications: Situationist International Anthology (texts by the group that
triggered the May 1968 revolt in France); Public Secrets (collected
skirmishes of Ken Knabb); occasional leaflets, pamphlets, etc.
Aims/Objectives:
"Making petrified conditions dance by singing them their own tune."
Name of organisation: Aufheben
Website address:www.geocities.com/aufheben2
Postal address:
Aufheben
Brighton & Hove Unemployed Workers Centre
PO Box 2536
Rottingdean
BRIGHTON BN2 6LX
UK
Publications: Aufheben
Aims/Objectives:
The magazine is an attempt to develop revolutionary theory/practice, based on but we hope superseding the
traditions of the left communists, autonomia and situationists.
Name of organisation: Processed World Magazine
Contact Name: Chris Carlsson
E-mail address: processedworld@yahoo.com
Website address:www.processedworld.com
Telephone/Fax number: 415-626-2060 (tel) 415-626-2685 (fax, call first)
Postal address:1095 Market Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94103
Year of formation: 1980
Publications: Processed World published 3x/yr. between 1981 and 1994, then once in 2001 and we plan a new issue this year (2004), currently planned on the theme of "USSA: Living in a Dying Empire" but subject to later revision.
Aims/Objectives:
We currently plan to publish occasionally as we see fit, depending on energy, ideas and money. The circle of friends around Processed World, which goes back nearly a quarter of a century, has been known to engage in various activities, including art attacks, street theater, flyering, attending Big Summits of the Powers that Be to engage in opposition, public discussions, postering projects, billboard alteration, subversive advertising campaigns, digital lost history projects... and so on and so forth...
Name of organisation: Freedom Press
E-mail address: info(at)freedompress.org.uk
Website address:www.freedompress.org.uk
Telephone/Fax number: 020 7247 9249
Postal address:84b Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX
Year of formation: 1886
Publications: Freedom newspaper, out every 2 weeks, subs £10 claimants, £14 standard, write to us for a free copy
Aims/Objectives:
Freedom is an independent anarchist publisher. We produce a newspaper, which comes out every two weeks, and we publish books on all aspects of anarchist theory and practice. We run Britain's largest anarchist bookshop in East London, house the Autonomy Club meeting host an open-access computer suite. As anarchists we work towards a society of mutual aid and voluntary co-operation. Our aim is to explain anarchism more widely and to show that human freedom can only thrive when the institutions of state and capital have been abolished.
Name of organisation: enrager.net
E-mail address: admin(at)enrager.net
Website address:www.enrager.net
Postal address:enrager, 84b Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX
Year of formation: 2003
Aims/Objectives:
enrager.net is an online resource about all aspects of anti-capitalism and anti-authoritarianism. It contains clear information about basic ideas and history, as well as pretty comprehensive listings of groups in Britain, a newswire with both up-to-the-minute syndicated news and more detailed analysis, organising tips about how to start a local group, produce a newsletter or resist in the workplace, lively discussion forums to link up with people in your area, help plan events, and chat about anything from politics to music to monkeys, and much more besides. Check it out!
Name of organisation: Autonomedia
Contact Name: Jim Fleming
E-mail address: info@autonomedia.org
Website address:www.autonomedia.org
Telephone/Fax number: 718-963-2603
Postal address: POB 568, Brooklyn, NY 11211-0568
Year of formation: 1984
Publications: 300 books
Aims/Objectives:
Not-for-profit small press specialized in radical media, politics and culture
Name of Organisation: World of Free Access
Contact Name: Ray Carr
E Mail address: vc1@waitrose.com
Website: None at Present
Postal Address: PO Box 5795, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1AA
Telephone: 01202 257556
Year of Formation: 2000
Publication: People's Planet. 4 Times a Year. £4 for 4 issues
Aims and Objectives: A world wide system where the world's natural and industrial resources are owned in common by. Production directly for use without the intervention of any form of exchange, a moneyless society. Opposition to all wars. Against sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia.
Name of Organisation: Working-Class-Studies
Contact Name: Ray Carr
E Mail address: pmlapresta@ysu.edu
Website: http://www.as.ysu.edu/~cwcs/
Postal Address:
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Aims and Objectives: WORKING-CLASS-STUDIES is a new mailing list for scholars, educators, activists, artists, and others who are interested in this engaged and interdisciplinary field. Sponsored by the new Working-Class Studies Association and the Youngstown State University Center for Working-Class Studies (CWCS), the listserv develops a forum for diverse intellectual and political approaches to scholarship, teaching, and outreach. It also promotes partnerships linking scholarly work with activism. Subscribers are encouraged to post announcements, queries, calls for proposals, and to exchange information on academic and political opportunities as well as general news relevant to working-class life.
Name of organisation: Design for Revolution (personal)
Contact Name: Chris Marsh
E-mail address: chris_e_marsh@hotmail.com
Website address: www.des4rev.org.uk
Postal address: 9 Priory Park Road, Dawlish, Devon EX7 9LX
Telephone numbers: home 01626888772, mobile 07899960860
Year of formation (for groups/organisations): n/a
Publications (with subscription details): n/a
Aims/objectives: My aim is to use an approach based on permaculture design to investigate how a socialist revolution might come about, what steps or stages this might go through, towards what kind of alternative society. (see: http://www.des4rev.org.uk/#intro and http://www.des4rev.org.uk/des4rev-proposal.htm)