AUT: Solidarity - the bolshevics& W.C.

[Chumbawamba <chumba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I've got an old copy of The bolshevics and workers control. My
dad was in Solidarity in the late 60's early 70's. He was in a group
in Swansea, South Wales in fact with Ian Bone who founded Class War
in Swansea a few years later.
I was actually in Class war for 8 years or so and still bump into Ian
every now and then. I probably should have rebelled against my
parents more, or something.
Anyway when I got into punk and started shouting "anarchy in the uk"
I inherited all my old mans Solidarity pamphlets and magazines.
Flipping through the Solidarity magazines I've come across a report
of a Solidarity  conference report from Leeds in 1969. It was
attended by 60 people. There were active groups in Aberdeen,
clydeside, bow street, north and south london. Contacts in other
places.
In a brief history it says the original members broke from the S.L.L.
(presumably the socialist labour league) in 1960. "Trying to avoid
the usual dead-end of tying to become 'real trotskyists', Solidarity
developed instead a modern revolutionary libertarian approach,
influenced by the ideas of the french group "Socialisme ou Barbarie".

Keir


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