Gabriel Kuhn – författare

Capitalism is in crisis, and class divisions are deepening across the globe. Labour is becoming increasingly mobile and precarious. This is the moment for syndicalist unions to advance their demands through strikes and direct action, to reforge a powerful bulwark against capitalist interests, before it is too late. In Workers' Power from Below, contributors from inside the rank-and-file labour movement reflect on its strengths and weaknesses, on victories and losses, and on the movement’s ongoing potential to radicalise the working class and challenge the capitalist order. The contributors hail from six continents and combine hands-on organising experience with rigorous analysis, offering a rich toolbox of ideas for revolutionary change rooted in class struggle.

Nyhetstidningen Arbetaren grundades 1922 och kom redan tidigt att skilja ut sig från mängden med sitt frihetliga perspektiv på demokrati, facklig kamp och jämlikhet. Under åren har Arbetaren avslöjat korruption, granskat nazister, uppmärksammat klimathotet och samtidigt gett stor plats åt kulturen. Bland medarbetarna finns några av Sveriges mest kända arbetarförfattare, serietecknare, artister och aktivister. År 2022 fyller Arbetaren 100. Den här boken berättar om tidningen från det allra första numret, via de bohemiska tidningskvarteren i gamla Klara, de stora avslöjandena under och efter andra världskriget, fram till dagens feministiska och intersektionella perspektiv och fackliga utmaningar. Här finns återpublicerade reportage, unika fotografier, illustrationer, och nyskrivna texter av mer än 30 olika skribenter - var och en med sin unika relation till Arbetaren. Dessutom nyskrivna personporträtt av medarbetare som på olika sätt gjort stora insatser för den fria journalistiken och hela det svenska samhället: Albert Jensen, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Stig Dagerman, Moa Martinson och Vilhelm Moberg. Tidningen Arbetarens historia är historien om fri journalistik på arbetarnas sida. Arbetaren ges ut av Arbetaren Tidnings AB, som ägs av fackföreningen SAC Syndikalisterna. Syndikalismen är en frihetligt socialistisk gren av arbetarrörelsen som organiserar alla yrken i medlemsstyrda fackföreningar. Arbetaren – 100 år som fri tidning ges ut av Federativs förlag i samband med tidningens hundraårsjubileum.

Due to high union density, a strong welfare state, and economic prosperity, the Nordic countries have long been seen as a viable alternative to predatory capitalism – a market economy with a human touch. The “Nordic Model” of employers organizations and trade unions managing the labor market in unison via collective bargaining agreements that minimize industrial action has been hailed as a key com

In the early 1970s, all across the Americas and Western Europe, armed groups emerged out of the social movements of the late 1960s. Their goal was to advance the struggle for a socialist society. In Germany, the Red Army Faction received most attention, but a less well-known, anti-authoritarian and social-revolutionary counterpart operated in its shadows: the 2nd of June Movement, named after the date when, in 1967, the unarmed student Benno Ohnesorg was shot and killed by a Berlin cop during a demonstration. The 2nd of June Movement was comprised of working-class youth who got politicized in Berlin''s underground culture. They first emerged as a political collective under the name ''Hash Rebels,'' before they formed the 2nd of June Movement as a revolutionary organization. The 2nd of June Movement received most attention for the 1975 kidnapping of conservative politician Peter Lorenz. Lorenz was exchanged for six comrades in prison, one of the biggest successes of any urban guerrilla group in Europe. Dissolved in 1980, the principles of the 2nd of June Movement lived on in the militant network of the Revolutionary Cells and the German autonomist movement. From Hash Rebels to Urban Guerrillas is the first book presenting the 2nd of June Movement in English. It documents the group''s history and politics based on translations of original documents and reflections by former members. The editors provide an introduction, extensive notes, a timeline, and an overview of key protagonists. This is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the politics of the era and the ongoing quest to challenge the rule of the state and capital.

Power lies with the activists at the grassroots, no matter how much those in higher positions try to rewrite history. Niillas Somby is an icon of the Sami resistance movement. In 1979, he was one of the hunger strikers outside of the Norwegian Parliament building, drawing attention to protests against a hydropower dam near the town of Alta in the far north of the country. Together with the Kola Peninsula in Russia, the northernmost regions of Norway, Sweden, and Finland constitute Sapmi, the traditional homeland of the Sami, Europe's only officially recognized indigenous people. In 1982, after the Supreme Court of Norway upheld the government's decision to build the Alta dam, Somby was one of three people trying to sabotage a bridge leading to the construction site. The action failed, with the bomb they were carrying going off too early. Somby lost an arm and an eye and was facing more than twenty years in prison. With the help of an international network of indigenous activists, he managed to escape to Canada where he was adopted and sheltered by First Nations until the main charges against him were dropped and it was safe for him and his family to return to Norway. In the Hour of the Wolf is a tale of struggle and survival, of solidarity and kinship, of steadfast principles and spiritual awakening. It is written with care, rumination, and wit. The reader learns about both Sapmi, the First Nations of Canada, and transnational indigenous politics. It is a unique account of an extraordinary life. In the end, Somby reflects on the path of the Sami struggle for sovereignty from the protest camps of the 1970s to the halls of the Sami Parliament.