The Red Menace Archive
The Red Menace was a newsletter published in London from 1989-1990 by a group of individuals as a contribution to the movement for a stateless, moneyless and classless world human community – communism.
Convinced that ‘the revolution is not a party affair’, the aim of the project was not to recruit people to any organisation but to ‘increase communication, discussion, the spread of information and generally stimulate joint activity between all those genuinely fighting against this world’. For more about the history and politics of the project see A brief history of the Red Menace.
The contents of The Red Menace are being made available on this website because the articles contain useful information on social struggles in Britain and internationally in this period, and show how one small group critically responded in what proved to be the last days of Thatcher (if not Thatcherism) and the Soviet Union.
November 2000
Contents:
A brief history of the Red Menace
Issue Number One, February 1989
Demolish Fortress Britain - resistance to racist immigration laws
Tottenham 3 denied ‘right to appeal’
SNECMA aerospace workers strike in France
Acid Comment – the moral panic about acid house parties
Reviews: anti-parliamentary communism in Britain, 1917-1945
Issue Number Two, March 1989
Down with the First Word War! – the Rushdie affair
Education – the future of an illusion
Jamaica: another two party state
Review: Non-market socialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Issue Number Three, June 1989
Bread, blood and circuses - uprisings against austerity in Venezuela, Burma and elsewhere
Letters from Algeria: the situation after the uprising
Notices - Subversion conference; leaflet from the Anti-Workfare Movement
Issue Number Four, September/October 1989
More Misery Now – reflections on the transpsort workers’ strikes
Israel/Palestine – two states too many
Review: Help the economy, sleep on the streets – No Reservations – housing, space and class struggle
Review: Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la societe du spectacle
Review: Demolition Derby - reflections on 'primitivism'
Review: Return - the case against Zionism/Zionism and jewish identity
Issue Number Five, January 1990
Hull 1976 Prisoners Revolt – Paul Hill’s Story
There’s a riot goin’ on – People’s Park in Berkeley, 1969 and 1989
Other texts:
Address to revolutionaries in the USSR
The struggle against Islamic Fascism begins with the struggle against Iranian Bolshevism
