article summarising IWCA activities

Hi everyone,

Can someone point me to an article that covers most of what the IWCA got up to in the 90s-2000s? I am writing an article that looks at different types of workplace and community organising tactics and would like to mention some of what the IWCA did in it. Since I know lots of IWCA posters posted here in the past, I thought it would be a good place to ask... hope they still do, I've only looked at these boards very infrequently in the last few years.

I don't know for sure. You could have a search for old threads here. type: site:urban75.net/vbulletin iwca into google.

Origins of the IWCA? 2004

Links to http://www.redaction.org/communities/declaration.html & http://www.redaction.org/communities/line_of.html

Butchersapron would be good person to ask.

past caring and love detective are also involved in it , im sure they'd be happy to give you some info

Plans to refresh the sites but these might give you an idea of some of what we were up to in Oxford:

http://www.iwca-oxford.org.uk/blackbirdleys/index.htm

http://www.iwca-oxford.org.uk/

888 - i've wrote quite a bit on various things over at libcom over the last few years (as oisleep) - not actual articles though, just forum postings but with various links to proper articles

(Sue, you doing the marathon in September?)

a tiny substandard Militant for the post political landscape.

i quite like your brand of self-depreciating humour oddpant

that was very good actually.

I do find it odd that soo many anarchists have a semi for the IWCA whilst having nothing but hate for the Socialist Party, probably the sad tendency for anarchists to fall for any old shit if it claims to be grass roots and beyond politics etc

put it in your tagline now

i was thinking of it but it won't fit.

Don't bother arguing with the silly, ranty little gonk.

One day somebody will stuff him and sit him on their dashboard. He'll have found his niche.

haven't you got a latin american strong man to be defending?

ah, an optimist

My defending him has about as much effect as your denouncing him.

And still Godot fails to arrive.

I'm under no illusions about what either of us says effecting the situation in Venezuela, on here it's more a matter of intellectual rigour and honesty.

And if it matter nowt why do you say it like it does?

Your intellectual rigour has been duly noted, Dangermouse.

Best post ever

..

God no... (Though I might come along for a few drinks after.)

What we were up to in Oxford.
Being bored of electoral politics means that you are going to give up on any good work being done in Blackbird Leys?

I think things like the IWCA Athletics club, the youth athletics pilot scheme and the work done in Oxford to open up sports facilities of oxford university to working class kids in Oxford show that this is not the case

As I said, the sites haven't been updated for a while hence the 'were'. Stuff about what we've been up to since then will be added soon.

thanks oisleep, Sue and yield. I will take a look, and force myself to write the article in the next couple of weeks. It will start by looking at solidarity networks and then examine other types of workplace and community organising that differ interestingly from the usual union/party model.

888 - not sure if it's the type of thing you were looking for but there's a bit of information about what's been going on in Oxford on a new site here

www.iwca-athletics.org

Also gives us brief summary of the IWCA in Oxford, past present & future

Where do you live remind us?

Catford

Are you suggesting I shouldn't comment on things that happen outside the immediate area I live in?

If you read the post I was responding to you will see it was a reply to someone who suggested things had stopped in Oxford/BBL - therefore the reply focussed on what was happening in Oxford/BBL

Well you (the IWCA) don't have a policy on Palestine do you? Ah fuck this, we can rant over a pint some time.

don't follow your logic at all i'm afraid mate

Why would they?