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A blog post about things which are missing, that can't be found online. There's a longstanding thread on digital content that could/should be added to this site. This post is about gaps, omissions, and missing items that can't be found online. If you have access to any of them, leave a comment, or perhaps even scan them in and add them yourself... This is by no means a complete list of what is missing from the Libcom archives and reflects my own interests and biases.

A 2006 documentary revisiting the Sanrizuka struggle forty years after the Japanese government decided to build Narita Airport. Focusing on the Toho district, where farmers continued to live and work under the flight path, the film documents the long conflict over land, development and state power. English subtitles have recently been added. In 1966, the Japanese government decided to construct a new international airport at Sanrizuka in Narita, Chiba Prefecture.

A Response to Kazi Tanvir Hossein’s ‘Bolshevik Confusion and the Theoretical Bankruptcy of Anarchists’; his article critiques the International Confederation of Labour on the basis of their solidarity work with a garment worker's union affiliated with the Communist Party of Bangladesh Kazi Tanvir Hossein’s article ‘Bolshevik Confusion and the Theoretical Bankruptcy of Anarchists’ takes issue with a solidarity campaign conducted by the International Confederation of Labour with the Garments...

A critical retrospective on the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left through to the turn to black power, drawing on Reed’s brief experience as a youth member of the Socialist Workers Party (USA) during its black power turn. Originally published in 1979. OVER FORTY YEARS AGO Benjamin pointed out that “mass reproduction is aided especially by the reproduction of masses.”1 This statement captures the central cultural dynamic of a “late” capitalism.

Italy 1920: When 600,000 workers seized control of their workplaces Tom Wetzel details the Italian Factory Occupations of 1920, which matured beyond conventional trade unionism and at its height involved about 600,000 workers. This article was originally presented as a talk at the Conference on Workers' Self-Organization in St. Louis in 1988.

In one of my previous articles, I stated that “if earlier forms of fascism emerged from currents within the left, could a new left‑originating variant appear again? Preventing future left‑wing expressions of fascism requires beginning with a precise, grounded understanding of what fascism actually is, since genuine anti‑fascism depends on that clarity”. Pierre Tru-Dank, also known as Joshua E.

Indigenous Modernity, Myanmar’s Spring Revolution and the Fourth World War. New Zine from the WITCH team, the revolution’s all women’s drone team fighting in the hills of Myanmar. This is a zine by Women Internationalists of the Chin Hills (WITCH) of Anti-Fascist Internationalist Front (AIF). Reference: https://aifmyanmar.noblogs.org/post/2026/07/22/sone-ma-apoi-the-witch-team/ Attachments

This is a submission from an internal debate within the anarchist-communist movement in December 2025 regarding Hal Draper's critique of the sect form. This letter responds to concerns that socialist parties that are formed outside of mass struggle will inevitably revert to the sect form Draper describes. It is a defense of party formation. Hi comrades, I want to thank (our comrade) for their well-thought out letter to the group.

Amora is an anarcha-feminist from Myanmar who has been involved in political activism for several decades. She is the “co-founder” and the current “financial officer” of the “Hero Warriors”, a local defence force against the Myanmar military junta. Hein: How did you first become involved in this revolution? Can you introduce a bit of your background? Were you politically active before the revolution? Amora: My journey into anarchism did not start with textbooks or academic theories.

Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils Issue 37, August-September 1947 p. 10-13 Translation and summaries of articles from the Mexican section of the Fourth International, the Workers' Socialist Group in Mexico, and Labour Youth in Cuba by K.J. Kenafick.