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Issue Details: First known date: 1982... 1982 Rebel Worker
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First published in February 1982 as the voice of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Australian General Organising Committee, Rebel Worker's stated aim was to assist the IWW in creating 'a free and equal society' through direct action. Initially describing itself as the 'paper of the Australian IWW,' the masthead was changed in 1983 to the 'anarcho-syndicalist paper' in order to reflect its takeover by the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (ASF).

Rebel Worker, which celebrated its 30th year of publication in 2012, was published out of Jura Books, Sydney, between 1982 and 2013. Differences in opinion between the Jura Books Collective and the ASF led to it being relocated to a premises of its own.

Although the content of each issue focused primarily on political issues, Rebel Worker occasionally included reviews and critiques of books, film and theatre.

Notes

  • Rebel Worker does not have an active website but three issues from 1996 and one from 1998 have been archived by Dana Ward on the Anarchy Archives site.
  • Jura Books: Managed under the umbrella of Anarchist Resources Incorporated, a non-profit collective, Jura Books is a major source in Australia for a wide range of affordable books of community and educational interest including the areas of trade unionism, women’s rights, environment, permaculture, indigenous peoples’ issues, poetry, arts and non-violent revolution.

    Rebel Worker was published out of Jura Books in King Street Newtown between 1982 and 1998, and then Parramatta Road, Petersham (1998-2013).

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First known date: 1982
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