Wildcat

The Wildcat group was formed in the early 1980s by members of the Manchester Solidarity and ICC groups. They started by bringing our a regular A4 newsletter, Wildcat. This was at a time of quite vigorous class struggle at the start of Thatcher's reign.Wildcat went on to help form the Intercom network. This brought together groups of a libertarian and council communist persuasion from around the country. They met regularly and produced a number of issues of a discussion paper called Intercom. In 1985, Wildcat merged with the libertarian group from Newcastle and Stoke, Careless Talk., who had also been part of the Intercom network. Wildcat went on to have groups in Manchester, Notingham and London.They produced a number of issues of an irregular paper/magazine called Wildcat which was popular during the MIners Strike. After the defeat of the miners, Wildcat began to shrink in size and by 1987 had dissolved itself. Members and sympathisers of Wildcat then formed the Subversion group.We have reproduced a number of Wildcat texts on this site.