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Defy-ID: Against State Control (2005)

Anonymous reflections on anarchist involvement in the movement against compulsory government ID in the UK. From Pause For Breath magazine (2005).

Nepali Anarchists on the Toppling of the Government

In Nepal, a protest movement in early September 2025 escalated into a spontaneous insurrection in response to police violence, culminating with…

Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression

Liberal historians have long argued that even during the Great Depression, the allegedly Red Decade,…

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Class War, Then and Now: Essays toward a New Left

PDF compendium of essays from a book published in 2025, by Chris Wright.

image of sharp teeth, text says horror and disability

Horror & Disability

The horror genre has long grappled with its portrayal of disability, often reflecting the societal prejudices of its time. Emerging alongside…

left a photograph of Leon Czolgosz, right an artists recreation of the assassination of president Mckinley

The Psychology of Political Violence

Emma Goldman's reflections on political violence. Published in Freedom. XXXVI, 392 (February, 1922) 9

Abolishing The Police

Anthology edited by Koshka Duff and published by Dog Section Press in 2021. Illustrated by Cat Sims.

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The Schlurfs - youth against Nazism

A short account of the Schlurfs, working class Austrian youth who rejected the values of Nazism

Socialism, anarchism and feminism - Carol Ehrlich

Carol Ehrlich's 1977 anarchist feminist text.

The Angolan massacre of May 27 1977 - Paul Trewhala

Two articles by South African communist Paul Trewhela on the 27 maio 1977 massacre in Angola. Paul Trewhela was a member of the South African…

Rosa Luxemburg speaking on stage at a conference in Stuttgart, 1907

Leninism or Marxism - Rosa Luxemburg

Leninism or Marxism was published as an article in 1904 under the title "Organisational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy" in Iskra and…

Moving towards solidarity - Laurie Penny

Transphobic feminism makes no sense, argues Laurie Penny.

Anti-capitalism as an ideology… and as a movement?

A critical analysis of the "anticapitalist movement" of the early 2000s by Aufheben.

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Nepali Anarchists on the Toppling of the Government

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Class War, Then and Now: Essays toward a New Left

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The Psychology of Political Violence

Abolishing The Police

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