Our history section contains a large number of articles, and navigation is currently being upgraded to make them easier to find. If you're not sure where to start, take a look at our collections of articles on strikes, or some of the major events of working class history in the 19th and 20th Centuries, including the Paris Commune, Russian Revolution and revolutionary wave, Spanish Civil War, Hungary '56 and France '68.
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We are in the process of reworking the history section at the moment, but for now you can browse articles by region and country.
biographies
After emigrating to New Zealand and joining the IWW, Tom Barker became an organiser for the syndicalist union, he organised the Auckland general strike of 1913 which led to him being forced to move to Sydney, Australia where he becamse editor of the IWW's Direct Action. He was deported to Chile in 1918 and then travelled the world organising workers, before returning to the UK in 1927.
strikes
An overview of the early 1980s strikes and riots in the UK.
new articles
A founding member of the French ORA, anarchist militant, artist, writer, animator of cultural and artistic events.
A short biography of Maurice Fayolle, veteran social anarchist and founder of the French ORA.
A short biography of Christian Lagant, French anarchist militant and one of chief editors of Noir et Rouge
accounts
Tales of work and struggle in a large Swedish bakery under threat from closure.
uprisings
An account of the riots at the popular West London carnival which were sparked by the arbitrary harassment and arrests of young black attendees by police. Taken together with similar anti-police riots such as those in Broadwater Farm and Brixton in 1981 they forced a dramatic change in policing methods in the the capital.
