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
A short sketch of life on the Philadelphia ports of black IWW member and dock worker, Ben Fletcher.
strikes
A short history of the brutal suppression of a strike by Russian gold miners protesting low wages and inhumane working conditions in 1912.
new articles
A short biography of Etta Federn, German litterateur, anarchist and educationalist
A short biography of Willy Huppertz, who kept alive the flame of German anarchism.
accounts
The following article is a personal account of the run-up to the anti-police riots in Brixton, South London, and the riots themselves.
uprisings
Against the background of the mass revolutionary, black power and prisoners' movements in the US, a four day revolt began on September 13, 1971 at the Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, NY in the United States. Its repression left 39 people killed.
