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
Brief biographical information about London resident, anarchist and World War I-widow, Kate Sharpley who once attacked Queen Mary.
strikes
A history of Aussie rules football and its intersection with working class politics since the first football strike in 1883.
new articles
A short biography of Christian Lagant, French anarchist militant and one of chief editors of Noir et Rouge
A short biography of Karl Roche, leading light within the revolutionary German workers movement.
A short biography of Paul Schreyer, German anarchist who opposed the First World War
accounts
Articles on strikes, a commuter riot, Special Economic Zones and more from the boom region of Gurgaon, India.
uprisings
In April 1932 at Vichuga, Ivanovo Industrial Region (IPO), USSR, 16,000 textile workers struck at several factories and temporarily took control of the town until the uprising was crushed by both heavy repression and promises of reform from central Soviet command.
