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 founding member of the French ORA, anarchist militant, artist, writer, animator of cultural and artistic events.
strikes
The longest and strongest wave of worker protest since the end of World War II is rolling through Egypt. In March, the liberal daily al-Masri al-Yawm estimated that no fewer than 222 sit-in strikes, work stoppages, hunger strikes and demonstrations had occurred during 2006.
new articles
Short biography of Heinrich Bartling, German anarchist active in the FAUD and FKAD and martyred by the Nazis.
A short biography of the German revolutionary seaman Ernst Schneider
accounts
An interview conducted in 1964 with former KAPD (Communist Workers Party of Germany) member Bernhard Reichenbach about the 1921 Communist International Congress in Moscow, after which the KAPD withdrew from the Comintern.
uprisings
An article, edited from News and Letters, outlining the uprising at the Gulag in Vorkuta in 1953.
