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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history by region
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 biography of Soledad Estorach, one of the most dynamic founders and activists of Mujeres Libres.
strikes
History of how arms company workers struggled against closure and for a change in their work from weapons manufacture to socially useful production.
new articles
A short biography of the German revolutionary seaman Ernst Schneider
A short biography of Christian Lagant, French anarchist militant and one of chief editors of Noir et Rouge
Typesetter, film maker, scenario write, actor and anarchist active within the movement in Spain and internationally.
accounts
An account of the short lived post office strike in Luxembourg, 1942.
uprisings
A brief history of the rebellion in Chiapas in the jungles of Mexico, where hundreds of thousands of people rose up against the Mexican state and organised themselves into libertarian-inspired federated communes, which are still in existence today.
