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 biography of Jean Louis Pindy: Paris Communard, anarchist and inventor of the Paindy.
strikes
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.
new articles
A short biography of Fritz Kater, important figure within FVdG and FAUD in Germany.
A short biography of Franz Nowak, German anarchist murdered by the Nazis
A short biography of Wilhelm Werner, one of the pioneers of German anarchism.
