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The Only Hope of Ireland - Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman's response to the treatment of those involved in the Easter Rising, from an issue of his newspaper The Blast.

An unlikely mobilization: The occupation of Saint-Nizier church by the prostitutes of Lyon

A journal article by Lilian Mathieu which examines the occupation of Saint-Nizier church in Lyon, June 1975 by prostitutes protesting against police repression. It highlights the difficulties these politically inexperienced women encountered in mobilizing, namely preventing defections and choosing an appropriate mode of action; difficulties they were able to surmount thanks to resources provided by outside supporters endowed with practical knowledge in matters of collective action. Despite this assistance, however, the prostitutes' mobilization quickly declined and soon expired, in part because of the leaders' defection.

Creaghe, Dr. John O'Dwyer, 1841-1920

Short biography of John Creaghe, Irish anarchist who fought baliffs in Sheffield, taught in a free school in Argentina and rioted with Flores Magon in California.

Dr. John O’Dwyer Creaghe (or Juan, as he came to be known), was an Irish-born international revolutionary anarchist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. His name is most often associated with anarchism in England and Argentina, though he was also active in the United States in support of exiled Mexican anarchists, and died in Washington DC.

Nestor Makhno: The life of an anarchist - Victor Peters

The first English biography on Ukrainian anarchist guerrilla leader during the Russian Revolution, Nestor Makhno, by Mennonite historian Victor Peters.

The origins of the IWW in Britain: the two Georges

International Syndicalist Congress 1913

A short account of the activities of the IWW in setting up a section in Britain

During the 1910s in Britain the ideas of the Industrial Workers of the World became increasingly popular in Britain. Apparently two thousand copies per issue of the IWW paper The Industrial Worker were sold there in this period.

Practical anarchists, we’: social revolutionaries in Dublin, 1885–7 - Fintan Lane

Article by Fintan Lane on the pocket of anarchism in Ireland in the 1880s.

When we think of revolutionaries in late nineteenth-century Ireland, we think of Fenians rather than the anarchist agitators who were then making their presence felt on the Continent. Irish revolutionary thought focused on republicanism rather than on class politics—at least until the twentieth century.

Nestor Makhno in the Russian civil war - Michael Malet

One of the first books by a non anarchist about Makhno and the Makhnovists, this is a sympathetic examination of their tactics and activity.

Anarchism and Syndicalism in an African Port City: the revolutionary traditions of Cape Town's multiracial working class, 1904–1931

A paper by Lucien van der Walt examining the development of anarchism and syndicalism in Cape Town, South Africa in the early twentieth century and the then pioneering multiracial and determinedly internationalist stance of those anti-authoritarians involved.

From the history of the anarchist “Black Banner” movement in Białystok

Set the street anarchist Białystok at the beginning of the 20th century

At the turn of the 20th century Białystok, an industrial city with a population of 80,000 in the Polish part of the Russian empire, was the scene of one of the earliest examples of a mass working class movement inspired by anarchist principles. The ideological impetus for the revolutionary movement in Białystok in 1903–1906 was supplied by Chernoye Znamya [Black Banner], an organization which drew on classical anarchist doctrines but also developed its own approach to building a revolutionary working class movement.

In this article, a leading participant of the movement, Iuda Solomovich Grossman-Roshchin, reminisces about Białystok Black Banner and the place it occupies in the history of proletarian revolution. By 1924, when this article was published, Grossman-Roshchin had renounced many of his earlier views but his nostalgia for the period of the 1905 Russian Revolution is apparent.

The Brotherhood of Timber Workers 1910-1913: A radical response to industrial capitalism in the southern USA

A journal article by James R. Green on the the violent struggle between the Brotherhood of Timber Workers (BTW) and the lumber companies of Louisiana and Texas in 1911 and 1912. The Brotherhood, which joined the IWW in 1912, recruited thousands of black and white labourers in an era characterized by increasing social segregation and racial repression.

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