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Gustav Landauer and Margarethe Faas-Hardegger
The IISH recently received a magnificent collection of letters and postcards from the German writer, anarchist and editor of Der Sozialist Gustav Landauer (1870-1919) to the Swiss socialist and peace... [Collection highlight]
Maoists in Three Languages
Switzerland has four official national languages. The tiny Maoist Communist Organization of Switzerland, serves its few hundred members in three of the four languages. Octobre/Oktober/Ottobre is... [Item of the Day]
Bakunin at Peace Conference
Together with the Lausanne conference of the First International, a conference of the League for Peace and Liberty was hold at Geneva in the same month. This 'bourgeois' and pacifist meeting in... [Item of the Day]
Dissident Socialists
When the World War broke out in 1914, the socialist parties in Europe rallied round their governments. On 5 September 1915 dissident socialists from eleven countries had a meeting in Zimmerwald,... [Item of the Day]