History

The Left Communists' Theses on the Current Situation (Russia, 1918)

Submitted by Red Marriott on Aug 28 2016 21:57

Published by the academic journal Critique, Glasgow, in 1977, this text has long been unavailable in print and apparently never before freely available online. A very important document of the Russian Revolution, showing the divisions within the Bolshevik Party in their early days in power.

A documentary history of communism in Russia - Robert V. Daniels

Submitted by Craftwork on Aug 28 2016 15:35

A valuable collection of nearly 300 documents (from 1894-1991) on Russia and socialism, from a variety of contributors - e.g. Lenin, the Russian left communists, Luxemburg.

The whitewashing of French forces in the liberation of Paris - Steven Johns

Submitted by Steven. on Aug 24 2016 22:26
Senegalese troops who fought for the French as prisoners of war in Europe

A short account of how American and British commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris was orchestrated by a “whites only” force.

Direct Action: For workers direct control - V. 6 # 9 (51) - September, 1965

Submitted by syndicalist on Aug 24 2016 01:42

Monthly Paper of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation (IWMA)

Direct Action: World Labour News - V. 4 # 7 (25) - July, 1963

Submitted by syndicalist on Aug 24 2016 00:20

Monthly Paper of the International Working Men's Association

The Wave Hill walk-off, 1966-1975

Submitted by Steven. on Aug 22 2016 18:15
Wave Hill strikers

A short history of the Wave Hill, or Gurindji, strike, when aboriginal agricultural workers walked out for equal pay and then lodged a claim for the land they worked on. They remained out for an incredible nine years, and were eventually given back a proportion of the land.

The SPA: Dashed on the Rocks of Compromise

Submitted by jondwhite on Aug 22 2016 15:40

Other than in our Socialist Party, way too much thought on revolutionary socialist organisation gets written advocating Lenin’s way as the one and only way and applying historic conditions under Russian feudalism to Western democracies today, and whose justification amounts to thinly veiled apologetics for ‘history is written by the victors’. The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History by Jack Ross, published last year, joins the comparatively smaller range of literature not from this vanguard perspective, and even opposed to it.

Black rebellion: five slave revolts - Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Submitted by Steven. on Aug 22 2016 11:17
Contemporary illustration of the Nat Turner Rebellion

Detailed histories of five important episodes of slave revolt, excerpted from a longer book called Travellers and Outlaws by abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, first published in 1889. Unfortunately it contains language and a perspective tainted by the widespread prejudice at the time, however we reproduce it in full for historical information only.

The First Socialist Schism: Bakunin vs. Marx in the International Working Men's Association - Wolfgang Eckhardt

Submitted by Craftwork on Aug 20 2016 18:39

Trafalgar Square Riots of 1848

Submitted by Reddebrek on Aug 18 2016 23:11

This page reports how disgruntled workers took over a planned peaceful protest and set off a week of rioting in central London. It names more than 100 of those arrested.