History

The Early Christian Communists

Submitted by Rommon on May 3 2017 18:06
Agape Feast

The early Christian Communities practiced communism, here's how we know.

The Party Organizer

Submitted by Pennoid on Apr 29 2017 22:06

The Party Organizer began being published in 1927 and was the main internal organizing paper for the CPUSA. It functioned as a tool to guide party activists and can provide clearer insights for present day communist organizers.

Interactive map of the 1905 revolution

Submitted by Dyjbas on Apr 29 2017 21:14
St_Petersburg_Soviet_1905

A map of the 1905-07 revolution – a precursor to the 1917 revolutions, which gave the world the workers’ councils, a staple of many revolutionary upheavals ever since. Work in progress.

Sanchez Rosa, Jose (1864-1936): The Shoemaker of Grazalema

Submitted by Battlescarred on Apr 29 2017 05:16
Jose Sanchez Rosa.

A short biography of Jose Sanchez Rosa, noted Andalucian anarchist shot by the Francoists in 1936

Against the mainstream: Nazi privatization in 1930s Germany

Submitted by Reddebrek on Apr 18 2017 17:49

An article about the wave of privatisations carried out by the Nazi party in the 1930s.

مارکس نظریه پرداز آنارشیسم

Submitted by Majid00 on Apr 17 2017 16:46

Chomsky at MIT: Between the war scientists and the anti-war students, by Chris Knight

Submitted by hedgehog on Apr 17 2017 16:15
Noam Chomsky and police confronting students at MIT, November 1969

It is now fifty years since Noam Chomsky published his celebrated article, 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals'.* Few other writings had a greater impact on the turbulent political atmosphere on US campuses in the 1960s. The essay launched Chomsky's political career as the world's most intransigent and cogent critic of US foreign policy - a position he has held to this day.

Interactive map of workers’ councils (1917-1927)

Submitted by Dyjbas on Apr 17 2017 14:58
Ivanovo_Voznesensk_Soviet_1917

The 1917 revolution in Russia, and the comeback of workers’ councils, signalled the start of a revolutionary wave that spread across the world over the next ten years. The map below is an attempt at charting the spread of the council movement in the 1917-1927 period. Work in progress!

Occupational hazards

Submitted by Steven. on Mar 28 2017 21:51
The South London Women's Hospital occupation

A compilation of writings put together by Past Tense on hospital occupations and work-ins in the UK from the 1970s to the 1990s.

The brief summer of anarchy: the life and death of Durruti - Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Submitted by Alias Recluse on Mar 26 2017 21:58

Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s non-fiction “adventure novel” about Buenaventura Durruti and the Spanish anarchist movement (ca. 1917-1937), first published in Germany in 1972, consisting of a more or less chronological “collage” of “translated, abridged and rearranged” excerpts from “reports and speeches, interviews and proclamations … letters, travel narratives, anecdotes, pamphlets, polemics, newspaper articles, autobiographical texts, flyers and propaganda leaflets” (including extensive selections from the eyewitness accounts of Simone Weil, Ilya Ehrenburg, H. E. Kaminski, Mikhail Koltsov, Ricardo Sanz and Jesús Arnal Pena), punctuated by the author’s “Commentaries”.