History

Japan's wartime use of colonial labour: Taiwan and Korea (1937-45)

Submitted by Reddebrek on May 31 2017 16:46

A thesis detailing the extent of the exploitation of colonial labourers of Taiwanese and Korean origin as Japan mobilised for war, the conditions of the workers and their resistance.

IWW strike timeline, 1905-1920

Submitted by Steven. on May 31 2017 08:50

Oliver Steel strike demonstration, Pittsburgh, 1911-12

A timeline of strikes led supported by the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union in the United States 1905-1920.

Finisterre, Alejandro, 1919-2007

Submitted by Steven. on May 30 2017 17:06

A short biography of Spanish anarchist poet and inventor of table football (“foosball”), Alejandro Finisterre, born Alejandro Campos Ramirez.

What? Anarchists in Egypt!

Submitted by Steven. on May 27 2017 11:18

A short account of the anarchist movement, primarily of Italian migrants, in Egypt before 1916, by Costantino Paonessa.

The Russian anarchist movement during the First World War

Submitted by Steven. on May 27 2017 10:58

A detailed history of anarchists in Russia during World War I, written by D.I. Rublyov and translated by Malcolm Archibald.

Life in the century's midnight

Submitted by Steven. on May 27 2017 09:14

Photo of bodies being burned at Auschwitz taken by resistance member

A history of the left wing and Jewish resistance movement in the Auschwitz concentration camp during the holocaust, by Marcus Barnett.

Andrea Salsedo of Pantelleria

Submitted by Steven. on May 26 2017 16:03

A short account of the life of Italian anarchist Andrea Salsedo, who was killed in 1920 by a "fall" from a police station window in New York.

The 1946 general strike of Rochester, New York

Submitted by Steven. on May 24 2017 14:39

A short history of the general strike in May 1946 in Rochester against the sacking of hundreds of municipal workers, written by Jon Garlock.

Stjepan Filipović: everlasting symbol of anti-fascism

Submitted by BratBrat on May 23 2017 19:06

Short account of the execution of Croatian communist partisan Stjepan Filipović by the Nazis in 1942, which was made famous by his final act of defiance.

The revolutionary movement and the Second World War: interview with Marc Chirik, 1985

Submitted by Alf on May 20 2017 21:35

1985 interview with Marc Chirik focusing on the internationalist opposition to World War Two, especially in France

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