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“I saw the bright ones arrive”: Idealism, alienation, and persistence in the personal legacies of Australian involvement in the Spanish Civil War

This article explores the little-acknowledged story of Australians who volunteered in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.

Specific focus is placed on understanding how the experience affected their later years, particularly in the historical context of the Cold War society in which they lived out the remainder of their lives.

Anarchism and the British warfare state: the prosecution of the 'war commentary' anarchists, 1945

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Article by Carissa Honeywell, published in 'International Review of Social History', Volume 60, Issue 2, pp. 257-284 (August 2015). This article argues that in the closing months of World War II the British government decided to suppress War Commentary because officials feared that its polemic might foment political turmoil and thwart postwar policy agendas as military personnel began to demobilize and reassert their civilian identities.

The Woman Rebel #1.03

The Woman Rebel #1.03 cover

The Woman Rebel Vol. 1. No. 3 (May, 1914). New York, NY. Sourced from the Archives of Social History (from the State University of New York) 1976 republication of The Woman Rebel. Digitized by Google and uploaded to HathiTrust. Document has 100% OCR.

Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future

Remaking Society is a primer on Murray Bookchin's pioneering and controversial ideas on nature and society. A major spokesperson for the ecology movement for over twenty years, Bookchin here uncovers the roots of today's global ecological crisis in the emergence of social hierarchy and domination.- Remaking Society

Urbanization Without Cities: The Rise and Decline of Citizenship

Murray Bookchin introduces provocative ideas about the nature of community and what it means to be a fully empowered citizen. He believes that the tensions that exists between rural and urban society can be a vital source of human creativity, thereby defining a new, richly imaginative politics which can help us recover the power of the individual, restore the positive values and quality of urban life, and reclaim the ideal of the city as a major creative force in our civilization. What is envisaged is an environmentally oriented politics, a new ecological ethics and a citizenry that will restore the balance between city and country and, ultimately, between humanity and nature.

The Murray Bookchin Reader

The Murray Bookchin Reader, edited by Janet Biehl

Impossibilism - Jon White's reading guide

A guide to further reading around the subject of impossibilism.

A Politics for the 99%

The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations were remarkably successful in capturing the public imagination and identifying the need for a new kind of politics. But they have since floundered. Why did this happen? Was the Occupy movement stifled by misconceptions of political power? What kind of political theory do we need to advance a new politics? How can we realistically challenge the power of the 1%?

The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism

This edition of The Philosophy of Social Ecology has been so radically revised that in many respects it is a new book. There is a new introduction, a new Preface and a new essay titled "History, Civilization, and Progress. - The Philosophy of Social Ecology

The Gold Coast Revolution

George Padmore's analysis of the independence movement on the Gold Coast against British rule, leading to the founding of Ghana under the presidency of Kwame Nkrumah.