History

The Fichtmann family

Submitted by Battlescarred on Oct 7 2017 12:27

A short account of the Fichtmann family, active in the KAPD and AAU

In November we remember: the centennial of the 1912 Little Falls textile strike – Brendan Maslauskas Dunn

Submitted by Councils and Co... on Sep 29 2017 04:12
Little Falls textile strikers in front of the strike headquarters (Slovak Hall)

An overview of the Little Falls textile strike of 1912. First published as follows in November 2012 in the Industrial Worker (issue 1750, vol. 109, no. 9).

Wobblies and Cossacks: The 1913 great strike

Submitted by Steven. on Sep 25 2017 13:22
1913 general strike

A short history of the 1913 New Zealand general strike by Ciaran Doolin.

The Catalan CNT and the Asturias uprising

Submitted by Steven. on Sep 25 2017 10:38
Asturian miners in the trenches in October 1934.

Article responding to criticisms of the anarchist CNT union in Catalonia during the Asturias uprising of 1934. In particular it looks at how the CNT was being repressed by Catalan authorities at the time.

The Anarchist Movement in Ukraine at the Height of the New Economic Policy (1924-25) by Viktor Savchenko

Submitted by Kate Sharpley on Sep 24 2017 17:19

A study of anarchism in Ukraine, after it had supposedly 'disappeared'.

Political persecution in republican Spain

Submitted by Steven. on Sep 22 2017 11:28
Montjuich prison, 1939

Short article by Emma Goldman giving an overview of Stalinist persecution of revolutionary antifascists during the Spanish civil war.

The century of revolution, 1603-1714

Submitted by Anonymous on Sep 20 2017 21:11
Revelry at an inn

Christopher Hill's grassroots history of 17th-century England, as the modern state began to take shape.

The left wing opposition in Italy during the period of the Resistance - Arturo Peregalli

Submitted by Craftwork on Sep 20 2017 13:57

An account of the groups to the left of the PCI, during WW2 by Arturo Peregalli. First published in 'Revolutionary History, Vol.5, No.4' ( Translated by Barbara Rossi and Doris Bornstein. It is based upon Peregalli’s 'Il Partito Comunista Internazionalista', and 'L’altra Resistenza: Il PCI e le opposizioni di sinistra in Italia, 1943–45', which first appeared as a series of fascicles in the 'Studi e Ricerche' series of the Centro Pietro Tresso (nos. 2, 4, 5, 8, 16, 17 and 21) and later as a full length book published by Graphos (Genoa 1991).

A short history of colonialism in Congo, 1885-1997

Submitted by Steven. on Sep 19 2017 15:32
A missionary with a child whose hand had been severed

A very short overview of Belgian, and latterly US, imperialism in Congo, written by Marty Jezer in 2001.

Cotters and squatters: housing's hidden history

Submitted by Anonymous on Sep 19 2017 10:36
Diggers illustration

Colin Ward's Cotters and Squatters explores the story of squatter settlement in England and Wales: from our cave-dwelling recent ancestors to the Diggers and on the industrial revolution; and from twentieth-century mass squatting to modern claims that The Land is Ours.