History

Death of Yugoslavian Che Guevara

Submitted by BratBrat on Mar 22 2018 15:15
Čupić smiling at camera before execution

Brief description of events prior to execution of one of the symbols of Yugoslav anti-facist resistance - Ljubo Čupić

Forward March?

Submitted by syndicalist on Mar 18 2018 23:45

February 1980 LWG leaflet against military conscription.

"Rebellion in Patagonia" - Benefit for "On the Line" (1978)

Submitted by syndicalist on Mar 18 2018 23:02

Flyer announcing film showing of Rebellion in Patagonia". A well attended benefit for the LWG newsletter, "On the Line".

Wow! May Day

Submitted by syndicalist on Mar 18 2018 22:38

1978 public kick off event of the Libertarian Workers Group of New York

The Real Resistance to Slavery in North America

Submitted by R Totale on Mar 18 2018 19:47

A text by Russell Maroon Shoatz/s on historical resistance to slavery in North America. The attached PDF collects this essay together with "The Dragon and The Hydra" and an introduction looking at the relevance of Shoatz's thought to anarchists.

The radical history of Hackney blog

Submitted by Steven. on Mar 9 2018 19:15
Hackney radical history banner

Archived backup of the excellent Radical history of Hackney, east London, blog.

A Victim of Power (Corp) and Police: The La Presse Conflict and the Tear Gas Suffocation of Michele Gauthier

Submitted by greensyndic on Mar 7 2018 04:37

A report on the 1971 conflict at La Presse and the police killing of socialist feminist Michele Gauthier. The broader struggle against Power Corp., the impact of the police killing, and the development of the Common Front and subsequent general strikes.

Bim-Bom, Bang Bang! Chekists and Clowns

Submitted by Battlescarred on Mar 6 2018 18:27
Bim-Bom

A short account of the circus clown duo Bim-Bom and their encounter with the Cheka in revolutionary Russia.

When Chomsky Worked on Weapons Systems for the Pentagon - by Chris Knight

Submitted by hedgehog on Mar 4 2018 14:00
MITRE's first command and control project: the SAGE air defense system for nucle

Between 1963 and 1965, Noam Chomsky worked as a consultant on an Air Force project to establish English as an “operational language for command and control.”[1] According to one of his students, who also worked on this project, the military justification for funding this work was “that in the event of a nuclear war, the generals would be underground with some computers trying to manage things, and that it would probably be easier to teach computers to understand English than to teach the generals to program.”[2]

The Hebridean Land Revolt

Submitted by DD on Mar 2 2018 10:18
An 1884 London Illustrated News portrayal of a crofters' rally

The Hebridean land revolt was a major uprising by the rural peasantry in 19th-century Scotland. Rents went unpaid. Fences were cut in the night. Land was illegally occupied. Telegraph poles were cut down. Roads were blocked with boulders. And government officials were attacked and beaten by mobs of women and men and children. Finally, in November 1884, the British government authorised a military invasion, dispatching gunboats and hundreds of marines.