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The history of a photo - and a video. Anti-fascism's strength and limits in facing rape culture. PART 2

An analysis of how rape culture permeates yesterday and today's right-wing narrative, and of how anti-fascism sometimes failed to face it, with violent consequences. Part 2 of an article by the Nicoletta Bourbaki collective, published on Wu Ming's website.

A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905

A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905

Completed shortly before Walter Rodney's assassination in June 1980, A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 provides an original, well-informed, and perceptive contribution to the historiography of nineteenth-century Guyanese society.

A reading from Noam Chomsky and the Scottish tradition in the philosophy of Common Sense - James Kelman

James Kelman's wide-ranging exploration of the links between the philosophy of Noam Chomsky, and of the Scottish 'common sense' philosophers. Kelman, a Scottish libertarian socialist and author of wide acclaim, sees both intellectual strands as contributing significantly to our understanding of the rights of the working classes.

The history of a photo - and a video. Anti-fascism's strength and limits in facing rape culture. PART 1

Matteo Salvini rape culture

An analysis of how rape culture permeates yesterday and today's right-wing narrative, and of how anti-fascism sometimes failed to face it, with violent consequences. Part 1 of an article by the Nicoletta Bourbaki collective, published on Wu Ming's website.

The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System. The Prevalence of an Aleatory Encounter

WCH Crime: The Columbia Eagle mutiny

The Columbia Eagle mutiny.

Working Class History are delighted to be launching the first season of our new occasional podcast, WCH Crime, where true crime meets the struggle for a better world. Our first series is about the Columbia Eagle mutiny in 1970, perhaps the most spectacular act of resistance to the Vietnam war, when two sailors hijacked their ship transporting thousands of tonnes of napalm for US forces, and sailed it to Cambodia. But they never could have predicted what would happen next...

Savonov, Grigory Mikhailovich aka Grischka (1898-1922)

Submitted by Battlescarred on May 26 2019 09:32
Grigory Savonov

A short biography of Grigory Savonov, Makhnovist commander

Belochub, Panteleimon Fedorovich (1892-1929)

Submitted by Battlescarred on May 24 2019 06:30
Panteleimon Belochub

A short biography of Makhnovist and anarchist Pantaleimon Belochub

The Great Referendum Sideshow – Dominic Sandbrook

Submitted by Red Marriott on May 23 2019 21:33
Dad's Army & co v Tony Benn

A chapter from Sandbrook’s history of the 1970s - on the 1975 UK referendum determining whether the UK should remain in the European Economic Community (EEC).

Enoch Powell: the New Right (1970) - Tom Nairn

Submitted by Red Marriott on May 23 2019 21:06
Smithfield meat packers strike for Powell - London, 1968.

An assessment of Powell's patriotism and racism and its influence within the politics of his time.