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The Actuality of the Revolution: Reflections on Lenin’s State and Revolution

Submitted by osacsa on May 19 2012 16:37

How Lenin wrote State and Revolution in order to extract the political project advanced by the autonomous struggles of the Russian proletariat during the July Days.

By the first days of July 1917, tensions in the Russian capital were the highest they had been since the February Revolution that deposed the Tsar, announced a Provisional Government, and gave birth to a new wave of soviets.

Leech, Frank (1900-1953)

Submitted by Battlescarred on May 17 2012 16:21
Frank Leech

A short biography of Frank Leech, anarchist active in Glasgow for more than 30 years

“We who knew him personally realised that his breezy manner and sunny smile came from his generous heart, and were not assumed to cover any distasteful thoughts or actions” Fred Ogden, Stockport anarchist

Windhoff, Carl (1872-1941)

Submitted by Battlescarred on May 14 2012 20:47
Windhoff (front right) International Syndicalist Congress 1913

A short biography of Carl Windhoff, German anarchist, FAUD organiser and tiler

Carl Windhoff was born on 9th November 1872 in Düsseldorf. He became interests in radical ideas at the age of fourteen and gravitated towards the workers’ movement controlled by the Social Democrats. He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1890.

Karl Börder (c. 1868-1949)

Submitted by Battlescarred on May 11 2012 21:34

A short biography of German anarchist Karl Börder who refused to give up

Karl Börder as a young man worked in the revolutionary movement as a delegate of the metal workers’ union in Hamborn. He became an anarchist in 1908 and started writing for the anarchist paper Freie Arbeiter (Free Worker) and was involved in the Anarchist Foederation setting up a group in Hamborn involving a number of miners.

Some little-known anarchists Part 2.

Submitted by Battlescarred on May 11 2012 18:13

Short biographies of lesser known English and Scottish anarchists

Harry Jones (c.1916-1949)

From a very early age Harry Jones was involved in distribution of anarchist propaganda. He had accumulated a very comprehensive library of anarchist books and pamphlets and in 1942 he put these at the disposal of the London movement through the library of Freedom Press.

Pages from New Zealand history: Tracing Joe Hill's Ashes in New Zealand

Submitted by Jared on May 9 2012 11:13

Presentation on Joe Hill, the IWW and New Zealand's radical labour movement (video).

View the video here.

Agrarian class structure and economic development in pre-industrial Europe - Robert Brenner

Submitted by Joseph Kay on May 9 2012 07:14
Robert Kett, yeoman farmer who sided with the peasantry against enclosures

Robert Brenner's influential essay on the origins of capitalism, arguing that the balance of class forces in the countryside was crucial to the rise and dominance of capitalist wage labour relations.

General interpretations of the processes of long-term economic change in late medieval and early modern Europe have continued to be constructed almost exclusively in terms of what might loosely be called "objective" economic forces, in particular demographic fluctuations and the growth of trade and markets. A variety of models have been constructed centring on these forces.

The day we took the white tower

Submitted by T La Palli on May 7 2012 13:24

Account the occupation of Accountants Price Waterhouse offices in Glasgow in support of the South Wales Miners.

At 7:30 am on Tuesday, 4th September, 1984, 12 anarchists stormed a multi-story office block in Glasgow city centre. They went in to occupy the headquarters of Accountants Price Waterhouse, the millionaire outfit which sequestrated the South Wales Miners' Funds. As the newspapers reported, the operation was executed with military precision.

Otto Gross - the Anarchist Psychoanalyst

Submitted by rasa2 on May 3 2012 11:29
dangerous method

Vincent Cassel's portrayal of Dr. Otto Gross in the film, The Dangerous Method, is very powerful. However, it doesn't say much about the real Otto Gross - who, despite his many flaws, managed to combine interests in Stirner, Nietzsche, Freud, Kropotkin, 'sexual revolution', feminism and the German Communist Party (in its early more left-communist phase). He was also an important influence on Jung, Kafka and Berlin Dada.

Here is an interesting article by Gottfried Heuer, and a classic article by Gross himself describing the revolutionary potential of psychoanalysis, years before Reich, Marcuse, Fromm or Laing:

THE DEVIL UNDERNEATH THE COUCH: THE SECRET STORY OF JUNG'S TWIN BROTHER - Gottfried Heuer

A Fragment Of Luigi Galleani's Life

Submitted by GrouchoMarxist on Apr 30 2012 23:31

A biography of part of Luigi Galleani's life.

If an Anarchist movement exists today among the Italian immigrants and if such a movement has suffered practically no desertions as a consequence of the Bolshevik incarnation of Socialism, it is due to a large extent to the teachings and example of Luigi Galleani.