Our history section contains a large number of articles, and navigation is currently being upgraded to make them easier to find. If you're not sure where to start, take a look at our collections of articles on strikes, or some of the major events of working class history in the 19th and 20th Centuries, including the Paris Commune, Russian Revolution and revolutionary wave, Spanish Civil War, Hungary '56 and France '68.
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history by region
We are in the process of reworking the history section at the moment, but for now you can browse articles by region and country.
biographies
A short biography of Italian anarchist and anti-fascist militant Armando Borghi.
strikes
An overview of the Winter of Discontent, from the Revolt Against an Age of Plenty site.
new articles
A short biography of James Harrigan, anarchist shoemaker and link between the old Chartist movement and the newly emergent anarchist movement
A short biography of Willy Huppertz, who kept alive the flame of German anarchism.
Short biography of Lev Zadov, anarchist communist, metalworker and (in)famous organiser of the Makhnovist intelligence corps.
accounts
Joe Jacobs was in 1936 a local Communist Party activist in London's East End. This is his account of his involvement in the famous defence of the East End against an attempted march by Mosley's fascists.
uprisings
The history of the revolutionary movement in the Ukraine - the anarchist Makhnovists - at the time of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
