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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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 the legendary Mexican revolutionary hero, guerrilla and anarchist, Emiliano Zapata.
strikes
Images, stories and videos from Youtube of accidents caused by use of managers as untrained scab labour to attempt to break the postal workers strikes against deterioration in pay and conditions.
new articles
Schoolteacher Ron Jones's personal account of his experiment which created a proto-fascist movement amongst his high school pupils in Palo Alto, California, which in 2008 was subject of the award-winning film The Wave.
An anti-authoritarian analysis of the dire situation faced by ordinary people in Argentina in 1990. "While continuing to resist the authoritarian advance, and working together in solidarity, let's not forget that there are no quick revolutions; they grow from the ground up."
Interesting article with snippets of analysis and often personal anecdotes about a number of unofficial strikes in the UK since the 1960s.
accounts
An interview conducted in 1964 with former KAPD (Communist Workers Party of Germany) member Bernhard Reichenbach about the 1921 Communist International Congress in Moscow, after which the KAPD withdrew from the Comintern.
uprisings
A brief history of the rebellion in Chiapas in the jungles of Mexico, where hundreds of thousands of people rose up against the Mexican state and organised themselves into libertarian-inspired federated communes, which are still in existence today.
