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 Guy Bourgeois, French anarchist and anti-colonialist who fought with the resistance during World War 2.
strikes
A contemporary document recounting the first ever recorded labour strike, which occured in Deir el Medina, Ancient Egypt during the reign of Ramses III when workers did not receive their rations.
new articles
A short biography of the shadowy and mysterious figure of Wilkens, intrepid Spanish anarchist who was one of the first in Western Europe to offer serious criticisms of the Bolsheviks.
A short biography of the obscure figure of Ukrainian anarchist Sacha Piotr-real name Alexander Schapiro, active in the Ukraine, Russia, Belgium, France and Germany. He fought with the anarchists in Spain and was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz. Father of the gifted mathematican Alexander Grothendieck
