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
Short biographies of Greville Texidor and Werner Droescher who both fought with the Spanish anarchist militias.
strikes
A short history of the massive private sector strike that gripped Denmark for 10 days in 1998. Although ending after negotiations between the government and union leaders left workers demands largely unmet, the strike, involving about 10% of the Danish population was nonetheless a spectacular show of workers' strength.
new articles
A short biography of Maurice Fayolle, veteran social anarchist and founder of the French ORA.
Short biography of Heinrich Bartling, German anarchist active in the FAUD and FKAD and martyred by the Nazis.
A short biography of Fritz Benner, courageous German anarchist.
accounts
Neha Nimmagudda, a student from NYC, spent a few months working as a full time volunteer with the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement in South Africa. In this essay she reflects one of the movement's quarterly all night meetings in which critical issues are discussed.
uprisings
An article by the Internationalist Communist Group (ICG/GCI) about the events in Patagonia 1917-21.
