1800s

Midnight legislation: Class Struggle in Ireland 1760-1840

Failure of the potato crop, Illustration from the Pictorial Times 22 August 1846

This article was originally carried in issue 60 of Organise!, journal of the Anarchist Federation. It is a brief history of Whiteboy groups in rural Ireland.

1600-1980: Introduction to the United States - Noel Ignatiev

Noel Ignatiev

Introduction to the United States: An Autonomist Political History, Noel Ignatiev

1850-1994: The Battle for Hyde Park: ruffians, radicals and ravers

A timeline and radical history of rebellion, riots, sex and subversion in London's most famous park

Good old-fashioned trade unionism - Wildcat

Wildcat argue that unions have sabotaged working class struggle since their inception.

1862-1999: Revolutionary song in Italy

Portrait of Pietro Gori

The history of song, music, class struggle and anarchism in Italy's turbulent past.

1789-1989: Revolutionary song in France

French Revolution

A history of song, music and revolutionary working class politics in France from the 1789 Revolution up to the 1980s and punk.

1799-today: Repression in Britain

A short history of repressive and anti-worker government practice and legislation in Britain over the past two centuries.

1871: The Paris Commune

A barricade during the Paris Commune, 1971.

A brief history of the world's first socialist working class uprising. The workers of Paris, joined by mutinous National Guardsmen, seized the city and set about re-organising society in their own interests based on workers' councils. They could not hold out, however, when more troops retook the city and massacred 30,000 workers in bloody revenge.

1851: The Sydney sailors' riot

A history of the violent clash between Australian sailors and police after officers attempted to arrest a man dressed as a woman.

1833-1849: The Dorr Rebellion

Thomas W Dorr

Howard Zinn's history of a movement in the United States against a political system which permitted the vote only to landowners. Drafting their own “People’s Convention” the rebels were let down by some of their own ideas, such as racism, and were put down by force.