Anarchist Federation
Articles by or about the Anarchist Federation, an anarchist-communist organisation in Britain affiliated to the International of Anarchist Federations which publishes the magazine Organise!
1922: The Hong Kong strike
The history of a huge general strike in Hong Kong which won many concessions, including a 20% pay hike.
Hong Kong, Pearl of The Orient? Bastion of democracy against communism? Or a battleground for 200 years between worker and master?
1915: The Glasgow rent strike
The history of a months-long rent strike of 30,000 Glasgow residents against profiteering landlords, forcing the government to freeze rents for the duration of World War I.
During the First World War, rent increases across Glasgow provoked massive working class opposition, mainly from women organised in tenants’ groups. Their struggle against profiteering landlords during extremely difficult circumstances is a valuable example of how collective action really gets results.
The Anarchist Movement in Japan, 1906-1996 - John Crump
John Crump's history of anarchism and the anarchist movement in Japan from the beginning of the 20th Century up until the pamphlet was written in the 1990s.
by John Crump, prefaced by the Anarchist Communist Federation
Anarchist Communist Editions ACE Pamphlet No. 8
Paper edition printed by Pirate Press (Autumn 1996). This Electronic Edition (Summer 1998)
Published by the Anarchist Federation www.afed.org.uk
Wilckens, Kurt Gustav, 1886-1923
A short biography of German-born anarchist Kurt Gustav Wilckens, who assassinated the man responsible for the deaths of 1,500 workers, and whose murder provoked a general strike.
Kurt Gustav Wilckens
Born 3 November 1886 - Germany, died 15 June 1923, Argentina
Noe, Ito, 1895-1923
A short biography of Ito Noe, a courageous Japanese woman who broke with her social conditioning and became a champion of both women’s liberation and anarchism.
Ito Noe
Born 1895 - Kyushu, Japan, died 1923 - Tokyo, Japan
Ito was born in 1895, to a family of landed aristocracy, on the southern island of Kyushu. After graduating from Ueno Girls High School, she was forced against her will into an arranged marriage in her native village. She soon ran away to Tokyo.
Radowitzky, Simon, 1891-1956
A biography of Ukrainian-born anarchist Simon Radowitzky, who assassinated a police chief responsible for the killings of workers.
Simon Radowitzky
Aka Szymon Radowicki, born 10 September or November 1891 - Ukraine, died 29 February 1956 - Mexico
Szymon Radowicki (more usually known in Argentina as Simon Radowitzky) was born on either the 10th of September or November 1891 into a workers family in the Jewish community in the little Ukrainian village of Stepanice (Stapanesso).
Roussenq, Paul, 1885-1949
A short biography of French anarchist Paul Roussenq, who spent much of his life in prison camps.
Paul Roussenq
Born 1885 - France, died August 1949 - France
The jailbird of Saint Gilles
Social change not climate change
The disastrous effects of global warming are being felt world-wide...
Rising sea levels are leading to floods and landslides, increasing storm activity is causing widespread death, homelessness, and destruction, and long and sustained droughts are severely damaging food production. Ultimately, millions will die, and there will be massive ecological destruction, if we do not act.
Interview: Anarchism, the USSR, alternative media and Belarus
The Anarchist Federation interviews two members of the Belarusian Anarchist Federation (BAF).
The AF recently hosted a meeting of the International of Anarchist Federations. Two comrades, Pauluk and Maryna, from the BAF, an organisation applying to join the International, attended the meeting and made a presentation on the situation in their country at the 2005 London Anarchist Bookfair.
1990-1991: The Kurdistan Shoras Resistance - AF
Short article with patchy information about the movements of Shoras - workers' councils - in Kurdistan, 1990-91, after the first Gulf War
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