food riots

Flight from the land and food riots

Excellent article by Wildcat Germany analysing the food crisis and the global agricultural industry under capitalism.

Food rioters and the American Revolution - Barbara Clark Smith

Submitted by mintru on Jan 24 2012 19:57

The Boston Massacre during the American Revolution

On more than thirty occasions between 1776 and 1779, American men and women gathered in crowds to confront hoarding merchants, intimidate "unreasonable" storekeepers, and seize scarce commodities ranging from sugar to tea to bread. A good-sized minority of the crowds we know about consisted largely of women; a few others may have included men and women alike. Each crowd voiced specific local grievances, but it is clear that their participants sometimes knew of actions elsewhere and viewed each episode as part of a wider drama.

A political revolution for women? The case of Paris - Darline Gay Levy and Harriet B. Applewhite

Submitted by mintru on Jan 24 2012 19:41

Women' s March to Versailles during the French Revolution

The women's march to Versailles capped months of women's political involvement during the French Revolution - in Paris neighbourhoods, electoral assemblies, the conquest of the Bastille and in several dozen processions with the newly formed national guard. Thousands of marching women empowered themselves as citizens as they confronted and helped to abolish the monarchy - and then continued to confront the new authorities.

A POLITICAL REVOLUTION FOR WOMEN? THE CASE OF PARIS by Darline Gay Levy and Harriet B. Applewhite

Women and communal strikes in the crisis of 1917-1922 - Temma Kaplan

Submitted by tolern on Jun 2 2011 13:34

An article on women's pivotal role in Russia, Italy, Spain and Mexico during the revolutionary wave of 1917-1922.

From: R.Bridenthal & C. Koonz, Becoming Visible: Women in European History, p430-46.

The Moral Economy Reviewed - E.P.Thompson

Submitted by plecil on May 7 2011 17:54

The follow-up article to E.P.Thompson's classic 'The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the 18th Century' from the book: Customs in Common.

The protests in North Africa: what is happening?

The protests against the high cost of living, unemployment and corruption have been growing since the end of the year throughout North Africa, spreading through both Tunisia and Algeria in more and more cities and involving more social sectors, to the extent that the situation in both countries has become extremely unstable - much to the concern of the United States and the European Union, the top two international guarantors of the oligarchic political systems that are perpetuated in the Maghreb, posing as "buffer states" against the advance of Islamic fundamentalism in the region.

Bouteflika in Algeria and Tunisia's Ben Ali (not to mention Mohammed VI in Morocco) are presented to the outside world as "strong men" who need a strong hand to subdue and keep out the enemy within, at the cost of plunging their populations into poverty and keeping them disciplined with an iron fist, crushing or hindering as much as possible any attempt by the people to organise themselves or seek

"When they come to attack our people, we will stand our ground and fight!"

A poster produced by the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement

The third article in the Fargate Speaker's series on Sheffield radical history.

Continuing the Fargate Speaker's exploration of neglected parts of Sheffield history, here's another look at some of Sheffield's long tradition of radicalism.

On the socialist origins of International Women's Day - Temma Kaplan

Submitted by bilrut on Mar 8 2010 20:25

Temma Kaplan explains the origins of International women's day in the workers' movement in the USA, Europe and during the Russian Revolution.

The Everyday Lives of Parisian Women and the October Days of 1789 - David Garrioch

Submitted by bilrut on Mar 8 2010 20:09

'The men are holding back, the men are cowards . . . we will take over'

On 5 October 1789 thousands of Parisian women tramped twelve miles to Versailles to bring the king back to the capital. This event radicalised the French Revolution.