The Bagaudae: history's first revolutionaries? - Pablo Romero Gabella
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Dec 6 2013 01:52
A brief introduction to the Bagaudae, the social and historical context of the late Roman Empire, and the modern debates over the meaning of the revolts generally included under this rubric.
The revolutionary program of communist society eliminates all forms of ownership of land, the instruments of production and the products of labor - Partito Comunista Internazionale (Amadeo Bordiga)
In this 1957 text drafted for the Partito Comunista Internazionale, Amadeo Bordiga, with his usual acerbic wit, restates some of the “invariant” principles of Marxism, denounces the idea that communism means collective or individual “property” or “ownership”—terms he subjects to historical analysis as transitory juridical forms—argues in favor of social usufruct as the concept most adequate for the future classless society, ridicules the “metaphysical and idealist” error of the “immediatists” who hold that “socialism is a struggle for the individual liberation of the worker” and, just to rub it in, condemns drinkers and smokers as “usufructuary traitors” against the health of the species.
The peasants war in Germany 1525-1526 - Ernest Belfort Bax
Belfort Bax's 1899 history of the peasants war in Germany: the largest popular uprising in Europe besides the French revolution.
Report from autonomous peasant congress in Indonesia
Submitted by kontinum on Feb 10 2013 15:53
Short reportage from Indonesian Autonomous Peasant Congress
Q - Luther Blissett
Set in the time of tremendous religious and political upheaval caused by the Reformation in Europe, Q begins with Luther nailing his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg cathedral -- a historical flash point which would completely disrupt European society. The novel traces the adventures and conflicts of two central characters as they travel across Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. One is an Anabaptist, a member of the most radical Protestant sect. These are the anarchists of the Reformation who revolted against Catholicism and the emerging Reformation church. The other is a Catholic spy and informer.
Ancient utopia and peasant revolts in China - Ngo Van Xuyet
The last essay completed by the veteran Vietnamese council communist, written in 2004 when he was 91 years old, is a brief introduction to the history of peasant revolts in China, with special emphasis on their Taoist origins and utopian and libertarian inspirations, and features many interesting quotations from historical and religious texts.
With the peasants of Aragon - Augustin Souchy
Submitted by ites on Aug 24 2012 11:57
Augustin Souchy describes the experiments in workers control and self-management of production he witnessed when travelling around the liberated parts of Spain during the revolution.
The struggle of migrant workers in Castelnuovo Scrivia
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Jul 13 2012 15:29
Forty migrant workers have been protesting in Castelnuovo Scrivia (in Piedmont, in the district of Alessandria) since June 22.
Honduras farm workers stage mass land occupations
Submitted by tastybrain on Apr 23 2012 01:38
Thousands of rural workers in Honduras have occupied land as part of a dispute with large landowners and the government.
China Blue
Submitted by bulmer on Mar 10 2012 08:06
China Blue is a documentary that follows a 17 year old Chinese girl migrating from her home in the Sichuan province to work in a jeans factory in Guangdong. It shows the harsh realities as a factory worker for millions of migrants in China.
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