Many middle passages: forced migration and the making of the modern world - Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus and Marcus Rediker Collection of essays examining how a multitude of people, from slaves to labourers,…
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo revolution - C.L.R. James This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794…
Abe Lincoln and the 'sublime heroism' of British workers A blog by Paul Mason detailing the support of Manchester's white textile workers of black slaves…
Lincoln and Emancipation - Howard Zinn Historian Howard Zinn on Abraham Lincoln and the eventual abolition of slavery in the US. Which shows that Spielberg's new film, Lincoln, is far…
The struggle of migrant workers in Castelnuovo Scrivia Forty migrant workers have been protesting in Castelnuovo Scrivia (in Piedmont, in the district of…
The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620–1877 Most US historians assume that capitalism either “came in the first ships” or was…
Domination and resistance in the transatlantic world - Max Schwarz Max Schwarz on the importance of the transatlantic slave trade in the transition from the provincial…
Turning Modes of Production Inside Out, or, Why Capitalism is a Transformation of Slavery In this article anarchist anthropologist David Graber puts forward his own views on the 'mode of production' and gives a more sophisticated materialist alternative.
1619-1741: Slavery and slave rebellion in the US - Howard Zinn Howard Zinn's history of slavery and slave revolts in the United States from 1619 up until 1741.
Inmates in Six Georgia Prisons on Strike for Third Work Day An historic prisoners' strike underway in the state of Georgia with inmates in at least six separate prisons refusing to leave their cells for the third work day.
'As many enemies as there are slaves’: Spartacus and the politics of servile rebellion in the late republic A short essay on the politics (real and imagined) of the Three Servile Wars that…
Spartacus revolt: inspiration for the proletariat While waiting to hear someone justify what looks at first sight at least like an attempt to sell the Spartacus story as a form of pornography, it…