The Makhnovist movement and the national question in the Ukraine, 1917-1921
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 26 2017 09:35
A detailed account and analysis of the Ukrainian revolutionary anarchist army, during the Russian revolution, written by Aleksandr Shubin.
The British Anarchist Movement and the Russian Revolution
Submitted by Battlescarred on Jul 18 2017 15:04
A short account of how Britiish anarchists related to the Russian Revolution of 1917
Political Situation in Venezuela: Crisis, Trends, and the Challenge of Class Independence
An examination of Venezuela’s process of social transformation, popular struggles and resulting contradictions under Chavismo, PSUV and now Maduro.
What now? Fighting austerity in a hung parliament
Submitted by libcom on Jun 8 2017 22:20
Whatever the result of the general election, we need to be building a movement capable of creating a better world.
What? Anarchists in Egypt!
Submitted by Steven. on May 27 2017 11:18
A short account of the anarchist movement, primarily of Italian migrants, in Egypt before 1916, by Costantino Paonessa.
The Russian anarchist movement during the First World War
Submitted by Steven. on May 27 2017 10:58
A detailed history of anarchists in Russia during World War I, written by D.I. Rublyov and translated by Malcolm Archibald.
Slovakia's unemployed riots of 2004
Submitted by jura on Feb 21 2017 07:31
In February and March 2004, the Roma unemployed in Slovakia responded to cuts in welfare provisions with demonstrations and looting. The state's response involved the greatest mobilization of police forces since the fall of Stalinism. Although the unrest was crushed, it managed to secure better conditions for all unemployed in Slovakia.
The rule of law and the working class: anti-corruption protests in Romania
Submitted by Ravna on Feb 9 2017 04:34
In the following text we are going to try and express an anarchist communist assessment, in as much a coherent manner as it is possible at the present time, of the recent protests against some of the decisions made by the governing party and the manner in which these were perceived as an atack on the “rule of law”, the post-state capitalist trajectory of Romania, and on the “progress” made in the last 27 years.
Abahlali’s Vocal Politics of Proximity: Speaking, Suffering and Political Subjectivization
First published in 2012 this paper, written after sustained immersion in Abahlali baseMjondolo, examines the significance of what the author terms 'speaking suffering' in the movement's politics.
Dis/placing political illiteracy: the politics of intellectual equality in a South African shack-dwellers’ movement
The production and abandonment of surplus people also depends on rendering them as improper political subjects. In the prevailing political discourse, poor people’s struggles are deemed less than political through notions such as the idea that all protest is related to the pace of “service delivery” or accusations of violence, as well as often explicit characterizations of dissenting people as ignorant. Such discursive moves imply and reinforce a conception of the poor black majority as unable to think and practice their own politics; that is, as politically illiterate group of people.
