Marut, Ret: The Early B. Traven - James Goldwasser A 1990s article surveying the then recently-acquired Ret Marut archive, now residing with the University of California. The documents confirm…
The communist left in Germany 1918-1921 - Gilles Dauvé and Denis Authier A analysis of the revolutionary movements in Europe at the end of World War I, their contradictions…
Churchill, the Cenotaph and May Day 2000 - Practical History This response to the graffitiing of official monuments in London on May Day 2000 looks at the…
Speech in the Reichstag - Otto Rühle Otto Rühle's speech to the Reichstag, rejecting the proposed shift to parliamentary democracy and calling for social revolution.
A people's history of World War I - Howard Zinn Historian Howard Zinn's account of US involvement in World War I, the reasons behind it, and working class resistance to it.
Mollie Steimer, 1897-1980 - Paul Avrich The life of Mollie Steimer, a Jewish anarchist in New York who opposed the First World War, and later lived in exile in France and Mexico.
US Green Corn rebellion, 1917 In 1917, the Working Class Union reacted to the imposition of military conscription with an ill-fated but heroic armed rebellion that stands with…
Memoirs of the I.W.W. [Australia] - Bill Beattie Recollections of struggles in the years around the First World War - by a former Australian Wobbly. From; Labour History no. 13, (Journal of the…
The Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919: The Forgotten Revolution - Alan Woods Trotskyist Alan Woods on the Hungarian uprising of 1919. Wood's account suffers from the usual…
Glasgow and the Wobblies The Industrial Workers of the World's influence in Glasgow is not so well known, but it had considerable influence on the shop stewards movement…
War is the health of the state - Randolph Bourne This classic first part of an essay entitled "The State," left unfinished at Bourne's untimely death in 1918, it explores the connection between…
1915-1920: Red Clydeside and the shop stewards' movement An account of the powerful workers' movement in Scotland and the strike of 100,000 for a 40-hour…