1800s

Midnight legislation: Class Struggle in Ireland 1760-1840

Terry — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:50:40 +0000

During the years 1788-1868, 2,249 political prisoners were transported from Ireland to exile in Australia. Of that number, less than 20% belonged to the well commemorated nationalist rebellions and conspiracies of 1798, 1803, 1848 and 1867.1
Who were the rest?

1600-1980: Introduction to the United States - Noel Ignatiev

catch — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:45:57 +0000

PUBLISHER'S INTRODUCTION

1850-1994: The Battle for Hyde Park: ruffians, radicals and ravers

catch — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:40:11 +0000

[9,500 words]

Contents
1855: Marx in the Park: "it looked as if the demonstration was going to simmer down to harmless Sunday amusements, but the police reckoned differently"

1866: The Hyde Park railings affair: "The police brought their truncheons into active use, and a number of the roughs were somewhat severely handled"

1914: Suffragettes on the Serpentine.

Good old-fashioned trade unionism - Wildcat

daniel — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:57:33 +0000

The year 1842 was a very significant one for the proletariat of the British Isles. On the positive side it was the occasion of a great struggle against wage cutting and on the negative side it marked the formation of the first modern national trade union.

1862-1999: Revolutionary song in Italy

Steven. — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:07:28 +0000

“Nostra patria e il mondo intero”
(Our country is the entire world)
Line from a song by Pietro Gori.

1789-1989: Revolutionary song in France

Steven. — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:58:06 +0000

Like other political groups, anarchists have seen music as an excellent means of agitation and of popular education, and have made it one of their key activities of propaganda in many countries.

1799-today: Repression in Britain

Steven. — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:50:46 +0000

Ever since the rise of capitalism and the modern state, governments have sought a compliant and quiescent workforce and have initiated various methods of control over those sections of the population that they see as a potential threat to the status quo.

1871: The Paris Commune

Ed — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:18:54 +0000

The Paris Commune is often said to be the first example of working people taking power. For this reason it is a highly significant event, even though it is ignored in the French history curriculum.

1851: The Sydney sailors' riot

Ed — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:28:29 +0000

On Sunday August 23rd 1851 a hard fought riot broke out in Sydney. Whilst such disturbances were common place at the time this particular riot is interesting in that it was sparked by the arrest of a sailor for wearing women's clothing, was led by military men and involved attacks on a number of police watch-houses.

1833-1849: The Dorr Rebellion

Ed — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:22:41 +0000

Taking the case to the Supreme Court, the precedent was then set that the Court should not meddle in politics.

9. Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom

Steven. — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:03:37 +0000

The United States government's support of slavery was based on an overpowering practicality. In 1790, a thousand tons of cotton were being produced every year in the South. By 1860, it was a million tons. In the same period, 500,000 slaves grew to 4 million. A system harried by slave rebellions and conspiracies (Gabriel Prosser, 1800; Denmark Vesey, 1822; Nat Turner, 1831)

7. As Long As Grass Grows Or Water Runs

Steven. — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:02:56 +0000

If women, of all the subordinate groups in a society dominated by rich white males, were closest to home (indeed, in the home), the most interior, then the Indians were the most foreign, the most exterior. Women, because they were so near and so needed, were dealt with more by patronization

6. The Intimately Oppressed

Steven. — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:00:21 +0000

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

Principles of Communism

libcom — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:47:47 +0000

- 1 - What is Communism?

Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.

- 2 - What is the proletariat?