Notes on the manifesto against labor - Jaime Semprun Jaime Semprun criticizes the Krisis Group's Manifesto Against Labor for clinging to what he refers to as the "obsolete" idea that the existing…
The measure of a man In this 2002 essay, neurobiologist Steven Rose remembers the life and work of Stephen Jay Gould, particularly his role in the 'radical science…
Workers against work in the Spanish Revolution - Michael Seidman The achievements of anarchist ‘self-management’ during the Spanish Civil War show that production…
The prevention of communism - Radical Chains The authors identify capitalism's decay as assuming forms of the prevention of communism. These - notably stalinism and social-democracy - are…
Statement of Intent - Radical Chains Statement of intent from the communist journal, Radical Chains, published in London between 1989 and 1998.
Franz Jakubowski: consciousness and the critique of political economy - Radical Chains This article examines the attempt by Franz Jakubowski, a trotskyist leader of the 1930s, to confront…
World War I and the demise of British feminism - Susan Kingsley Kent How war stifled British feminism. Up until 1914, the suffrage campaign became a mass movement…
Social Structures, Political Elites and Ideology in Revolutionary Paris - Richard Andrews The bourgeois and authoritarian nature of the sans-culottes in revolutionary Paris.
Waiting for the barbarians - Jaime Semprun In this essay written after the LA Riots of 1992, Jaime Semprun expresses a pessimistic view of the new "barbarians", the uncivilized youth who…
Updates from the Greek Squares and People's Assemblies There is a virtual blackout in international media about what is an escalation of popular resistance…
Address to those who would rather abolish harmful phenomena than manage them - Encyclopedie des Nuisances An essay proclaiming the pivotal role of "harmful phenomena"--broadly defined to…
The welfare state isn’t now, and never was, a “genuine gain for the working class”. In the 1880s Bismarck's social insurance programs - old age pensions, accident insurance, medical…