The birth of Glasgow's anarchism The following is a short extract from Mairtin O' Cathain's book 'With a bent elbow and a clenched fist’ A Brief History of the Glasgow Anarchists
The Unhappy Elitist: Victor Serge's Early Bolshevism - Peter Sedgwick Peter Sedgwick examines the early, often seemingly contradictory, politics of anarchist-turned…
Marxism, prefigurative communism, and the problem of workers' control - Carl Boggs Carl Boggs writes on the movement for workers' councils, looking at the examples of the failures of the Russian and German revolutions, and the Italian Biennio Rosso.
Councils and State in Weimar Germany - Guido De Masi and Giacomo Marramao Guido De Masi and Giacomo Marramao write on the German workers' councils and council communist movement around the German revolution of 1918.
The Ideology and Practice of Contestation seen through Recent Events in France - Richard Gombin Richard Gombin writes on class struggle and the libertarian movement in France in…
Appendix: Machajski's May Day Appeal of 1902 The May Day appeal which I have translated below (and annotated) was circulated by Machajski's group in lrkutsk in 1902. He subsequently printed it as an appendix to the Geneva edition of part 1 of The Intellectual Worker. It constitutes a representative sample of Machajski's writings. Although it was composed shortly after the two Siberian essays which marked the beginning of Makhaevism, it is a succinct summary of…