The Lynn shoe strike, 1860 - Howard Zinn Howard Zinn's history of the strike of 20,000 US shoe manufacturing workers - men and women - in New England. Lasting several weeks, the strike…
1904-2003: History of Iraq A short history of Iraq, focusing on foreign intervention, imperialism and attempts by Western powers to control oil and other resources in the…
The Real del Monte miners' strike, 1766 A short history of the first ever strike in North American history, by Mexican silver miners.
1991: The South Iraq and Kurdistan uprisings The history of the uprisings in Southern Iraq and Kurdistan in 1990-91 which involved large numbers of mutinous troops who had deserted during …
1990-1991: The Gulf War Noam Chomsky on the 1991 US and UK war with Iraq following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1990-1991: Resistance to the Gulf War An account of the worldwide movement of resistance to the 1990-91 Gulf War. The resistance mainly took the form of strikes, marches, base…
Iraqi mass mutiny in the Gulf War, 1990-1991 History of the widespread desertion and mutiny in the Iraqi military which saw the rapid end of the occupation of Kuwait and the Gulf War of…
1989-today: The War on Drugs Noam Chomsky on the 'war' on drugs that Western governments have been allegedly pursuing since 1989. In reality, their response to the drug trade…
The US invasion of Grenada, 1983 - Howard Zinn Historian Howard Zinn's account of the American invasion of the small Caribbean island of Grenada, ostensibly to 'protect' US citizens, but in…
The Mayaguez affair, 1975 - Howard Zinn Historian Howard Zinn's account of the brief but disatrous invasion of a Cambodian island by a small US force which suffered massive casualties…
1948-1991: US intervention and war in South East Asia Noam Chomsky's very brief account of US military, economic and "diplomatic" action in Indochina in…
The Cold War, 1940-1989 - Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky explains the nature of the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union before its collapse in 1989.
