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George Blake

1966: The Blake prison escape

A short history of the miraculous prison break of Soviet double-agent George Blake from a British jail, organised by two libertarian activists.

Beating back Mosley in Notting Hill, 1958 - Baker Baron

A Notting Hill resident recounts his story of fighting racists and fascists in West London.
Gino Lucetti

1926: The attempted assassination of Mussolini in Rome

An account of the unsuccessful assassination attempt of Benito Mussolini by anarchist Gino Lucetti…
Leon Czolgosz

1901: The assassination of President William McKinley

An account of assassination of the President of the United States, William McKinley, by young…

2004: Granada coffee house strike

The history of a small strike at coffee shop in Spain, with the involvement of two different groups of anarchists, and ended largely in failure, albeit with some very minor concessions won.

2003-2004: Los Angeles supermarket strike

The history of a huge five-month strike and lockout of 70,000 supermarket workers in California, which ended in defeat.

2003: Frog pubs strike

An account of a strike of mostly Sri Lankan workers, aided by outside militants, at a British-owned pub chain in France, which won some concessions for the workers.
The Hollingdean depot in Brighton

2001: Brighton bin men's strike and occupation

A short history of a victorious strike and occupation of their workplace by contracted-out bin workers that was assisted by local residents.
Cellatex workers build fires outside the plant

2000: Cellatex chemical plant occupation

An account of a group of 153 sacked Cellatex chemical workers in France who won a massively improved redundancy deal due to militant struggle,…

1999: Dahl Jenson construction strike

Immigrants demonstrated their willingness, when asked, to support British workers in struggle in this victorious strike of 300 building workers…
Bacton Fashions strike, 1990.

The Bacton Fashions strike, 1990 - Mark Metcalf

An account of the 1990 strike in East London of mostly immigrant workers, which won several concessions for the workers and prevented the owner…

1989: Australian pilots strike

An account of the 1989 strike of the highly democratic and self-managed Australian Federation of Air Pilots union, which was the biggest industrial struggle of the period.
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