Apology for the Algerian insurrection - Jaime Semprun Translated extracts of a pamphlet on the 2001 Algerian insurrection.
Politics in the First Person: the autonomous workers movement in Italy - Wicked Messengers Article about Autonomia Operaia and the radical workers' movement in Italy in the 1960s and 70s.
A fresh look at Lenin - Andy Brown Solidarity pamphlet #56, in which Andy Brown examines the failure of the Russian revolution and its relation to the ideology of Lenin, its key…
Origin and function of the party form - Jacques Camatte This text, by Jacques Camatte, first appeared in Italian in the journal 'Il programma comunista' …
The red Jacobins: Thermidor and the Russian revolution in 1921 Stalin was the gravedigger of the Russian Revolution, as conscious agent of the bureaucratic elite…
Vagabonds, criminals, paupers & gangrels? An article from Variant magazine on Welfare Reform and an interview with Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty
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…