1920: The Chilean "White Terror" An article from the Chilean IWW describing the massive government and vigilante repression the radical workers movement was facing. Originally appeared in the One Big Union Monthly (January 1921).
1919: The murder of Wesley Everest Howard Zinn's account of the lynching of the American revolutionary unionist and former soldier Wesley Everest by "patriots."
1912: The syndicalist trials A short history of the trials and legal repression of radical trade unionists in the UK in the early twentieth century.
A short history of May Day The history of the world holiday on the 1st May - May Day, or International Workers Day, held in commemoration of four anarchists executed for…
1799-today: Repression in Britain A short history of repressive and anti-worker government practice and legislation in Britain over the past two centuries.
1977: The Battle of Lewisham An account of the street battles which took place in London when local residents decided to stop a fascist National Front march in their…
1971: Via Tibaldi occupation A short history of an occupation of empty housing in Italy by workers who had inadequate accomodation. Their direct action and solidarity forced…
1971: The Quarto Oggiaro occupation A short history of a militant mass occupation of empty housing in Milan, Italy, 1971 which pressured the government to give in and provide the…
1971: The people's clinic, Rome The history of the residents in one of Rome's outlying ghettos who had inadequate health care provision. Seizing a government building, they and sympathetic health workers set up their own medical centre and ran it collectively.
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.
1926: The attempted assassination of Mussolini in Rome An account of the unsuccessful assassination attempt of Benito Mussolini by anarchist Gino Lucetti…