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.
1973: Broadmeadows Ford workers’ strike In June 1973 workers at the Broadmeadows Ford factory exploded smashing up their workplace, facing off police and forcing union bosses into…
1972: The Quebec general strike The story of one of the largest working class rebellions in American history. 300,000 workers participated in North America's largest general…
1971-1974: Green bans by builders in Australia A history of the massive campaign of industrial action by building workers which protected the environment and local communities by enacting…
The Kelly's Bush green ban, 1971 A short account of how construction workers saved the Kelly's Bush area of park land in Australia from development by refusing to work, and …
1971: The Attica prison uprising Against the background of the mass revolutionary, black power and prisoners' movements in the US, a five day revolt began on September 9, 1971 at…
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…
1957-1975: The Vietnam War Howard Zinn's short history of the war in Vietnam from the beginning of the Communist insurgency in 1957 until the defeat of US and South…
1968-1990: The invasion of Panama and US intervention Noam Chomsky's account of the US invasion of Panama, its intervention over the previous twenty years…
The contra war in Nicaragua - Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky's account of the US-backed “contra” counter-insurgency in Nicaragua against the left-wing government brought to power on the back of…