1970s

An account of the street battles which took place in London when local residents decided to stop a fascist National Front march in their…

A short history of an occupation of empty housing in Italy by workers who had inadequate accomodation. Their direct action and solidarity forced…

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…

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.

In June 1973 workers at the Broadmeadows Ford factory exploded smashing up their workplace, facing off police and forcing union bosses into…

The story of one of the largest working class rebellions in American history. 300,000 workers participated in North America's largest general…

A history of the massive campaign of industrial action by building workers which protected the environment and local communities by enacting…

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 …

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…

Historian Howard Zinn's account of the brief but disatrous invasion of a Cambodian island by a small US force which suffered massive casualties…

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…

Noam Chomsky's account of the US invasion of Panama, its intervention over the previous twenty years…