L'Humanitaire (1841), the first libertarian communist publication (excerpts) Excerpts from L'Humanitaire, a journal published in 1841 in Paris. The journal expressed the…
Patriotism and Government - Leo Tolstoy One of Tolstoy many attacks on Patriotism, its role in warfare and prop for governments and states.
Scandal - Joseph Déjacque A short passage about the value of attacking the accepted morality of class society.
The radical history of Hackney blog Archived backup of the excellent Radical history of Hackney, east London, blog.
Bim-Bom, Bang Bang! Chekists and Clowns A short account of the circus clown duo Bim-Bom and their encounter with the Cheka in revolutionary Russia.
The Hebridean Land Revolt The Hebridean land revolt was a major uprising by the rural peasantry in 19th-century Scotland. Rents went unpaid. Fences were cut in the night…
Against the grain: the British far left from 1956 A general history of the post-1956 British far-left. Its contents cover a range of organisations beyond the Labour Party, bringing together…
The Lessons of Angola - Walter Rodney, 1976 Walter Rodney criticises the support given to UNITA (backed by the CIA, apartheid South Africa, and Maoist China) in Angola by many leftists in…
The Memphis sanitation strike, 1968 A short history of the 1968 strike of 1300 African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, during which Martin Luther King Jr. was…
R.U.R. Rossum’s Universal Robots - Karel Čapek A stage play about an industrialists attempt to maximise productivity by replacing human workers with artificial ones dubbed `Robots`.
Falling star: Countering gender essentialism with sex essentialism Red and Black Leeds on the limitations of both gender essentialism and sex essentialism as a way to…
Protest without illusions Compilation of writings of British anarchist Vernon Richards from 1955 to 1964 on the anti-war movement and movement for the abolition of nuclear…