Occupational hazards A compilation of writings put together by Past Tense on hospital occupations and work-ins in the UK from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Gay Left: A Socialist Journal Produced by Gay Men A complete online archive of Gay Left, published in the UK from 1975-1980. Alongside useful content on gay politics from this period, the journal…
Beasts of burden - Antagonism and Practical History An attempt to rethink the separation between animal liberationist and communist politics. (Published 1999).
1987-88: Lunafil Strike in Guatemala City Detailed account of a lengthy strike by textile workers in Guatemala who risked lockouts and death to maintain their working conditions.
2008: Sit Down Strike at Republic Windows and Doors A history of the sit down strike at Republic Windows and Doors at the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis.
The mysterious trial of the POUM—Juan Peiró A brief polemical article intended for publication in Solidaridad Obrera in November 1938, but suppressed by the government censors of Loyalist…
Identity Politics and Class Struggle Article from 1997 by Robin D. G. Kelley on discussions around identity politics and class struggle. While written twenty years ago it remains…
The Mental Patients Union, 1973 Historical information about the Mental Patients Union, formed in London in 1973 to oppose psychiatric oppression, compiled by Past Tense.
The last mutineer Article by Richard Linnett and Roberto Loiederman about the spectacular mutiny on the USS Columbia Eagle and what befell the mutineers afterwards. Two of the crew hijacked the ship, which…
Einstein on capitalism Extract from an article written by legendary physicist and socialist Albert Einstein in 1949 explaining the capitalist system and its inherently…
The Westmoreland County coal miners' strike, 1910-11 Paper called Worker solidarity, judicial oppression and police repression in the Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania coal miners' strike, 1910-11,…
The English Revolution, 1640 Christopher Hill's Marxist analysis of the English civil war and revolution in the 17th century, published in 1940.