social movements

Accounts, overviews and histories of movements for social change.

Students and workers from the Sorbonne and elsewhere march

Students and workers from the Sorbonne and elsewhere march

Blocco Studentesco during scuffles in Piazza Navona, Rome, 2008.

Casa Pound and the new radical right in Italy

You'd be forgiven for thinking that a group of zine-publishing techie squatters into rock music, baiting the state and defending the working…

World War I and the demise of British feminism - Susan Kingsley Kent

How war stifled British feminism. Up until 1914, the suffrage campaign became a mass movement…

Working-class history: Anarcho-syndicalism on Merseyside

Extracts from the book Building the Union: Studies on the growth of the workers’ movement:…

Anarchists and radicals in 1890s Patras

Brief chronology of revolutionary groups, movements, events and individuals in the Greek town of Patras.

The Federacion Anarquista Uruguaya: Crisis, armed struggle and dictatorship, 1967-85

PDF pamphlet of a history of the Federacion Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU). Founded in 1956 it was one on…

Madrid Metro strike, 2010.

Beginnings

Short article putting the popular assembly movement in the context of recent struggles in Spain against austerity.

Rabble rousers and merry pranksters: A history of anarchism in Aotearoa/New Zealand from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s

Complete PDF of the only full book on anarchist history in New Zealand by Toby…

Italian anarchists in London, 1870-1914 - Pietro Dipaola

A history of the Italian anarchist movement in London by Pietro Dipaola. In PDF format.

Italian anarchism as a transnational movement, 1885-1915 - Davide Turcato

Academic essay on "the transnational dimension of Italian anarchism, by analysing its presence in the United States and worldwide, with special emphasis on the anarchist press."

Anarchism in Venezuela, past and present

This is a brief outline of the libertarian footprint in the history of Venezuela, prepared by members of the Collective Editorship of El…

About anarchist history in the Philippines

Some notes on the influence of anarchism and anarchists in the Philippines, written in 2004.

Anarchism in Indonesia

A 2010 interview with Indonesian anarchists about the anarchist movement there.