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

Illustration of a beer hall

Beer and revolution: The German anarchist movement in New York City, 1880-1914 - Tom Goyens

Tom Goyens' book on the German-speaking anarchist movement in New York City in the…

General strike, Peru, 1933.

Anarcho-syndicalism in Peru, 1905-1930 - Steven Hirsch

Article about the Peruvian anarcho-syndicalist movement with details of its influential involvement…

The Rebellion of the Poor Comes to Grahamstown

Statement by the Unemployed People's Movement in Grahamstown, South Africa.

Anarcho-syndicalism in the 20th Century - Vadim Damier

The complete online text of Vadim Damier's superb critical study of anarcho-syndicalism in the last…

Arif Dirlik

Dimensions of Chinese Anarchism: An Interview with Arif Dirlik

An interview with an academic who researched the pre-1949 Chinese anarchist movement, with…

The condition of women in America, 1619-1851 - Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn on the position of women and the struggles of working-class women for equality from the…

Fossa dei Leoni, AC Milan ultras.

The Ultra movement and the political influences

Article about how Italian politics, of both left and right, came to influence 'ultras' groups in football teams across the country and how it…

Dr William King - founder of 'The Cooperator' magazine

Anarchism and syndicalism in Brighton in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

A short account of anarchism and syndicalism in Brighton in the 1890s-1910s.

First meeting of the Central Committee of the USI, December 1912.

Currents of Italian syndicalism before 1926 - Carl Levy

Carl Levy discusses the various strands of thought of the broad Italian syndicalist movement,…

Venezuela’s Social Movements: Autonomy’s Difficult Path

On November 2010, in the Spanish city of Cordoba, during the celebrations of the Centennial of the historical anarcho-syndicalist union, the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), a Round Table discussion about Latin America’s social movements took place. A representative of El Libertario was present and delivered the following report.

Seething with the ideal : Galleanisti and class struggle in late 19th century and early 20th-century USA

Christopher Wellbrook analyzes the Italian-American insurrectionary anarchists of…

Chronology: The Pre-War Korean Anarchist Movement (2)

Second of a two part chronology published in the Japanese journal Libero International. Part 1 was published in issue no. 1.