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

Chronology: The Pre-War Korean Anarchist Movement

First of a two part chronology published in the Japanese journal Libero International. Part 2 was published in issue no. 2.

Greek, Italian and other anarchists in Egypt

An account of the Greek, Italian and other anarchists and radicals active in Egypt during the last decades of the 19th and the first decades of…

Anarchism and the ZZZ in Poland, 1919-1939

Two articles on the history of the anarchist movement and anarcho-syndicalist union ZZZ in Poland between the two world wars.

IWW demonstration in Chile, early 20th century

Chile: anarchism, the IWW and the workers movement

Two articles on the history of the Chilean working class movement and its libertarian, revolutionary origins, examining in particular the…

General strike in São Paulo, 1917

Organized labor in Brazil 1900-1937: from anarchist origins to government control - Colin Everett

Colin Everett recounts the anarcho-syndicalist origins of the Brazilian labour…

The German-Dutch communist left - Philippe Bourrinet

Revised edition of Philippe Bourrinet's history of the Dutch and German left communist currents.

Socialist, anarchist and revolutionary movements in Patras in 1880s

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

FAUD - anarcho-syndikalisten

Syndicalism and anarcho-syndicalism in Germany

The following text comprises an introduction to the development of German syndicalism from its beginnings in 1890 until the end of its organized…

Liberdade

A history of the anarchist movement in Brazil - Edgar Rodrigues

A short history of the anarchist movement in Brazil.

Italian feminism, workerism and autonomy in the 1970s: The struggle against unpaid reproductive labour and violence - Patrick Cuninghame

Article about the autonomous women's movement in Italy in the 1970s, with…

Lydia Chukovskaya in 1926

The anarchist underground in Leningrad

A short account of the anarchist underground in Leningrad in the 1920s

Iran: Popular discontent reaches the surface - Mouvement Communiste

Mouvement Communiste analyse the mass protest movement which swept Iran in 2009 following the…