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

A Short History of Shacks & Shack Dweller's Struggles in Durban

A short overview of the history of shacks and shack dwellers struggles in Durban with a focus on enclosure, insurgent commoning, and the politics of space.

Dada: a short history

A short account of the Dada movement that developed during the First World War in radical revulsion to the society that had let it come about.

The Schlurfs - youth against Nazism

A short account of the Schlurfs, working class Austrian youth who rejected the values of Nazism

Living Learning

An introduction to the new pamphlet by Abahlali baseMjondolo launched in Pinetown (near Durban) at an event attended by hundreds of people, two days before the ANC militia attacked Kennedy…

The slow burning fuse: the lost history of the British anarchists - John Quail

Partial text of John Quail's excellent history of the anarchist movement in the UK from its origins…

Cover of "libertarian desire"

Surrealism in the Arab world

Article printed in the journal Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion no.3, 1976, including The Manifesto of the Arab Surrealist Movement, 1975.

Where there's smoke... anarchism after the RNC

A critical review of anarchist organization in relation to the 2008 US Republican National Convention.

Zengakuren

Zengakuren: Japan's revolutionary students

This is an excellent historical introduction to the period of Japanese student radicalism that began after the war in the wake of the…

S'bu Zikode

Resisting degradations and divisions: an interview with S'bu Zikode

S’bu Zikode is the elected president of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a radical and radically democratic…

membership “Internacjonał” (“The Internationalist”)

Anarchist groups in Poland - Lódź 1905 - 1939

An excellent and detailed history of anarchist and other revolutionary groups in Lodz, Poland - then part of the Russian Empire - in the early…

Recapturing the spirit of 2006; reflections on the second statewide APPO conference - Claudio Albertani

A report on the February 2009 APPO conference in Mexico. The report illustrates the…

Sekwanele! Social movement struggles for land and housing in post-apartheid South Africa

This article, published in the current issue of Left Turn magazine in the USA, gives a useful overview of the militant grassroots movements in South Africa.