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

Chavez speaks to workers at the Central Hidroeléctrica de Tocoma.

Political Situation in Venezuela: Crisis, Trends, and the Challenge of Class Independence

An examination of Venezuela’s process of social transformation, popular struggles…

Assembly in Argentina, 2001

What now? Fighting austerity in a hung parliament

Whatever the result of the general election, we need to be building a movement capable of creating a better world.

What? Anarchists in Egypt!

A short account of the anarchist movement, primarily of Italian migrants, in Egypt before 1916, by Costantino Paonessa.

The Russian anarchist movement during the First World War

A detailed history of anarchists in Russia during World War I, written by D.I. Rublyov and translated by Malcolm Archibald.

Slovakia's unemployed riots of 2004

In February and March 2004, the Roma unemployed in Slovakia responded to cuts in welfare provisions with demonstrations and looting. The state's…

Anarchist communist interpretation of recent protests in Romania

The rule of law and the working class: anti-corruption protests in Romania

In the following text we are going to try and express an anarchist communist assessment, in as much…

Abahlali baseMjondolo protest in downtown Durban

Abahlali’s Vocal Politics of Proximity: Speaking, Suffering and Political Subjectivization

First published in 2012 this paper, written after sustained immersion in Abahlali…

Abahlali baseMjondolo.

Dis/placing political illiteracy: the politics of intellectual equality in a South African shack-dwellers’ movement

The production and abandonment of surplus people also depends on rendering them as…

Cartoon depicting the fictional Luddite leader Ned Ludd

The Luddites: machine-breaking in regency England

A historical overview and analysis of the Luddite movement 1811-1816 which swept parts of the UK as workers smashed machines to defend their jobs…

CNT members in Valencia, 1978

A new world in our hearts: the faces of Spanish anarchism

Book published in 1978 by Cienfuegos Press, edited by Albert Meltzer, giving an overview of the…

Illustration of a Luddite

Who were the Luddites?

A brief overview of the Luddite movement: militant textile workers in the UK who fought against job losses and deskilling brought about by the…

France 1968.

Anti-systemic movements - Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins, and Immanuel Wallerstein

Building on an analysis of the dissenting movements to have emerged since the rise…