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

The 'social strike' in Rome, Italy, 14 November 2014.

One step beyond: Blockupy from blockades to the transnational strike

Connessioni Precarie discuss how, if we are to genuinely oppose austerity in Europe, then we must…

Owen Jones’s dangerous illusion

A response to ‘A cruel society is being built. Voting Labour begins the fightback’ by Owen Jones.

Anarchist partisans in Italy

Red years, black years: anarchist resistance to fascism in Italy

A detailed pamphlet on the history of the Italian anarchist resistance to fascism from the 1920s to…

Famous 9th Century Muslim scholar and Mu'tazilite, Al-Kindi

Ninth-century Muslim anarchists - Patricia Crone

Interesting article from 2000 by Patricia Crone about groups of essentially anarchist Muslims from southern Iraq in the ninth century.

The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years, 1868-1936

The seminal history of Spanish anarchism: from its earliest inception to the organizations that claimed over two million members on the eve of…

Against all tyranny! Essays on anarchism in Brazil - Edgar Rodriguez, Renato Ramos and Alexandre Samis

A short collection of writings on the anarchist movement in Brazil from the late…

'Clasismo' and the workers: 'Sindicalismo de Liberacion' in the Cordoban automobile industry, 1970-1975 - James P. Brennan

An in-depth study of radicalism in the Cordoban car manufacturing industry, with…

Flax factory Kulotino 1905

Russian anarchists in the labour movement in the early 20th century - Anatoly Dubovik

In Soviet historiography, the social basis of Russian anarchism was routinely ascribed to the petite…

Communalism: from its origins to the 20th century - Kenneth Rexroth

Kenneth Rexroth's history of radical and religious communes. Available in text and as a PDF.

The anarcho-syndicalist movement in China in 1910s and 1920s - Vadim Damier

Notes on the early 20th century history of anarcho-syndicalism in China by Vadim Damier.

On the passage of a few thousand people through a brief period of time - Edições Antipáticas

The deployment of austerity measures in Portugal gives the context to several…

Forconi: the new pitchfork protest

The new “pitchfork” protest – nationwide this time – was announced weeks ago but it still seems to have taken the whole country by surprise. It…