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

School children in Hull on strike in 1911 "for shorter hours and no stick"

Children's strikes in 1911 - Dave Marson

Dave Marson's excellent 1973 pamphlet on the little-known mass walkouts of schoolchildren in the UK and Ireland in 1911, the same year that saw…

From Crisis to Cooperatives: Lessons from Argentina’s Cartoneros

From Crisis to Cooperatives: Lessons from Argentina’s Cartoneros

A special Labor day (United States) documentary by Free Speech Radio News (FSRN) about the Argentine…

The anarchists in London 1935-1955 - Albert Meltzer

Albert Meltzer's personal account and reminiscences of the anarchist movement and its personalities in London between 1935 and 1955

Radničke novine (Workers Papers)

The workers' movement in Serbia and ex-Yugoslavia - Aleksandar Simic

Short text about history of working class movement in Yugoslavia by Serbian Revolutionary Group …

Pisa: the "Nuova Periferia Polivalente" has opened!

After being left derelict and neglected for 6 years, during which the only intervention by the local authorities has been the building of a wall…

Accusations against housing movements in Rome demolished by Tribunal

In September 2009, hundreds of Carabinieri stormed a school in the Magliana area of Rome and…

A History of Korean Anarchist Movement

A history of anarchism and Korea from the Anarchist Publishing Committee from Daegu, Korea, 1986, transcribed by Champion Ruby. With some minor corrections for spelling and grammar.

Why we’re not afraid of the pitchforks

Translation of a very interesting piece of analysis by the Italian InfoAut crew on the "Pitchfork Movement" that has managed to block the whole…

Who owns the land? Peasant struggles in Indonesia

An overview with historical background information of peasant struggles and land struggles in Indonesia.

Practical anarchists, we’: social revolutionaries in Dublin, 1885–7 - Fintan Lane

Article by Fintan Lane on the pocket of anarchism in Ireland in the 1880s.

The Cape Town docks in 1919, site of the joint strike between the syndicalist In

Anarchism and syndicalism in an African port city: the revolutionary traditions of Cape Town's multiracial working class, 1904-1931 - Lucien van der Walt

A paper by Lucien van der Walt examining the development of anarchism and…

Set the street anarchist Białystok at the beginning of the 20th century

From the history of the anarchist “Black Banner” movement in Białystok

At the turn of the 20th century Białystok, an industrial city with a population of 80,000 in the…