World War I

American left communist Loren Goldner on the capitalist development of east Asia,…

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.

Hermann Gorter recounts his struggle against the Dutch Communist Party, following its abandonment of internationalist principles and adoption of reformist policies.

An attempt by the Dutch communist in 1915 to explain how the working class of Europe ended up participating in the mass butchery of WWI.

Originally published in http://www.oklahomarevelator.com/ republished courtesy of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

A 1990s article surveying the then recently-acquired Ret Marut archive, now residing with the University of California. The documents confirm…

A analysis of the revolutionary movements in Europe at the end of World War I, their contradictions…

This response to the graffitiing of official monuments in London on May Day 2000 looks at the…

Otto Rühle's speech to the Reichstag, rejecting the proposed shift to parliamentary democracy and calling for social revolution.

Historian Howard Zinn's account of US involvement in World War I, the reasons behind it, and working class resistance to it.

The life of Mollie Steimer, a Jewish anarchist in New York who opposed the First World War, and later lived in exile in France and Mexico.

In 1917, the Working Class Union reacted to the imposition of military conscription with an ill-fated but heroic armed rebellion that stands with…