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Defy-ID: Against State Control (2005)

Anonymous reflections on anarchist involvement in the movement against compulsory government ID in the UK. From Pause For Breath magazine (2005).

Nepali Anarchists on the Toppling of the Government

In Nepal, a protest movement in early September 2025 escalated into a spontaneous insurrection in response to police violence, culminating with…

Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression

Liberal historians have long argued that even during the Great Depression, the allegedly Red Decade,…

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Class War, Then and Now: Essays toward a New Left

PDF compendium of essays from a book published in 2025, by Chris Wright.

image of sharp teeth, text says horror and disability

Horror & Disability

The horror genre has long grappled with its portrayal of disability, often reflecting the societal prejudices of its time. Emerging alongside…

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The Psychology of Political Violence

Emma Goldman's reflections on political violence. Published in Freedom. XXXVI, 392 (February, 1922) 9

Abolishing The Police

Anthology edited by Koshka Duff and published by Dog Section Press in 2021. Illustrated by Cat Sims.

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Workers outside their factory on the outskirts of Milan.

The factory-society relationship as an historical category - Sergio Bologna

Notes originally intended to preface discussion on the history of the working class in the Italian…

Akron rubber workers' struggles, 1933-1936 - Jeremy Brecher

Jeremy Brecher's account of the struggles of rubber workers in Akron, Ohio, the centre of the…

1970: US national postal strike

A short account of the illegal nationwide postal strikes that spread across America in 1970. After two weeks, during which time the army was…

Autoworkers and the working class in Brazil - John Humphrey

An analysis of the strike waves of the late-1970s Brazilian working-class movement, and the…

Emma Goldman's mugshot from an arrest in 1901

Living my life - Emma Goldman

Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in…

All power to the councils!: A documentary history of the German revolution of 1918–1919

This definitive documentary history collects manifestos, speeches, articles, and…

La revista Mujeres Libres

Vanguard cover from 1936, main headline "Revolutionary forces in Spain"

Vanguard: a libertarian communist journal

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