History
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
April 25th: Who were the most dedicated, active, and long-suffering revolutionaries in Czarist Russia?![](https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Maximilien_Luce-The_Execution_of_Varlin.jpg)
Diving into our early syndicalist histories
April 20th: It is a standard cliché of Marxist attacks on anarchism to contrast “individualistic” anarchism with “collectivist” syndicalism.
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A tribute to David Nicoll (1859-1919)
March 30th: In March 2019 it’s a hundred years since the death of David Nicoll, anarchist speaker, writer, editor, poet and activist.
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Images and Mirages of the Paris Commune and the Pétroleuses
March 21st: Today, Paris and other French urban zones see the demonstrations of the gilets jaunes, organised in part through new media.
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A-Infos: The original anarchist newswire
January 9th: At around the same time as Schnews was setting up its soon to be famous freesheet in 1994, before the advent of modern social media, a group of anarchist organisations across the world (including Freedom Press), took steps towards creating an anarchist newswire — a-infos.
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Removal of guilt
October 2nd: Anthony Weaver looks over L G Lennhoff’s book Exceptional Children. Weaver lectured in education at Whitelands, one of the teacher training colleges under London University.
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Culture and Community
September 2nd: Nicholas Walter writes on Raymond Williams and his key literary contribution to the New Left.
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Moving with the times … but not in step
August 2nd: Colin Ward critiques an interview from New Left Review of Alan Lovell, a regular Peace News writer in the 1960s and a member of the Committee of 100, by Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel, looking at how anarchism was perceived within the group.
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Aspects of syndicalism in Spain, Sweden and USA
July 2nd: Considering the relative weakness of anarcho-syndicalism in Britain historially, Philip Holgate compares three countries where the revolutionary union idea took off and made a major social impact in Spain, Sweden and the US. Holgate, born at Chesterfield, 1934, studied mathematics at Exeter and spent five years teaching in a progressive school.
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Workers’ control in the building industry after World War One
June 2nd: James Lynch considers the brief period in 1918-1921 when British construction workers successfully took parts of the industry into the worker-controlled National Building Guild.