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Tag: History
Solidarity for West Papua is overdue
“Those Papuans of yours are some 700,000 and living in the Stone Age” said John F Kennedy in 1963, as he approved an agreement to hand over con…
Syndicalism and the working class experience
In this classic explainer of trade unionism without bureaucrats from 1952, Philip Sansom (pictured) considers the thinking behind anarcho-syndicali…
How we invaded Cuba
On Friday 12 July 1963, anarchists invaded the Cuban Embassy in London.
Book review: A beautiful idea … and a messy reality
A Beautiful Idea: History of the Freedom Press Anarchists Rob Ray Freedom Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-904491-30-9 Review by George F.
Book review: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things Raj Patel and Jason W.
Interview: Bristol Class War in the 1980s
In this chat with a former Class War member, the Kate Sharpley Library discusses deindustrialisation, upheavals in the 1980s and thumbing the nose …
Review: Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW
This book deals with the international scope of the IWW, how it spread to other countries, often through the idea of the One Big Union being carrie…
The dream of ’68 is needed today
This month is the 50th anniversary since the events of Paris 1968 — and the ambition of those nights of cobblestone, barricade and teargas is som…
Book Review: The Doomsday Machine — Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg points to uncanny truths in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove (1964), including the fact that Russia does have an automated ‘Doo…
The events of ’68 (1868, that is)
This year’s 150th anniversary of the first vote under a working-class franchise needs to be remembered.
Book Review: Tramp Printers – Forgotten Trails of the Travelling Typographers
This handsomely and mostly hand-produced book is a tribute to the craft of printing and of historical insight, both of which verge on extinction in…
Frestonia and Me
A former resident writes on their experience of the Free and Independent State of Frestonia, a unique 1977 rebellion in Kensington and Chelsea by a…
Book Review: Squatting in Britain 1945-1955
by Norman Spinrad ISBN: 978-1-60486-810-4 PP: 264 Publisher: The Merlin Press £16.99 After World War II, many people squatted empty properties, …
Book Review: The Day the Country Died — A History of Anarcho Punk 1980–1984
by Ian Glasper ISBN: 978-1-60486-516-5 PP: 496 Publisher: PM Press, 2014 £19.43 There are many great things about Ian Glasper’s The Day the …
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Filton sentencing explainer
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No consent to confinement
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