A hundred yeas since the publication of The Organisational Platform of the General Union of the Libertarian Communists, we offer two opposing views…
Platform centenary: Two readings
Tag: Russian Revolution
Remembering Alexander Berkman
90 years since the death of the great Russian-American anarchist ~ Frank Jacob ~ On 28 June, 1936, Alexander Berkman ended his life.
“Stalinism is a Marxist invention to save Lenin and Trotsky”
Ignacio de Llorens has just published the first biography of the Russian anarchist Volin, a key figure in the creation of the first soviet and late…
A cautionary tale from my Russian anarchist great-grandfather
On the danger of sacrificing principle for pragmatism ~ George Askaroff ~ Originally published 22 October 2024 When faced with substantial external…
The adventures of G. P. Maximoff
How the Russian anarcho-syndicalist became a political journalist, ended up in the Red Army, and helped organise Kropotkin’s funeral ~ Nikolai Ge…
Book review: History of the Anarchist Red Cross
Yelensky’s Shadows in the Struggle for Equality is a masterful exploration of his lifetime supporting political prisoners ~ SoraLX ~ During the c…
International anarchist statement on the centenary of the 1921 Kronstadt Uprising
Today marks the 100th annviersary of the beginning of the Kronstadt uprising.
Pioneers of anarchism: Varlam Cherkezishvili (Tcherkesoff)
Lesser-known of two “anarchist princes” exiled to London in the 1890s (the other being Peter Kropotkin), Cherkezishvili (Warlaam Tcherk…
Russia: Anarchists illegally protest for revolution centenary
This year Leninists worldwide have been celebrating the victory of the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution but in Russia the anarchists came out t…
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