Stephen Parfitt looks at the legendary US workers’ organisation from its founding in 1869 to its collapse in the 1890s and considers what les…
History: The rise and fall of the Knights of Labor
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“Power anywhere where there’s people!” – 50 years since the FBI murdered Fred Hampton
Fifty years ago to the day, Fred Hampton – the 21 year old deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party – was assassinated by the FBI and the Chi…
Anarchist first to be killed fighting US concentration camps
US anarchists paid tribute today to Will Van Spronsen, who was killed while carrying out a raid against a migrant concentration camp in Tacoma, Was…
From eXile to Dirtbag: Edgelord geopolitics and the rise of “National Bolshevism”
Alexander Reid Ross takes an in-depth look at the genesis of the new Red fascism as it metastasized in Russia and spread to the alt right in the US.
Why and how Trump is about to get worse than ever
I didn’t stay up all night awaiting news of the US mid-term elections but I did take a look at the results when I got up.
The Unmasking Antifa Act: Behind the Mask of History
On the 86th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street where anti-fascist Londoners fought and stopped fascists marching through the primarily Jewis…
USA: hundreds of people attend Anti-Columbus Day Tour at American Museum of Natural History
On Monday, around a thousand activists and artists gathered for the third annual Anti-Columbus Day at New York American Museum of Natural History: …
USA: antifascists and fascists clash outside Islamic convention
More than 100 antifascists and white supremacists, some armed, clashed outside the 55th annual Islamic Society of North America convention at the …
ICE and the Impact on Communities of Colour
In the last 20 months of the Trump administration, we have seen a continued targeting of communities of color throughout the United States.
USA: 18 year old Occupy ICE activist faces deportation
Last Friday, ICE detained a local activist from Occupy ICE San Antonio in retaliation for his political work.
Texas: San Antonio Occupy ICE camp attacked by nazis
Yesterday morning the activists camping outside of ICE facilities in San Antonio, Texas, were attacked by neo-nazis from Patriot Front group.
Aspects of syndicalism in Spain, Sweden and USA
Considering the relative weakness of anarcho-syndicalism in Britain historially, Philip Holgate compares three countries where the revolutionary un…
America’s treatment of refugee children is abhorrent, so is Europe’s
‘’Hamid* and his kids are in jail, they were rejected again,’’ a volunteer on the Greek island of Chios called to tell me late last year.
Report on Prison Suicides in Texas
On 19th November 2017, prisoner Benjamin Laure was found hanging in his cell in Texas prison.
What We Can Expect From Alt Right in 2018
In the last few years, a new kind of fascism emerged in North America and Europe.
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