Our history section contains a large number of articles, and navigation is currently being upgraded to make them easier to find. If you're not sure where to start, take a look at our collections of articles on strikes, or some of the major events of working class history in the 19th and 20th Centuries, including the Paris Commune, Russian Revolution and revolutionary wave, Spanish Civil War, Hungary '56 and France '68.
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We are in the process of reworking the history section at the moment, but for now you can browse articles by region and country.
biographies
A short biography of construction worker, anarchist and Spanish Civil War fighter Antonio Zapata Cordoba.
strikes
Trotskyist Alan Woods on the Hungarian uprising of 1919. Wood's account suffers from the usual analytical errors by Trotskyists but is included for reference to these little-known events.
new articles
PDFs of all 43 issues of Picket, the unofficial newsletter of the News International printers strike of 1986.
An anti-authoritarian analysis of the dire situation faced by ordinary people in Argentina in 1990. "While continuing to resist the authoritarian advance, and working together in solidarity, let's not forget that there are no quick revolutions; they grow from the ground up."
Short spoof issue of The Sun newspaper produced by anarchists to support the News International printers strike at Wapping in 1986.
