Global Protests: The Relentless Capitalist Crisis Demands the Overthrow of the System How to make sense of these mushrooming mass protests-cum-rebellions which have no clear class…
1953: Uprising at the Norilisk Labour Camp Account of a mass strike by inmates at the Norilag Gulag against executions and enforced labour.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Marek Edelman First-hand account of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, and the increasingly inhumane living conditions imposed on the ghetto by the Nazis in the…
The March Intifada - Bahrain, 1965 The March Intifada in Bahrain, 1965 began with the laying off of hundreds of workers at the Bahrain Petroleum Company, school students protested,…
1947: The February 28 Incident An account of the brutal repression of anti corruption and police brutality protests in Taiwan by the Chinese (Republic of China) military and…
Class and Revolution in Ethiopia Extracts from John Markakis and Naga Ayale's book 'Class and Revolution in Ethiopia', published in 1978, a year after Ayale was killed in one of…
The Experience of Local Councils in the Syrian Revolution "We are not less that the workers of the Paris Commune... They lasted 70 days and we are still here…
The 1947 Malagasay uprising In 1947 an insurrection broke out in Madagascar, beginning with raids on police stations in the East and South then quickly spreading across the…
The post-war strike wave in East, West, and Southern Africa From the end of the Second World War until the mid-'60s there was a wave of strikes in British East…
Year of Fire, Year of Ash. The Soweto Revolt: Roots of a Revolution? Baruch Hirson's seminal 1979 book on the Soweto Uprising.
Squatters and the State: Back Street Politics in the Islamic Republic - Asef Bayat The early 1990s saw a period of renewed urban popular uprisings in Iran, unprecedented since the…
Iran: Bread. Jobs. Freedom. We are publishing this dispatch direct from an activist in Iran, trying to make some sense of the current wave of protests. The situation is…
