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MAY 28. 2025

Kolobushkin, Pavel Nikolaevich

A short biography of Russian anarchist communist Pavel Kolobushkin.

It will take collective direct action to stop the abductions

The Trump administration has begun disappearing international students and workers from university campuses. This article, written by three academic workers, argues that this escalation was made possible by a campaign of repression initiated by universities themselves. After analyzing where we are and how we got here, the authors put forward their answer to the pressing questions: what would a fight back look like and how do we go about organizing it?

MAY 27. 2025

Workers challenge Labour: the Birmingham bin strike

An article published by the Anarchist Communist Group on the 26th May on the Birmingham bin strike.

Street One & Codlings - Stuart Wise

Memories of butterflies and moths before the age of environmental planners: The wild life rich brownfield experience of Aycliffe Trading Estate, Co Durham in the 1950s.

MAY 26. 2025

The Case of Ensign Remnev: First Commander of the Red Army.

A short biography of Afanasy Remnev, Red Army commander, Bolshevik, then anarchist communist.

Half the Sky: interview with Yu Shuet

A former Cantonese Red Guard speaks to London-based anarchist-feminist magazine Zero on the conditions of women in China in 1977.

Capitalism's death world

A response by Internationalist Perspectives to the Gaza War, which looks beyond the contending forces, and to the root, capitalism itself.

MAY 20. 2025

Gauging organized labor: an interview with Staughton Lynd

An interview by Andy Piascik of Staughton Lynd about the development and shortcomings of the US labor movement since the 1930s. Originally posted: April 1, 2014 at Znet. Also appeared in the Industrial Worker (May 2014)

MAY 19. 2025

May Day 2014: reviving the general strike - Staughton Lynd

An article by Staughton Lynd about the prospects of a general strike in the United States. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker (May 2014).

Mick Renwick: trade union activist, Wobbly, anarcho-syndicalist, anti-fascist, internationalist, Geordie working-class hero

An obituary by David Douglass of Mick Renwick, a leftist activist who involved in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Socialist Workers Party (UK) and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) . Appeared in the Industrial Worker (January/February 2014).

In November, we remember: steelworker, Wobbly Ed Mann - Staughton Lynd

An article by Staughton Lynd about Ed Mann, a former leader in the United Steelworkers of America (USW) during the 1970s in Youngstown, Ohio (USA). Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker (Fall 2015)

Federico Arcos, anarchist militant & archivist, dies at 94 - Colin Bossen

An obituary by Colon Bossen of Spanish anarcho-syndicalist Federico Arcos. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker (Fall 2015).

Fascism’s tightening grip in the SoCal desert

A report on recent developments in far right radicalisation and the entrenchment of the surveillance state in California.

Hydrology and a critique of the eco-city - Stuart and David Wise

Thoughts on the eco-city and the failure of early emancipatory projects such as psychogeography to redefine urbanism. By Stuart and David Wise in 2004, originally published on the Dialectical Butterflies site.