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Bloody Sunday in Derry - Origins & Consequences of a Massacre
On the 30th January 1972 British soldiers opened fire on protesters in the city of Derry, north-west Ireland. Twenty six unarmed protesters were shot, 13 died immediately or within hours, one more died...
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From the Fall of Saigon to the Fall of Lehman
[Chapter from AK Press "The End of the World as We Know It?"]In a blurry black and white photograph from Italy in the 1960s, a worker rides a Vespa past a factory wall on which is scrawled operaist...
View ArticleThe London Dock Strike of 1889
This year marks the 125th anniversary of the 1889 London Dock Strike. While this strike was preceded by others which showed of a new spirit of revolt amongst the unskilled, including the match-girls...
View ArticleRemembering the 1916 rebellion in Ireland Together: Anarchist Perspectives -...
Almost a century ago, an armed insurrection took place in Ireland to end British rule and to establish an independent Irish Republic. The 1916 Rising was soon accompanied by major popular revolts...
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Dublin marks real anniversary of 1916 rising with peoples events on 24th...
We spent the day of the 100th anniversary of the 1916 rising on the streets of Dublin recording the various peoples commemorative events. This was the actual anniversary on 24th April rather than the...
View ArticleFrom Russia with Critique
Why bother with the Russian Revolution? The Soviet Union, rightly, has been classed as a failed, horrific, experiment since its collapse in 1991 so what is the benefit to have yet another book on it?...
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The 1803 rebellion Ireland and Robert Emmet
The 1803 rebellion followed only five years after the rebellion of 1798. 1798 involved tens of thousands under arms, rising across the country over months and the liberation of parts of Wexford,...
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The State and Revolution: Theory and Practice
The State and Revolution: Theory and PracticeThis is almost my chapter in the anthology Bloodstained: One Hundred Years of Leninist Counterrrevolution (Oakland/Edinburgh: AK Press, 2017). Some...
View ArticleThe 1848 Revolutions: An Anarchist Perspective
This is a write-up of a talk I gave at the Sparrow’s Nest Archive in Nottingham on 23 June 2018. The talk was advertised by the following text:The Revolutions of 1848 remain the most widespread...
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