Radical History Blog

The stand taken by Jayaben Desai and others at Grunwick helped reimagine the labour movement "The strike is not so much about pay, it is a strike about human dignity." Jayaben Desai and others on the picket line The British working class has always been multicultural and multinational.

The 'Age of Revolutions' touched many countries - including the so-called 'Austrian Netherlands' In 1789 the began. But it wasn’t alone... Next door, in what’s now Belgium, the ‘Brabant Revolution’ was happening at the exact same time.

The Swing Riots, a stand against exploitation, were an important step in the development of a strategy for working class resistance "Oh Captain Swing, he'll come in the night To set all your buildings and crops alight And smash your machines with all his might That dastardly Captain Swing!" Smeared as criminals who couldn’t appreciate ‘progress,’ the Swing Rioters of 1830 were actually shrewd social rebels, resisting the class that was guilty of dispossessing them.

From rural peasantry, to law, politics, the Presidency of Catalonia and the firing squad, Pete charts the life of Lluís Companys The death sentence of Lluís Companys When wrote about the , it’s no accident he focused on Catalonia.

A 19th century Mexican idealist helped birth two countries, only one of which survived The first vice-president of Texas was a Mexican.

The traditional labour movement may not have realised the transformative potential of the unemployed masses of the 1930s, but the British state was well aware of the risk NUUW march in London, 1930s.

He may be most famous for the fantasy worlds he created in his novels, but H.G. Wells was also a socialist campaigner and thinker “I’m a socialist.

The Native American radical who led the fight for the return of indigenous lands and self-government “The Iroquois are struggling for a renaissance.

The Austrian Marxist who tried to tackle the question of nationalism head-on “It is not the levelling of national particularities, but the promoting of international unity within national diversity that can and must be the task…” ‘The national question’ has been the bane of modern socialist thinkers since early in the nineteenth century.

Why do the US and Canada celebrate Labor Day in September, when almost everyone else celebrates in May? The US doesn't have a great reputation for the amount of holidays its workers typically get to take.