Oppositions is back from the printer and out now!!! Ida Mett (1901-1973) is perhaps best known today for her groundbreaking history of the Kronstadt uprising. She was active in anarchist circles in several countries throughout her turbulent life, and wrote consistently for various anarchist and leftist publications. The articles collected here – some printed in …
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Socialists Killing Socialists (from La Révolution prolétarienne, No 123, January 1932)
IN SPAIN SOCIALISTS KILLING SOCIALISTS The full hatred of the Spanish reactionaries which, with backing from the Socialists, had hitherto been directed at the labour far left of the National Confederation of Labour (CNT) has just, over the past few weeks, been turned on the socialist workers organized within the socialist trade unions of the …
Letter to Young French Workers Bound for Russia (Ida Mett/1926)
LETTER TO YOUNG FRENCH WORKERS BOUND FOR RUSSIA In the 20 September edition of L’Humanité, we read that yet another delegation of young French workers is bound for Russia to see the situation with their own eyes and to reassure themselves that everything that has been written about Russia is an unadulterated lie. That Russia …
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Lest the Spanish Revoltion Finish up Like the Russian (N. Lazarévitch – David Poliakov – Ida Mett)
N. Lazarévitch – David Poliakov – Ida Mett LEST THE SPANISH REVOLUTION FINISH UP LIKE THE RUSSIAN Comrade Arshinov’s article “The Spanish Revolution and the Russian Experience” in Solidaridad Obrera’s 4 June edition contains a whole series of arguments and conclusions which, given the moral authority that the writer enjoys within the anarchist movement, might …
Article by Mett (et al) associate Peter Arshinov
Solidaridad Obrera, Thursday 4 June 1931, pp.6 and 7 THE SPANISH REVOLUTION AND THE RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE (caption illegible) Some comrades have asked me as a militant in the Russian social revolution to spell out my view of the recent happenings in Spain. The Russian revolution, carried out by the Russian workers and peasants, is indeed …
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Article by Mett partner Nicolas Lazarévitch
WHAT I WITNESSED IN RUSSIA N. Lazarévitch INTRODUCTION As the motto for his splendid book on the Paris Commune, Lissagaray penned the following words: “That it be made known.” In publishing this pamphlet today we too are trying to shed a little light on the situation trade unionists have had to confront in Russia due …
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