Anarchist histories of the rank and file.
The Spanish Socialists’ “Blackguard” Law Are the socialists still democrats? I recall a piece of graffiti that I read some years back on the wall of the Butyrki [prison] in Moscow, an inscription made a young female Russian Menshevik who had passed that way before me. It read: “Worker, democracy is the path for you.” …
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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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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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