Growing up in the late twentieth-century United States I, like many others, was taught that protestors against the Vietnam war spat on American soldiers when they returned home from the war. When I got older and studied history more thoroughly I discovered that I had been taught a myth. That spitting did not happen.

The CNT typically discouraged its members from voting, or simply ignored elections, and did not participate inside the Spanish political system. During the Spanish Civil War it compromised its principles, and the results were disastrous.

The actions of the state are contingent on factors other than who wins the election, such as the status of the economy, the use of direct action by popular movements, interaction with other states, the needs & desires of the 1%, technological changes, etc.

Understanding the history of the Industrial Workers of the World requires taking a global view. The common approach of looking only at the union’s US history, or looking at it only in one country, is inadequate and obscures transnational patterns.

The concept of modernity is flawed, Eurocentric, and not a useful way to understand world history.

The Knights of Labor grew to become the largest nineteenth-century labor union in the US after winning a major railroad strike in 1885. It then collapsed due to intense, sometimes violent, opposition from employers and the state.

A history of three union locals in early 1900s Montana. The divergent evolution of each local is explained by class struggle, ethnic strife, and conflicts within the capitalist class.

Imperialism and the U.S. Democratic party. Despite their sometimes dovish rhetoric, the democratic party has a long and bloody history of imperialism & mass murder.

Foreign intervention in Haiti, past and present. How the U.S. turned Haiti into an American satellite state.

Overview of the 1936 anarchist revolution in Spain, the 1937 counter-revolution, and the civil war in which it occurred.

A history and analysis of the Russian Revolution and its degeneration into totalitarianism.

In 1871 citizens in Paris revolted and set up a rebel government. Although it had a radical fringe, this Paris Commune was merely a left-Republican uprising and was no where near as radical as is commonly portrayed.

A brief biography of the anarchist Nestor Makhno. Makhno played a major role in organizing the Ukrainian revolution and fighting counter-revolutionaries.

An index of times when popular assemblies & worker councils sprouted up to challenge the status quo.

As a result of the Korean War, fascist Spain went from international pariah state to ally of the American Empire.