1. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1985
   The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
2. Algerian War of Independence
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   A conflict between France and Algerian independence movements from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria gaining its independence from France.
3. Arab Revolt (1916 - 1918)
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   Was initiated by the Sherif Hussein ibn Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen.
4. Battle of Blair Mountain
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   In 1921 between 10,000 and 15,000 coal miners confronted company-paid private detectives in an effort to unionize the southwestern West Virginia mine counties.
5. The Beginning of an Era
   On the May 1968 revolt in France
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1969
   
6. Blood on the River
   A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
   Resource Type: Book
   An account of the Berbice Revolt of 1763-64 in what was then Dutch Guyana.
7. Bolotnikov, Ivan
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   The leader of a popular uprising in Russia known as the Bolotnikov rebellion. (Died 1608).
8. Budai Nagy Antal Revolt
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   Transylvanian peasant revolt, of 1437, which was the only significant popular revolt in the Kingdom of Hungary prior to the great peasant war of 1514.
9. Cade, Jack
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   The leader of a popular revolt in the 1450 Kent rebellion. (Died 1450.)
10. Camisard
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    French Protestants (Huguenots) of the Cevennes region of south-central France who raised an insurrection against the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
11. Ciompi Revolt
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Was a popular revolt in late medieval Florence by wool carders known as ciompi, who rose up in 1378 to demand a voice in the commune's ordering.
12. Club War (Cudgel War)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A 1596 peasant uprising in the kingdom of Sweden against exploitation by nobility and military in what is today Finland.
13. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I 
    Economic Writings 1
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
14. Cornish Rebellion of 1497
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A popular uprising by the people of Cornwall in the far south west of Britain.
15. Croatian-Slovenian peasant revolt
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A large peasant revolt in today's Croatia and Slovenia in 1573.
16. Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    An account of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
17. Dacke War
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A peasant uprising led by Nils Dacke in Småland, Sweden, in 1542 against the rule of Gustav Vasa.
18. Dakota War of 1862
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux or Dakota.
19. Democracy Against Politics
    Against The Current vol. 136
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    “¡Que se vayan todos!” shouted rebellious crowds during the Argentine economic crisis of 2001, “Out with them all!” The call soon spread throughout Latin America: for a new politics without politicians and a new society without social elites. Many radicals have been inspired by the movements that seemed to rise with so much energy and idealism from this foundational fire. Others have been quick to criticize the inadequacy of movements which seem to have forgotten that economic exploitation is more fundamental than political oppression, and that exploitation is held up by political power which must be seized rather than ignored.
20. Documents from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    
21. Donghak Peasant Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Was an anti-government, anti-yangban and anti-foreign uprising in 1894.
22. Dózsa, György
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Leader of a peasants' revolt against the Hungarian landed nobility. (1470-1514).
23. First Intifada
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A Palestinian Uprising against Israeli rule in the Palestinian Territories.
24. French Army Mutinies (1917)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Involved nearly half of the French infantry divisions stationed on the western front.
25. From Cairo to Madison, The Old Mole Comes Up For An Early Spring
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Individual sectors, even as large as public employees in the U.S., have to reach out to all those who have been ground down over the past forty years. Any working-class movement worthy of the name embraces the interests of the most oppressed, and that today includes the 15-20% of the U.S. population currently unemployed and increasingly foreclosed into homelessness, the casuals and temps, the harassed immigrant workers both legal and illegal, the millions of marginalized youth, white black and Latino, and the three million people in prison. We know very well that not every struggle that erupts can immediately enlist all such people, but a “climate” must be created in which that universal outreach—what we might call a “class for itself” orientation– is understood as a necessity.
26. German Revolution of 1918-19
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The politically-driven civil conflict in Germany at the end of World War I.
27. Graffiti from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    
28. Green Corn Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Popular uprising against military conscription by poor farmers in Oklahoma aligned with the Socialist Party of America.
29. A History of the Barricade
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The barricade is the iconic tactic of historic class struggles, and its history is engagingly explored in Hazan's history, finds William Booth.
30. A History of Canadian Wealth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1914   Published: 1972
    Myers lays bare the corruption, swindling, land deals, and bribery that are at the basis of Canadian history. This is Canada's past seen through the eyes of a muckraker.
31. Hussites
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A Christian movement following the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus (c. 1369-1415).
32. Indian Rebellion of 1857
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May, 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region.
33. Irish War of Independence
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A guerrilla war mounted against the British government in Ireland by the Irish Republican Army.
34. Jacquerie
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Was a popular revolt in late medieval Europe by peasants that took place in northern France in the summer of 1358.
35. Kengir uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A prisoner uprising that took place in the Soviet prison labor camp Kengir in May and June 1954.
36. Kiel Naval Mutiny (Wilhelmshaven mutiny)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A major mutiny by sailors of the German High Seas Fleet in October 1918.
37. Kronstadt rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An uprising of Soviet sailors, soldiers and civilians against the Bolshevik government in 1921.
38. Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A series of rebellions and uprisings against the Bolsheviks led or supported by left wing groups.
39. Live Working or Die Fighting 
    How the Working Class Went Global
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Mason relates a series of struggles for worker and human rights over the past two hundred years and compares them to current struggles.
40. Looking Back -- and Ahead
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The year 1968 stands out as one of those pivotal years on multiple political and cultural levels. Against the Current will devote considerable space to discussing what the upheavals of that year meant then, and now. Conventional media retrospectives will concentrate on the spectacular and appalling visual images — street rioting over the Vietnam War and the Martin Luther King assassination; the murder of Robert Kennedy; the debacle of the Democratic convention in Chicago, with police beating heads while Hubert Humphrey proclaimed “the politics of joy” in his nomination acceptance speech.
41. Maji Maji Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A violent African resistance to colonial rule in the German colony of Tanganyika.
42. The Making of Egypt's Revolution
    People Power in Action
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    
43. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 15
    Marx and Engels 1856 - 1858
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1858
    Mainly articles about Europe, colonialism, and India.
44. A Marxist History of the World part 103: 1989: the fall of Stalinism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The revolutions of 1989 represent great victories for mass action, but they were limited in effect.
45. A Marxist History of the World part 56: The Indian Mutiny
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The Indian Mutiny was the subcontinent’s first war of independence, with Indians of different ethnic and religious backgrounds fighting side-by-side despite the divide and rule fostered by the British.
46. A Marxist History of the World part 79: Revolt in the Colonies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The anti-colonial revolts of the early 20th century were inspired by radical ideas, but, as the examples of Ireland, India and Mexico show, history exacts a heavy price for political timidity.
47. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
48. Mau Mau Uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An insurgency by Kenyan peasants against the British colonialist rule.
49. May 1968 in France
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    May 1968, referring to the period when the events occurred in France, saw the largest general strike that ever stopped the economy of an advanced industrial country,[1] the first wildcat general strike in history,[1] and a series of student occupation protests.
50. Mazdak
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A proto-socialist Persian reformer.
51. Merthyr Rising 1831
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The violent climax to many years of simmering unrest among the large working class population of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales and the surrounding area.
52. Midland Revolt
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A popular uprising which took place in the Midlands of England in 1607.
53. Morant Bay rebellion
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54. Nine Years' War (Tyrone's Rebellion, Ireland)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Ireland 1594 to 1603.
55. Non-cooperation movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A series of nationwide people's movements of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience, led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress.
56. An October for Us, for Russia and for the Whole World
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    This appeal from Russian intellectuals and artists on the 90th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution comes to us from veteran leftists, social democrats, artists and even children of Left Oppositionists, most of them politically active at least since the Gorbachev years of glasnost and perestroika. It has been abridged here for space reasons.
57. On China's 1989 Tiananmen Upheaval
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    The bourgeois media falsely portray the events in the spring of 1989 as a movement for capitalist counterrevolution under the banner of Western-style "democracy." The social explosion was triggered by protests initiated by students in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, which increasingly drew in groups of workers and spread throughout the country. Far from seeking a return to capitalism, Chinese workers overwhelmingly directed their anger at the sharply rising economic inequalities, rampant corruption and inflation encouraged by Deng’s program of "building socialism with capitalist methods."
58. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017
    Disobedience
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey. Disobedience is the theme of this issue.
59. Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323-1328
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A popular revolt in late medieval Europe. (1323-1328).
60. Peasants' Revolt (Wat Tyler's Rebellion)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Revolt in England in 1381.
61. Philippine revolts against Spain
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Revolts during the Spanish colonial period.
62. Pontiac's Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A war launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War.
63. Popular revolt in late medieval Europe
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Popular revolts in late medieval Europe were uprisings and rebellions by (typically) peasants in the countryside, or the bourgeois in towns, against nobles, abbots and kings during the upheavals of the 14th through early 16th centuries.
64. Prussian uprisings
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Uprisings by the Prussians, one of the Baltic tribes, against the Teutonic Knights that took place in the 13th century.
65. Pueblo Revolt
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An uprising of many pueblos of the Pueblo people against Spanish colonization of the Americas in the New Spain province of New Mexico in 1680.
66. Pugachev's Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in Russia after 1762.
67. Readings from the Peasants' Revolt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at six critical moments across the last 1,000 years.
68. Rebellion of the Remences
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A popular revolt in Catalongia against seignorial pressures that began in 1462.
69. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
    
70. Reflections on the Revolution in France: 1968
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    In May 1968 France was on the threshold of something entirely new. In this 'pre-revolutionary situation' nothing went unquestioned. The writers, trade unionists and students who contribute to this volume all believe our future is foreshadowed in the events of May. And they explain why, after this shock to a regime of seemingly impregnable strength, things can never be the same again.
71. Revolt of the Brotherhoods
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A revolt by artisan guilds against the government of King Charles I in the Kingdom of Valencia which lasted from 1521-1523.
72. Revolt of the Comuneros
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An uprising by citizens of Castile against the rule of Charles V and his administration between 1520 and 1521.
73. Revolutionary Centennial: Guyana's 1905 Rebellion
    Against The Current vol. 114
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    1905 was a landmark year in the history of Guyana, as it was for several places around the world. In Russia, the Tsar and his troops shot workers delivering a petition in St. Petersburg. In Bengal there were communal shootings; in South West Africa the German massacre of the Herero people was in full progress.
74. List of revolutions and rebellions
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    This is a list of revolutions and rebellions
75. Right-wing coup or popular revolt? The April 2018 Nicaraguan uprising examined
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Description of a report on the causes of the April 2018 conflict in Nicaragua.
76. Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike and mutiny by Indian sailors of the Royal Indian Navy on board ship and shore establishments at Bombay (Mumbai) harbour in 1946.
77. Russian Revolution of 1905
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A wave of mass political unrest through vast areas of the Russian Empire.
78. St. George's Night Uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A series of rebellions in 1343-1345 by the indigenous Estonian-speaking population of Northern and Western Estonia against rulers of foreign (mainly German) origin.
79. Satyagraha
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A campaign of nonviolent protest against the British in colonial India in 1930.
80. Second Intifada
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A period of intensified Palestinian-Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000.
81. Seeds of Fire 
    A People's Chronology
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012   Published: 2017
    Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
82. Shimabara Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An uprising largely involving Japanese peasants, most of them Catholic Christians, in 1637-1638.
83. The Sixties 
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
84. Slave rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An armed uprising by slaves.
85. Spithead and Nore mutinies
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Major mutinies by sailors of the Royal Navy in 1797.
86. Strikes, List of
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The following is a list of deliberate absence from work related to specific working conditions (strikes) or due to general unhappiness with the political order (general strikes).
87. A Surplus of Memory
    Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    The story of the Jewish resistances uprising against the German Army's attack on the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943-44. As much as any other individual, the organizing force and embodiment of the spirit of defiance of the Jewish Army was Yitzhak Zuckerman, code name "Antek."
88. A Terrible Beauty: Remembering Ireland's Easter Rebellion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    It's a hundred years since some 750 men and women threw up barricades and seized key locations in downtown Dublin. They would be joined by maybe 1,000 more. In six days it would be over, the post office in flames, the streets blackened by shell fire, and the rebellion's leaders on their way to face firing squads against the walls of Kilmainham Jail. And yet the failure of the Easter Rebellion would eventually become one of the most important events in Irish history - a 'failure' that would reverberate worldwide and be mirrored by colonial uprisings almost half a century later.
89. Third Servile War
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The last of a series of slave rebellions against the Roman Republic. (73-71 BC).
90. Tunisia, Then Egypt
    Why Now?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Under what circumstances does passivity turn into revolt?
91. Túpac Amaru II
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The leader of an indigenous uprising in 1780 against the Spanish occupation of Peru. (1742-1781).
92. Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A widespread uprising against the Stalinist German Democratic Republic government.
93. Vorkuta uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A major uprising of the concentration camp inmates in Vorkuta, Russia in July-August 1953.
94. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp.
95. Warsaw Uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A struggle by the Polish Home Army to liberate Warsaw from Nazi German occupation during World War II.
96. Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."
97. Workers' Revolts of the 1970s
    Against The Current vol. 152
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In my world as a teenager becoming politically aware in Detroit in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the issues that mattered most were the war in Vietnam and race relations at my school. The events that shaped my high school years included fights between Black and white students, watching the families of white friends leave the city for Ferndale and Oak Park, the racially charged mayoral race in 1969, the election of the city’s first Black mayor in 1973, and my own increasing involvement in the movement to end the war in Southeast Asia.
98. Zanj Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A series of revolts by some 500,000 slaves against their Muslim owners and rulers, 869-883 AD.

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