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Interregnum is a media collective dedicated to independently and internationally promoting the radical imagination.

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Workers and empire: Learning from early 20th century resistance politics in Imperial Britain – Part 2

In the second part of Workers and Empire, Christopher Reid surveys the relationships between working class revolts in the centre and the periphery of the British empire, and draws lessons from George Padmore, CLR James, and George Orwell.

Workers and empire: Learning from early 20th century resistance politics in Imperial Britain – Part 1

Workers and empire: Learning from early 20th century resistance politics in Imperial Britain – Part 1

In the first of two articles on the history of worker activism in the British Empire, Christopher D. Reid examines the resistances in the Welsh coalfields and of women clothworkers in Scotland, and connects them to lessons that can be learnt today.

The monster of Avignon

The monster of Avignon

As a mass rape trial comes to a close in France, Nasra Hussen looks back on all the old common myths used to justify and excuse men who have been caught in the act.

Union busting down under: What the CFMEU administration means for workers' rights

Union busting down under: What the CFMEU administration means for workers' rights

As part of London IWW's Learning Circle talk series, Dr Emily Foley discusses recent events in Australia, where the government legislated to remove democratic control from one of the country's most powerful unions. We have uploaded a recording of the talk here.

The resistance for a democratic Middle East will remain unbroken

The resistance for a democratic Middle East will remain unbroken

We are republishing an article by the Internationalist Commune in Rojava written shortly after a new round of attacks by the Turkish state and Islamist groups against Autonomous Self-Administration of North-East Syria.

From mediation to direct action: Solidarity unions in Cyprus and beyond

From mediation to direct action: Solidarity unions in Cyprus and beyond

The Cypriot branch of the IWW write about the past and present of trade union struggles in the island, and why the model of solidarity unionism is the only sustainable avenue for workers' empowerment under neoliberalism.

Precarious masculinities: Migrant working men’s masculinities as self-exploitation in a Mediterranean restaurant in Glasgow

Panos Theodoropoulos and Sam Lawton-Westerland discuss how ideas of masculinity allow workers to survive the precarious, exploitative conditions they endure in the kitchen of a Mediterranean restaurant in Glasgow; however, this also allows conditions to become normalised.