For ten years, Working Class History has meticulously documented small and grandiose acts of popular resistance across the globe, indexing the actions across time, space, and several key themes, such as resistance to foreign occupation, fascism, and labor exploitation. As we look to the past in this month’s issue, we are sharing snapshots of significant April moments throughout history. Remembering these events, which include the definitive end of the Portuguese Empire, a labor action in Japan, the destruction of a symbol which has been mistakenly associated with working class revolution for centuries, and a preventable escalation of police violence in the United States. Each of these stories are worth remembering in detail as they offer a glimpse on how April has been experienced by thousands of ordinary people before us.

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The Revolution that Never Came: The April 25 Insurrection in Italy

"The Italian insurrection of April 25, 1945, marked the highest point of the partisan war against Nazism and fascism, the peak of a revolution that was possible at that historical moment. However, 80 years later, it remains in collective memory as a reductionist version, stripped of all its most radical and subversive elements."

✍🏼 Enrico Fundi
📷 Harry A. Davis Jr

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In Pictures: Rome Celebrates the 80th Anniversary of Liberation from Fascism

"Thousands of people gathered in the eastern quadrant of Rome to celebrate the partisans’ struggle 80 years ago. The youth once again took the center stage in this event."

✍🏽 📷 Marta D’avanzo

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Reclaiming Space: Digital Dissent in the Face of Surveillance

"As more and more media outlets and social networks fall under the control of reactionary billionaires and governing circles, the digital realm becomes a key battleground for free expression."

✍🏽 Editorial Board
📷 Marcel Top

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From Control to Connection: Social Networks Beyond Big Tech

“The problem with that data is not only that a person or a company is collecting, analyzing and using it today to sell us something. The bigger problem is that we don't know how it will be used in the future.”

✍🏽 Sara A. de Ceano-Vivas Núñez
📷 Sepideh Shirzad

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Unfiltered Voices: How Podcasts Are Changing the Conversation in China

"In China, podcasts carve out a rare pocket of freer expression, because they're consumed privately and spread gradually, giving space for more honest, in-depth conversations.
For a generation craving authenticity, that subtlety can be quietly transformative."

✍🏽 Gaia Guatri & Shekufe Ranjbar
📷 Tim Marrs

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A ‘Historic’ Ruling in the US: Did the West Turn Less Wild for Mercenary Spyware?

"On authoritarian governments' bankrolls, NSO Group, the developer of notorious Pegasus spyware, has broken into journalists, activists, dissidents, and other civil society figures' mobile phones around the world with impunity. That era just came to an end."

✍🏽 Valentina Ramanand & Henri Sulku
📷 Kenji Wada

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The End of Liberal Democracy, this month’s theme, aims to reflect on what is happening to the dominant system and question where there is room for change.

We should not be surprised that in the current world system, authoritarians are gaining ground. We need to start fighting back, reclaiming spaces, and ramping up the dialogues.

✍🏽 Editorial Board
📷 Maryam Ashrafi

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The PKK’s Dissolution Paves the Way for a New Era of Radical Democracy

"If this process can withstand current challenges, it has the potential to bring peace to the region and inspire a new vision of democratic society for the future."

✍🏽 Justus Johannsen
📷 Joey L.

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Nemo Smith: Democracy Hijacked

"Nemo Smith is not an average politician. He is, in fact, the precise average of all UK politicians. As an algorithm-generated political figure, Smith is based on all the campaigns of British politicians and parties."

✍🏽 Carolina Semprucci
📷 Marcel Top

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Democracy at Gunpoint: Violence and Power in Mexico’s Elections

"In the first quarter of 2025, there were 104 incidents of violence against political figures in Mexico. Elections are typically the high point of tensions, and they are influenced by power dynamics that sometimes involve murder."

✍🏽 Andrea Cegna
📷 Felix Marquez

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'In Your Light, Shall We See Light' - A Voice from Columbia University

"For nearly two years I have, like you, seen and unseen and seen again all the images of murdered children, murdered mothers, murdered fathers, in Gaza. And then, there has been the lesser, albeit significant pain, of seeing my alma mater Columbia University being torn apart."

✍🏽 Hannah Lillith Assadi
📷 Mukta Joshi

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Between Headlines and History

"In July we invite our readers to reflect with us, without the pressure of the daily goings-on, on what lays behind the headlines. If we zoom out from the everyday flow of information, can we see where all these stories are headed towards?"

✍️🏽 📷 Editorial Board

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Reflections on War

"War is once more a problem on the order of the day. We live in constant expectation of it. The danger is perhaps imaginary, but the fear is real and is itself a factor of importance."

✍🏻 An essay by Simone Weil analysing war in its modern form and its relation to the struggle of the working class toward emancipation. First published in the November 1933 issue of ‘La Critique Sociale’; this English translation was published in the February 1945 issue of ‘Politics’.

📷 Visual composition: Turning Point. Photo: Public domain (Simone Weil, photographer unknown).

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Utopia, Not Futurism

"If you don’t do the impossible, we’re going to wind up with the unthinkable—and that will be the destruction of the planet itself. And that impossible is to work toward a very distinct notion of what constitutes a truly liberated as well as ecological society."

✍️🏽 A transcript of the speech the American philosopher and ecologist Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) delivered on August 24, 1978, at the Toward Tomorrow Fair in Amherst, Massachusetts.

📷 Visual composition: Turning Point.

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The Shock of Victory

"A lot of us haven’t been feeling particularly victorious of late. The war will end, of course, but that’s just because wars always do. No one is feeling they contributed much to it. I want to suggest an alternative interpretation."

✍🏽 David Graeber
📷 Visual composition: Turning Point. David Graeber portrait ©Goldsmiths University

Originally published in Rolling Thunder # 5 (February 26th, 2008).

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Women in Prison: How It Is With Us

"Women can never be free in a country that is not free. We can never be liberated in a country where the institutions that control our lives are oppressive. We can never be free while our men are oppressed."

✍🏽 Assata Shakur was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. She was captured in 1973 and held as a political prisoner until 1979 (one year after this article was written), when she was freed by a unit of the Black Liberation Army. Upon her release, Shakur fled to Cuba where she has been exiled to this day.

📷 Visual composition: Turning Point. Assata Shakur portrait: Havana, Cuba 1998, ©Adama Delphine Fawundu

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Housing Crisis, One Year On

The housing crisis continues to fuel inequality, putting millions at risk everywhere in Europe, including the UK. This is not just a market problem but a generational and political challenge.

✍🏽 Editorial Board
📷 Maryam Ashrafi - Street art by Samione

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Behind the Venetian Mask: The Battle Between Overtourism and the Right to Live

Venice’s housing crisis is no accident but the result of deliberate choices made by the local administration. As the city empties and becomes a showroom, acts of resistance and reclamation carve out space for a different future.

✍🏽 Anna Irma Battino
📷 Alexandra Boni

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