THE KRONSTADT UPRISING

Presentation & Discussion“A little farther… / we are at the threshold.”

In March 1921, in the Russian naval town of Kronstadt, tens of thousands of workers, sailors and soldiers rose up against the red butchers of the ‘commissarocracy’, which had strangled their three-year-old revolution.

There was revolutionary self-organisation, mass desertion of the Communist Party, and a fight to the death.

Their love of freedom, dignity, revolutionary solidarity and social justice was poison and dynamite to the bureaucratic and political masters who slaughtered them. Those slaughterers helped to build the world of mechanised obedience that we live in today. But as an insurgent wrote at the time, “no one has the power to kill an idea”.

Tuesday 18th March 2025, 7pm
Touchpaper Anarchist Library
385 Queens Road SE14 5HD
south London