Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The young generation, as a whole, were treated as ‘suspects,’ and the elder generation feared to have anything to do…”

People flocked at night into Trafalgar Square to sleep there in the open air, under the wind and rain, between two newspapers; and one day in February a crowd, after having listened to the speeches of Burns, Hyndman, and Champion, rushed…

Far more important, however, than this outbreak of discontent, was the spirit which prevailed amongst the poorer portion of the working population in the outskirts of London.

None of these are produced in greater quantities than would be required to secure well-being for all; and the over-production, so often spoken of, means nothing but that the masses are too poor to buy even what is now considered as…

The amount of interest in socialism and all sorts of schemes of reform and reconstruction of society was very great in all layers of society.