  latest news
24/05/2013: Interview on Militant, the Labour Party and the struggle of the
socialist led council 1983-87 in Liverpool
24/05/2013: The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of
Europe.
23/05/2013: MEP demands immediate release of Housing Campaigners - solidarity still
needed
23/05/2013: Statement on Woolwich killing
23/05/2013: In the «most developped country for women in the Arab world», the
struggle for women rights remains more relevant than ever
23/05/2013: After Lafontaine’s proposal to get rid of the Euro – what should the
left say?
22/05/2013: Protests needed via embassies
22/05/2013: How Ireland is used as a tax haven by multinational corporations while
the government is preparing to steal the property tax from people’s
wages, social welfare and pensions
22/05/2013: Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year
21/05/2013: Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism
21/05/2013: An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass
working peoples’ defence committees!
20/05/2013: This year’s G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh, Northern
Ireland, on 17th – 18th June. This gathering brings together the heads
of government of eight of the world’s largest capitalist economies to
discuss how they can further the interests of those they represent – the
super-rich, big business and the bankers.
19/05/2013: Increasing concerns and contradictions
18/05/2013: Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike
18/05/2013: Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background
of deep divisions in society and the regime.
17/05/2013: Australia’s federal environment minister Tony Burke gave the go ahead to
Toro’s $270 million uranium mining project in the Wiluna region of
Western Australia.
15/05/2013: Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards
14/05/2013: We shouldn’t let either of the major parties tell us that ‘tough
decisions’ or ‘hard cuts’ are required.
13/05/2013: Bus workers take strike action over savage wage cuts and attacks on
conditions
12/05/2013: 15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies
12/05/2013: How can a state be realised?
11/05/2013: The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new
phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial
power.
11/05/2013: On 8 May the PKK has begun to withdraw from Turkey. Millions are hoping
now for an end to oppression and for democratic rights.
10/05/2013: Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters
and young people
10/05/2013: On 2 May the neo-fascist Golden Dawn attempted to distribute food in
Syntagma square in Athens to people holding proof of Greek nationality.
10/05/2013: Time for a new mass workers’ party
09/05/2013: New clashes on the horizon
08/05/2013: Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots
08/05/2013: The United Socialist Party’s May Day demonstration passed successfully
through a number of populous areas of Colombo, ending at Grand Pass
Junction.
07/05/2013: Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8
percent – but important issues are unresolved
06/05/2013: ’Get a job!’ is the constant refrain of privileged Tory ministers and
vicious right-wing tabloids. A million unemployed young people are the
subject of a relentless campaign of smears and lies.
05/05/2013: Great event remembers the ’47’ struggle
05/05/2013: Christine Thomas’ book outlines how inequalities and discrimination
against women have not disappeared and women’s struggles must be bound
up with wider class struggle to be successful. Read the complete book
online here.
04/05/2013: Those who created the crisis should be forced to pay.
03/05/2013: The last set of DSM members still in the detention of the state security
service (SSS) in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, and Ibadan Oyo state,
Southwest Nigeria, as of yesterday, has been released.
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|  24/05/2013, Interview on Militant, the Labour Party and the struggle of the
socialist led council 1983-87 in Liverpool
Peter Taaffe speaking to "Tony Snell in the Morning", BBC Radio
Merseyside
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|  03/03/2013, Review of The Second World War, by Antony Beevor
Per-Ake Westerlund, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden)
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|  12/02/2013, Unfortunately Pablo Larrain’s film ’No’ tells nothing about the
background to Chile’s 1988 plebiscite and the struggle against the regime
Tony Saunois, CWI
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|  23/10/2012, Who was Malcolm X?
Hugo Pierre, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)
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|  19/10/2012, The struggle for social justice continues
April Ashley, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) and black members’
rep on Unison national executive (personal capacity)
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|  04/10/2012, Colonialism, national liberation and revolutionary struggle
Cédric Gérôme, CWI
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|  11/09/2012, Contradictions of history being unravelled amid mass struggles of today
Socialistworld.net
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|  15/04/2012, Sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912, with the loss of over 1,500
lives, remains one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters
Nick Chaffey and Perry McMillan, Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales), first published in the Socialist
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|  18/03/2012, Heroic few weeks when working class took power
Niall Mulholland, CWI
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|  26/12/2011, Forty years ago, Bangladesh became an independent state, breaking away
from Pakistan.
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan, first published in Socialism
Today
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|  17/09/2011, 40th anniversary of Attica Prison Uprising
Eljeer Hawkins, Socialist Alternative, Harlem, New York
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|  15/09/2011, While no historical period is identical with Britain now, the tumultuous
events that shook the country 80 years ago – combining the great
depression, a ‘grand coalition’ government wielding the axe, and a
damaging currency peg – are rich in lessons for workers in Britain and
Europe today.
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales), first published in
Socialism Today
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|  10/09/2011, 1973 bloody coup against Popular Unity government – Lessons for today
Tony Saunois, CWI
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|  20/08/2011, Attempted Stalinist counter-revolution speeds up capitalist
counter-revolution
Clare Doyle, International Secretariat of the CWI
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Further articles on 'History':- 20/07/2011: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention - Book Review
Eljeer Hawkins, Harlem, New York, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US) - 09/05/2011: Paris commune 1871: When workers "stormed heaven"
Niall Mulholland, CWI - 05/05/2011: Northern Ireland: 30th anniversary of the death of hunger striker Bobby
Sands
Reprint articles by Tony Saunois and Peter Hadden and introduction (Socialism
Today, May 2011 issue) - 25/04/2011: Anniversary: Britain’s Black Friday 15 April 1921
Andrew Price, from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI
England & Wales) - 13/04/2011: Britain: 30 years after the 1981 Brixton riots
Clare Doyle, CWI, from the
Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales)
2010: - 30/12/2010: James Conolly: Labour in Irish History revisited
Niall Mulholland (from Socialism Today) - 20/12/2010: History: 50 years since “strike of the century” in Belgium
By Nicolas Croes, LSP/PSL (CWI in Belgium) - 30/09/2010: Italy 1920: When workers seized the factories
Christine Thomas, ControCorrente (CWI Italy), first published in Socialism
Today - 09/09/2010: Turkey: 12 September 2010 - 30th anniversary of the military coup
Nelli Tügel, SAV (CWI in Germany) - 16/08/2010: History: 70th anniversary of the assasination of Leon Trotsky
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) - 22/05/2010: Review: The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution by Harold Isaacs
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary - 03/04/2010: History: The great anti-poll tax victory
Louise James (from December 1990, issue No. 45 Militant International
Review) - 18/03/2010: History: Thatcher’s enemy within - 25 years after the end of the miners’
strike
Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales) - 08/03/2010: Women’s day 2010: Still fighting for equality
Eleanor Donne, Socialist Party England and Wales from March issue of
Socialism Today - 07/03/2010: Women’s day 2010: The history of International Women’s Day
Socialism Today - 03/03/2010: Women and socialism: A century of struggle
Elin Gauffin, CWI Sweden - 26/02/2010: Britain: The great anti-poll tax victory
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party England & Wales general secretary and
member of the International Secretariat of the CWI
2009: - 27/11/2009: History: Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) - 18/11/2009: Soviet Union: Revolutionary ferment of twenty years ago
Clare Doyle, CWI, (who visited Russia in 1989 and lived there for five
years until 1995) - 05/11/2009: 1989: From perestroika to capitalist restoration
Rob Jones, CWI, Moscow - 05/11/2009: 1989: Germany - Power was lying on the street
Ingmar Meineke, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV – CWI in Germany). From
November 2009 edition of Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist
Party (CWI in England & Wales - 03/11/2009: Poland: Defeat from the jaws of victory
Paul Newberry, Group for a Workers’ Party (CWI in Poland) - 02/11/2009: History: A Planet without Debates
Socialistworld.net - 19/10/2009: History: Stalinism and after
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party (CWI in England &
Wales). Article from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party. - 01/10/2009: History: 60th anniversary of Chinese Revolution
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info - 11/09/2009: Chile 1973: ’Latin America’s 9/11’
John Reid, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) - 08/09/2009: Russia: Debate on ‘Stalin’s criminal pact’
socialistworld.net - 24/08/2009: History: Marxism and the second world war
Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party, cwi
in England and Wales - 27/04/2009: History: Spanish civil war
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) - 06/03/2009: History: 25th anniversary of the British Miners’ Strike
‘A civil war without guns: The lessons of the 1984-85 miners’ strike’ By
Ken Smith (first published in 2004) - 27/02/2009: History: Iran 1979: A revolution that was taken from the working class
Chris Moore from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI
England and Wales) - 24/01/2009: History: 90th anniversary of murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today (February 2009 issue)
2008: - 24/12/2008: History: 1938 anniversary - Founding the Fourth International
Niall Mulholland, cwi - 04/11/2008: History: German Revolution 1918
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, cwi in England and
Wales - 04/11/2008: History: German Revolution 1918
Robert Bechert, cwi - 17/04/2008: History: 1968 Year of Revolution
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, cwi in England and
Wales - 07/04/2008: Northern Ireland: Death on the rock of Gibraltar - 20 years since SAS
killing of three IRA volunteers
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Belfast - 31/03/2008: History: From Montgomery to Vietnam
Will Soto, Socialist Alternative, CWI USA - 31/03/2008: History: 40 Years Since King’s Assassination
Brett Hoven, Socialist Alternative, CWI USA - 30/01/2008: History: 75th anniversary of Hitler’s coming to power
Ben Robinson, Socialist Party (England and Wales)
2007: - 07/11/2007: History: 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
socialistworld.net - 11/10/2007: History: Russian revolution 90th anniversary
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party - 27/09/2007: History: 40th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara
Tony Saunois, CWI - 12/07/2007: Russian Revolution 1917: The 1917 ’July days’ - rich in lessons for today
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, London - 11/05/2007: History: Northern Ireland - 1907 Dockers and Carters’ strike
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast, Northern Ireland - 30/03/2007: History: Reform or revolt? How was the slave trade abolished?
Hugo Pierre, Socialist Party, England and Wales - 16/03/2007: history: February revolution 1917 - what lessons for today?
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party
2006: 2005: - 14/11/2005: United Nations: 60 years of failure
Paula Mitchell, Socialist Party - 04/11/2005: History: How the British Labour Party was formed
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party - 10/10/2005: History: Fortieth anniversary of massacre of Indonesian left
Niall Mulholland, cwi - 19/08/2005: Publication: “Che guevara -symbol of struggle” by Tony Saunois
socialistworld.net - 10/08/2005: History: Hiroshima – 60 years
Lynn Walsh, Socialist Party - 07/05/2005: History: Sixty years after the end of World War Two
Holger Dröge, SAV (CWI), Berlin - 01/05/2005: History: How Gorbachev failed to save the Soviet Union
Dave Reid, Socialist Party, England and Wales - 22/03/2005: Review: 1905 Russian Revolution on the screen
Aron Amm, Berlin - 28/02/2005: History: Malcolm X - "They called me the angriest Negro in America"
Hugh Caffrey, Socialist Party - 09/02/2005: History: Holocaust week
Robert Bechert, cwi statement - 08/02/2005: history: The Holocaust - who was to blame?
Tony Mulhearn, Merseyside - 01/02/2005: 1905 Russian Revolution: Trotsky’s speech defending the St Petersburg
Soviet
- 31/01/2005: History: 1905 Russian Revolution - 100 years since ‘Bloody Sunday’
- 23/01/2005: History: 1905 Russian Revolution - When workers gained a glimpse of power
Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, Socialist Party - 23/01/2005: Teamster Rebellion: 70th anniversary of Labor’s historic victory in
Minneapolis
Canyon Lalama, Minneapolis - 13/01/2005: History: 1905 Russian Revolution - The working class shows its strength
PerAke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, cwi Sweden
2004: - 18/11/2004: Che Guevara: A legacy of struggle
Daniel Waldron, Socialist Party, Ireland - 25/07/2004: Nicaraguan Revolution: Marxism and the Nicaraguan revolution
Bob Labi, cwi - 25/07/2004: History: Perspectives for the Nicaraguan revolution
Tony Saunois, cwi - 29/06/2004: history: Remembering Tiananmen Square, eye witness in China
Steve Jolly, Socialist Party, Australia - 28/06/2004: History: Legacy of Thatcher
Ronnie Stevenson, cwi Scotland - 28/05/2004: Socialist History: ‘Not for God and not for Fatherland’ by Ron Blom
Review by Pieter Brans - 26/04/2004: History: How abortion rights were won in the US
Ramy Khalil - 25/04/2004: History: 1974, revolution in Portugal
Manny Thain - 14/04/2004: socialist history: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
Eljeer Hawkins, Harlem, NY - 09/04/2004: History: 1984 -85 Miners’ strike, Britain
Ciaran Mulholland - 25/01/2004: Socialist history: Irish civil war fears revealed
Ciaran Mulholland - 09/01/2004: Britain: 20 years ago - When Liverpool beat Thatcher
2003: 2002: - 17/10/2002: History: 1962 Cuban missile crisis
Special feature from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party,
England and Wales section of the CWI. - 05/10/2002: History: Che Guevara - revolutionary fighter
Special feature from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party,
England and Wales section of the CWI. - 16/09/2002: Obituary: Jimmy Deane - pioneer of Trotskyism
Keith Dickinson, Socialist Party, CWI section, England and Wales - 08/09/2002: History: Lessons from the anti-Vietnam war movement
Tony Wilsdon and Philip Locker, US - 31/08/2002: History: James Connolly voted onto 100 "Greatest" people
Niall Mulholland, CWI - 15/07/2002: History: Watergate - Rotten apples in a mouldy barrel
Jim Horton, Socialist Party, England and Wales - 12/07/2002: History: 1912 Lawrence strike
Greg Beiter, US
2001:
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