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History & Anniversaries

History & Anniversaries

Britain 1931: Coalition, cutbacks and crisis

September 15, 2011 Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales), first published in Socialism Today

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 […]

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Chile: The other ‘9/11′

September 10, 2011 Tony Saunois, CWI

1973 bloody coup against Popular Unity government – Lessons for today

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US: 75th anniversary of 1936 auto sit down strikes

August 21, 2011 By John Gallup, Seattle, <a href="http://www.socialistalternative.org">Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)</a>

When workers shut down GM

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20 years on: Attempted putsch in the Soviet Union

August 20, 2011 Clare Doyle, International Secretariat of the CWI

Attempted Stalinist counter-revolution speeds up capitalist counter-revolution

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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention – Book Review

July 20, 2011 Eljeer Hawkins, Harlem, New York, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)

In the hearts and minds of workers particularly black workers, the poor, and youth across the world, Malcolm X remains an icon of revolutionary spirit and commitment to justice, freedom, and liberty for the most […]

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Paris commune 1871: When workers “stormed heaven”

May 9, 2011 Niall Mulholland, CWI

140th anniversary – Heroic few weeks when working class took power

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Anniversary: Britain’s Black Friday 15 April 1921

April 25, 2011 Andrew Price, from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

A warning for the workers’ movement

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Britain: 30 years after the 1981 Brixton riots

April 13, 2011 Clare Doyle, CWI, from <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/665">the Socialist</a>, paper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

Racism and poverty – anger explodes

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History: 50 years since “strike of the century” in Belgium

December 20, 2010 By Nicolas Croes, LSP/PSL (CWI in Belgium)

New book on 1960/61 general strike published by CWI in Belgium

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Italy 1920: When workers seized the factories

September 30, 2010 Christine Thomas, ControCorrente (CWI Italy), first published in <a href="http://www.socialismtoday.org/">Socialism Today</a>

September marks the 90th anniversary of a mass movement of factory occupations in Italy which put the continuation of capitalism in question. Yet the September movement failed to overthrow the capitalists’ rule and its demise […]

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