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History: Spanish civil war

April 27, 2009 Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory

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History: 25th anniversary of the British Miners’ Strike

March 6, 2009 ‘A civil war without guns: The lessons of the 1984-85 miners’ strike’ By Ken Smith (first published in 2004)

Lessons of the year-long heroic dispute

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History: Iran 1979: A revolution that was taken from the working class

February 27, 2009 Chris Moore from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

Why did counter-revolution triumph instead?

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History: 90th anniversary of murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht

January 24, 2009 Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today (February 2009 issue)

Lessons of Luxemburg’s inspirational, revolutionary legacy

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History: 1938 anniversary – Founding the Fourth International

December 24, 2008 Niall Mulholland, cwi

Leon Trotsky’s defence of the priceless heritage of genuine Marxism

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Germany 1918-19

November 4, 2008 Robert Bechert, CWI International Secretariat

Published in Socialism Today November 2008 issue and referred to in Peter Taaffe’s ‘The Socialist’ article on the German Revolution also published on this website on November 4, 2008 The revolution begins This November marks […]

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History: German Revolution 1918

November 4, 2008 Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales

The 90th anniversary of the November 1918 German revolution comes at a particularly appropriate time.

History: German Revolution 1918

November 4, 2008 Robert Bechert, cwi

Anniversary of the overthrow of the Kaiser and the beginning of the 1918-23 revolution

History: 1968 Year of Revolution

April 17, 2008 Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales

A tumultuous year when the floodtide of mass revolt swept over the narrow confines of capitalism and threatened the very foundations of the system.

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History: From Montgomery to Vietnam

March 31, 2008 Will Soto, Socialist Alternative, CWI USA

The Radical Life of Martin Luther King Jr.

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