History & Anniversaries
History: Hungary – Fiftieth anniversary of 1956 revolution
When workers in their millions rose against Stalinism
History & Anniversaries
History & Anniversaries
The SWP & the Spanish civil war
A recent commemorative article in Socialist Worker on the Spanish civil war says a lot about the rightward political evolution of the SWP, argues BOB LABI.
History & Anniversaries
Review: ‘Storming heaven’
Anthony Beevor is a very popular author, shown by the huge sales of his previous books, Stalingrad and Berlin, because unlike many other capitalist historians he is largely objective in describing events.
History & Anniversaries
History: Britain’s 1926 General Strike – workers taste power
New book by Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party
History & Anniversaries
United Nations: 60 years of failure
Hit by corruption scandals and accused of failing to prevent genocidal wars, the United Nations (UN) has little to celebrate on its 60th anniversary.
History & Anniversaries
History: How the British Labour Party was formed
In the late nineteenth century, British imperialism found it increasingly difficult to provide a few crumbs to the working class from its very rich table.
History & Anniversaries
History: Fortieth anniversary of massacre of Indonesian left
One million slaughtered by CIA-backed counter-revolution
Collapse of Stalinism
Poland: Solidarnosc’s rise and fall
Poland after 1945
History & Anniversaries
History: Hiroshima – 60 years
Hiroshima, 6 August 1945, 8:00 am. The ‘all clear’ sounded, signalling the end of an air raid by US bombers. Workers and school children left their homes, putting out fires, clearing damage and going to […]
History & Anniversaries
History: Sixty years after the end of World War Two
Origins of the war, big business and fascism, and lessons for the workers’ movement