History & Anniversaries

A documentary on the BBC has heaped lies and distortions on the Russian Revolution. Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe answers these attacks on the real revolutionary legacy of October 1917.        

To mark the centenary of the Russian revolution, Izquierda Revolucionaria (CWI Spain) has translated into Spanish John Reed’s classic book, Ten Days that Shook the World. In this introduction to the book, Peter Taaffe explains […]

BBC radio four is broadcasting, starting 9 October ,10 programmes (over two weeks) a dramatised version of John Reed’s classic book about the Russian Revolution, ‘Ten Days That Shook The World’.

2017 marks the 100-year anniversary of what became known as the ‘Great Strike’ in Australia. Sometimes referred to as the ‘New South Wales General Strike’, this huge upheaval actually spread to all the eastern states […]

A wooden beam will appear quite solid and unchanged as termites chew away within it. But there comes a time when one step can bring down the whole rotten house. In May of 1968 the […]

On 12 April 1927, a bloody military coup turned the tide on the Chinese Revolution

New article on 1917revolution.org. 1917revolution.org – the website launched by the CWI to analyse and commemorate the centenary of the socialist Russian Revolution – has published the latest in its series of month-by-month articles which look at […]

23 February 1917 (8 March in today’s calendar) marked the beginning of the socialist revolution in Russia, which sparked a revolutionary wave that would travel around the world. In the Socialist (paper of the Socialist Party) […]