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History & Anniversaries

History & Anniversaries

From the archives: Commemorate the Massacre at Santa Maria school

December 20, 2017 Tony Saunois (CWI) who was in Chile 1984-5

Massacre by Chilean dictatorship, 21st of December 1907

Russian Revolution

Russia, October 1917: When workers took power

October 25, 2017 Hannah Sell, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party England & Wales)

With monotonous predictability the centenary of the Russian revolution has led to an outpouring of bile – not aimed in the main at the ‘acceptable’ February revolution – but at October. A cacophony of slander […]

Russian Revolution

Russian Revolution: Socialist Party video – Peter Taaffe counters media lies

October 13, 2017 CWI

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.        

Russian Revolution

The legacy of October 1917

October 12, 2017 Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today (monthly journal of the Socialist Party (CWI) England & Wales)

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 […]

Russian Revolution

BBC dramatises John Reed’s classic, ‘Ten Days that Shook the World’

October 10, 2017 CWI

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’.

History & Anniversaries

100th anniversary of Australia’s ‘Great Strike’

October 6, 2017 Anthony Main, Socialist Party (CWI Australia)

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 […]

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History & Anniversaries

France ’68 – week one: Police attacks on students spark mass revolt

May 25, 2017 James Ivens, Socialist Party

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 […]

History & Anniversaries

90 years since Chiang Kai-shek’s Shanghai massacre

April 19, 2017 Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info

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

History & Anniversaries

Russian Revolution: March 1917 – After the fall of Czarism, what next for the revolution?

March 16, 2017 socialistworld.net

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 […]

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February revolution 1917: What lessons for today?

February 21, 2017 Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales), printed in the Socialist (paper of the Socialist Party)

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) […]

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