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Britain: 1972 miners’ strike – The battle of Saltley Gate

February 19, 2022 Bill Mullins, Former car worker and picket at Saltley Gates

Fifty years ago, the miners’ strike for a fairer pay system saw some of the biggest demonstrations of workers’ power in Britain since World War Two. The Tory government, led by Edward Heath, was trying […]

History

The origins of Christmas and the class struggle

December 24, 2021 Norman Hall, from Socialism Today (November 2021), monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

To most socialists, it will come as no surprise to find that Christmas is the continuation of very ancient traditions of mid-winter festivals. However, it may be a surprise to learn just how relatively new […]

History

30 years since the end of the USSR – lessons for the workers’ movement

December 23, 2021 Clare Doyle, CWI

The USSR was officially dissolved thirty years ago in 1991. Clare Doyle, who was working in Russia at the time on behalf of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), looks back at a historic […]

History

30 years ago: Terry Fields MP, Prisoner DV 3695 – jailing a poll tax rebel and Militant

July 13, 2021 Dave Nellist, from the Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The late Terry Fields was Labour MP for Broadgreen in Liverpool, and a supporter of Militant, the forerunner of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). On 11 July 1991, Terry was imprisoned for refusing […]

History

Britain: The 1971 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders occupation and work-in

June 14, 2021 Bill Mullins, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the gigantic struggle by Clydeside workers to defend their jobs and the communities that were reliant on the shipyards in that part of Scotland. In the summer of […]

History

How militant trade unionism in Britain defeated the 1971 Industrial Relations Act

February 27, 2021 Bill Mullins, former senior shop steward in the car industry and industrial organiser of the Socialist Party (CWI)

Bill Mullins, a former senior shop steward in the auto industry and later industrial organiser of the Socialist Party in Britain, recounts the mighty struggle of shop-floor trade unionists in Britain 50 years ago in […]

History

100 years since the foundation of the Communist Party of Great Britain

July 24, 2020 Ross Saunders, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

World War One – the result of capitalist nations’ rivalry – led to the slaughter, on an industrial scale, of the working classes internationally. This barbarism was answered by the Russian revolution of October 1917, […]

Coronavirus

The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it “fanned the flames of revolt”

May 18, 2020 Book review by Hannah Sell Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) general secretary

Laura Spinney’s book, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (published by Cape), on the 1918 flu pandemic, was first published in 2017. Now in the midst of a […]

History

A new world order: global reconstruction after World War Two

May 16, 2020 Robin Clapp, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

During the Covid-19 crisis, many commentators have talked about a ‘new Bretton Woods’ and the need for post-crisis international capitalist cooperation and reconstruction. War and global crises led to the reconstruction of global relations after […]

History

75th anniversary of ‘VE Day’ – War and revolution

May 8, 2020 Two republished articles by Peter Taaffe and Dave Carr

Commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of  ‘Victory in Europe’ (VE) day are taking place in Britain, and throughout the world, though many public events are cancelled or downgraded due to the covid-19 pandemic. The official […]

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