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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 […]

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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 […]

History

Portugal’s ‘carnation revolution’ – 46 years since revolt against right wing dictatorship and capitalism

April 25, 2020 Manny Thain

Today, 25 April, marks the 46th anniversary of the ‘carnation’ Portuguese revolution. A half-century of brutal right-wing dictatorship rule was swept aside in a day. The revolution started at 12.25 am, on Thursday 25 April […]

History

150 years since Lenin’s birth: An inspiring revolutionary legacy

April 22, 2020 Articles by Nick Chaffey and Peter Taaffe

Today, 22 April 2020, marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (10th April according to the Old Julian calendar used in the Russian Empire, at the time; or 22 April 1870, […]

History

100 years since founding of Communist International; 90 years since Trotsky’s expulsion from Soviet Union

March 8, 2019 niall

This week saw two important historical anniversaries – the first conference of the Communist (Third) International, held on 6 March 1919, established to help organise Marxist revolutionary forces on an international basis and, after years […]

History

Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht 100th anniversary

January 11, 2019 senan

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the outstanding leaders of the German and international working class movements. They are figures who still today symbolise […]

History

Anniversary: John MacLean – an outstanding Marxist and fighter for the working class

December 1, 2018 senan

This week – Friday 30th November – sees the 95th anniversary of the death of the outstanding Scottish Marxist John MacLean. To commemorate this event, we look at MacLean’s contribution to the socialist and working […]

History

Russia 1917-18: Revolution for peace, bread and land – counter-revolution’s terror and invasions

November 29, 2018 senan

After two and a half years of the First World War, Russia exploded in February 1917 in a revolution that overthrew the Tsar’s dictatorship. The capitalist provisional governments that took over did not at all […]

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