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History & Anniversaries

History & Anniversaries

Britain 1931: Coalition, cutbacks and crisis

September 15, 2011 Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales), first published in Socialism Today

While no historical period is identical with Britain now, the tumultuous events that shook the country 80 years ago – combining the great depression, a ‘grand coalition’ government wielding the axe, and a damaging currency […]

History & Anniversaries

Chile: The other ‘9/11′

September 10, 2011 Tony Saunois, CWI

1973 bloody coup against Popular Unity government – Lessons for today

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20 years on: Attempted putsch in the Soviet Union

August 20, 2011 Clare Doyle, International Secretariat of the CWI

Attempted Stalinist counter-revolution speeds up capitalist counter-revolution

History & Anniversaries

Paris commune 1871: When workers “stormed heaven”

May 9, 2011 Niall Mulholland, CWI

140th anniversary – Heroic few weeks when working class took power

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Anniversary: Britain’s Black Friday 15 April 1921

April 25, 2011 Andrew Price, from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

A warning for the workers’ movement

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Britain: 30 years after the 1981 Brixton riots

April 13, 2011 Clare Doyle, CWI, from <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/665">the Socialist</a>, paper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

Racism and poverty – anger explodes

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Italy 1920: When workers seized the factories

September 30, 2010 Christine Thomas, ControCorrente (CWI Italy), first published in <a href="http://www.socialismtoday.org/">Socialism Today</a>

September marks the 90th anniversary of a mass movement of factory occupations in Italy which put the continuation of capitalism in question. Yet the September movement failed to overthrow the capitalists’ rule and its demise […]

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Turkey: 12 September 2010 – 30th anniversary of the military coup

September 9, 2010 Nelli Tügel, SAV (CWI in Germany)

For the Turkish and Kurdish working class and the left, September 12 is above all a day of remembrance of one of the heaviest blows against the workers in recent history.

History & Anniversaries

History: 70th anniversary of the assasination of Leon Trotsky

August 16, 2010 Peter Taaffe, General Secretary Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

Coming mass revolts will see workers and youth look to Trotsky’s ideas

History & Anniversaries

Review: The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution by Harold Isaacs

May 22, 2010 Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary

The Chinese revolution of 1925-27 represented one of the most gigantic and splendid movements in human history.

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