History & Anniversaries
History: Reform or revolt? How was the slave trade abolished?
Two hundred years after the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed in Britain’s Parliament.
History & Anniversaries
History & Anniversaries
history: February revolution 1917 – what lessons for today?
Ninety years ago, the working class of Russia, led by the immortal workers of what is now St Petersburg, rose in a revolution that overthrew the 1,000-year dictatorial rule of the Tsar.
History & Anniversaries
History: Hungary 1956 – the dreams and the distortions
How the events are seen today
History & Anniversaries
History: Hungary – Fiftieth anniversary of 1956 revolution
When workers in their millions rose against Stalinism
History & Anniversaries
The SWP & the Spanish civil war
A recent commemorative article in Socialist Worker on the Spanish civil war says a lot about the rightward political evolution of the SWP, argues BOB LABI.
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Review: ‘Storming heaven’
Anthony Beevor is a very popular author, shown by the huge sales of his previous books, Stalingrad and Berlin, because unlike many other capitalist historians he is largely objective in describing events.
History & Anniversaries
History: Britain’s 1926 General Strike – workers taste power
New book by Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party
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United Nations: 60 years of failure
Hit by corruption scandals and accused of failing to prevent genocidal wars, the United Nations (UN) has little to celebrate on its 60th anniversary.
History & Anniversaries
History: How the British Labour Party was formed
In the late nineteenth century, British imperialism found it increasingly difficult to provide a few crumbs to the working class from its very rich table.
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History: Fortieth anniversary of massacre of Indonesian left
One million slaughtered by CIA-backed counter-revolution