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History & Anniversaries

Paris Commune

18 March 1871 – “the Paris Commune as government”

March 18, 2021 Niall Mulholland, CWI

Today, 18 March, is the anniversary of what is regarded as the start of “the 1871 Paris Commune as government”. An insurrection of workers took place to prevent the French army from seizing the cannons […]

IWD 2021

Women fighters of the 1871 Paris Commune

March 5, 2021 Cécile Rimboud, Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI France)

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune when for a brief but heroic few weeks the working class took power for the first time. In the immortal words of Karl Marx, the […]

History & Anniversaries

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 […]

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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, […]

Fighting Racism

How the FBI and Chicago police murdered Black Panther, Fred Hampton

July 21, 2020 Alec Thraves, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

For a new generation of activists involved around the Black Lives Matter (BLM) mass protests of recent months, there has been an exposure to the historic and deep-rooted institutional racism that exists in the US, […]

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 […]

Britain

75th anniversary of ‘VE Day’: No return to the 1930s

May 8, 2020 Tom Baldwin, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

World War Two saw both civilians and soldiers exposed to the horrors of total war. When it was over there was a determination not to return to the horrors of poverty that had characterised the […]

History & Anniversaries

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 & Anniversaries

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 […]

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