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  Scotland

  Scotland: Pro-independence party launched by former SNP leader ahead of elections

  March 30, 2021 Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

  The launch of a new pro-independence political party – Alba – by former Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond has dominated the news agenda over the last few days. It comes in the immediate [...]

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  Scotland

  Scotland and the national question today

  March 29, 2021 Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI),  first published in Socialism Today (Issue 246, March 2021)

  The coming Scottish Parliament elections are poised to open up a new crisis for the Tory Boris Johnson government at Westminster, with the break-up of the United Kingdom a possible ultimate outcome. In edited extracts [...]

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  Paris Commune

  “Of worldwide significance” – The Paris Commune at 150

  March 28, 2021 Theo Sharieff from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

  The birth of the Paris Commune marked the first time in history when the working class took political power directly into its own hands. Karl Marx at the time described it as a “new point [...]

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  Paris Commune

  Lessons of the Paris Commune by Leon Trotsky

  March 28, 2021 Leon Trotsky, 1921

  The following article by Leon Trotsky was written in 1921 on the 50th anniversary year of the Paris Commune. It is a brilliant analysis of the Commune which draws the most essential lesson from its [...]

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  Lenin

  Lessons of the Commune by V.I. Lenin

  March 27, 2021 V. I. Lenin (1908)

  The following article on the Paris Commune by V.I. Lenin  – a “verbatim report of a speech made by Lenin” – was published in the journal Zagranichnaya Gazeta, on 2 March 23, 1908. Lenin studied [...]