History
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Red Clydeside: How the catastrophe of WW1 sparked revolution
Philip Stott – national secretary, Socialist Party Scotland “Nous sommes en guerre” – we are at war. Those were the…
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30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall: How a mass revolutionary movement for genuine socialism was diverted
Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) and Berlin resident in 1989 While, for millions, the 1989 opening of…
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Leon Trotsky’s struggle against Stalinism
Lenny Shail, Socialist Party England and Wales national committee Ninety years ago this January, Leon Trotsky was exiled from the…
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Peterloo massacre: Excellent film exposes bloody nature of capitalism
By Kevin Parslow - Socialist Party England and Wales As the bicentenary of the Peterloo massacre approaches, acclaimed director-scriptwriter Mike…
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The lessons from Chile 1970-73
Jimmy Haddow On the 4th September 1970, the left-wing leader and self-proclaimed Marxist – Salvador Allende – of the Chilean…
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France 1968: when workers were on the brink of taking power
Clare Doyle, Committee for a Workers' International Much has changed in the half century since the revolutionary events of May…
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100 years since women won the vote
By Elanor Donne, from the current issue of the Socialist (England and Wales) It is 100 years since the first…
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Russia, October 1917: When workers took power
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party England and Wales deputy general secretary With monotonous predictability the centenary of the Russian revolution has…
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Russian Revolution: BBC dramatises John Reed’s classic, ‘Ten Days that Shook the World’
BBC radio four is broadcasting, this week, a dramatised version of John Reed’s classic book about the Russian Revolution, ‘Ten…
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Che Guevara 50 years on – revolutionary socialist and fighter
Fifty years after his death, the image of Che Guevara is familiar to most people. A fashion statement for some,…
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