History
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1917 Russian Revolution: The July Days and battles with counterrevolution
Judy Beishon, Socialist Party executive committee Massive demonstrations involving nearly a million people erupted in Petrograd on 2-3 July 1917,…
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New book: How Blairism sank its claws into the Labour Party
From the new book "From Militant to the Socialist Party" by Peter Taaffe 2 May, as well as being in…
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Book Reviews: Trotsky and February 1917 – Preparing for revolution
Peter Taaffe, from the February 2017 issue of Socialism Today (monthly magazine of the Socialist Party – CWI England &…
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Russia 1917: When the working class took power into its own hands
Today, 7th November, (in the new style calendar) is the 99th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the overthrow…
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Trotskyism’s rich history in Scotland
Ronnie Stevenson - Socialist Party Scotland and a supporter of Militant from 1975 The right wing of the Parliamentary Labour Party, aided…
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Ireland: 100th anniversary of Easter 1916 Rising
Cillian Gillespie, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) This weekend marks the centenary of the Easter 1916 Rising against British rule…
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Liverpool: When a socialist council refused to implement the cuts
One of the leaders of the 1980’s Liverpool council struggle, Tony Mulhearn, will be speaking in Glasgow on Thursday at…
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25 years since the Berlin Wall was brought down by a mass revolutionary movement
By Robert Bechert, CWI, who was living in Berlin in 1989 While, for millions, the 1989 opening of the Berlin…
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Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis Strikes
By Alan Jones and Ty Moore – Socialist Alternative (US section of the Committee for a Workers’ International) This year…
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Militant anniversary: 50 years of socialism and workers’ struggle
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary When we started publishing Militant, the Socialist’s predecessor, in October 1964, few of our…
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