History
Lessons on the 40th anniversary of the Malvinas War
Forty years ago, Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government fought an undeclared war against Argentina for control of the Malvinas.
Teaching the British Empire
The Tories are desperate to put a positive spin on the teaching of the British Empire
The Paris Commune at 150: Blueprint for a proletarian state
150th anniversary of the Paris Commune.
How the German Revolution was lost
A review of Pelz's A People's History of the German Revolution.
Engels 1820-1895: the struggle for scientific socialism
Bicentenary of Engels birth.
The Jarrow Crusade – a model to follow?
1930s unemployed movement.
The unemployed struggles of the 1920s – We will not starve in silence!
HIstory of the National Unemployed Workers Movement.
The lessons of Chile; Popular Unity 1970-1973
The history of the Chilean revolution.
Rise Like Lions – the Peterloo Bicentenary
August 16 is the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre in which 18 people were killed and hundreds injured when soldiers attacked an unarmed crowd of 60,000 men, women and children peacefully demonstrating for the right to vote in Manchester.
100 years of the Chinese revolution
On 4 May 1919, in Beijing, some 3,000 students demonstrated outside the home of the Minister of Communications. After pelting its residents with eggs, they broke in, trashed the building and then torched it. This violent, but rather small scale, incident turned out to be one of the key turning points in 20th Century history, in many ways the real beginning of the Chinese Revolution.
