History
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The lessons of the heroic 1984-85 miners’ strike
Forty years ago, on 9 March 1984, Scottish miners began strike action. The Yorkshire National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) members…
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Red Clydeside: Workers’ power on display
Brian McLelland Red Clydeside refers to a significant era of the labour movement in early 20th-century Scotland, centred around Glasgow…
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100 years since Lenin’s death: The relevance of his ideas for today
Nick Chaffey, Socialist Party England and Wales National Committee In January 1917, the world was in flames amid the barbarism…
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Centenary anniversary: John Maclean – an outstanding Marxist and fighter for the working class
By Philip Stott A leader of Red Clydeside, John Maclean was an outstanding orator, a peerless educator in Marxist ideas,…
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50 years since the coup: The lessons of Chile
Jimmy Haddow On 4 September 1970, Salvador Allende, Unidad Popular (UP) candidate, won the Chilean presidential elections with 36.3% of…
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20th anniversary since invasion of Iraq – a war for US imperialist interests
20 years ago, in the Spring of 2003, the Iraq war began with the US-UK bombing and invasion of Iraq.…
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Timex 30th anniversary: When workers fought the bosses to a standstill
Jim McFarlarlane The 29th January 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the historic 1993 struggle of Timex…
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50th anniversary: UCS work-in and the lessons for today
50 years ago, thousands of workers occupied shipyards along the Clyde and defeated plans for a massacre on jobs and…
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150 years since the working class of Paris ‘stormed heaven’
Theo Sharieff, Socialist Party national committee The birth of the Paris Commune marked the first time in history when the…
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Engels on the origins of women’s oppression and its relevance to today’s struggles
Continuing our series of articles commemorating the 200 years since the birth of Friedrich Engels, we look at the relevance…
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