History
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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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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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