History
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The Poll Tax Rebellion
“Ye cannae beat her son, she’s faced doon Galtieri and beat the miners. She’s the iron lady” This was a…
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When Mass Campaigning Defeated the Poll Tax
A Residential School setting in West Linton in the Scottish Borders seems a weird place to start the story of…
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International Women’s Day – The miners’ strike changed women’s lives
This year is the 30th anniversary of the 1984-85 miners’ strike. An important feature of the strike was the involvement…
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The 1984/85 miners strike was a civil war without the guns
By Ronnie Stevenson The miner’s strike of 1984/5 has correctly been described as a civil war without guns. That description…
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95 years on: Red Clydeside and The Battle of George Square
An extract from the pamphlet Red Flag Over the Clyde written by Jim Cameron and produced by Scottish Militant Labour…
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Review – Lenin’s revolutionary Legacy
‘Lenin’ by Lars T Lih Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today (No.175, February 2014) In an attempt to answer the description of Lenin…
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95th anniversary of murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
By Peter Taaffe, written to commemorate the 90th anniversary in 2009. Posted 15th January 2014 On 15 January 1919, Rosa…
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Chile: 40th anniversary of bloody overthrow of Allende government
Tony Saunois, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI). Posted 11th September 2013 The terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in…
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Let us rise: New book on the 1913 Dublin lockout
Posted 18th July 2013 A new book commemorating the centenary of the Dublin lock-out of 1913 - the titanic struggle…
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Piper Alpha: The price of profit
By Philip Stott. Posted 27th June 2013 Twenty five years ago, on the 6th July 1988, the Piper Alpha North…
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