Theory & History
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Marxism and the second world war
Commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of ‘Victory in Europe’ (VE) day are taking place in Britain, and throughout the world,…
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Lenin at 150: More relevant than ever for today’s struggle for socialism
Nick Chaffey, Socialist Party England and Wales national committee In January 1917 the world was in flames amid the barbarism…
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Red Clydeside: How the catastrophe of WW1 sparked revolution
Philip Stott – national secretary, Socialist Party Scotland “Nous sommes en guerre” – we are at war. Those were the…
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30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall: How a mass revolutionary movement for genuine socialism was diverted
Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) and Berlin resident in 1989 While, for millions, the 1989 opening of…
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Leon Trotsky’s struggle against Stalinism
Lenny Shail, Socialist Party England and Wales national committee Ninety years ago this January, Leon Trotsky was exiled from the…
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New introduction to Trotsky’s classic work, ‘In Defence of Marxism’
Leon Trotsky’s classic work, ‘In Defence of Marxism’, which recorded Trotsky’s struggle against a petty bourgeois opposition in the American Socialist…
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New pamphlet marks 100th anniversary of Red Clydeside and the Battle of George Square
“100 years ago tomorrow, on Friday the 31st of January 1919, tens of thousands of workers gathered in Glasgow’s George…
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Peterloo massacre: Excellent film exposes bloody nature of capitalism
By Kevin Parslow - Socialist Party England and Wales As the bicentenary of the Peterloo massacre approaches, acclaimed director-scriptwriter Mike…
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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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Karl Marx at 200 – “His name will live on forever”
The 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Karl Marx is on 5 May. Marx, together with Friedrich Engels,…
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