Theory & History
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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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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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May Day 2018: Celebrating workers’ solidarity and the struggle for socialism
The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) to whom Socialist Party Scotland is affiliated, sends warmest socialist greetings to workers and…
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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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