By Dave Cartwright 10 years ago on 20 October 2011, Muammar Gaddafi was captured in his home town of Sirte in northern Libya fleeing from
Category: Historical Archive
By Cain O’Mahony Just over ninety years ago, in September 1931, a self-appointed despot, Walter Pfrimer, attempted an Austrian version of Mussolini’s March on Rome.
By Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead CLP) Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2019), drawing on the author’s own research, is an investigation
“Move what you can, destroy what you can’t”. By Andy Ford, Warrington South Labour Party member In the summer and autumn of 1941, after the
By Andy Ford, Warrington South Labour Party member This month is the eightieth anniversary of the start of the titanic siege of Leningrad in 1941,
By Andy Ford, Warrington South CLP member A hundred years have passed since the Mongolian Revolution. Mongolia at the turn of the 20th century was
By John Pickard In the early hours of the morning, fifty years ago today, Operation Demetrius swung into action. In a huge series of dawn
By Ian Isaac, former South Wales NUM Lodge Secretary. On Thursday, Boris Johnson claimed that we started to transition away from coal in his lifetime,
By John Pickard, Brentwood and Ongar Labour member What today’s Labour right wing like to air-brush out of history is the fact that the great
Andy Ford, Warrington South CLP At 3 am on 22nd June 1941 three million German troops launched their attack on the Soviet Union, supported by
