By Michael Roberts Today is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune. The Commune (Council) was formed as result of what should be
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By John Pickard 1921 was an auspicious year, full of important political events, both nationally and internationally. It is fitting that serious socialists mark the
By Greg Oxley, member of PCF, Paris The Paris Commune of 1871 was one of the greatest and most inspiring episodes in the history of
By Andy Ford, Warrington South CLP member “The Dig” is an account of the 1939 excavations in Suffolk that led to discovery of the magnificent
By Beatrice Windsor Last year was the eightieth anniversary of the threat of Nazi invasion. Commentators at the time said that there was a ‘big
By Cain O’Mahony Feudal England should have been a very stable society. The key architect of the transition from slave-based society to feudalism was Fulk
By Michael Roberts March 5 2021 was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg, the great revolutionary socialist of the Polish-German labour movement. Luxemburg’s
By Cintia Frencia and Daniel Gaido From Jacobin Magazine, 2017 In 1894, Clara Zetkin took to the pages of the Social Democratic women’s magazine Die Gleichheit (Equality), which she had
We cannot let March 5 go by without paying tribute to one of the greatest socialists produced by the German labour movement, Rosa Luxemburg, who
by Zowi Milanovi, In Defence of Marxism This year, on 25 February, it’s exactly 80 years ago that the February Strike took place in the
