Richard Mellor from the USA shares some thoughts on the Opium Wars of 1839-42 History is sort of important stuff: the history of anything, music,
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By Mic Craig in Northern Ireland and John Pickard Fifty years ago, on July 21, the IRA detonated more or less simultaneously 20 bombs in
Andy Ford – Warrington South CLP-member – tells the heroic but desperate story of the Soviet Partisans following the invasion of the Soviet Union by
By Richard Mellor in California From January 24 to July 1, 2022, the United States provided nearly 43 billion euros, a little over $43 billion
By John Pickard This week sees the 136th Durham Miners’ Gala, which is a celebration of the proud traditions of the Durham Miners Association and
Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member, introduces a lecture by Lenin from January 1917. You can read the lecture here. ——————- I recently read
40 years ago today, on 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands known in that country as the Malvinas. We re-publish here an article
By Andy Ford, NHS worker The BBC programme Who Do You Think You Are, featuring the Welsh comedian Ruth Jones (from Fat Friends, Gavin and
Open Veins of Latin America – five centuries of the pillage of a continent by Eduardo Galeano was published just over 50 years ago. It
March 8th is the International Working Women’s Day, more commonly called simply International Women’s Day. But this month also sees the 150th anniversary of the
