The following is a letter written[1] by Leon Trotsky to the editors of l’Humanité[2], the newspaper of the recently founded French Communist Party. We should bear
Category: Historical Archive
By Robin Jamieson, Norfolk North West Labour Party member Max Mosley, the son of the infamous fascist Oswald Mosley, died in May this year. A
By John Pickard Ninety years ago this week, a general election confirmed a ‘National Government’ in office, under the premiership of Ramsay McDonald, former leader
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
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
