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
Category: Historical Archive

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

Documentary Review by Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye CLP) This four-part documentary, available on Sky, gives a good account of colonialism and the super exploitation

How the Tulsa race massacre was covered up and unearthed This article, by Yun Li, is from the US CNBC website A century ago this

By John Pickard It was 125 years ago this week, that the celebrated Irish-Scottish socialist, James Connolly, launched the Irish Socialist Republican Party at a

By Cain O’Mahony At the beginning of the 1960s, the protracted post-war economic boom gave the illusion that capitalism had resolved all its boom-slump problems

Review – Russia: from revolution to counter-revolution by Ted Grant
Review by Mark Langabeer, (Hastings and Rye CLP) I have recently moved house. That consumes a lot of time, but one of the few joys

By Cain O’Mahony The events of 6 January in Washington, when neo-Nazis and other assorted weirdos stormed Capitol Hill, was a reminder of the latent