By Richard Mellor in California “I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe
Category: Historical Archive
By John Pickard As we might have anticipated, the general tone of the VE-Day coverage in the press and on TV last Friday was Union
By Beatrice Windsor The Queen’s address to the nation and this month’s anniversary of VE-Day has evoked the memory of World War II. There’s been
By Mark Langabeer, Newton Abbot Labour Party A BBC Storyville production, called Facing Franco’s Crime, The silence of others gives voice to the victims of the 40-year rule
By Michael Roberts This month marks 175 years since Friedrich Engels published in 1845, his masterpiece of social analysis, The Condition of the Working Class in
By Richard Mellor in California Some time ago I saw gif or a meme (I don’t really know the difference) on Facebook and the white
By Michael Roberts Today is the 200th anniversary of what has come to be called the Peterloo massacre. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 working people gathered
By John Pickard The Pere Lachaise cemetery is in the 20th Arrondisement of Paris. At each entrance there are signs with diagrams showing the location of
By John Pickard We are celebrating International Workers’ Day this week with this article from the archives, written for the Militant in 1985. It is dated in
By Lal Khan In the late spring of 1919, green meadows in the fertile plains of Punjab were acquiring a golden hue with the sun’s rising
