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15 April 2020
How the catastrophe of WW1 sparked revolution
In the third of a series of articles on 'war, global crises and working class struggle', Philip Stott - secretary, Socialist Party Scotland - describes how the horrors and privatiations of WW1 provoked revolutionary working class uprisings
25 March 2020
30 years since the huge anti-poll tax demo... And how mass non-payment of the tax was built
On 31 March 1990, a massive demonstration surged into central London. It was the culmination of months of organisation and defiance of the Tory government's hated poll tax by millions of overwhelmingly working-class people.
19 February 2020
Couldn't pay, wouldn't pay, didn't pay: the battle to defeat the poll tax
30 years ago the historic struggle against the hated poll tax was reaching its peak.
30 October 2019
The 1929 Wall Street Crash: When the capitalist system was on its knees
Ninety years ago the world was tipped into the 'Great Depression'. The Wall Street Crash saw stock markets descend into free-fall while banks failed. The capitalist economy slumped and the nightmare of mass unemployment for the working class became a reality.
9 October 2019
Chinese revolution of 1944-49: 'The second greatest event in human history'
On 1 October 1949 the leader of the Stalinist Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Mao Zedong, declared the formation of the People's Republic of China.
18 September 2019
Peterloo - fighting for democracy and a better life
Non-Fiction - Peterloo: The English Uprising: This new work is crammed with detail on the economic, social and political circumstances behind the massacre
14 August 2019
The Peterloo Massacre was perhaps the most significant atrocity carried out by the British authorities against their own people.
17 July 2019
The 45th anniversary of the strike
How oppressed workers fought back against racist 'divide and rule': This year marks the 45th anniversary of the 14-week Imperial Typewriters strike which had national repercussions.
17 July 2019
An estimated 200,000 people attended the 135th Durham Miners' Gala on 13 July, one of Europe's biggest celebrations of trade unionism and the labour movement.
26 June 2019
35th anniversary of the Battle of Orgreave
The Great Miners' Strike 1984-85: The Battle of Orgreave on 18 June 1984 involved nearly 10,000 pickets. 4,000 police, including mounted police, attacked them
19 June 2019
Orgreave injustice - 35th anniversary march and rally
The 35th anniversary of the "Battle of Orgreave" was marked on Saturday 15 June with the biggest turnout yet of around 500 demonstrators, on what has become an annual march for "Truth and Justice", writes Alistair Tice, Yorkshire Socialist Party secretary.
2 May 2019
The significance of the anti-poll tax movement
Following an article in the Guardian by Matthew Taylor titled 'Extinction Rebellion protesters to stand in European elections', Coventry Socialist Party member Dave Nellist responded with a letter to the Guardian
1 May 2019
Letters to the Socialist's editors including the Notre Dame disaster and civil disobedience.
24 April 2019
The striking relevance of Leon Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution
A study of this outstanding theoretical contribution by Leon Trotsky is a great assistance in helping the working class and a new generation of revolutionary socialists
17 April 2019
During the campaign against the Poll Tax, we used to say that the tax was unfair because a lord in his manor was expected to pay the same as a dustman down the road.
27 March 2019
Lessons of the heroic 1984-85 Miners' strike
The miners' strike was "a civil war without guns" - an all-out battle between workers and the ruling class
6 March 2019
Women workers' militancy during the 'great unrest'
Townsend Productions' new folk ballad "Rouse Ye Women" follows events in the 1910 chainmakers' ten-week strike in Cradley Heath, the Black Country.
6 March 2019
Leon Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism
Ninety years ago this January, Leon Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin and his increasingly powerful bureaucracy gave the command.
20 February 2019
Letters to the Socialist's editors including Luciana Berger and Wavertree CLP and villainous Winston Churchill
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