History
Mikhail Gorbachev – a tragic figure in world history
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1197, Berlin, September 1 2022 Mon, 05/09/2022 - 12:28At the age of 91, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union and party leader of the CPSU, died on August 30 in Moscow. –
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10 years of Rojava: achievements and aberrations
Robert Teller, Neue Internationale 267, Berlin, September 2022 Fri, 02/09/2022 - 15:48In July 2012, Kurdish armed forces took political control in the regions of Kobanê, Afrin and al-Hasakah in northern Syria. Read more...
Malvinas War anniversary
Bernie McAdam Mon, 11/04/2022 - 18:06Forty years ago, Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government fought an undeclared war against Argentina for control of the Malvinas or, as Britain calls them, the Falkland Islands. Read more...
NATO, USA, EU, Russia, Ukraine: Background to the Propaganda War
Frederik Haber, Neue Internationale 262, February 2022 Mon, 07/02/2022 - 10:36Revolutionary communists must not be taken in by the propaganda of rulers, especially not those of the imperialist countries. Read more...
Ireland: 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday
Bernie McAdam, Workers Power 390, London, February 2022 Fri, 28/01/2022 - 09:23January 30 marks the 50 year anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Read more...
China: The centenary of the Chinese Communist Party
Peter Main Fri, 02/07/2021 - 17:49First published in Fifth International 22.
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China: The centenary of the Communist Party
Peter Main Thu, 01/07/2021 - 10:41First published in Fifth International 22.
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Partition: A "carnival of reaction" 100 years on
Bernie McAdam, Red Flag Thu, 13/05/2021 - 10:03James Connolly, the great Irish socialist, correctly predicted the consequence of the partition of Ireland would be a "carnival of reaction both north and south". Read more...
Bobby Sands: Irish Freedom Fighter, 1954-1981
Dara O’Cogaidhin, Red Flag Wed, 05/05/2021 - 18:02Forty years ago, on May 5th 1981, Bobby Sands died in Long Kesh prison after 66 days on hunger strike. He was the first of 10 Republican hunger strikers allowed to perish by the British government. Read more...
The Paris Commune: Expropriation of the expropriators
Janosch Janglo Thu, 18/03/2021 - 07:58150 years ago, on 18 March 1871, after France had been defeated in the Franco-Prussian war, the French army planned to disarm the National Guard of Paris and seize 227 artillery pieces that the people Read more...
