History
Rosa Luxemburg's Contribution to Marxism
Martin Suchanek Fri, 15/01/2021 - 11:51On the night of January 15-16, 1919, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, heroic pioneers and front line fighters of the revolution sweeping Germany and Europe, were brutally murdered by the Freikorps Read more...
Friedrich Engels at 200
Gerald Falke and Dave Stockton Sat, 28/11/2020 - 09:01The 200th anniversary Friedrich Engels' birth, gives us an opportunity to look back over his remarkable life and recall the importance of his contribution to what became known as Marxism and to the fo Read more...
Germany: 30 years of reunification, nothing to celebrate
Bruno Tesch Fri, 02/10/2020 - 21:36The big celebration in Potsdam for Germany's Day of Unity had to be cancelled because of the pandemic. Read more...
The 80th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky
Dave Stockton Fri, 21/08/2020 - 17:37It is 80 years today since Leon Trotsky, aged 60, died at 7.25 pm in a hospital in Mexico City from a wound inflicted the day before by Ramón Mercader, an agent of Joseph Stalin the then all-powerful Read more...
The Stonewall Rebellion 50 Years On
Dave Stockton Tue, 02/07/2019 - 11:50At 1:30 in the morning, on June 28, 1969, NYPD officers, led by deputy inspector Seymour Pine burst into the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village shouting "Police! Read more...
China: Tiananmen, 30 years on
Peter Main, Red Flag 28, June 2019 Sun, 02/06/2019 - 11:05100 years of the Chinese revolution
Peter Main, Red Flag 27, May 2019 Sat, 04/05/2019 - 07:23On 4 May, 1919, in Beijing, some 3,000 students demonstrated outside the home of the Minister of Communications, a notoriously pro-Japanese figure. Read more...
The Macedonian Referendum and its background
Frederik Haber Sun, 14/04/2019 - 19:16At the NATO security conference in Munich, the leaders of the Greek and newly renamed North- Macedonian governments were honoured for “setting aside” long standing differences over the name of the rep Read more...
Fifty years of the struggle against the Orange state
Bernie McAdam Fri, 30/11/2018 - 11:41Fifty years ago, on October 5, 1968, a peaceful civil rights march was savagely beaten off the streets of Derry by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). Read more...
100 Years since Germany's November Revolution
Tobi Hansen, Neue Internationale 230, November 2018 Tue, 20/11/2018 - 11:33Part II The Road to Defeat
The Role of the USPD Read more...
