History
Clara Zetkin and the struggle for a working class women's movement
Thu, 01/10/1998 - 22:00The period of the 1880's and 1890's in Germany was a period of rapid industrialisation carried through under the guidance of the repressive German state. It saw the birth and growth of German Social Democracy as the mass workers party. It drew women, and children, into industry on a large scale.
It was in this situation that women within the SPD-particularly Clara Zetkin struggled to lay the basis for a socialist led, working class based women's organisation. In 1891 the first issue of Die Gleicheit, subtitled 'for the interests of working women' appeared. It was an independent paper, with its own editorial board, led and coordinated by Social Democratic women, themselves disciplined party members. Read more...
Trotsky and the Fourth International: Turn to the masses
Tue, 30/06/1998 - 10:59The final split with the Communist International (Comintern) brought home a brutal fact: the International Left Opposition (ILO) was tiny. Read more...
Race, class and nation in Black America
Tue, 30/06/1998 - 10:59In a continuing debate over the black question in the USA, GR McColl argues that the comrades of the Trotskyist Fraction remain wedded ahistorically to Trotsky’s slogans of the 1930s rather than developing a concrete analysis of today’s situation. Read more...
Indonesia 1965 - The road to a bloodbath
Mon, 29/06/1998 - 22:00With the fall of the Suharto dictatorship, old parties and old programmes will resurface. In the heat of battle a new generation of activists will have to learn from tragedies. Read more...
British fascism: Routed on the streets
Sun, 15/03/1998 - 17:38Sir Oswald Mosley, MP, split from Labour to form the New Party in March 1931, together with a group of left MPs. By October 1932 Mosley had transformed the party into the British Union of Fascists. Paul Morris recounts the events that led to his movement’s defeat. Read more...
150 years of the Communist Manifesto
Colin Lloyd Fri, 30/01/1998 - 11:591998 marks the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto. Issued on the eve of Europe’s first co-ordinated wave of revolutionary struggles it remains an unparalleled exposition of the theory and practice of scientific socialism, writes Colin Lloyd Read more...
Congress and the birth of India
Mon, 30/06/1997 - 22:0014 August marks the fiftieth anniversary of India’s independence. Richard Brenner examines how the British Raj met its end, not through some enlightened decision to “give India self-government” but through the actions of the mass movement against foreign rule, led by the Indian National Congress and its foremost representatives, Mahatma Ghandi and Jawaharlal Nehru. Read more...
Che Guevara’s legacy
Mon, 30/06/1997 - 10:59Mark Abram reviews Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, by Jon Lee Anderson Bantam Press, London 1997, £25 Read more...
Harold Wilson and the 1964 Labour Government:The devaluation of socialism
Fri, 07/02/1997 - 23:00HAROLD WILSON won the Labour leadership in 1962 after the unexpected death of the right-winger Hugh Gaitskell.
Although the candidate of the left, backed by Tribune, Wilson had not played a prominent role in the battles over nuclear disarmament and nationalisation. His reputation was made as the quick-witted scourge of old fashioned Toryism and the champion of state-directed modernisation. Read more...
Trotsky and revolutionary unity: The fight for the Fourth International
Sun, 30/06/1996 - 10:59Dave Stockton surveys Trotsky’s struggle against centrism in the 1930s Read more...
