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Social revolution in the neolithic world?
Sandra Bloodworth 27 April 2010

Neolithic Anatolia is of particular interest to Marxists because there is evidence of a revolution about 7,200BC which overthrew a brutal ruling elite in Çayönü.

 
Juan Antonio Samaranch: good riddance to a filthy fascist
Rebecca Barrigos 23 April 2010

Former International Olympic Committee president and unrepentant fascist Juan Antonio Samaranch is dead.

 
A classless society is possible: Anatolia's history tells us so
Sandra Bloodworth 25 March 2010

The idea that humans could live in a classless society has always been dismissed as a fantasy by right wingers and is even doubted by many left-wing people. Now history proves it is possible.

 
Much ado about the Constituent Assembly
Jo Mettam 22 March 2010

In his eyewitness account Year One of the Russian Revolution, Victor Serge, the anarchist and Bolshevik sympathiser, recounts that the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in 1918 “made a great sensation abroad. In Russia, it passed almost unnoticed.”

 
50 years since the Sharpeville massacre
Vashti Kenway 18 March 2010

Fifty years ago, on 21 March 1960, the South African apartheid security forces opened fire on a crowd of unarmed black Africans protesting in Sharpeville against racist laws.

 
A party that really stood for hope and change
Michael Kandelaars 08 March 2010

The Black Panthers stood for socialism, and the revolutionary overthrow of US capitalism. Their militant approach offered much more to Black Americans than the failed promise of the Obama presidency.

 
The lies they tell about the Russian revolution
Corey Oakley 18 February 2010

The Russian revolution may have taken place nearly a century ago, but attacks on it continue. 

 
The 1959 Cuban Revolution
Louise O'Shea 29 January 2010

On the eve of 1959 a revolutionary band of guerillas, led by Fidel Castro, took the reigns of power in Cuba.
 
Hammer of justice, bell of freedom: the 1960s folk revival
Janey Stone 01 June 2009

It might be hard to believe that in 1964 folk singing was seen as subversive. One night, police turned up at the loft of Melbourne folk singer Brian Mooney, alerted by the sound of "mass folk singing" inside. Having taken names and addresses, the police, cultured then as now, suspiciously asked for the name of the perpetrator of a nude painting hanging on the wall. Informed that the artist was Modigliani, the officer insisted: "Get his address too."

 
Stonewall 1969: a generation on fire
Liz Ross 01 June 2009

The year was 1969. Liberation and protest movements had sprung up everywhere. From the anti-Vietnam War campaign, to Black Power, Women's Liberation and left-wing political groups, millions were taking a stand, fighting to radically change the world they lived in. And among those millions were lesbians and gay men, activists who'd been involved in all the campaigns and now wanted a voice of their own, a voice for their own liberation.

 
Lenin and the 1916 Easter uprising
09 February 2009

In 1916 fierce debate ranged among those socialists who had opposed the First World War about whether to support or oppose the right to national self-determination.

 
When anarchism was put to the test
Josh Lees 14 October 2008

The Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky compared the theory of anarchism to an umbrella full of holes: useless precisely when it rains. The truth of this insight was forcibly demonstrated when anarchism failed the test of the Spanish Revolution.

 
The long march of the Chinese Trotskyists
Liam Ward 28 April 2008

In 1949 Mao's Red Army marched into Beijing, promising a new socialist order, free and democratic. The People's Republic of China, however, quickly revealed itself as a brutal society, ruled by a new class of exploiters. But these modern emperors haven't had everything their way. Resistance regularly erupts, and to this day China is home to one of the most heroic traditions of genuine revolutionary socialism that the world has known - the Chinese Trotskyists.

 
The truth about the Russian revolution
Sandra Bloodworth 03 March 2008

The Russian revolution of 1917 is one of the most contested events in world history. Sandra Bloodworth debunks the myth of the revolution as a Bolshevik coup and argues that the role of workers and peasants in Russia show that a world without war and exploitation is possible.

 
The Gulag Trotskyists
Liz Walsh 14 January 2008

The story of the Russian Trotskyists who resisted Stalin's rise to power on the ashes of the 1917 revolution is an enormous inspiration.

 
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