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We resume publication of Alan Woods’ series looking at the horrors of the First World War – “The Great Slaughter”. In this part, Alan examines Under Fire: The Story of a Squad, a novel by Henri Barbusse written in 1916 about the brutal reality of the war for those soldiers who fought on the front lines.
Beginning on the 4th May, the 1926 General Strike shook the ruling class of Britain to its foundations. Lasting for nine days, the strike showed the enormous power and solidarity of the working class. James Kilby examines the lessons from the General Strike for today, as the crisis of capitalism deepens and the class struggle intensifies.
This Easter marks the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland, against British imperialist rule. The outstanding leader of that movement was James Connolly. To commemorate this anniversary, we republish here articles by Alan Woods and Ted Grant on the importance of this historic struggle.
China, from Permanent Revolution to Counter Revolution, a new book written by John Peter Roberts and published by Well Red books, charts the development of the Chinese Communist Party from its founding to the reintroduction of capitalism. We publish here the foreword to the book by Fred Weston of the IMT.
Following the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, civil war has broken out within the Party. It is clear to many that a split, at some stage, is inevitable. Rob Sewell looks at the case of the 1931 National Government, when Ramsay MacDonald led a right-wing split from the Labour Party to unite with the Tories and Liberals.
30 years ago, beginning on 24th January 1986, print workers at Murdoch’s printing presses began a year-long strike. Along with the Great Miners’ Strike, it was one of the most militant episodes of industrial action in Britain during the Thatcher years. Jim Brookshaw, a print worker at the time, recalls his experiences of the struggle.
To commemorate Armistice Day – 11th November – Alan Woods analyses the factors behind the First World War – “The Great Slaughter” – and discusses the revolutionary alternative to imperialism and war today.
In these extracts from “Year One of the Russian Revolution”, published in 1930, Victor Serge explains how the events of 1917 reflected the revolutionary forces within society and outlines the key role of the Bolshevik Party and its leadership in the October Revolution, which took place 98 years ago.
To commemorate the anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917, we publish here a short speech by Alan Woods on Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece “October – Ten Days that Shook the World”.
In the latest part of his series looking at the First World War, one hundred years on, Alan Woods analyses the poems of Wilfred Owen and other great British poets who were drawn to write on the horrors of war.
Continuing our commemoration marking the 75th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky, we publish here an introduction by Alan Woods to Trotsky’s masterpiece: the Revolution Betrayed.
We publish here the introduction to a new pamphlet, produced by supporters of the International Marxist Tendency in Scotland, which looks at the inspiring history of the class struggle in Poland. With a large number of Polish workers in Britain, it is important for the labour movement to reach out to these workers and organise them in a united fight against capitalism.