Other Historical Analysis
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By David Brandon
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
When socialists today revisit past struggles and movements, we do not
do so for nostalgic or romantic reasons. There is a need to study
historical events in order to be aware of the battles of our ancestors;
to take pride in those struggles, but, most of all, to arm ourselves
with insight and examine the lessons. The Peasants Revolt of 1381-82
was a fight for social justice and the very first time that a large
section of English people fought for the idea that 'all men are equal'.
This demonstration of people power struck fear into the hearts of the
ruling class.
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By Mick Brooks
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. That is all written history. For the majority of human history man did not live in a class society. The development of technique allowed for the production of a surplus of wealth over and above the means of subsistence. This produced a flourish of art, science and philosophy as part of the population was freed for the first time from the toil of everyday labour. Mick Brooks talks on the application of Marxist philosophy to the development of society.
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By Jim Brookshaw
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Friday, 23 November 2007 |
In the autumn of 1916 the Industrial Workers of the World, better known
as the Wobblies, were trying to organise lumber workers near Everett,
Washington in the USA. A series of attempts to organise by the workers
had lead to a murderous response from the employers. Charles Ashleigh was appointed to run the Wobblies defence campaign - this article is in memory of him, a soldier of the proletariat.
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 |
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Marxists have always maintained that
at some stage the intensity of the class struggle affects even the "armed
bodies of men" of the bourgeois state. Such an example was the police strike in
Britain at the end of the First World War. In the late summer of 1918 the sight
of 12,000 furious Metropolitan constables marching on Whitehall sparked panic
among ruling circles in Britain. Under the leadership of the National Union of
Police and Prison Officers, militantly class-conscious policemen conspired to
overturn their role as the subservient body of the State.
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By Steve Jones
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Wednesday, 24 October 2007 |
Wellred Books at www.wellred.marxist.com are pleased
to announce that we have a limited stock of Ted Grant's book ‘The Unbroken
Thread' in stock and available to buy. Both Hardback (£11.95) and Paperback
(£6.95) editions are available.
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By Ted Grant in 1944
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
 In 1944 the Labour Party held its annual conference while British
troops were being used to crush the Greek workers. The Labour leaders
scandalously supported British imperialist policy in Greece, but even
worse was the fact that the Labour left had capitulated on this issue.
Ted Grant put forward a revolutionary Marxist position on the question.
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By Alan Woods
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Thursday, 11 October 2007 |
Che Guevara was a dedicated revolutionary and Communist. He was also an
internationalist and understood that to defend the Cuban revolution it
was necessary to spread it to other parts of the world. He attempted
this in Africa and Latin America. This was his strong side. His weak
side was that he saw the revolution fundamentally as a peasant
guerrilla struggle and did not fully understand the central role of the
working class in the socialist revolution.
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By Alan Woods
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
Ernesto ("Che") Guevara was executed by
Bolivian troops near the town of La Higuera on 9 October 1967, following an
ambush. The operation was planned by the CIA and organized by US Special
Forces. On the 40th anniversary of his death it is appropriate that we make a
balance sheet of this outstanding revolutionary and martyr. Alan Woods in a
two-part article looks at the evolution of Che Guevara from his early days to
the day he was killed.
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By Jon Avis
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 |
Forty years ago this month, in a small school hut in La Higuera,
Bolivia, Ernesto ‘Che' Guevara was brutally executed by the Bolivian
army. Since Che's death, the popular media have tried to
assimilate his image and turn it into a harmless symbol. They have,
however, not succeeded in burying the memory of Che, just as they have
not managed to solve the problems of poverty and destitution in the
third world.
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By Ted Grant in 1944
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Monday, 10 September 2007 |
At the 1944 conference of the ILP there were
clear indications that a steady move to the right on the part of the leadership
was taking place. This posed the question of what the left wing of the party
should do. Here Ted Grant raises the need for the left to sharpen up its ideas
and take a firm stand.
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By Rob Sewell
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Friday, 27 July 2007 |
The times of the post-War boom were fat years for most
working class people. Living standards went up year after year and there was
virtually full employment. As a result the labour movement had built up
enormous strength.
The following episode is taken from Rob Sewell's book ‘In
the cause of labour ', on the 35th anniversary of the historic events of that year.
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By Ted Grant in 1942
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
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In the middle of the war the ILP was floundering. Not having
a fully worked out Marxist programme, it combined opportunism and sectarianism
at the same time. They could not understand the method as outlined by Ted Grant
at the time, which was not to issue mere denunciations of the Labour Party
leaders. It could "only be done by demonstrating to the masses, by their own
experience, that their leaders are incapable of representing their interests."
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By Socialist Appeal Editorial Board
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
One year ago today the Marxist theoretician Ted Grant died after more than seventy years of political activity. His death marked the end of an era, but not the end of the struggle for the ideas he always defended.
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By Matt Wells
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007 |
A review of Farrell Dobbs' account of the Teamsters struggle in 1934, against bosses intent on holding down workers pay
and conditions. The Teamsters rebellion gets to the
heart of what trade unionism is all about, showing how workers' innate ability
to organise and manage their affairs on a collective basis is brought into
sharp focus by the battles to improve their lives.
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By David Sullivan
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
On April 26th 1937 General Franco commissioned from the German High
Command, against Republican Spain, the aerial bombardment of the small
and defenceless Basque town of Guernica,
visiting a hell on earth in the form of bombs weighing up to 1000lbs
across the town of 10, 000 people. Two months later, seventy years
ago, Pablo Picasso unveiled Guernica. Despite his enormous prestige the
establishment rarely tell us that Picasso was a man of the left.
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