Socialist Appeal - Other Historical Analysis

Other Historical Analysis

By Terry McPartlan
Wednesday, 02 May 2007
Yesterday was May Day, or International Workers Day. Here we take a look at the historical origins of this day of struggle.

[Ted Grant Archive - Update] Labour's policy

By Ted Grant
Wednesday, 18 April 2007
At the end of the Second World War the Labour Party was elected into office, a clear rejection of Churchill and his anti-working class policies. But the statements of the Labour leaders revealed that they intended to continue with capitalism. The British ruling class understood they could use these leaders, discredit them and then bring back the Tories. Ted Grant warned the Labour leaders that this is what would happen.

Tories riding high - Land Bill Satisfies Owners

By Ted Grant
Wednesday, 14 March 2007
Towards the end of the Second World War the coalition government in Britain was pushing through the Town and Country Planning Bill in such a way that it guaranteed the property rights of the big landowners. In this article Ted Grant called on Labour to break the coalition and nationalise the land without compensation to the big landowners!

“The German Revolution – 1917-1923” by Pierre Broué

By Rob Sewell
Friday, 12 January 2007
The titantic events in Germany between 1917 and 1923 constitute a tragic and bitter chapter in the international workers' movement. Golden opportunities, in which the German working class could have repeatedly taken power, were lost, eventually ending up in the ghastly victory of the Nazis in 1933 and the obliteration of the workers' movement. A book review by Rob Sewell.

Militant – Capitalist Common Market – No! For a Socialist United States of Europe

Friday, 28 January 2005
We republish this article on the referundum on the EEC Common Market, written by Ted Grant in 1979. The article explains that the struggle against a capitalist common market needs to be linked to the struggle of changing society on socialist lines, as the struggle against the European Constitution today must also be.

Militant's Programme: For a Socialist Plan of Production – Capitalist crisis deepens

Friday, 28 January 2005

We publish this article written by Ted Grant just before the general election in Britian in 1979. The article demonstrates that the Tory policies were doomed to failure because of the sickness of British capitalism and that the reforms offered in the Labour Party programme were unattainable on a capitalist basis. The only way to carry out these reforms and take society forward was the nationalisation of the means of production, and the creation of a planned economy under the democratic control of the working class.

National Government, Invergordon and the ILP

Friday, 19 April 2002
The British working class has a history of swinging from industrial action to political action. This is as true today as it was in the 1930s. This article looks at the great struggles of 1929-31, when the polical leaders of the workers' parties failed to respond to the tasks required of them, leading to the defeat of the workers and the return to power of the Tories.