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From The Guardian, 
If there was one man who embodied the spirit of revolutionary democracy,
it was Tom Paine. He inspired the American Revolution of 1776, took part
in the French Revolution of 1789 and, while abroad in France, was tried
in Britain for seditious libel for writing his book 'The Rights of Man'
Pentrich in Derbyshire is a quiet place these days. But in 1817 it was the centre of a plot to
overthrow the Government of the day.
The liberation of women and the socialist revolution are inseperable tasks requiring the active participation of women workers in the organised labour movement. This recording of Barbara Humphries speaking at the Socialist Appeal xmas day school explains the double expoitation of women under the capitalist system, the history of women in the labour movement, the impact of imperialist aggression on women and the nature of feminism and positive discrimination.
Sixty years ago Railway companies up and down the
country were nationalised. They were not necessarily nationalised for
ideological reasons - the vast majority were were hindering the
development of the British economy after the Second World War. At the time the
view was that you cannot plan what you don't control and you can't
control what you don't own. That view still holds true today.
