Socialist Appeal
The Marxist voice of Labour and youth
Today marks the 75th anniversary of VE Day. The establishment are pushing flag-waving jingoism down people's throats, to distract from the COVID-19 crisis. We must tell the truth about WWII and the so-called 'war hero' Winston Churchill.
On the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, we republish here Alan Woods' analysis of the Vietnam War, which highlights the significance of the Tet Offensive in bringing about the defeat of US imperialism.
The Vietnam War - a 17-hour documentary recently broadcast on the BBC - may well be the best such film yet produced on this still-controversial subject. Steve Jones reviews this incredible new documentary and the graphic account it provides of one of imperialism's most brutal wars.
Last week, on 6th and 9th August respectively, marked the 72nd anniversary of the dropping of two nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Stephen Agnew looks at the real history and factors behind the use of nuclear weapons at the end of World War Two.
In the final part in his series on World War One, Alan Woods looks at how the war was brought to an end by revolutionary upheavals across Europe, beginning with Russia in 1917 - a fact that has been buried under a mountain of myths, pacifist sentimentality, and lying patriotic propaganda.