If you haven’t seen them before, settle down for a fascinating weekend’s viewing of some highpoints of Tony Benn TV retrospectives — the best YouTube has to offer — including: Labour’s Lost Leader, the best of the posthumous retrospectives; a fascinating round table discussion between Tony Benn, Roy Hattersley and David Owen that coincided with […]
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Weekend viewing: Labour’s Lost Leader and other tributes to Tony Benn
Mar 22nd, 2014 by Jon Lansman.
In the Belly of the Beast
Nov 26th, 2013 by Newsdesk.The 2014 issue of journal Socialist Register is the 50th since the journal was founded by Ralph Miliband – together with John Saville – in 1964. Tomorrow will see a discussion in Parliament, chaired by John McDonnell MP, on the legacy and ongoing relevance of the political project he initiated (see details below) The concern […]
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Commemorating Chartism
Nov 15th, 2013 by Grahame Morris.This week, Parliament is celebrating Chartism. I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on and commemorate the Chartist’s movement and celebrate the efforts of particular Chartists from the North East. The People’s Charter of 1838 was the foundation text for a remarkable mass movement. Drafted to complete the work which the Magna Carta […]
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Attacks on the International Brigades are symptomatic of the rewriting of history
Jun 7th, 2013 by Dominic Curran.In a shocking ruling the other day, a Spanish court endorsed the tearing down of a recently erected memorial to the International Brigades in Madrid, after much outrage from right wingers. This is an outrageous attack on those who sacrificed everything for democracy. The International Brigades volunteered to fight fascism at a time when British aristocrats fraternised […]
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The Spirit of ’43
May 14th, 2013 by Mark Perryman.Mark Perryman from Philosophy Football explores a year when the tide turned against Fascism Ken Loach’s recent film Spirit of ’45 brilliantly celebrates the triumphant mood that delivered a Labour Landslide election victory at the end of World War Two and the establishment of both the Welfare State and nationalised public utilities. What is made […]
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Karl Marx for Today
Mar 14th, 2013 by Carl Packman.On this very day, 130 years ago, Karl Marx died in his house in Chalk Farm Road, London. Shortly after the death of Jenny Marx, his wife, in late 1881, Marx developed a catarrh, making him very ill for at least the final 15 months of his life. What eventually came to kill the old […]
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Turning the tide v fascism: remembering the Red Army victory at Stalingrad
Feb 12th, 2013 by Newsdesk.Featuring Seumas Milne, Clare Solomon, Matthew Collins with Geoffrey Roberts author of Stalin’s General : The Life of Georgy Zhukhov and Susan Richards of OpenDemocracy Russia, plus performances by Thee Faction and the Trans-Siberian March Band. Gregg McDonald’s film of the Philosophy Football’s 70th Anniversary of the Victory of Stalingrad Night combines political commentary, military […]
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Taking a Radical Step
Feb 9th, 2013 by Newsdesk.East End Walks tour guide David Rosenberg launches his sixth season of walking tours on the morning of Sunday 17th February, when he will be leading members of the public from Aldgate to Cable Street on an “Anti-Fascist Footprints” tour. David will explain how Sir Oswald Mosley’s “Blackshirts” built a powerful presence in the area […]
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On this day: the biggest women’s strike ever
Nov 23rd, 2012 by Jon Lansman.On this day, 23 November 1909, began a strike known as the Uprising of the 20,000. Over 20,000 Yiddish-speaking immigrants, mostly young women in their teens and twenties, launched a strike in New York’s garment industry. The strike lasted 11 weeks and remains the largest known strike by women in history. The morning after the […]
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Police, MI5 and the growth of the cover-up
Oct 23rd, 2012 by Michael Meacher.The devastating exposure of what really happened at Hillsborough 23 years ago, which the police tried to cover up by systematic tampering with their own written records in order to desplace blame for the tragedy on to the fans themselves, is now being matched by similar tampering with the evidence by the same South Yorkshire […]
