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4 August 1914: the betrayal of the Second International
By Dave Stockton THE SECOND International, founded in 1889, was an organisation of the world’s socialist, social democratic and labour parties. From its founding conference in Paris it set out…
30th anniversary: the Battle of Orgreave
Thirty years ago in the Yorkshire coalfield, thousands of striking miners and their supporters faced an army of riot police intent on smashing the union and demoralising the pickets. Chris…
Miners’ strike 30 years on: ‘We’re the women of the working class’
Originally published in Workers Power 284 in March 2004, edited by Rebecca Anderson WITH NOT just their own futures at stake, but also the future of the entire working class,…
Women’s liberation: the communist tradition
To achieve women’s liberation we have to fight for socialism. The two things are inseparable. Within the Second International, and later the Communist International, Clara Zetkin showed how the struggles…
100th anniversary of Rabotnitsa: time to recreate its success
On International Women’s Day we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Rabotnitsa (The Woman Worker). Started by a group of Bolshevik women, including Nadezhda Krupskaya, Konkordiya Samoilova and Inessa…
Bolshevism and the fight for women’s liberation
In this article Joy Macready examines the relatively unknown history of the Bolshevik’s ground-breaking policies for the liberation of women, which were subsequently reversed in the 1930s under Stalin. …
The Russian Revolution of 1917
Russia on the eve of 1917 was a country dominated by the Tsar and a feudal aristocracy. In 1914, the Russian empire, allied with France which was its main source…
The Bolsheviks, the Red Army and the Civil War in Russia
In 1917 the working class took power in Russia with remarkably little resistance from the bosses. But shortly afterwards the capitalists regrouped and gathered support from the imperialist powers to…
The Dublin lockout of 1913
In 1913 Dublin workers waged a heroic battle against their employers, the church and the police. Despite being defeated, argues Bernie McAdam, the lockout lives on as the most inspirational…
The Lessons of Chile; Popular Unity 1970-1973
This article was originally written by Stuart King for Workers Power newspaper in September 1983, on the tenth anniversary of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s coup. It has been lightly edited…
