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40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution
Forty years ago, a great revolution against a dictatorial monarchy was in progress in Iran. Recalling the heroic…
Free Derry – legacy of working-class resistance
By Seamus McLaughlin Free Derry has a proud place in the history of radicalism in Northern Ireland, when…
The Chavista movement & the struggle for socialist change
Over the last number of days it has become clear that that the Trump regime and US imperialism…
The War of Independence, The Working Class & the Struggle for Socialism
By Kevin McLoughlin, first published in December 2016 in the Socialist Party’s book Ireland’s Lost Revolution, The Working…
50 years on- The real history of the Prague Spring
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring when the rule of Stalinism in Czechoslovakia and…
November 1918: When workers revolution ended war
By Kevin Henry “The old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” – It is sweet and…
October 1968 – Mass revolt against sectarianism & poverty
By Ciaran Mulholland In a few brief months in late 1968, a mass movement challenged the Unionist government…
“Bold, brave, undaunted”- The Life & Ideas of James Connolly
5 June 2018 will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of James Connolly. The following article was originally…
Karl Marx’s theory of class struggle: the working class & revolution
Two hundred years since Karl Marx was born and 170 years since his most famous work, The Communist…
100 years on: When working class power defeated conscription
April 2018 marks the one hundredth anniversary of a historic general strike in Ireland. Cillian Gillespie looks at…
