The British government’s repression of the rebel insurgency in Kenya during the 1950s was one of the most brutal episodes in the history of the Empire. Indeed, one has to go back to the suppression of the Great Indian Revolt… Continue Reading
The constant arguments within social theory over the size, nature and potential of the working class are irrevocably bound to confusions about the nature of the middle class under capitalism. According to the British Office of National Statistics, 53 percent… Continue Reading
A review of The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968-1989 by Matt Myers (Oxford University Press, 2025), £99. On 17 March 1978, the acclaimed Communist historian Eric Hobsbawm presented the annual… Continue Reading
It is difficult to resist the comparison between the 2026 struggle over the Strait of Hormuz and the 1956 struggle over the Suez Canal. In both cases, the struggle is over a major artery of world capitalism; in both cases,… Continue Reading
The centenary of the 1926 General Strike provides an occasion to re-examine the Communist Party of Great Britain’s (CPGB) stance towards the trade union bureaucracy, in particular the Trades Union Congress (TUC), at the time. The party’s stance, culminating in… Continue Reading
On 7 May 2026, parliamentary elections in Wales and Scotland and local elections in parts of England dramatically confirmed the fragmentation of Britain’s electoral landscape.1 The two traditional pillars of the British political system, the Conservative Party and Labour, suffered… Continue Reading
One hundred and twenty-five years ago, the binding of little girls’ feet was still common practice in most of rural China, resulting in adult women hobbling around on three-inch stumps, restricting their movement and ability to work outside the family… Continue Reading
The Iranian revolution of 1979 is surrounded by myths, distortions and falsehoods. It is widely assumed in academic histories and in contemporary media to be an “Islamic” revolution, its outcomes said to be testimony to the negative influence of Islam… Continue Reading
On 25 June 1876, 150 years ago, forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes led by military chiefs Crazy Horse and Gall—and inspired by Sitting Bull’s overall spiritual guidance and leadership—overwhelmed invading forces of the United States Seventh… Continue Reading
The fight against all forms of oppression was central to the Leninist concept of the role of the party—and to the task the Communist International (Comintern) set itself for the overthrow of capitalism.1 In a previous article, I looked at… Continue Reading
