History

• Creation of Armageddon August 4 2005
  It has been 60 years since the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - and still bourgeois commentators are trying to convince us that it was done in order to "bring the war to a quick end". Rubbish, says Eddie Ford. The nuclear bombs were designed to intimidate the Soviet Union - and led straigh to World War III, the 'cold war'
  
  
  
  
• A day of celebration and hope May 1 2003
  Mary Godwin looks at the history of May Day
• Rewinning our day May 1 2003
  May Day is our celebration of human freedom. That message needs to be renewed
• Stalin's system of terror March 6 2003
  Jack Conrad marks the 50th anniversary of the death of a labour dictator
• Revolutionary guide March 6 2003
  Mike Macnair marks the passing of Christopher Hill
• Democracy, the state machine and working class power December 19 2003
  The Paris Commune was the world’s first example of a workers’ state, albeit short-lived. Ian Donovan looks at the lessons for the 21st century
• Monumental historical study November 14 2002
  Ian Donovan reviews Alan Woods' Bolshevism: the road to power
• First British Marxist August 22 2002
  David Black of the London Corresponding Committee describes the role and work of Helen Macfarlane, the translator of the Communist manifesto
• Second wave Trotskyists February 21 2002
  Ian Donovan reviews Trotsky and the origins of Trotskyism