The party bureaucracy resorted to vote-rigging to exclude Opposition delegates from the thirteenth conference in January 1924, where the inner-party debate was to be decided. In Moscow, for example, ...

One of the most significant changes to the family as an institution, which in turn had an important effect on the position of women in society generally, came about as a consequence of ...

The great strike of May 1968 did not take place against a background of recession or stagnation, but in a period when real incomes were rising on average by 5 percent a year. For some sections of ...

At the end of March 1972, Hanoi led a big Spring offensive into South Vietnam. Soviet-made tanks and North Vietnamese divisions poured over the demilitarized zone and across the Cambodian border, ...

Richard Nixon was only elected president in November 1968 by masquerading as the ‘peace candidate’, declaring for ‘peace with honor’. The Nixon regime, beginning with his first election victory and ...

It was against this hostile background that the gay rights movement in the U.S. came into existence. In 1948, Harry Hay, a gay man and long-standing member of the U.S. Communist Party (CP), decided to ...

The FBI’s counterintelligence programs (COINTELPRO) of the 1950’s, ’60s, and ’70s formed one of the most infamous domestic initiatives in US history, targeting organizations and individuals whom the ...

‘The Environment’ is an expression which can cover many things – from food chains in a forest to damp and condensation in a council flat. Across the whole of the planet, it is a very complex system of ...

In 1913, Rebecca West, a journalist and suffrage campaigner, stated: “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I ...

The formal or ‘logical’ contradiction between, on the one side, demands for reforms and, on the other, spelling out the need for a socialist transformation of society reflects the very real ...

Over the past five years, there has been a tremendous growth of interest in socialist ideas in the United States, especially since the candidacy of Bernie Sanders for president in 2016. Sanders, a ...

Eighty years ago women in Britain won their first major victory in the struggle for the right to vote. Theirs was an historic struggle which inspired thousands of women in their fight against ...