British History
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James Reid: a political profile
August 25, 2010
The following article was published by the Socialist Labour League, the forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party in Britain, as an appendix to Reformism on the Clyde, by Stephen Johns, published by Plough Press in 1973.
Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike
Part Three
By Chris Marsden, December 30, 2008
Trotsky had argued that the very survival of British imperialism now rested not on the right-wing social democrats, but on the supposed lefts, without whom the right wing could not maintain its position in the labour movement.
Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike
Part Two
By Chris Marsden, December 29, 2008
Bereft of any revolutionary guidance from the Communist Party of Great Britain, the working class had no possibility of arming itself against the role of the lefts who were being continually boosted under the Comintern’s orders.
Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike
By Chris Marsden, December 27, 2008
More than 80 years on, the May 1926 British General Strike remains a defining moment in the history of the workers’ movement. Its lessons are essential for the development of a revolutionary strategy, not just in Britain but the world over.
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