30 January 2019

Join the fight to defend women's lives

Councils must save domestic violence services: Already this week, two women will have died due to domestic violence. By the end of the week, there will have been five

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23 January 2019

Non-fiction: The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg "reveals the brutal lengths capitalists will go to protect their system"

On 15 January 1919, two key leaders of the German working class and the Communist Party were murdered

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9 January 2019

Heroic martyrs of German Revolution

January 15 marks the 100th anniversary of the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the outstanding leaders of the German and international working-class movements.

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15 August 2016

The Corbyn insurgency 2.0: Now let's finish the job

Jeremy Corbyn appears to be on course to be re-elected as Labour leader. But the bitter right-wing struggle against him shows there can be no compromise with the representatives of capitalism in Labour.

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11 February 2015

1918: When German workers entered history

Last year was the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One, covered by the Socialist in previous issues. But when the war ended, it was in a wave of revolution, most notably in Russia in 1917, but also Germany in 1918

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19 March 2009

International Women's Day

Rosa Luxemburg - still relevant today: LONDON SOCIALIST Party's international women's day meeting discussed the huge effect this recession will have on women, writes Margaret Trotter.

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28 January 2009

Germany 1919 The Spartacist uprising

Historical feature: NINETY YEARS ago this month the German workers rose in the 'Spartacist uprising' - a turning point in the German revolution of 1917-1923 which led to the tragic deaths of revolutionary socialist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht...

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3 December 2008

Socialist women: Looking at the past to take action today

The Socialist Women weekend school, held in London on 29-30 November, started with a discussion on the Great Depression and a comparison to today's crisis, writes Sarah Wrack, Brighton Socialist Party.

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5 November 2008

1918 revolution: When German workers entered the stage of history

German revolutionary socialist Karl Liebknecht addresses a mass workers' demonstration

The 90th anniversary of the November 1918 German revolution comes at a significant time. The current economic convulsions of world capitalism are recognised by some as "the greatest loss of wealth in history".

PETER TAAFFE, in the first of two articles written for The Socialist, comments on the momentous events of 1918 in Germany.

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28 June 2007

Rehabilitating Stalin?

Review by Peter Taaffe of Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore: "Lenin shot by Trotsky in drunken brawl". This was a headline, not from the gutter press but from a so-called 'quality' US capitalist newspaper in...

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