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16 December 2020
Met police investigate British mercenary war crimes against Tamils
The Metropolitan Police are investigating British mercenaries' hand in the massacre of over 100,000 civilians and the brutal defeat of the LTTE (Tamil Tigers), who fought an armed struggle for an independent Tamil Eelam nation.
9 December 2020
It is with great sadness that we announce the loss of our friend and comrade Roger Priest.
11 November 2020
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7 October 2020
'Frozen conflict' reignites in Nagorno-Karabakh enclave
The latest flare-up in the long-running dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh started on 27 September
2 September 2020
No one could watch this five-part documentary series about the Iraq war and come away with the feeling that the war was anything but a catastrophe for the people of Iraq, the Middle East and humanity as a whole.
5 August 2020
Capitalism's 'vaccine war' shows need for socialist cooperation
Covid-19 can travel round the world at jet speed. No one can feel secure without global action. Yet despite gushing words from government leaders about international cooperation on research and development, a 'vaccine war' is developing.
5 August 2020
Anniversary of nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Can the slide toward a new arms race be halted?: 75 years ago, as World War Two was drawing to a close, United States forces dropped two atomic bombs above the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
15 July 2020
How capitalist restoration led to war and 'ethnic cleansing' in the Balkans
Srebrenica massacre - 25 years on: 8,000 Bosnian Muslim refugees were slaughtered in and around the Bosnian town of Srebrenica
1 July 2020
75th anniversary of the Attlee Labour government
The end of World War Two left behind a world in upheaval. Demobilised troops and a war-weary population demanded a better future. Resistance movements in Europe published programmes demanding nationalisation.
27 May 2020
1920s Britain: A "country nearer Bolshevism than at any time since"
In the sixth article in our series - 'war, global crises and working-class struggle' - Socialist Party national committee member Alistair Tice asks: does the picture following the World War One give more pointers to what we can expect today in terms of new economic crises and workers' struggles?.
13 May 2020
A new world order - global reconstruction after World War Two
The United States emerged from the carnage of World War One immeasurably strengthened, both economically and militarily, writes During the Covid-19 crisis, many commentators have talked about a 'new Bretton Woods' and the need for post-crisis international capitalist cooperation and reconstruction. In the fifth in our series on 'war, global crises and working-class struggle', Robin Clapp looks at reconstruction and global relations after the Second World War and the lessons for today.
13 May 2020
The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it "fanned the flames of revolt"
Laura Spinney's book on the 1918 flu pandemic, first published in 2017, is now being widely read
6 May 2020
The Tyneside apprentices' strike during WW2
I have been enjoying reading the articles on World War Two. There are many lessons to be learnt for today for our class and the youth, writes Heather Rawling, Leicester Socialist Party.
29 April 2020
No return to the 1930s: World War Two and 'a land fit for heroes'
In the fourth article in our series 'war, global crises and working-class struggle', Socialist Party national committee member Tom Baldwin shows how working-class expectations were transformed by World War Two and the impact this had on the initial post-war period
15 April 2020
Fight back against the corona propaganda war
"The BBC must be for the government," said its founder Lord Reith during the 1926 general strike. That has certainly been the case during the coronavirus pandemic, writes James Ivens.
15 April 2020
How the catastrophe of WW1 sparked revolution
In the third of a series of articles on 'war, global crises and working class struggle', Philip Stott - secretary, Socialist Party Scotland - describes how the horrors and privatiations of WW1 provoked revolutionary working class uprisings
8 April 2020
Class collaboration and worker militancy in World War Two Britain
In the second of a series of articles on 'war, global crises and working class struggle', Alec Thraves - Socialist Party national committee - explains how workers' militancy broke the shackles of the World War Two coalition government in Britain
1 April 2020
All in this together? The 'Blitz spirit' myth
In the first of a series of articles on 'war, global crises and working-class struggle', Chris Holmes exposes the myth of class unity during the World War Two
19 February 2020
Yemen's desperate civil war fuelled by imperialism and regional powers
Only unified, revolutionary movement of working class and poor can end the turmoil: The final article in our series on the Middle East
29 January 2020
Libya: Civil war and chaos follow interventions by world and regional powers
It is almost nine years since the Nato-led military intervention in Libya, and the country is still a mess, split between conflicting forces, backed by western capitalist powers, Russia, and regional powers Turkey and Saudi Arabia. An ongoing series of 'peace' summits hosted by various world powers have failed to resolve an increasingly violent civil war. In the second of our series on the Middle East, Tom Baldwin explains how imperialism brought about this chaos and why the current conflict can only be resolved by an independent revolutionary movement of workers and the poor.
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