Keishia Taylor is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The 1918-1919 “Spanish Flu” killed between 50-100 million people, more than the number of deaths in the First and Second World Wars combined. According to expert Laura Spinney the Spanish flu “re-sculpted human populations more radically than anything since the Black Death.” The […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). “The shock to the global economy from COVID-19 has been both faster and more severe than … even the Great Depression.” That comment by economist Nouriel Roubini on March 24 indicates the growing possibility of global events entering an entirely new period. One way […]
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Eleanor Crossey-Malone is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). January 15th marked the 101st anniversary of the murder of the outstanding revolutionary socialist leader, Rosa Luxemburg. This article, first published by Socialist Party Ireland looks at her defence of both the fundamental ideas of Marxism and the necessity of revolutionary change against […]
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On January 9th 1905, hundreds of thousands of Russian workers flooded out on a massive demonstration in Petersburg, then the capital of Russia, to demand from the Tsar that he implement their demands. They were met by the Imperial Guard, who brutally shot into the crowds leaving over 200 dead, hundreds wounded and thousands under […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). After two and a half years of the First World War, Russia exploded in February 1917 in a revolution that overthrew the Tsar’s dictatorship. The capitalist provisional governments that took over did not at all fulfill the expectations of the masses of an end […]
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Robert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. November 9 is a momentous date in German history, as it is the date when the Kaiser was overthrown and a republic declared. Internationally, this date is sometimes overshadowed by the signing, on November 11, 1918, of the Armistice ending formally the central […]
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Iain Dalton is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). The rise of fascism in Italy in the early 1920s represented a new, extremely dangerous threat to the workers’ movement. It provoked urgent debate in the early years of the Communist International – before its policy of workers’ unity to defeat […]
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