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The Communist International 100 years on

Posted on 17th October 2019 by Richard Donnelly

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Third International—the Communist International (or Comintern), the organisation of revolutionary socialist parties around the world. The Comintern represented the hope of millions that the example of the Bolshevik Revolution… Continue Reading →

Article Communist Party, Russian Revolution

Tackling racism: the Communist Party’s mixed record

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

A review of Evan Smith, British Communism and the Politics of Race (Haymarket, 2018), £24.99 Evan Smith’s book deals with the Communist Party of Great Britain and anti-racism from 1945 to the early years of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. Aiming for… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Anti-racism, Communist Party

The PCP in the Portuguese Revolution 1974-5: crisis, state and revolution

Posted on 9th January 2018 by Camilla

How did the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), loyal to the Soviet Union deep into the second half of the 20th century, react to a social revolution in 1974-5? The moments are rare when we can study workers’ revolutions in a… Continue Reading →

Article Communist Party, Portuguese Revolution

A fighter who got lost

Posted on 10th January 2017 by Camilla

A review of Hugh Purcell, The Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham 1898-1949 (Sutton, 2000), £20 ‘You probably have not heard of Tom Wintringham,’ writes Hugh Purcell, ‘but by the time you have finished this book I hope you will agree… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Communist Party
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