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Women’s work in the first civilisations

Posted on 23rd October 2021 by Richard Donnelly

“Be sure to send me the equivalent of my cloth in silver so that I can buy barley.” A woman in Assur to her husband in a distant trading colony, about 1900 BCE. “You are perpetually pressing oil, grinding barley,… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised History, prehistory, women's liberation, Women's oppression

Repression and resistance on the French home front 1911-1919

Posted on 10th January 2020 by Richard Donnelly

What means other than war could there be under capitalism to overcome the ­disparity between the development of the productive forces and the accumulation of capital on the one side, and the division of colonies and spheres of influence for… Continue Reading →

Article 20th century history, First World War, France, History

Popular Fronting, 1934-2012

Posted on 17th October 2019 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Richard J Evans, Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little, Brown, 2019), £35 Breadth and verve made Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) the most sold and most translated of socialist historians ever to write in English. Compared with his… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Eric Hobsbawm, History

Rural rebellion

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Camilla

A review of Martin Empson, Kill all the Gentlemen: Class Struggle and Change in the English Countryside (Bookmarks, 2018), £14.99 When Karl Marx analysed the birth of capitalism he drew attention to what he called the primitive accumulation of capital.… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Environment, History, Peasants' revolt
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