Eddie Prevost was a leading worker militant in the London docks from 1960 to 1989. This was a time of intense class struggle in Britain—and Eddie played a key role. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in the… Continue Reading
During the 1970s and 1980s, members of the International Socialists (IS), later the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), produced a number of publications with the purpose of politically organising different communities in Britain.1 These publications were either printed in the English… Continue Reading
A review of Paul Foot: A Life in Politics, Margaret Renn (Verso Books, 2024), £30.00 It always seems that an anniversary with a zero at the end is a good time for a biography. It is therefore appropriate that the… Continue Reading
Thirty years ago the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) faced a brutal assault from a Tory government. As recent cabinet papers reveal, Margaret Thatcher secretly prepared to wage war against “the enemy within”. Thatcher was far from being an innocent… Continue Reading
Two reviews of Ian Birchall, Tony Cliff: A Marxist For His Time (Bookmarks, 2011), £15 What a remarkable man Tony Cliff was. Readers of this journal may find this hardly worth saying, even a slight, but for someone outside that… Continue Reading
September 1958 saw the first issue of a journal called International Socialism. It was in duplicated form and undoubtedly had a very limited circulation, being produced and distributed by the tiny Socialist Review Group which counted its members in tens… Continue Reading