20th century history Archives • International Socialism

Repression and resistance on the French home front 1911-1919

Posted on 10th January 2020 by International Socialism

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 →

Learning the lessons of the past

Posted on 6th January 2016 by Camilla

John Newsinger, Them and Us: Fighting the Class War 1910-1939 (Bookmarks, 2015), £7.99 John Newsinger opens this timely account of working class struggle in the first half of the 20th century with what at first seems an incongruous statement: “We… Continue Reading →