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As the anniversary of Bloody Sunday approaches, Eamonn McCann looks back at the Amritsar massacre, drawing parallels between two murderous atrocities at the hands of the British Empire. Sunday, April 13th 1919 was the day the decline and fall of the British Empire became obvious and undeniable. This was the
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200 years ago a protest in Manchester demanding democratic reform was viciously mowed down by the British establishment. Paul O’Brien—author of the newly published collection Shelley’s Revolutionary Year—takes a look at the background to the Peterloo Massacre, and the impact it had on some of the
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Was the defeat of the Irish Revolution an inevitable result of immutable national and sectarian divisions? In this close examination of the little-known surge in labour militancy in Tyrone, and its apex during the Caledon lockout of 1919, Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh sheds new light on the possibilities in a
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50 years ago today, British troops were sent into the North. Matt Collins takes a look back at that moment, and the year the Troubles began. At around 5pm, 14 August, 1969, 300 troops from the 1st Battalion of the Prince of Wales’ Own Regiment of Yorkshire entered the city
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Frida Kahlo was undervalued in her time, but today her art, her fashion and her politics are commercialised worldwide. Here, Mike Gonzalez looks back at the art and politics of a woman who worked hard to curate her own persona, translating her pain and passion into personal and political expression.
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“The Irish Catholic was despoiled by force, the Irish Protestant toiler was despoiled by fraud… The spoliation of both continues today.” So remarked James Connolly in his article on the Twelfth of July, republished here 105 years later. As this Saturday is the 12th of July, and as I am
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The Stonewall Rebellion marked the beginning of the modern LGBTQ movement. Keegan O’Brien—a gay socialist activist in Brooklyn, New York—takes a look back at this extraordinary event, and the political lessons for the movement today. Fifty years ago this June, in the summer of 1969, patrons at
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With the development of new anti-racist movements, there is a renewed interest in the history of the Black Panther Party. Shaun Harkin spoke to Donna Murch—historian and author of ‘Living for the City’—about the overlooked aspects of the Panthers, from their founding days, to their focus on
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35 years on, and the impact of the great miners’ strike of 1984–85 still reverberates. Mike Simons, executive producer of the film Still the Enemy Within, takes a look back at this extraordinary struggle. The 1984-85 miners’ strike was the longest, most bitter national strike in British working
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John Gray continues the discussion on the Belfast General Strike of 1919. John’s original piece can be found here, and a reply by Conor Kostick here. Conor Kostick’s ‘reply’ to my own article on the 1919 General Strike is certainly useful in that it more fairly portrays the
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Conor Kostick replies to John Gray’s article on the Belfast General Strike of 1919 (found here), arguing that opportunities for socialist politics during the period should not be underestimated. I believe the 1919 general strike in Belfast was a much more radical event than depicted by John Gray’s
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On Sunday 13 April 1919 began one of the most spirited, radical actions ever to have taken place in Ireland: the declaration of the Limerick ‘soviet’. Conor Kostick looks at why the soviet began, and what lessons we can take for today. On Sunday 13 April 1919, began one of