Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by KATZ Dovid
While European countries have condemned the new Holocaust revisionism in the Baltics, America shows no moral leadership
Some years ago, the then American ambassador here in Vilnius, Lithuania, said to me with a brotherly wink over lunch:
"Looks to me, Dovid, that you’re the old New York (…)
, by PRINGLE Peter
The British excel at political theater, but the carefully staged publication of the long-awaited Saville report on Bloody Sunday produced an effect no government choreographer could possibly have predicted. A large crowd, several hundred strong, of Northern Ireland’s nationalists had gathered by (…)
, by CLANCY Emma
Aftermath of Bloody Sunday, when the British army massacred unarmed civil rights protestors in Derry, Ireland, January 30, 1972.
The publication of the Saville Report, the inquiry into the British army massacre of 14 civil rights protestors in Derry in the north of Ireland in 1972, confirmed (…)
, by MUNCKTON Stuart
On June 15, something amazing happened: British Prime Minister David Cameron apologised for the British army shooting Irish people.
“It was wrong”, said Cameron, after a government inquiry found the British army was responsible for the killing of 14 unarmed civil rights demonstrators, seven (…)
, by McANULTY John
John McAnulty of Ireland’s Socialist Democracy looks at the publication of the Saville Report.
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Thirty eight years of protest. Over a decade of legal activity. Over 100 million in costs. A dramatic apology in Westminster. A gathering of the great (…)
, by BUHLE Paul
Review: The Rousing of the Scottish Working Class 1774-2008. By James D. Young, Glasgow: Clydeside Press (www.clydesidepress.co.uk), 2009, 277 pages, 10 pounds 50 pence, paperback.
SO MUCH HAS happened to the world’s working class in the last 30 years that we oldtimers may, perhaps, be (…)
, par PARDO LANCINA Victor
This article, by Victor Pardo Lancina, appeared in Heraldo de Aragon, December 13, 2009. It has been translated for ATC by Michel Vale with the assistance of Susan Weissman. We present it here, abridged, for its interest in connection with our 70th anniversary issue on the tragic defeat of the (…)
, by FINKEL David, HORN Gerd-Rainer, SLAUGHTER Jane, TOSSTORFF Reiner, WALD Alan
See also, as part of this dossier: Spain: The POUM’s Seven Decades
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Introduction — David Finkel, for the editors of ATC
THE YEAR 2009 marks a tragic 70th anniversary, not only globally – the beginning of the Second World War, which would claim (…)
, by SOLANO Wilebaldo
See also, as aprt of this dossier: Spain’s Revolution & Tragedy - The 1930s’ Spanish Civil War
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Introduction to The POUM’s Seven Decades
— The ATC editors
WE PRESENT THIS leading participant’s account of the Party Of Marxist Unity (POUM) (…)
, by BOWMAN Andy, WAINWRIGHT Hilary
35 years ago, workers at the Lucas Aerospace company formulated an ‘alternative corporate plan’ to convert military production to socially useful and environmentally desirable purposes. Hilary Wainwright and Andy Bowman consider what lessons it holds for the greening of the world economy today (…)
, by MILNER Graham
August 16, 2009 — The Industrial Revolution began in England, and the emergence of the industrial working class brought to the fore a new social and political force in world history. The bloody events of 190 years ago, on August 16, 1819, when a mass workers’ protest in Manchester demanding (…)
, by DORN Friedrich
Our comrade Helene Jungclas, known as “Leni“, died on June 28, 2009. Born Helene Perz on August 22, 1917, the child of a working class social democratic family from Cologne, she began her political activity in 1929 in the youth of the “Freidenker”, the "freethinkers” which up until the (…)
, by MEERDING Duncan
In May and June of 1968, a movement erupted in France that threatened not just the survival of the government of President Charles De Gaulle but the system that it represented — capitalism.
At the height of this movement, which was sparked by radical action by youth and students, an estimated (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
Gustave Lefrançais has been unfairly overlooked in accounts of significant actors in the Paris Commune, argues Daniel Bensaïd.
Though less famous than Varlin, Vallès, Flourens or Rossel, Gustave Lefrançais was the first president of the Paris Commune and the dedicatee of Eugène Pottier’s (…)
, by KOWALEWSKI Zbigniew Marcin
“The workers have lost their leader” wrote Magdalena Ostrowska in the daily “Trybuna” after the September 2005 death of Daniel Podrzycki, president of the free trade union “Sierpien 80” and candidate for the presidency of the Republic under the banner of the Polish Party of Labour (PPP), set up (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
The spirit of 68 is a powerful beverage, an intoxicating mixture, an explosive cocktail composed of various ingredients. One of those, and not the less important one, is revolutionary romanticism, a protest against the foundations of the modern industrial/capitalist civilization, its (…)
, by DE JONG Alex
During the 1930s, many communists and socialists from Germany and Austria sought refuge from the Nazis in the USSR. But in a shocking betrayal, the Soviet secret police handed over hundreds of them to Hitler’s Gestapo.
The Soviet Union’s 1936 constitution afforded “the right of asylum to (…)
, by MANDEL Ernest
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On the occasion of the bicentenary celebrations of the Great French Revolution of 1789, there was an intense public controversy in France, Great Britain and the United States about the alleged ‘excessive costs’ of this revolution. The conquest of human rights, so far, so good. But what (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel, KRIVINE Alain
This chapter from the book Mai Si! Rebelles et repentis by Daniel Bensaïd and Alain Krivine was first published in English in International Marxist Review Volume 3 number 2, Autumn 1988. That version unfortunately was published in an uncorrected form. This has been corrected by the original (…)
, by HOBBS May
In two chapters from her autobiographical account Born To Struggle, May describes her struggles against landlords, employees and council and union bureaucrats. As a result of her experiences working as a night cleaner, she set up the rank’n’file group Cleaners Action and led a cleaners’ strike (…)
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