We're holding a national meeting series on the 1926 British General Strike, the conflict between Trotsky and Stalin, and the lessons for today!
Join us in Sheffield, Manchester, Inverness, London and Glasgow this month for a discussion of socialist history and strategy.
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Nearly one century after its publication in late 1929, My Life remains a work of undiminished significance. A great memoir must, of course, be very well written. It must also convey—through its recollection of social, political or psychological experiences—a sense of what it was to be alive at a particular time.
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Video footage of the Islington, London, meeting of the Socialist Equality Party "Trotsky, Stalin and the 1926 British General Strike: Lessons For Today." A unique analysis rooted in historic struggle for Trotskyist leadership in the working class.
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The US military launched new strikes on southern Iran late Monday as Iranian officials arrived in Doha for negotiations involving Qatari intermediaries acting under the direction of the Trump administration.
"There's a lot of Hispanics, whites, Indians, African-Americans, a few of us Pacific Islanders. We just all go to work and the kids go to school and everybody kind of does the same thing. We're all just trying to make ends meet."
🧵 Three higher education disputes — Sheffield Hallam, University of Sheffield, USIC — unfolding simultaneously, within walking distance of each other, over identical issues: pay, pensions, job cuts, workloads.
The UCU has refused to coordinate a single day of joint action.
Insofar as the Canadian ruling class opposes Trump, it is solely from the standpoint of defending its “sovereign” right to the lion’s share of the profits derived from exploiting Canada’s workers and abundant resources.
The Ebola epidemic unfolding today in central Africa is the product of crimes of both commission and omission, carried out by a ruling class that possessed every capacity to prevent it and chose to dismantle the defenses that stood in its way.
https://t.co/APrDOEr9cI
“We're giving away all of our terms and conditions for nothing"
London Underground Train Operators speak on TfL’s compressed "four-day week" https://t.co/bVZQqsy9Li
At 16 May Nakba 78 protest, London, Hector spoke to https://t.co/NUd6cfirQp on complicity of Starmer government in the Gaza genocide & Imperialist war against Iran. In the fight against capitalism & war "Socialism has to fight that on a global scale"
#GazaGenocide#IranWar
Roxy a student from London attended the 16 May Nakba 78 protest in London. She denounced the Gaza genocide and the war against Iran as "blatantly colonial" & in the fight against war "workers need to realise they hold the power."
#nakbaday#IranWar
Vio from Belgium attended the 16 May Nakba 78 protest in London with her friends. She denounced the Gaza genocide, the rise of the far right and discussed the necessity of workers internationally intervening to stop war.
#Nakba#GazaGenocide#IranWar
Get your ticket NOW to find out more about the 1926 General Strike!
📍 Sunday 24th May - Inverness
📍 Saturday 30th May - London
📍 Sunday 31st May - Glasgow
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This week in #history: May 18-24
🔸25 years ago, 14 Mexican migrants die crossing the Arizona desert amid intensified US border militarization
🔸50 years ago, Pol Pot is installed as Cambodia’s prime minister, consolidating Khmer Rouge rule
🔸75 years ago, the “17-point” agreement formalizes China’s annexation of Tibet
🔸100 years ago, French forces capture the Rif rebel capital in Morocco
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