The Society takes an interest in every aspect of human history from the earliest social formations to modern society, its culture and political activities. We encourage anyone with an interest in our history to join us and participate in our activities. The Society is particularly interested in the struggles of labour, women, progressive and peace movements throughout the world, as well as the movements and achievements of working class communities, colonial peoples, black people, and other oppressed groups seeking social justice, human dignity and liberation.
Socialist History online public meeting
19 May 2025 at 7pm
Speaker Kevin Morgan
https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/5swIUNc-QRm6y-55cdFwBQ
In October 1956 Aimé Césaire announced his resignation from the French communist party in an open letter to the PCF’s leader Maurice Thorez. Better known as a writer and co-architect of the concept of negritude, Césaire was a communist of eleven years’ standing and one of two PCF deputies representing Martinique in the French national assembly. Read on ...
Issue 66 of the Socialist History journal is now available.
Members of the Socialist History Society should have received their copy in the post. If you have not received your copy, please contact us.
Everyone else can purchase a copy from the Editor – francis@socialisthistorysociety.co.uk
- The Lost Art of the Agitator – American anti-capitalism and the power of the spoken word
Nathan Moore
- Brotherhood and unity – Djilas, Njegoš, and the Yugoslav idea
True Sweetser
- The Ministry for the Recovery of Embezzled Property: the first two years of the Cuban Revolution
Steve Cushion
- Special feature: Local History
Merilyn Moos
- Tourism versus History in the South-West
Danny Reilly
- The Slave Trade and the Growth of Lancaster
Howard Feather
- Beer is Best – Left Alone!
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This book details the narrative of the farm workers union, (NALU) in the Basildon district of south Essex 1872 to 1894. It is an in depth study of a small area told in the contexts of the overall successes and failures of the union nationally and the economic and political circumstances of the time.
by Mary Turner
A Socialist History Society publication, jointly with Caribbean Labour Solidarity
Free to members, £5 post free in UK, £7 overseas.
Contact info@socialisthistorysociety.co.uk
This impressive essay is a sweeping survey of slave resistance across the Americas. As Mary Turner points out, resistance by the enslaved took many forms. This included day-to-day resistance which was the most common form of attempting to undermine the slave system. Read on ...