Aimé Césaire and Martinique

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 ...

Socialist History Journal 66

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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Enslaved Worker Rebellions and Revolution in the Americas to 1804

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 ...