Socialist History Society AGM

The Annual General Meeting will take place on Saturday 3rd May at 1pm at the Marx Memorial Library.

This will be followed at 2pm by a talk given by Hugh Davie on
How the Red Army Won the Second World War

HGW Davie gained a MA History at the University of Wolverhampton and is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the East Centre, University of East Anglia. Read on ...

A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition

Thursday 3rd April 2025
Speaker: James Crossley
All welcome, but you will need to register in advance
 
This talk will provide an overview of Morton’s life and work based on recent archival research. It will cover the formative influences on Morton’s political and intellectual development and contextualise his work in light of his membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
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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 ...

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 ...