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.
The Indian Ocean basin is one of the most contested political spaces in contemporary politics, not least because of the long history of colonial conquest and imperial projection there. In this talk, Laleh Khalili will discuss the long history of the intrusion of European powers into this maritime space and discuss the afterlives of colonialism and continued imperial interest in this space. Read on ...
I have done three memoirs of the 1960s. 70s and 80s – ‘Promise of a Dream’, ‘ Daring to Hope’ and ‘Reasons to Rebel’. I wrote these because I wanted to record and bring into view the radical people and movements and ideas which have influenced me in the hope that younger people miight find them interesting and begin to look at the recent past in more detail. Read on ...
Socialist History Public Zoom Meeting
on Wednesday 15 January 2025
The Extraordinary Life of a Revolutionary Journalist
I will talk about the subject of my book, my father, the radical journalist Claud Cockburn, who fought successfully against the political and media establishment. To Graham Greene, he was the greatest journalist of the twentieth century. Read on ...