Newsletter

New Year 2023 Volume 12 issue 1

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Articles on:

  • The biggest strike wave for a generation
  • Bermondsey Revolution by John Whelan
  • Revolutionary Lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917
  • A Plaque for C.L.R. James in Southwick
  • Harold Wilson by Nick Thomas-Symonds
  • Four meetings
    • Riding Two Horses: Labour in Europe – Glyn Ford
    • Zionism During the Holocaust – Tony Greenstein
    • The Drax Family Dynasty & the Business of Slavery – Steve Cushion
    • Utopianism for a Dying Planet – Gregory Claeys
  • Stalin, Passage to Revolution by Ronald Suny
  • Living with Shadows by Merilyn Moos
  • Little River by Velma McClymont
  • Horatio Bottomley and the Far Right before Fascism by David Renton
  • Horatio Bottomley and Modern Politics
  • THE JULIAN ASSANGE HUMAN CHAIN
  • Socialism in the English-speaking Caribbean

UNION BREAD

BAGELS, PLATZELS AND CHOLLAH: THE STORY OF THE LONDON JEWISH BAKERS’ UNION
Jewish Socialists’ Group and Socialist History Society
by LARRY WAYNE

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UNION BREAD is a story both of division and of solidarity. There were bitter divisions between Jewish and non-Jewish Bakers over the issue of Sunday baking, and between the journeymen and the masters. Read on ...

Annual General Meeting and Book Launch

The Socialist History Society will be holding its first in-person meeting since the start of the current public health emergency.

Marx Memorial Library – 37a Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0DU
Underground Farringdon station on the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines.
Saturday 7th May
1pm AGM – all welcome, but only members can vote. Read on ...

Two Hundred Years of Dulwich Radicalism

by Duncan Bowie

Two Hundred Years of Dulwich Radicalism by Duncan Bowie is a fascinating read for anyone who is interested in British political and social history, the history of the Dulwich area, or both,

Obtainable from local bookshops in Dulwich or directly from the authorduncanbowie@yahoo.co.ukprice £10. Read on ...

Edward Aveling, ‘Son-in-Law of Karl Marx’: A Victorian Enigma

By Deborah Lavin

This book is the first-ever biography of Edward Aveling (1849-1898) and rescues him from his footnote status in the histories of the period and in the biographies of his contemporaries. It should be of interest to anyone engaged in research on aspects of 19th century socialism or with an interest in the lives of Karl Marx and his circle. Read on ...