A TRIBUTE TO CLAUDIA JONES

Thursday 26 October 7pm
Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0DU

Claudia Webbe, Islington Councillor and member of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee in the Chair
Winston Pinder, friend of Claudia, on Claudia’s life as socialist, organiser and writer
Meirian Jump, Archivist & Library Manager, on Claudia’s archives at the MML

Claudia Jones (1915-1964) was a political activist and tireless anti-racist campaigner. Read on ...

Two contrasting reviews

We have just received notice of two reviews of Steve Cushion’s book “The Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution“.

One from “Solidarity” the newspaper of “Workers Liberty”, the other from “Special Warfare” which styles itself “The Professional Bulletin of US Army Special Operations”.

The first says that “He reproduces the hackneyed Stalinist version of events“, while the US Army journal says “Perhaps Cushion’s most significant contribution is the detailed account of organized labor that fought the Batista regime in parallel to the guerrillas“. Read on ...

Call for Papers

Weekend conference:-
‘Echoes of revolution 1848, 1918. Revolution, nationalism, and socialism’
Saturday and Sunday, 17 and 18 February 2018
School of History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK

Organised and hosted by UEA School of History in conjunction with the journal Socialist History and the Institute of Working Class History, Chicago. Read on ...