Category: Meetings
James Aldridge: the greatest post-war novelist you have never heard of
A Socialist History Society on-line talk with Helen Mercer.
James Aldridge’s novels are available on the Internet Archive website…
James Aldridge (1918-2015) was not the greatest post war novelist but several of his books were bestsellers in their day. His novel The Diplomat, set against the background of the Iran crisis of 1946, won him the World Peace Council prize in 1953. Read on ...
Louise Cripps Samoiloff by Christian Høgsbjerg
Christian Høgsbjerg launched his new publication for the Socialist History Society on March 27th at 7pm
Also speaking was Martin Samoiloff, Louise’s grandson
The book is available from Bookmarks bookshop…
This book introduces the remarkable life and work of Louise Cripps Samoiloff (1904-2001), an English born writer, journalist, publisher, historian and socialist who became an American citizen and was the author of over a dozen books, many of which articulated the case for the independence of Puerto Rico. Read on ...
Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life After Consumerism
How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crises
23 February 2023 on-line public meeting
Speaker: Professor Gregory Claeys
Our talk will be based on Greg’s latest book, Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life After Consumerism. (Princeton University Press, 2022), which examines the ways the expansive history of utopian thought, from its origins in ancient Sparta and ideas of the Golden Age through to today’s thinkers, can offer moral and imaginative guidance in the face of environmental catastrophe. Read on ...
The Drax Family Dynasty & the Business of Slavery
Reparations for Enslavement as a trade union issue
A London Socialist Historians seminar at the Institute of Historical Research
Speaker:
Steve Cushion is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London – Institute of the Americas
23 January 2023, 5:30pm – 7:00pm
The Drax family pioneered the plantation system in the 17th century and played a major role in the development of sugar and slavery across the Caribbean and the US. Read on ...
Zionism During the Holocaust
A Socialist History Society Zoom Meeting – Speaker: Tony Greenstein
19th January 2023
Tony Greenstein is a longstanding Jewish anti-Zionist and an anti-fascist activist from Brighton.
Tony is the author of The Fight Against Fascism in Brighton and the South Coast and now Zionism During the Holocaust. He has written extensively on Palestine and Zionism for, amongst others, the Guardian’s Comment is Free, the Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, Tribune, Jacobin, Open Democracy and the Weekly Worker. Read on ...