Category: Members Publications
On Strike Against the Nazis
The e-book can be downloaded from here…
Class Struggle and Resistance in Northern France and Belgium during the Second World War
By Steve Cushion
The class struggle did not disappear during the Second World War following the occupation of Europe by the German armed forces. In northern France and Belgium a shop steward-based movement quickly emerged, mainly led by communist activists, that attempted to defend and advance wages and conditions and, above all access to sufficient food for working class families. Read on ...
The Communist Party of Great Britain and Anti-Racism
Speaker Dr Evan Smith
2pm, 18th September.
British Communism and the Politics of Race explores the role that the Communist Party of Great Britain played within the anti-racism movement in Britain from the 1940s to the 1980s. As one of the first organizations to undertake serious anti-colonial and anti-racist activism within the British labour movement, the CPGB was a pioneering force that campaigned against racial discrimination, popular imperialism and fascist violence in British society.
Read on ... Writers of the Left in an Age of Extremes
Launch meeting for the SHS’s latest Occasional Publication
6.30pm, Saturday, 29 May
You can download David Morgan’s presentation about Edgell Rickword from here…
The joint authors of the publication discuss why the writers who are featured still matter. David Morgan will speak about Edgell Rickword and Greta Sykes will speak about Anna Seghers and Carlo Levi. Read on ...
‘Hot spots’ and ‘Heartlands’
Local histories of Britain’s War Resisters 1914-1918
The SHS hosted speaker Cyril Pearce for an online talk at 2pm, Saturday, 24th April.
If you wish to buy either of Cyril’s books books – Comrades in Conscience and Communities of Resistance – they are available from the publisher via the Francis Boutle website. Read on ...