Category: Meetings
Aimé Césaire and Martinique
Socialist History online public meeting on 19 May 2025
Speaker Kevin Morgan
In October 1956 Aimé Césaire announced his resignation from the French communist party in an open letter to the PCF’s leader Maurice Thorez. Better known as a writer and co-architect of the concept of negritude, Césaire was a communist of eleven years’ standing and one of two PCF deputies representing Martinique in the French national assembly. Read on ...
Writing about my life – Sheila Rowbotham
12 February 2025
Speaker: Sheila Rowbotham
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 ...
Imperial Politics in the Indian Ocean
5 March 2025
Speaker Laleh Khalili
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 ...
Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the invention of Guerrilla Journalism
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 ...