Category: Publications
Guerrilleros
Spanish Antifascists in the Resistance in France 1939-46
by
Steve Cushion
Socialist History Society Occasional Publication 52
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There were many different nationalities of antifascists fighting the Nazis and their French collaborators in occupied France. The largest group were the Spanish refugees who had fled to France following the defeat of the Republic by the Nationalist forces led by Francisco Franco. Read on ...
Socialist History Journal 67
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Contents
- Editorial – Sebastian Berg and Claus-Ulrich Viol
- To Call a Robbery a Robbery: Land, Rent, Culture – Christian Huck
- The disrupted moral economy: Understanding Italy’s working-class far-right shift through the legacy of E. P. Thompson – Valentina Nava
- The significance of communism in the time of Marx and Engels: Synonym for socialism, human dream or ‘spectre’ – Joshua Graf
- The Rhyming Reasoner (1956): A publication to be remembered – George Houston and Ronald Meek
- Review article: Biographies of US and British Twentieth-Century Leftists: From Early US Cultural Leftism to Stalinism – Victor G.
“Beyond the Tricolour:” A book talk with Ian Birchall
Join our friends at Historical Materialism for a discussion of “Beyond the Tricolour” with author Ian Birchall, Leo Zeilig, Matt Myers, Lucie Rondeau, and Jim Wolfreys.
Online event
Tuesday 20 January 2026 from 6pm to 7:30pm GMT
Join live on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/Oxg82O1UExQ
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This book examines the theme of internationalism, in the form of opposition to nationalism, racism and war, in the context of French history, and in particular of the French socialist and working-class movement. Read on ...
Newsletter Autumn 2025
Articles on:
- How I Became a Socialist by David Morgan
- Blood, Sweat & Tears – Photographs from the great miners’ strike 1984-1985
- The Legacy of Slavery and the Case for Reparations – The launch of a Socialist History Occasional Publication
- Book reviews
- The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europe’s Modern Era, 1880-2023
- Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World
- The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
- Eve Meets Dante – a novel by Greta Sykes
- The Czech Refugee Trust Fund in Britain, 1938-1975.