Category: Publications
Socialist History Issue 68
Women’s football in Britain during the 1880s
Ariel Hessayon- Arthur Creech Jones: the quiet revolutionary and the Labour Party’s pre- and post-war policy on African colonial self-government
Duncan Bowie - Fascism, Free Speech and Academic Freedom: A case study from the 1980s
Michael Newman - The Rise and Fall and Rise of World Marxist Review: Reflections on the past and present journal
Helena Sheehan - Peasant War, Violence and Revolution
Jakub Beneš in conversation with Samuel Foster and Francis King - Review article: What was Bolshevism?
Newsletter Spring 2026
The Socialist History Society Newsletter can be downloaded here…
- Levellers Day 2026
- 1926 General Strike Centenary Open Day
- Leyton and the General Strike
- Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian
- Radical and Socialist History in South London
- Local History in Salford and Manchester
- How I Became a Socialist
- Why Rosa Luxemburg remains a beacon for today
- Left on the Shelf
- The General Strike by Harry Wicks
- Forthcoming meetings
The Socialist History Society AGM will take place at the
Marx Memorial Library 37A Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU, nearest station Farringdon on Saturday 6 June at 1pm,
This will be followed at 2pm by a talk by Donald Sassoon on his new book Revolutions: A New History
Guerrilleros
Spanish Antifascists in the Resistance in France 1939-46
by
Steve Cushion
Socialist History Society Occasional Publication 52
Can be downloaded here…
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
can be downloaded here…
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.