Category: Publications
Enslaved Worker Rebellions and Revolution in the Americas to 1804
by Mary Turner
A Socialist History Society publication, jointly with Caribbean Labour Solidarity
Free to members, £5 post free in UK, £7 overseas.
Contact info@socialisthistorysociety.co.uk
This impressive essay is a sweeping survey of slave resistance across the Americas. As Mary Turner points out, resistance by the enslaved took many forms. This included day-to-day resistance which was the most common form of attempting to undermine the slave system. Read on ...
The Left and CND
Martin Shaw will talk about his new book The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Agenda Publishing), a history of the antinuclear movement in Britain up to the present day. In the late 1950s, this was the first mass protest movement of the postwar period and proved seminal for the antiwar and social movements which followed, which in turn profoundly influenced its second big wave in the 1980s.
Read on ... A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition
Speaker: James Crossley
This talk provided an overview of Morton’s life and work based on recent archival research. It covered the formative influences on Morton’s political and intellectual development and contextualise his work in light of his membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Morton’s main publications will be discussed, including A People’s History of England (1938) and The English Utopia (1952), explaining the shifting emphases between the two.
Read on ... A new look at the Webbs
An on-line talk for the Socialist History Society by Michael Ward, author of Unceasing War on Poverty : Beatrice & Sidney Webb and their World
First broadcast on Wednesday 16 October 2024
This engaging biography of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, ‘Unceasing War on Poverty’, takes the reader into the world of the Webbs, the remarkable couple who changed Britain, inspiring a generation to fight for a better society. Read on ...