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.
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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 ...

Red Mersey

The Communist Party in Liverpool and Birkenhead, 1920-1940
SHS Occasional Publication 50

by Chris Jones

Chapters:

  • Foundation: a party of a new type
  • The Minority Movement in Liverpool
  • Bans and proscriptions in the Labour Party and trade unions gather pace
  • New Times and the ‘New Line’
  • Organising the CPGB: members, officers and offices
  • No Pasaran: The fight against Fascism in Liverpool
  • The Popular Front on the Mersey
  • Industrial activity of the CPGB in Liverpool
  • The cultural life of the Liverpool CPGB
  • The Life and Soul of the Party
  • Darkening Clouds: International Activity
  • Give peace a chance: Liverpool communists and peace campaigns in the 1930s

CHRIS JONES is a retired academic nurse from Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, Lancashire. Read on ...

Sale of Back Numbers of Publications

The Socialist History Society is having a Sale of back numbers of our Occasional Publications.

Special offer £1 each plus postage. Members normally receive the Occasional Publications as part of their subscription, but if you want a copy of an issue that came out before you joined, these will be free to members, just pay the postage. Read on ...

UNION BREAD

BAGELS, PLATZELS AND CHOLLAH: THE STORY OF THE LONDON JEWISH BAKERS’ UNION
Jewish Socialists’ Group and Socialist History Society
by LARRY WAYNE

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UNION BREAD is a story both of division and of solidarity. There were bitter divisions between Jewish and non-Jewish Bakers over the issue of Sunday baking, and between the journeymen and the masters. Read on ...