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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...