Category: Past SHS Meetings
‘G.D.H. Cole: A Libertarian Trapped in the Labour Party’
Socialist History Society Meeting
A talk by David Goodway
G.D.H. Cole (1889-1959) declared forcefully at the end of his life that he was ‘neither a Communist nor a Social Democrat…but something…essentially different from both’. He had been a leading Guild Socialist at the time of World War One and that, he explained, was what he remained. Read on ...
The Workers’ Movement and Revolution in Egypt since 1919
Socialist History Society Meeting – on-line via Zoom
14th October, 6:30pm
Speaker Anne Alexander
Anne Alexander is the co-author, with Mostafa Bassiouny, of Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: Workers and the Egyptian Revolution (Zed, 2014). She is a founder member of MENA Solidarity Network, the co-editor of Middle East Solidarity and a member of the University and College Union (UCU).
The Communist Party of Great Britain and Anti-Racism
Speaker Dr Evan Smith
2pm, 18th September.
British Communism and the Politics of Race explores the role that the Communist Party of Great Britain played within the anti-racism movement in Britain from the 1940s to the 1980s. As one of the first organizations to undertake serious anti-colonial and anti-racist activism within the British labour movement, the CPGB was a pioneering force that campaigned against racial discrimination, popular imperialism and fascist violence in British society.
Read on ... Red Letters: Life and Death of a Small Radical Project
First shown 2pm Saturday 12 June
Online talk hosted by the Socialist History Society
Speaker David Margolies
About the speaker:
David Margolies was a member of the collective responsible for the journal Red Letters, published from 1976 to 1991
He is Emeritus Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London. Read on ...