Guerrilleros

Spanish Antifascists in the Resistance in France 1939-46
by
Steve Cushion

Socialist History Society Occasional Publication 52

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

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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.

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“Beyond the Tricolour:” A book talk with Ian Birchall

Join our friends at Historical Materialism for a discussion of “Beyond the Tricolour” with author Ian Birchall, Leo Zeilig, Matt Myers, Lucie Rondeau, and Jim Wolfreys.
Online event
Tuesday 20 January 2026 from 6pm to 7:30pm GMT
Join live on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/Oxg82O1UExQ
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This book examines the theme of internationalism, in the form of opposition to nationalism, racism and war, in the context of French history, and in particular of the French socialist and working-class movement. Read on ...

The Fiery Spirits: Popular Protest, Parliament and the English Revolution

A Socialist History Society public on-line meeting held on Tuesday 17 March 2026

Speaker: John Rees

The thrilling history of Parliament’s ‘fiery spirits’, whose actions led to the defeat of Charles I in the English Civil War and paved the way for the execution of the King in 1649

The Fiery Spirits tells the story of the MPs in parliament and the protestors in the streets who played a pivotal role in the English Civil Wars. Read on ...