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 ...

AL MORTON MEMORIAL LECTURE 2024

The World of the Ranters Revisited

Speaker
Dr Ariel Hessayon
24th September 2024

If you want to see the subtitles, click on “Watch on YouTube

About the speaker
Dr Ariel Hessayon is Reader in Early Modern History, Goldsmiths, University of London

The Museum of Revolution is the progeny of the mightiest of revolutions…

Revolutionary museums in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union before and after 1917
a Socialist History Society Public Meeting held on 29th October 2024

Speaker: Nikolay Sarkisyan

In Soviet Russia, the world’s first museum of revolution opened in Petrograd in 1919. This marked the beginning of a special type of museum – the historical-revolutionary museum – which was followed by other similar museums in the USSR, opening in the 1920s and 1930s and continuing until the end of the Soviet Union. Read on ...

Raphael Samuel and People’s History

A look at the work of socialist historian Raphael Samuel and the History Workshop movement.
2pm, Saturday, 1st June 2024 
Speakers
John Merrick, editor, Workshop of the World: Essays in People’s History by Raphael Samuel (Verso)
And
Anna Davin, socialist feminist historian and author of Growing Up Poor, among other works, who was part of the History Workshop and a founder editor of its journal.
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