Enslaved Worker Rebellions and Revolution in the Americas to 1804

by Mary Turner
A Socialist History Society publication, jointly with Caribbean Labour Solidarity
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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 ...

Aimé Césaire and Martinique

Socialist History online public meeting on 19 May 2025
Speaker Kevin Morgan

In October 1956 Aimé Césaire announced his resignation from the French communist party in an open letter to the PCF’s leader Maurice Thorez. Better known as a writer and co-architect of the concept of negritude, Césaire was a communist of eleven years’ standing and one of two PCF deputies representing Martinique in the French national assembly. Read on ...

The Left and CND

Martin Shaw will talk about his new book The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Agenda Publishing), a history of the antinuclear movement in Britain up to the present day. In the late 1950s, this was the first mass protest movement of the postwar period and proved seminal for the antiwar and social movements which followed, which in turn profoundly influenced its second big wave in the 1980s.
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