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When the USSR ceased to exist at the end of 1991, many observers remarked on how peaceful the break-up seemed to be, compared with the violent disintegration of the former socialist Yugoslavia then taking place in the Balkans. Read on ...
A Socialist History Society on-line talk with Helen Mercer.
James Aldridge’s novels are available on the Internet Archive website…
James Aldridge (1918-2015) was not the greatest post war novelist but several of his books were bestsellers in their day. His novel The Diplomat, set against the background of the Iran crisis of 1946, won him the World Peace Council prize in 1953. Read on ...
Christian Høgsbjerg launched his new publication for the Socialist History Society on March 27th at 7pm
Also speaking was Martin Samoiloff, Louise’s grandson
The book is available from Bookmarks bookshop…
This book introduces the remarkable life and work of Louise Cripps Samoiloff (1904-2001), an English born writer, journalist, publisher, historian and socialist who became an American citizen and was the author of over a dozen books, many of which articulated the case for the independence of Puerto Rico. Read on ...
How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crises
23 February 2023 on-line public meeting
Speaker: Professor Gregory Claeys
Our talk will be based on Greg’s latest book, Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life After Consumerism. (Princeton University Press, 2022), which examines the ways the expansive history of utopian thought, from its origins in ancient Sparta and ideas of the Golden Age through to today’s thinkers, can offer moral and imaginative guidance in the face of environmental catastrophe. Read on ...