The 1974 Portuguese Revolution saw 80% of the economy nationalised but the role of the Community Party ensured the reversal of that policy
History
The history of both Marxism and also movements in history that influenced Marxism
Shocking betrayal of Polish Solidarity in 1982
In 1980 at the Lenin shipyard in the Polish city of Gdansk – workers formed a new independent trade union movement they called Solidarity – Solidarność in Polish. But not everybody on the British Left welcomed this development with open arms.
The Iranian revolution – a Marxist perspective
1979 saw the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the coming to power of Ayatollah Khomeini – an event that split the Left inside the country
1979 Iran revolution – a Marxist perspective
The Iran revolution in 1979 was taken over by Ayatollah Khomeini and the mullahs which most on the Left saw as a reactionary development
Trotsky and the horror of the Holocaust
Leon Trotsky could not have anticipated the horror of the Holocaust as he corresponded with Jewish socialists before WWII
Liberals versus Militant in Liverpool – 1980s
1980s Liverpool saw a huge political battle between the Militant dominated Labour Party and the Liberals in the city