Ramon Mercader assassinated the Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky but the key role of Ramon’s mother Caridad is often overlooked
Moscow
Polish Solidarity and Labour Students 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.