Today is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the 1926 General Strike in Britain. In 2022, Gavin Bowd wrote this article for Twentieth Century Communism on French-British communist solidarity during the strike, compared with strikes in 1948 and 1984-85. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2022...

Franco-British communist solidarity in the miners’ strikes of 1926, 1948 and 1984-85 - Lawrence Wishart

The British and French communist movements have rarely been an object of comparison, partly because of the huge difference in fo

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*Reminder: Deadline Approaching* Call for Papers. New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field Deadline: 4 May 2026. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Our new Radical Histories series is dedicated to the individuals, movements and ideas that have challenged authority. Series editor Katrina Navickas explains why a series on radical histories is needed, and why now. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/04... @tedvallance.bsky.social

25 April is Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand, commemorating when troops landed in Gallipoli in 1915. In the 1930s, the CPA-led Movement Against War and Fascism warned against the day's use by militarists, as outlined in this 1936 pamphlet by Len Fox. viewer.slv.vic.gov.au?entity=IE270...

For St George's Day, here's a Bolshevik poster from the Russian Civil War depicting Trotsky as St George slaying the counter-revolutionary dragon

It's official! My next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire" is coming out with Liverpool University Press on 14 August 2026. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Ole Birk Laursen@olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My book now has its own page: The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905–1918 | Home www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

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The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...

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Check out the new issue of Twentieth Century Communism with new original research articles. (link contains also one free to download article) journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2026...

Twentieth Century Communism: Volume 2026 Issue 30 (2026) - Lawrence Wishart

Twentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history - Issue contents for Volume 2026 Issue 30 (2026)

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Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979 with @exeter.ac.uk. Applications open soon. link.bl.uk/q95

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979' - British Library & University of Exeter www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Deadline for student applications: 5 May (noon)

What can we learn from the UK left of fifty years ago? Mike Phipps reviews In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956, edited by Daniel Frost and Evan Smith, published by Manchester University Press. This book covers a huge range of material. There is a wealth of detail about…

What can we learn from the UK left of fifty years ago?

Mike Phipps reviews In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956, edited by Daniel Frost and Evan Smith, published by Manchester University Press. This book covers a huge range of material. There is a wealth of detail about state surveillance of left groups, much of it unearthed in the Undercover Policing Inquiry. The Anti-Nazi League and School Kids Against the Nazis were targeted, in contrast with the far right, a genuinely serious threat to public order, who were not infiltrated at all. It was impossible for the state to infiltrate Britain’s Black Power movement, as the Metropolitan Police had not recruited a single non-white officer before 1967.

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The latest issue of Twentieth Century Communism is now out! Available via the @lawrencewishart.bsky.social website, it is a non-themed issue, featuring communist history from Germany, Poland, Britain and Italy. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2026...

Hot off the press 🥳 "Always forwards, never backwards? The reinvention of the Democratic Women's League of German during German reunification, 1989-1990".

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Lastly, we have Anna McEwan's article, 'Always forwards, never backwards? The reinvention of the Democratic Women’s League of Germany during German reunification (1989-1990)' journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2026...

The latest issue of Twentieth Century Communism is now out! Available via the @lawrencewishart.bsky.social website, it is a non-themed issue, featuring communist history from Germany, Poland, Britain and Italy. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2026...

Twentieth Century Communism: Volume 2026 Issue 30 (2026) - Lawrence Wishart

Twentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history - Issue contents for Volume 2026 Issue 30 (2026)

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Lastly, we have Anna McEwan's article, 'Always forwards, never backwards? The reinvention of the Democratic Women’s League of Germany during German reunification (1989-1990)' journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2026...

The latest issue of Twentieth Century Communism is now out! Available via the @lawrencewishart.bsky.social website, it is a non-themed issue, featuring communist history from Germany, Poland, Britain and Italy. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2026...

Twentieth Century Communism: Volume 2026 Issue 30 (2026) - Lawrence Wishart

Twentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history - Issue contents for Volume 2026 Issue 30 (2026)

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For International Women's Day, Twentieth Century Communism journal is sharing this free to download article by Christina Chatzitheodorou on the memorialisation of Ilektra Apostolou, a Greek anti-fascist heroine from the Second World War. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2023...

Ilektra Apostolou: A Greek female resistance fighter and a heroine of the left - Lawrence Wishart

The Greek resistance fighter Ilektra Apostolou was executed on 26 July 1944, by the collaborationist security forces in Greece d

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For International Women's Day, Twentieth Century Communism journal is sharing this free to download article by Christina Chatzitheodorou on the memorialisation of Ilektra Apostolou, a Greek anti-fascist heroine from the Second World War. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2023...

Ilektra Apostolou: A Greek female resistance fighter and a heroine of the left - Lawrence Wishart

The Greek resistance fighter Ilektra Apostolou was executed on 26 July 1944, by the collaborationist security forces in Greece d

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Here is the previous issue on globalising '1956' and the effects of the 'Secret Speech' and the Soviet invasion of Hungary on the international communist movement. bsky.app/profile/20th...

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The latest issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal has been published. It is a special issue on globalising 1956, a year that shook the communist world. Edited by Madeleine Davis and Kevin Morgan, it looks at 1956 in Poland, Italy, Greece and China. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

25 February is the 70th anniversary of Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech', given at the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956, which outlined the crimes of the Stalin era. The last two issues of Twentieth Century Communism journal are special issues dedicated to the global experience of '1956'.

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The latest issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal has been published by @lawrencewishart.bsky.social Issue 29 is the second issue dedicated to looking at histories of 1956 globally, edited by Madeleine Davis and George Odysseos. A 🧵 of the articles... journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

25 February is the 70th anniversary of Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech', given at the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956, which outlined the crimes of the Stalin era. The last two issues of Twentieth Century Communism journal are special issues dedicated to the global experience of '1956'.

Twentieth Century Communism journal@20thccommunism.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The latest issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal has been published by @lawrencewishart.bsky.social Issue 29 is the second issue dedicated to looking at histories of 1956 globally, edited by Madeleine Davis and George Odysseos. A 🧵 of the articles... journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

#CfP “Militancias, actores y agencias en los comunismos de la España del siglo XX” 28 de mayo @sorbonne-universite.fr socialhistoryportal.org/news/article... @20thccommunism.bsky.social

Front page of the Communist Party of Australia's 'Tribune' newspaper in February 1988, after a wave of demonstrations against the bicentenary celebrations, as well as increased calls for recognition of Aboriginal sovereignty. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/pa...

Comradely seasons greetings from Twentieth Century Communism journal Picture: Front page of Communist Party of the Netherlands' 'De Tribune' (24 December, 1931), featuring linocut print of workers underneath Christmas star www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/v...

British Maoist composer Cornelius Cardew died on this day (13 December) in 1981. Mike Waite wrote this piece on Cardew for Twentieth Century Communism in 2015, written in the spirit of Cardew's works. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2015...

The Communist Party of Spain's newspaper, 'Mundo Obrero', announcing the death of dictator Francisco Franco in November 1975. archive.org/details/mo19...

The hardback edition of our new edited book, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, is published through @manchesterup.bsky.social today! You can get 30% discount by using the code ‘EVENT30’ right now, or tell your library! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

Manchester University Press - In solidarity, under suspicion

In solidarity, under suspicion - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of In solidarity, under suspicion by Daniel Frost

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Anti-communism has been around for more than a century. This issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal from 2014 focused on various forms of national and transnational anti-communism. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2014...

Twentieth Century Communism: Volume 2014 Issue 6 (2014) - Lawrence Wishart

Twentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history - Issue contents for Volume 2014 Issue 6 (2014)

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On this day in 1922, Shapurji Saklatvala was elected as joint Communist/Labour Party MP for Battersea North. Issue 18 of Twentieth Century Communism journal features an article by Daniel Edmonds on Saklatvala's anti-colonial activism during this period. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2020...

Shapurji Saklatvala, the Workers’ Welfare League of India, and transnational anti-colonial labour organising in the inter-war period - Lawrence Wishart

This article focuses on the transnational organising of Shapurji Saklatvala, the communist MP for Battersea North during the 192

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