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Revolutionary history: 100 years ago: Foundation of the USSR
By International Socialist Alternative, the international movement which the Socialist Party in Ireland is part of 30 December…
30 years ago — Defeat of Anti-Gorbachev coup leads to the collapse of USSR
August 19, 1991 — an eight-man junta announced that the head of the Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail…
April 1920: Revolutionary General Strike in Ireland
One hundred years ago this month, workers downed tools and took over their workplaces and towns. What began…
Lenin — 150 years since his birth.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his revolutionary alias, Vladimir Lenin, was born in the city of Simbirsk,…
Review: The Socialist Manifesto
Published by: Verso Books, 2019 In this year’s State of the Union address, Donald Trump stated that “America…
Kautsky and the Parliamentary Road to Socialism – A Reply to Eric Blanc
By Rob Rooke, member of Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US- article was originally published in…
US: White House document sparks debate about socialism
By Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative (sister organisation of the Socialist Party in the US) “Coincident with the 200th…
The Living Legacy of the October Revolution
On the centenary of the October Revolution Eddie McCabe looks at the key events and conditions that brought about the world’s first socialist revolution and also explores the decisive leadership given by Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolshevik party.
“Finland Station” and the struggle for socialism today
At the end of June, in the midst of a growing discussion about socialism in the United States,…
1917: How socialist revolution inspired Irish workers
By Manus Lenihan In September 1921 the workers at the port of Cork city went on strike. They…
