John Maclean and the CPGB
CONTENTS Preface John Maclean and the CPGB by Robert Pitt Appendix 1: The Communist Labour Party Appendix 2: The Maclean-Gallacher Dispute Appendix 3: John…
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The unacceptable face of secularism
Will a UKIP-supporting ‘comedian’ who rants about ‘immigrant rapists’ get to be Secularist of the Year? The list of nominees for the…
The Socialist Labour Party: Why Arthur Scargill is wrong
The way in which Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party has been created must be without precedent in the history of…
The Battle of Cable Street: Myths and Realities
By Richard Price and Bob Pitt October 4, 1936, remains a landmark in working class history – the day when the…
Land and Freedom: A Reply to Jeff Sawtell
This article was written in 1996 in response to an attack on Ken Loach’s film Land and Freedom by Morning Star journalist Jeff Sawtell.…
The Maoist propaganda songs of Cornelius Cardew
By Bob Pitt The recent publicity over the disturbing events in Brixton, among a group of people originating in a Maoist collective…
Miles Davis: “The most brilliant sellout in the history of jazz”?
Miles Davis, The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions, Columbia C3K 65362 (3 CDs) £34.99; Live at the Fillmore East…
Educator and Agitator: Charlie Gibbons, 1888-1967
This biographical study of a leading figure in the South Wales syndicalist movement was first published in 1989 in Llafur,…
Ken Livingstone and the history of Zionism: A reply to Jane Caplan
Here is a letter from Jane Caplan that was published in Saturday’s Guardian: It is not as a Jewish Labour…
Mad Mel and the Norway terrorist attacks
The Guardian reports that Melanie Phillips is outraged at the post by Sunny Hundal at Liberal Conspiracy which noted that her writings were cited by the…