History – Bob's Stuff

The Beatles and Love Me Do: Myths and realities

Considering the immense number of books and articles about the Beatles that have been published over the years, in which…

A while back I wrote a long article (“Churchill and Tonypandy: Did he really shoot down striking miners?”) analysing Winston Churchill’s…

There are Beatles fans who still harbour resentment over the fact that back in 1967 the group’s double A-sided single…

The controversy over Tariq Ali’s book Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes stirred renewed interest among the left in Churchill…

After pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych was brought down in 2014 by the Maidan protest movement, in which a decisive part…

Last week the veteran leftwing journalist John Pilger published an article titled “Afghanistan, The Great Game of Smashing Countries”, which…

By G. Healy From the March 1960 issue of the Socialist Labour League’s internal bulletin Forum. IT IS now almost…

By Peter Fryer Dear Comrades, The explanation given in The Newsletter for my resignation as editor was true as far…

Ellis Hillman This document, opposing the decision to launch the Socialist Labour League, was published in the February 1959 issue…

G. Healy This document, which is dated October 1953, was circulated in the Fourth International’s British section during the political…