Workers' Liberty 3/18: When the workers rise
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Workers' Liberty 3/18: When the workers rise
When the workers rise
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“For the first time in the history of the labour movement the struggle is being so conducted that its three sides, the theoretical, the political, and the practical-economic (opposition to the capitalists), form one harmonious and well-planned entity”. Frederick Engels, 1874
Revolt on the Clyde
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In 1919 Glasgow was in the grip of a general strike. Although the strike began with the limited demand of a cut in the working Week, it raised — as general strikes do by their very nature — the question of power in society.
Lessons of the Great Belfast Strike of 1919
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1919 was a year of turmoil all over Europe.
Jim Larkin: the Irish Apostle of Labour Solidarity
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In March 1947, an immense crowd of people, 200,000 of them, many of the men bare-headed in freakishly Arctic weather, marched through Dublin behind the coffin of Jim Larkin, the founder of the modern
Marxists and mass workers’ parties
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Evolving out of the trade unions, adopting a formal commitment to socialism only in 1918, two decades after its formation, the Labour Party puzzled and perplexed European Marxists.