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revolutionary socialists in the United States

History Page

history

We've set up this page to provide a sampling of historical essays on national and international evensts, as well as historical figures, all from a Marxist perspective. We welcome your feedback on the materialis hosted on this page!

early american history
Mumia on a Forgotten Chapter of Native American History
Mumia on a Forgotten Founding Father
Our Take on Robert E. Lee
On the History of the 'Buffalo Soldiers'
David Fagen: Black Rebel in the Philippine Insurrection

great depression & world war 2
The Farmer Labor Party of the 1930s
WW II Japanese-American Internment Camps
Organizing the Ford River Rouge Plant in 1941
The World War II Pope & Nazi Germany
The Greatest Generation? Reflections of a WWII Veteran

civil rights movement
A Look Back @ the National Black Independent Political Party
A Look @ the National Black Independent Political Party's Charter
The Million Man March
The Million Woman March
Dr. King's Struggle Continues
40 Years Since the Freedom Rides

labor history
Big Bill Haywood Remembered
1919 Seattle General Strike
Lessons from the Trade Union Educational League of the 1920s
The Farmer Labor Party of the 1930s
Lessons From the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike
Lessons From the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike
Organizing the Ford River Rouge Plant in 1941
20th anniversary of an historic battle: the British miners strike

social movements of the 1960s and 70s
Lessons From the Vietnam Anti-War Movement
The Struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment

misc. american history
James Cannon on the Korean War
The Working Class & the Fight for Public Education
Black Americans & the Fight for Public Education

british history
The English Revolution 1640
20th anniversary of an historic battle: the British miners strike

french history
A Brief Look at the Paris Commune
An Extensive Look at the Paris Commune
The French near-revolution of May 1968

russian history
The Russian Revolution

eastern european history
A Look at the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
The strange death of Solidarnosc

latin american history
Lessons From Allende's Chile
A Look Back @ Allende's Chile

asian history
History of Afghanistan
Georges Boudarel is discussed again in Vietnam

african history
A Look Back @ the U.S. Intervention in Somalia
The marginalization of sub-Saharan Africa
A Valuable Study of Socialists' Role in Early South African Freedom Struggle
The Congo in permanent instability

irish history
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
The Irish Hunger Strike, 20 Years On

middle eastern history
History of the Struggle for Palestine

labor history
1919 Seattle General Strike
Lessons from the Trade Union Educational League of the 1920s
Lessons From the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike
Lessons From the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike
Organizing the Ford River Rouge Plant in 1941

history of the revolutionary mov't.
The Long March of the Trotskyists by Pierre Frank
A Valuable Study of Socialists' Role in Early South African Freedom Struggle
60 Years of the Fourth International - a speech by Charlie Van Gelderen on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International.
Building the Revolutionary Movement: 1919-1969 - by George Novack
Down With the Stalin-Hitler Pact! - text from a 1939 flier put out by Trotskyist youth.
Open Letter to the Young Communist League - text from another pre-World War II leaflet put out by Trotskyist youth in the U.S.
The French Trotskyists During WWII - a speech by Ernest Mandel laying out the difficult tasks facing our movment during World War II, and how we responded.
Foundations of a Communist Youth League - text from a 1930s discussion by Trotskyist youth in the U.S.
History of U.S. Trotskyism
History of U.S. Trotskyist Youth Movement

anthropology
History of the Family
The Role of Labor in the Transition From Ape to Man

biographies
A Brief Bio of Karl Marx
A Brief Bio of V.I. Lenin
A Brief Bio of Leon Trotsky
A Longer Biographical Essay on Trotsky
"Memories of Trotsky" by Jake Cooper
Malcolm X: Fighter for Black Liberation
The Life & Struggles of Ernest Mandel
The Mixed Legacy of Huey Newton
Wang Fanxi
Charlie Van Gelderen

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