Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin:G. T. Miasnikov and the Workers' GroupPaul Avrich (RUSSIAN REVIEW, Vol. 43, 1984 pp. 1-29) During Lenin's years in power, from October 1917 until his death in…
The last half-millennium of the Earth's natural history has been a time of dramatic and accelerating change. One has to look to the beginning of the Holocene, with the climatic…
With thanks to Kate Sharpley Library for providing a copy to be scanned. It appears that at least seven issues of this bulletin were published between July 1972 and January…
Historically, workers' councils (or 'soviets', from the Russian word for council) first arose in Russia in 1905. During that year, workers in many industrial areas engaged in mass strike. In…
*The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) charged an unnamed police officer on 20 September with the murder of Chris Kaba. However, following the murder charge, some 70 armed officers in the…
*Nearly 3000 people have fled Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inside Azerbaijan, for neighbouring Armenia. The refugees fled after Azerbaijan carried out military operations in the area on 20 September. Ethnic Armenians…
*Activists scaled a London monument during the Changing of the Guard procession as part of a protest targeting an upcoming fossil fuel conference. Fossil Free London scaled the Wellington Arch…
*Yet another Welsh independence march has attracted crowds of around 10,000 people, showing the growing strength of feeling over the issue. On Saturday 23 September, YesCymru and All Under One…
*Paramilitary forces attacked army headquarters over the weekend as Sudan’s civil war entered its sixth month. The fighting in the capital – Khartoum – has left the city in flames,…
*Ofcom has found that a GB News show presented by two Tory MPs breached its impartiality rules. However, the regulator only scolded the far-right media outlet over it not airing…
*Members of NASUWT, the teachers’ union, have started action short of a strike across schools and sixth form colleges in England. The union said that teachers face an “excessive workload”…
*The trial of six Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists for spraying fake blood from a fire engine over the Treasury has begun. The spectacle, which made front pages around the world,…
