An extended call for papers is here: lwbooks.co.uk/call-for-pap...

48 years ago today (4 November 1977), the New Statesman published this article about divisions in the Communist Party of Great Britain. It is the first written use that I have found of the term ‘tankie’ to describe someone who (uncritically) supported the Soviet Union.

Did you know that the first international antifascist news bulletin was called "Chronik des Faschismus", published in Berlin - below the cover from the very first issue, August 1923. For the full background story, see: www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...

Today is the anniversary of the Greensboro massacre on 3 November, 1979, when neo-Nazis and the KKK opened fire on and killed several left-wing anti-racist protestors at a march organised by the Communist Workers Party. www.marxists.org/history/erol...

This week is the anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the subsequent Soviet invasion. The last two issues of Twentieth Century Communism have been dedicated to the events of 1956 and their global history. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025... journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

Thanks to @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for making my history of protest in England's public spaces into a beautiful, well produced book with a fab cover. Buy it here reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

An extended call for papers is here: lwbooks.co.uk/call-for-pap...

The full article for Twentieth Century Communism journal by Denise Lynn on the deportation of CPUSA member Claudia Jones is free to download here, as part of a special issue on communism and anti-colonialism: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2020...

The 1952 McCarran-Walter Act was previously used to deport left-wing radicals from the US during the Cold War, including Trinidadian-born CPUSA member, Claudia Jones. Denise Lynn wrote about the deportation of Jones for the @lawrencewishart.bsky.social blog here: lwbooks.co.uk/deporting-bl...

CFP for special issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal - History, Memory and the Past in Twentieth Century Communism

CFP for special issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal - History, Memory and the Past in Twentieth Century Communism

With the publication of our book 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956' next month, @manchesterup.bsky.social are offering a 30% discount using the discount code below! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

In case you missed it, here's a short 🧵 on the latest issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal

In case you missed it, here's a short 🧵 on the latest issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal

On October 4, 1936, over 100,000 people flocked to London's East End to prevent Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists from marching. Known as the 'Battle of Cable Street', this blockade is recognised as an important event in the history of British anti-fascism.

On 1 October, 1949, Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China. This issue of @20thccommunism.bsky.social looks at the influence of Communist China and Maoism across the globe between the 1950s and 1980s, with 2 open access articles. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2022...

🌍 Le 2e número spécial "Global 1956" vient de paraître chez @20thccommunism.bsky.social ! J'ai eu le plaisir d'y participer avec un article qui veut contribuer à l'histoire globale de l'Espagne pendant la guerre froide, ici dans une approche transnationale et microhistorique.

Plus reviews of the following books journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

5. 'The international Trotskyist movement and the Soviet Bloc in 1956: growing divergences' by Marcio Lauria Monteiro journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

4. 'A portrait of the activist in 1956: Jordi Solé Tura and a new generation of communists' by Pablo Gil Valero journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

3. 'José Revueltas and the temporalities of the Mexican 1956' by @williamabooth.bsky.social journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

2. "‘That crucial summer of 1956’? Stalinism, anti-imperialist strategies and the fragmentation of the international communist movement – a view from Cyprus, c. 1949-1960" by George Odysseos This article is open access journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

1. '1956 as dual conjuncture: Aimé Césaire between Paris and Fort-de-France' by Kevin Morgan journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

The latest issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal has been published by @lawrencewishart.bsky.social Issue 29 is the second issue dedicated to looking at histories of 1956 globally, edited by Madeleine Davis and George Odysseos. A 🧵 of the articles... journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

both of these look great! @20thccommunism.bsky.social journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025... journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

The latest issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal has been published by @lawrencewishart.bsky.social Issue 29 is the second issue dedicated to looking at histories of 1956 globally, edited by Madeleine Davis and George Odysseos. A 🧵 of the articles... journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

Coming soon from @lawrencewishart.bsky.social

Coming soon from @lawrencewishart.bsky.social

11 September is the anniversary of General Pinochet's right-wing coup against Chile's Allende government in 1973. Warwick's Modern Records Centre has an extensive digitised collection from Britain's Chile Solidarity Campaign, established following the coup. wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

We at Twentieth Century Communism journal are sad to hear of the passing of Quintin Hoare, the managing editor of New Left Review in the 1960s-70s and translator of Antonio Gramsci's works into English, which helped popularise Gramsci in Britain in the 1970s. lwbooks.co.uk/person/quint...

We at Twentieth Century Communism journal are sad to hear of the passing of Quintin Hoare, the managing editor of New Left Review in the 1960s-70s and translator of Antonio Gramsci's works into English, which helped popularise Gramsci in Britain in the 1970s. lwbooks.co.uk/person/quint...

These two books from Lawrence & Wishart provide contemporary and historical accounts of the Grunwick strike. lwbooks.co.uk/product/grun... lwbooks.co.uk/product/stri...

This week in August 1976 saw the beginning of the strike at Grunwick Photo Processing Lab in north-west London. Led by South Asian women workers, the strike lasted almost two years, involving thousands, and is considered a turning point in the history of British trade unionism and race relations.

Twentieth Century Communism journal is looking for reviewers for these books. Send a DM if you're interested reviewing one of these!

On 13 August 1977, anti-fascist activists and the local community in London's south-east heavily fought the National Front and the Metropolitan Police in the 'Battle of Lewisham'. A precursor to the formation of the Anti-Nazi League a few months later, 'Lewisham' was seen as an anti-fascist victory.

Twentieth Century Communism journal is looking for reviewers for these books. Send a DM if you're interested reviewing one of these!

And who became a teacher in North Bali in the 1950s. Last’s book, Bali in de Kentering, is a valuable historical document

The folks at @livunipress.bsky.social are having a 50% off sale. Use the code '27SUMMER' to purchase this book, 'Workers of the Empire, Unite: Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism, 1910s-1960s', in which I have a chapter! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

There is also an advanced access article on the life of another radical who fought in the Spanish and Greek Civil Wars, Nikos Vavoudis. Written by Spyros Sakellaropoulos, Giorgos Leontiadis and Manolis Choumerianos, this article will feature in a future issue. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2026...

Part of the same special issue was an article by Rudi Wester and Elke Weesjes on the life of Dutch radical Jef Last, who fought in the Spanish Civil War. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2023...

In 2023, Elke Weesjes and @kasperbrasken.bsky.social co-edited a special issue of @20thccommunism.bsky.social on anti-fascist resistance fighters, including this article by Kathryn A. Everly on Salaria Kea, an African American nurse who served in the war. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2023...

This week in 1936 was the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. @20thccommunism.bsky.social has published several articles on communists and the conflict. First is a 2014 article by David Featherstone on African American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2014...

This week in 1936 was the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. @20thccommunism.bsky.social has published several articles on communists and the conflict. First is a 2014 article by David Featherstone on African American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2014...

The Communist Party of Australia's newspaper, 'Tribune', in July 1974 after the Greek far right coup in Cyprus and the subsequent Turkish invasion of the island. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar...

Front page of the Communist Party of France's 'L'Humanité' newspaper on Bastille Day in 1945. gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

OTD (13 July) in 1985, the Live Aid concerts were held to raise money for the famine in Ethiopia. In the CPGB's Marxism Today the following year, Stuart Hall and Martin Jacques famously mused whether Live Aid (and similar) pointed towards a new form of politics. banmarchive.org.uk/marxism-toda...

From the front page of the Communist Party of the USA's Daily Worker newspaper, July 4th, 1941.

17 June is the anniversary of the rebellion in East Germany in 1953, which is seen as a precursor to the broader dissent across Eastern Europe in 1956. The most recent issue of Twentieth Century Communism looks at the events of 1956 through a global lens. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...

On this day in 1974, Kevin Gately, a Warwick University student, was killed at an anti-fascist demonstration in London, almost certainly by a blow from a police officer's truncheon. Former Searchlight editor Andy Bell was there, and writes about it here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/06/red-...

This week in 1948, the National Party won the general election in South Africa and quickly sought to implement its policy of apartheid. The Communist Party of South Africa, banned by the regime in 1950, strongly opposed the new government led by D.F. Malan and compared them to the Nazis.