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On the 18 June 2022 TUC demonstration on the cost of living crisis, the Young Communist League sub-contingent, dressed in black with red facemasks, made an instructive and highly damaging intervention. Among their chants were: “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh! Che Guevara! Stalin!” On 29 June 2022, Andrew Murray wrote in the Morning Star, paper of Communist Party of Britain (CPB), defending the chant. He wrote:

In the Southern Key, Michael Goldfield draws on more than three decades of scholarship, both his own and that of many others, to elucidate a deceptively straightforward point: The failure of the American labor movement to organize sustainable interracial unions in the South in the 20th century had long-term deleterious effects on the American labor movement and political economy, many of which remain with us today.

An article by Stan Weir surveying the effects World War II and the post-war years had on CIO unions and the American working class.

Lawrence Parker reviews 'The chronology of revolution: communism, culture, and civil society in twentieth-century Britain' by Ben Harker (University of Toronto Press, 2021, pp376, £63.99)

American left communist Loren Goldner on the capitalist development of east Asia, working class struggle, and the development of revolutionary politics in the region in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Published in 2009.

Loren Goldner's 'bare-bones history' of Maoism.

Good article from 1987 explaining that the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat" in German by Marx and Engels is not the same as the English word "dictatorship" and does not conflict with democracy.

Loren Goldner's detailed account and analysis of the Bolivian Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) which was the key player in the 1952 national revolution, and which was supported by the left despite its pro-fascist, corporatist tendencies.

Pāli: Language of the Theravada Overview Pali (sometimes written Paali- see Velthius scheme) is an Indo-European (more specifically, middle Ind...

An analysis of the end of the Salazar and Franco regimes and the transition crises that marked " the last major working class upsurges in the West in the era of the big factory".