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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.