Internationalism was at the heart of the 1917 revolution, both as a principle and as a practical necessity. The Bolsheviks believed that the revolution must spread in order to survive.
Revolutions are bad things. Or at least the social ones are. Revolutions are fine if they are restricted to political changes at the top. Then only the icing on the cake is changed. As the French revolutionary Babeuf once said, these revolutions take one set of robbers and replace them with another.
"The most indubitable feature of a revolution is the direct interference of the masses in historic events.
The revolutionary upsurge in Europe during and after the First World War threw the trade union movement across the continent into a profound upheaval.
The Russian Revolution is one of the most important events in world history and has inspired many debates, articles and books.
It was socialist women who made the first international appeal against the First World War, at a March 1915 conference organised by German revolutionary Clara Zetkin in Switzerland.
Forty years ago this weekend the 1967 Abortion Act was passed in Britain.
Where movements contain real revolutionary potential, they create popular institutions that attract mass support.
In 1966, the year before abortion was legalised, around 4,000 women in Britain died trying to end a pregnancy that they did not want, could not afford, or could not cope with.
The postal workers’ strike against Royal Mail has been a crucial fight for all those who believe in public services, run by workers with decent pay, pensions and conditions. With over 130,000 members of the postal workers’ CWU union taking part in eight days of action, the strikers were in the forefront of the battle to break Gordon Brown’s public sector pay freeze.
"I don’t really care about politics. Politicians are all the same and they’re all just out for themselves." You often hear such sentiments expressed these days, and they’re usually taken as examples of how people have become "apathetic" about politics in recent years.
More than 130,000 postal workers who struck solidly for a total of eight days in their battle with Royal Mail have spent more than a week in suspense, as their union leadership debated a revised offer from the company.
