Revolution Follow

Iran is in the grip of a popular rebellion, the like of which has not been seen since the 1979 revolution.

The Islamic Republic of Iran was created by a mighty, popular revolution 30 years ago that overthrew the Shah.

Newspapers report that Labour Party members conspiring to end Gordon Brown’s leadership have taken to quoting the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s phrase – "March separately, strike together".

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Cosi Fan Tutte (All women behave that way) was first performed in 1790, the year after the French Revolution.

Between 1970-3 Chile entered a period of revolution. Workers began to take control of factories, the peasants were seizing the land and a vast movement of the oppressed was making its mark on shaping a new society.

Around Westminster and along Whitehall stand the statues of political and military figures that the British ruling class have thought it worth commemorating.

In November 1930 the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci wrote from his prison cell on the effects of the unfolding economic depression and the possibilities for revolutionary advance.

Il Trovatore, one of Giuseppe Verdi’s best-loved operas, was composed in 1853 in the aftermath of the defeat of the 1848 European revolutions.

England and Holland emerged as powers representing a new capitalist logic of production by the end of the 17th century.

You have decided that you want a revolution to overthrow capitalism. You turn up at a protest or left wing rally and are confronted with a barrage of different socialist publications and organisations you can join.

Last week I set out the differences between a revolutionary socialist party and a mainstream socialist party.

As the American Revolution of 1775-83 rages around her, Isabel, a 13 year old slave girl, begins her own struggle.