JOHN ELLISON looks back to the 1974 general election in Greece which freed the people from the oppressive military junta

JOHN ELLISON looks back at the Wilson government’s early months, detailing how left-wing manifesto commitments were diluted, and the challenges faced by Tony Benn in implementing socialist policies

Robert Fisk and John Pilger knew that the legacy of the aggression of the US and its allies against the Middle East was crucial to understanding that crimes like the war on Gaza will only lead to more violence, writes JOHN ELLISON

JOHN ELLISON looks at the miners' strike and Shrewsbury 3 case that led Edward Heath to ask ‘Who governs Britain?’ and the electorate to answer: not you

On the 70th anniversary of the Korean armistice, JOHN ELLISON looks at a moment in time when the US almost resorted to its nuclear arsenal and Britain nearly ended up colluding

JOHN ELLISON shows how the calculated moves of the West and East during their time as allies against fascism would prefigure the divided Europe of the cold war to come

A proxy war raged in Vietnam between the West and East, while strikers took on a Tory government — JOHN ELLISON considers the similarities

JOHN ELLISON assesses the significance of the Reichstag fire, for which communists were blamed in the early days of Hitler’s dictatorship

JOHN ELLISON looks at the turning point of the second world war, when the Red Army overcame the odds to turn back the Nazi tide – to the shock of the Western powers

JOHN ELLISON explains how the textile industry in Western countries was hollowed out by low-cost outsourcing at the behest of transnational companies

In the middle of WWII, the forerunner to the Morning Star was banned by the state for calling for colonial freedom, campaigning against profiteering, for union rights and for a better life for the workers amid the Blitz, explains JOHN ELLISON

Fleeing the Nazis to become a best-selling author in the US, then forced by Mccarthyism to settle in the GDR in the '50s, he would go on to open the reunified German parliament in 1994. JOHN ELLISON remembers a remarkable leftist

An authoritative new work by Richard Overy argues that the war was fuelled by upstart Axis powers' desire for their own empires and the Allies wanting to defend their established colonial regimes. Correct, says JOHN ELLISON — but there are some other mistakes

Many in the West expected a swift and easy victory over the USSR for Hitler — including the Fuhrer himself. They didn't count on the iron will and enormous capacity for sacrifice of the world's first socialist state, writes JOHN ELLISON

JOHN ELLISON gives a history of how the left press reported the end of WW1 and the start of hostilities towards socialist Russia

JOHN ELLISON looks back 80 years to the signing of the Munich agreement, which authorised Germany’s occupation of the Sudetenland

Four months before the armistice workers begin to oppose the repression in Britain and the brutal intervention to smother the Soviet Revolution, writes JOHN ELLISON

JOHN ELLISON reviews the events of April 1918

JOHN ELLISON looks back to March 12 1938, when German forces crossed the border into Austria