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What can we learn from the ‘Red Summer’ of 1919?
ROGER McKENZIE draws inspiration from the black self-organisation of the early 20th century
National Guards accost black men on the streets
during the ‘Red Summer’ disturbances, Chicago, Illinois, 1919
[Chicago History Museum / Public Domain]
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
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The Morning Star publishes the Communist Party of Britain's 58th congress address by general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS, delivered on November 15 2025
In part III of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells the extraordinary story of the attempts by ‘moderates’ to prevent leftwinger Mark Serwotka from taking the leadership of the then-newly formed PCS union
JOHN ELLISON takes a look at Sir Keir Starmer’s track record of duplicity and betrayal since taking the Labour leadership role, as highlighted in a new book, The Fraud, by Paul Holden
LIKE many people in the depths of the winter I have begun to look forward to the warm days of the summer.
But looking ahead this year I am reminded that it will be the 125th anniversary of the “Red Summer” of 1919.
The summer of that year was as red in Britain as it was on the other side of the Atlantic in the United States.
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