JACK DAVIDSON explains the motivation behind the UCU strike action at the University of Sheffield
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Ahead of the Communist Party’s forthcoming Congress, KEVAN NELSON takes a look at the global issues of war, peace and imperialism that will be up for discussion among comrades this weekend
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While all of good faith on the left should wish the new party well, ANDREW MURRAY pinpoints some of the major challenges it will need to grapple with as it approaches its founding conference later this month
ON January 3 1918, Maxim Litvinov, a Russian communist living with his wife in a modest home in Hillfield Road, a turning off West End Lane, West Hampstead, read in a newspaper of a radio message from the Petrograd capital of the Bolshevik government, that he had been appointed ambassador to Britain.
“Citizen Litvinoff is appointed plenipotentiary in London,” he learned.
Less than two months earlier, Lenin’s Bolshevik government had withdrawn from its predecessor’s alliance with Britain and France in the war against Germany and Austria.
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