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It's here! 🥳 'MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World' is published Verso Books 22 October 2024. Get in touch for review copies / interview requests / commissions / talks / podcasts etc

In the 20th century, American Communist Party members were portrayed as the Red Menace, an enemy within. In reality, they were ordinary people with extraordinarily complex intellectual, political, social, and romantic lives that deserve to be chronicled. jacobin.com/2024/08/commun…

On this day in 1982, anti-apartheid leader Ruth First was killed when a parcel bomb sent by South African police exploded in her office. Her comrade Ronnie Kasrils remembers her revolutionary life. tribunemag.co.uk/2020/09/rememb…

This week in August 1976 saw the beginning of the strike at Grunwick Photo Processing Lab in north-west London. Led by South Asian women workers, the strike lasted almost two years and is considered a turning point in the history of British trade unionism and race relations.

I am saddened to hear that Viraj Mendis died last week. His anti-deportation campaign in the 1980s was powerful and important - particularly the solidarity of the congregation at the Church of the Ascension in Hulme, who offered him sanctuary: ascensionchurchhulme.co.uk/news/virajmend…

Over 500 online and open access collections of radical, left-wing, labour and anti-colonial historical documents listed by Evan is not really here here: hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-online… Some highlights in the replies

From MIH Archives: Sarah Dunstan and Patricia Owens analyze Trinidad-born Marxist journalist Claudia Jones’ geopolitical languages during WWII and reflect on black women's intellectual history and history of international thought bit.ly/4e1258a

Viraj Mendis, 1956-2024

We just uploaded 75 early issues of Freedom, covering 1886-1892, parts of the 1910s & a few issues from the 30s and 40s. thesparrowsnest.org.uk/index.php/14-n… Our sincere thanks to Belinda Scarlett and everyone else at the great WCML who made this possible! Freedom Press #Anarchy #Archives

It was great to have this in-depth discussion with Andy Beckett about his new book, The Searchers (on the intertwined careers office key figures on the 1968-2020 Labour left). Latest episode of Culture, Power and Politics: culturepowerpolitics.org/2024/09/02/the….

Today is the anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War. In 2014, Alix Heiniger published this article with Twentieth Century Communism journal on German communists in exile during WWII. It is now free to download from Lawrence Wishart Books journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2014-i…

11 September is the anniversary of General Pinochet's right-wing coup against Chile's Allende government in 1973. The Warwick MRC has an extensive digitised collection from Britain's Chile Solidarity Campaign that was established in the wake of the coup. wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collec…

Thrilled to take over as chief editor of Twentieth Century Communism journal together with the pre-eminent Margarite Poulos. We have a stellar editorial board and many exciting upcoming issues on the history of communism. Do share and give us a follow 👇