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Pete
The Surprising Links Between Darwin and Marx
November 24, 2017| Pete| 1645
A long line of radical beards I have a beard. It’s nothing too showy but it’s far more than just stubble, and I like it. Next to some of the great radicals of the 19th century, however, it is a humble, humble thing.
"Ye are many, they are few": an old message for a changing Labour Party
November 20, 2017| Pete| 1795
Above: Our Reflections on the Peterloo massacre The above verse comes at the end of Percy Shelley’s 1819 poem 'The Masque of Anarchy'. The aristocrat-turned-radical wrote it as a funeral march for the British working class murdered by police at the .
The Legacy of Wilfred Owen
November 11, 2017| Pete| 1703
99 years ago today, an armistice was signed between Britain and Germany.
Remembering the Russian Revolution
November 7, 2017| Pete| 1081
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." - Karl Marx It’s the late 1870s. Imagine sitting by his fireplace on a winter's evening in London.
The Suez Crisis and the Fall of the British Empire
October 29, 2017| Pete| 6152
61 years ago today, Britain (in alliance with France and Israel) illegally invaded Egypt. It was all just a big misunderstanding of course... A misunderstanding that were all happy to lay at the door of the Tory government of the day.
The Three Yorktowns
October 20, 2017| Pete| 361
Yesterday was the 236th anniversary of the Patriots' victory at the Battle of Yorktown in the Revolutionary War. You might already know that was in command at Yorktown – I could write about him today.
