Radical History Blog

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How one pamphlet infuriated the entire British establishment Long before the in the US, there was the trial of Thomas Paine in England. But in the 1790s, the spectre haunting the British Establishment was republicanism, not socialism.

Earlier this week was International Women's Day, and today we are celebrating one woman who galvanised the fight for women's suffrage across the world...

A Miners' Strike Rally in London in 1984 (Image by nicksarebi) “We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands.

Born today in 1868, W.E.B. Du Bois remains an icon of black and radical history in the US...On 28th August 1963, about 250,000 Americans took part in March on Washington.It was one of the great popular agitations of US history.

Born today in 1868, W.E.B. Du Bois remains an icon of black and radical history in the US...On 28th August 1963, about 250,000 Americans took part in March on Washington.It was one of the great popular agitations of US history.

77 years ago today, Missak Manouchian and twenty-one comrades were shot at Fort Mont-Valérien, on the outskirts of Paris. Missak Manouchian (1906-1944) survived one genocide and then gave his life fighting to stop another.

76 years ago today the RAF bombed the German city of Dresden, killing thousands of civilians.

102 years ago today, a strike went city-wide in Seattle and the workers cast the bosses aside to run the show themselves... “…We are on the road that leads – no one knows where!” It was February 1919.

Born on this day in 1910, Peggy Duff devoted her life to international peace and the fight against everything which endangers it...Noam Chomsky said of her that, "she should have won the Nobel Peace Prize about twenty times".But you may well never have heard of Peggy Duff (1910-81).