Teacher, trade unionist and socialist, now an editor for Mentmore Press.
England, United Kingdom
Joined October 2010
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There's a new online course on the CWI Marxist Education site!
It guides you through the ideas contained in the #CommunistManifesto , both as an introduction to workers and young people new to the ideas of #Marxism but also to challenge those who have read the Manifesto before.
On this day - 23 October - in 1917, a historic meeting of the Bolshevik Central Committee took place in a St. Petersburg apartment. Find out more here:
youtu.be/zSiPjlCyTgs?is…
#October1917 #RussianRevolution
Hopefully caught the mood in my picture and words from #Paris with the report on #17octobre2026 #MacronDémission @Socialist_party
Read online here:
socialistparty.org.uk/articl…
A report from #Paris - with the movement now building for what could effectively be a 24-hour general strike on 5 November. socialistworld.net/2026/10/2… – at Paris, France
A little historical nugget: The minutes of the June 4 session of the 1917 Congress of Soviets recording Lenin's well-known interruption of Tsereteli's speech: “There is!” (For detail nerds, Lenin spoke next in the debate, not on the following day as Wikipedia says)
Sending solidarity to teachers and students in France, protesting against unacceptable learning and teaching conditions. Predictably, the press are trying to focus on 'violence', although, as a teacher in Pamiers has made clear, the "forces of 'order' created the disorder".
This weekend back in 1917, an undemocratic 'Democratic Conference' gathered in the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Petrograd to try and cut across the rising tide of Bolshevik support. Find out more on "The Last Coalition" here: youtu.be/NziH5PVOZDk?si=yA22… via @YouTube
Kornilov's coup has been smashed - and now the masses are flooding towards the Bolsheviks. Keep up with events from the Russian Revolution from exactly 109 years ago: Watch 'The Whip of Counter Revolution' youtu.be/h_K-tkXEKr8?si=WRPU… via @YouTube
Today's release of the slavery database has been greeted with depressing slavery denying comments on social media - so here's some facts that I dug out on three slaving families of Liverpool. pdfamilyhistory.blogspot.com…
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#TUC2026 agrees #PCS motion today including:
"to urgently call a national Saturday demonstration this autumn for investment in public services, against austerity and for pro worker policies" (congress.tuc.org.uk/motion-3…)
Now we need to #SetTheDate
Background: socialistparty.org.uk/articl…
Just realised why most history books talk about the Bolsheviks having SIX deputies elected to the Duma, but Trotsky's 'History' says only FIVE. Aha - because Malinovsky turned out to be a police spy! #spycops
Call me old-fashioned but in my day on the NUT Executive, if a vote was called and you weren't in the room, you'd missed your chance to vote. (But now let's win the teachers' ballot, on behalf of all school staff and those who they work so hard to support) socialistparty.org.uk/articl…
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Further #CWI coverage of the Saxony-Anhalt state election results:
socialistworld.net/2026/09/0…
Here's the next of my videos matching the calendar of the 1917 #RussianRevolution with today's dates. This one explains the #Kornilov coup - and how it was defeated. That's not just for the history books either, it also has valuable lessons for today. youtu.be/6Y4V6PTQfe4
In Britain and beyond, this summer has been marked by record temperatures, deadly wildfires and drought. In this context, comments made by the leaders of Unite and GMB in June now appear to be even more at odds with public concerns over #climatechange: socialismtoday.org/net-zero-…
A response to ‘The Great #ADHD myth?’: '𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐃𝐇𝐃 - 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧'. @ADHDUKcharity socialistparty.org.uk/articl…
