History

‘All power to the soviets’ — The Bolshevik's May 1917 declaration
Italy marks Liberation Day
Hostility of Western elites caught in Russia’s revolution echoed in new book
Thousands turn out for Martin McGuinness's funeral — 'Don't mourn! Celebrate and organise!'

"Grief turned to pride for Sinn Fein this week as tens of thousands paid their respects to a leader who came to symbolise peace in Ireland and the process through which the Provisional IRA gave birth to a political powerhouse," Irish Republican News said of the March 23 funeral of Irish republican leader Martin McGuinness.
Eleanor Marx: a pioneering socialist-feminist
Lady Constance Lytton: A suffragette defector from her class
Hugo Chavez remains Venezuela’s most popular ever president, new poll finds
A weapon called the song

I often hear that music and politics should remain separate. I snigger at such a concept; as if they have ever been separate.
Political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera’s release highlights Puerto Rico’s liberation struggle
Memoir helps map Palestine’s struggle
Sport and politics have always mixed
Janis Joplin: She wouldn’t bend or break