New Historical Express

Category: 1956

‘White Australia Policy’, 1956, 1968, 1989, Australian history, Communist Party of Australia, Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist), International communist movement, Leon Trotsky, National Archives of Australia, Socialist Party of Australia, Trotskyism, Uncategorized

‘The Far Left in Australia since 1945’ – forthcoming with Routledge
1956, 20th Congress of the CPSU, Anti-colonialism, Browderism, Communist Party of Australia, Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist), Communist Party of Great Britain, CPB (M-L), Decolonisation, International communist movement, Maoism, Marxism-Leninism, Uncategorized

Sydney, London, Moscow, Beijing: Schisms in the international communist movement, 1947-61
1956, Announcements, Books, British far left, Public service announcements

Paperback edition of ‘Against the Grain: The British Far Left from 1956’ is out now
1956, African National Congress, Anti-apartheid, Anti-colonialism, British Commonwealth, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Communist Party of South Africa, Decolonisation, Egypt, Empire, Middle East/North Africa, Pan-Africanism, Settler colonialism, South Africa, South African Communist Party, Suez Crisis, Uncategorized

South African progressives and the Suez Crisis of 1956
1956, 20th Congress of the CPSU, British far left, British History, British Road to Socialism, Communist Party of Great Britain, E.P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, Historians’ Group of the CPGB, Hungary, International communist movement, John Saville, labour history, Marxism, New Left, Popular Front

Hobsbawm, 1956 and the Mythology of the CPGB Historians’ Group
1956, Archives, Empire, Espionage, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, International communist movement, Middle East/North Africa, Pan-Arabism, Soviet Union, Syria, United States, Western Intervention

Russia and the United States have been fighting for dominance in Syria since 1957
1956, 1968, Australian history, Communist Party of Australia, Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist), Communist Party of Great Britain, Contemporary history, Czechoslovakia, International communist movement, Maoism, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, New Left, Research, Sectarianism, Socialist Party of Australia, Soviet Union

The Communist Party of Australia’s Post-War Internationalism
1956, Announcements, Archives, British far left, British History, Communist Party of Great Britain, Daily Worker/Morning Star, Eric Hobsbawm, Historians’ Group of the CPGB, International communist movement, John Gollan, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, MI5, National Archives (UK), New Left, Research, Security services (UK)

The CPGB response to the New Statesman letter and the Historians’ Group: From the newly released MI5 files on Hobsbawm