New Historical Express

Category: Historians’ Group of the CPGB

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, 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
1956, Books, British far left, British History, Collapse of communism, Communist Party of Great Britain, Eric Hobsbawm, Historians’ Group of the CPGB, Historiography, International communist movement, Marxism Today, Reviews, Trade unions, UK Labour Party

Review of ‘Revolutionary Communist at Work: A Political Biography of Bert Ramelson’
1956, British far left, British History, Communist Party of Great Britain, Eric Hobsbawm, Historians’ Group of the CPGB, Internetz, IS/SWP, Marxism Today, Trotskyism

Discussing the CPGB 1957 Congress at Socialist Unity
1956, British far left, British History, Comintern, Communist Party of Great Britain, Eric Hobsbawm, Historians’ Group of the CPGB, International communist movement, IS/SWP, Marxism Today

The CPGB’s 1957 Special Congress
1956, Communist Party of Great Britain, Contemporary history, Eric Hobsbawm, Historians’ Group of the CPGB

The CPGB Historians’ Group’s New Statesman Letter
1956, Communist Party of Great Britain, Contemporary history, Eric Hobsbawm, Historians’ Group of the CPGB, Historiography

A quick note on the legacy of Eric Hobsbawm