Category: R.P. Dutt
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The ideological gymnastics of R. Palme Dutt: How to avoid the ‘inter-imperialist war’ issue
During my research on the relationship between the Communist Parties of Great Britain and India, I came across this reproduction of an interview with Rajani Palme Dutt with the People’s Age (an organ of the CPI) from 1946. In the interview, Dutt is confronted with a speech by Stalin (made in February 1946) that seemed…
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Communist Party’s ‘Charter of Rights for coloured workers in Britain’ (1955)
As mentioned last week, I have been flat out trying to prepare some draft chapters for a publisher of my proposed book on the Communist Party of Great Britain and the politics of race. I have just sent them off to the publisher and thought that the left-wing trainspotters that read this blog might be…
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Is 2013 the Socialist Workers Party’s 1956?
After the SWP convened its ‘special conference’ in March this year, I posted a blog positing the question whether this was a turning point for the far left in Britain. I wondered whether the number of people turning away from the SWP and its diminishing stature within the wider leftist, labour and progressive circles in…
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“Class Before Race”: Article on CPGB and post-imperial ‘race relations’ reaches 1000 downloads on academia.edu
This is just a brief post to announce that my article, ‘”Class Before Race”: British Communism and the Place of Empire in Post-War Race Relations’, has reached 1000 downloads on academia.edu. The article was first published in Science & Society in late 2008, with the following abstract: The Communist Party of Great Britain, as the largest organization…
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Seminar at Flinders University October 24
This is just a quick post to remind anyone in the Adelaide area and interested in communist history that I will giving a paper tomorrow afternoon on my current research project. It will be the first time that I will publicly discussing my research so far. Details are on the flyer below: If you…
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From the Daily Worker 1957: ‘Five Vital Points’ about the USSR
I spent some time last week at the National Library of Australia in Canberra looking at the publications of the Communist Parties of Great Britain and Australia. I was looking at the Daily Worker from 1957, investigating the 25th Special Congress’ resolution on colonial independence, and found this excerpt in a summary of the Congress. As I…
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Left historical resources online: Labour Monthly, Marxism Today, Anglo-Soviet Journal, The Communist (US)
After digging around for some articles from Marxism Today from the late 1950s, I re-discovered a wonderful resource that has fully readable online versions of British and American leftist publications from the mid-1900s. The four main ones that would be of interest to labour and leftist historians would be: Labour Monthly – a long-running monthly journal edited…
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