World Socialist Web Site

An opponent of the class struggle attacks Trotsky, writes a cautionary tale of the 1926 British General Strike

Jonathan Schneer’s Nine Days in May is miserable history. It is a book written to explain to workers that the 1926 British General Strike was doomed to defeat, as proof of the impossibility of all ...
World Socialist Web Site

Trotsky and the British General Strike of 1926

The following lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), at the SEP (US) International Summer School, held August 2-9, 2025. This is the ...
The Washington Post

Was a woman the informant who helped launch the American Revolution?

Thomas Gage struck words and added notes in the margins, pressing his quill hard in some spots on the most consequential letter he would ever write. The British general finished his final draft and on ...
The National Interest

A British General Tried (And Failed) To Save the Royal Air Force’s Harrier Jump Jets

Here’s What You Need to Know: A British general fought … and failed. The United Kingdom’s 2010 Strategic Defense and Security Review—a budget drill, really—imposed devastating cuts to what had been ...