Saturday 15 January 2011

Friday 14 January 2011

General Strike 1926









General Strike 1926

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oro_m-IlK4

Gwyn Thomas recalls his memories of the General Strike 1926

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfQQEFkfDiw&feature=related

Articles on General Strike

http://www.workersliberty.org/publications/workers-liberty-magazine/workers-liberty-volume-3-september-2005/workers-liberty-34-192

Britain













Miners Strike 84-85.wmv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT8P2OPj0n0

Miners strike 1984 A tribute to the miners and their families

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al-Fc0EQJ7k&feature=related

Miners strike (working class hero)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O76fVD7Haow&feature=related

Coal miners strike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Dl6N8pp-k&feature=related

BBC news Miners strike picketts fight police 1984

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUapdI7_KCg&feature=related

The Battle of Orgreave - 52 min documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUOem7bid-0&feature=fvw

More articles on Miners Strike 84/85

http://www.workersliberty.org/category/history/miners-strike-198485


[CU09]Lessons of the Miners' Strike 1984-85 (Dave Douglass and Mark Fisher on strike
)

http://vimeo.com/6395988

China













Tiananmen Square - Holding Up A Tank

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4xtkpO7ZqU

BBC News - June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square Massacre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJBnHMpHGRY&feature=related

China labour strikes gain momentum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3UY6oaKPRg

101 East - China's labour pains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqGmCq0hUBk

More on China

http://www.workersliberty.org/workers-liberty-324-how-mao-conquered-china

1989

Romanian Revolution of 1989

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0WXgDB9dQg&NR=1

Ceausescu execution ITN 1989

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8YiIBER9zw&feature=related

The Revolutions Of 1989

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc2XGHA7NK4

revolution in czechoslovakia 1989

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtzY21or6qs&feature=related

Solidarity -Poland









Solidarity Poland 1981

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peT3-xSzj08&feature=related

Solidarność 1980-1989

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asAW30hDEfY&feature=related

Solidarnosc - 25 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK4MEqeCtg&feature=related

Poland: A Polish Petrograd


Zbigniew Kowalewski, a former leader of the left-wing in Solidarnosc, describes how Solidarnosc fought for workers' control in Lodz in 1980-1. This is an abridged translation of a chapter from his book, 'Rendez-nous nos usines'.


http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2010/12/28/poland-polish-petrograd

1905 (rare russian footage)














http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4SYx94gWRQ&feature=related

Bloody Sunday 1905

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J6afJY9ab4&feature=related

Москва в снегу 1905

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A18FUjtfGH8&feature=related

1905

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYLJ_mlgQjg

Thursday 13 January 2011

Stalin's Secret Police in 6 parts














Stalin's Secret Police: I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTdTcKqAeGM&feature=related

Stalin's Secret Police: II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEIxkwymZhs&feature=related

Stalin's Secret Police: III

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itPPRxy_AQ4&feature=related

Stalin's Secret Police: IV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14wJo2vhFTk&feature=related

Stalin's Secret Police: V

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIZj3cSSp3g&feature=related

Stalin's Secret Police: VI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8rzHrzDvnk&feature=related

More on Stalinism

http://www.workersliberty.org/node/15210

Stalinism in depth - a series of articles on Stalinism

http://www.workersliberty.org/category/marxist-theory/marxism-and-stalinism

Seven Days to Remember - 53 min Documentary











http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e9nXDOQ-78&feature=fvw


Battle of Prague (1968)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shaF6yeffk8&NR=1

Czechoslovakia and Russian inbreak 1968


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOn3mCWo6pk&feature=related

Battle of Prague (1968)









http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shaF6yeffk8&NR=1

1956 - Hungarian Revolution
















http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2luGpg_Mak&feature=fvst

Hungarian Revolution crushed by Soviets - 1956 (still worth viewing in spite of Yankee spin)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY7_vSDPr6M&playnext=1&list=PLDE15DC003EB3EC9E&index=41

1956 - Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian uprising

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6hFlX6oyBA&feature=related

HUNGARY 1956: "An Solas/Workers Republic" Editorial [November 1966]

http://www.workersliberty.org/node/12378

East German uprising









http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtP6a_EaSe4&feature=related

When the workers rose up against Stalinism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrFU-QIWABo

Wednesday 12 January 2011

1871 Paris Commune

The Communards Debate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqz8uhuMbvs&feature=related

La Commune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWnePW0UWLw&feature=related

La Commune de Paris de 1871

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PcBaIYylMw&NR=1

LA COMMUNE - Paris 1871 - Jaramillo's Photo Collection

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZxtsh7DETI

Marx on Commune

http://www.encyclopedia.com/video/krwYkVXhH7w-marx-on-commune-de-paris.aspx

The Story of the Poll tax riots in London in three parts-1990

















Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zpGZYtVpf0&feature=related

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oGl6Fod8zc&feature=related

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDlqF6AE6dk&feature=related

http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2010/04/23/what-we-said-poll-tax-thatcher-reaps-what-she-sows

1968 in U.S. in 6 parts

1968 (Part 1 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vVZP2T60wI&feature=related

1968 (Part 2 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hynKUzZtDuw&feature=fvw

1968 (Part 3 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs_5A55MOrY&feature=related

1968 (Part 4 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyCYmqIrZdo&feature=related

1968 (Part 5 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l4n5uw_GFM&feature=related

1968 (Part 6 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tOMk5IpygA&feature=related

France May 1968 Movement in 4 parts









Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIgJixhY3v0

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9mNW2Adxnk

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9D4PeFPmlI&feature=related

Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J3cNDBrG4E&feature=fvw

More on General Strike in France

http://www.workersliberty.org/workers-liberty-321-general-strike-france-mayjune-1968


MAI 68 Music and images

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgo6qJwOZX8

Victorious strikes in US in thirties and their lessons





http://www.revolutionaryhistory.co.uk








San Francisco General Strike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dku-MFnIxaU&feature=related

Farrell Dobbs: His Work in the 1934 Mpls Truckers Strike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e83GHUW_wZA&NR=1

Class struggle in Minneapolis, 1934.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0cCimJCuH4&feature=related

Flint Sitdown Strike -- Pt. 1

Flint Sitdown Strike -- Pt. 1

Flint Sitdown Strike -- Pt. 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8wf3iwr9wI

Seattle General Strike 1919

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efM5EsZPfbA

How sit-in strikes built the unions in USA

http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2009/04/07/how-sit-strikes-built-unions-usa

The Spanish Civil War in 6 parts












Old Granada documentary from late 70's

The Spanish Civil War (1/6) - Prelude to Tragedy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOwnPuZr-Eo

The Spanish Civil War (2/6) - Revolution Counter - Revolution & Terror

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YYOVdnvyj8&feature=related

The Spanish Civil War (3/6) - Battleground for Idealists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YrWCo2ziA4&feature=related

The Spanish Civil War (4/6) - Franco and the Nationalists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzum_CU44jk&feature=relatede

The Spanish Civil War (5/6) - Inside the Revolution


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HsUr_PNwl4&feature=related

The Spanish Civil War (6/6) - Victory and Defeat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgf9UIr0SMA&feature=related

More on Spanish Revolution

http://www.workersliberty.org/publications/workers-liberty-magazine/workers-liberty-volume-3-september-2005/workers-liberty-36-bet


Robert Capa - Spanish Civil War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeXO2EJh7U&feature=related






http://www.revolutionaryhistory.co.uk/rh-books/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=265:rh0102&catid=99:rh0101&Itemid=233