pertiaf insurrections, mass strikes and oviets formed in several cities The insuccessful German revolution, to be repeated in 1923, was one of the fist revolutionary responses in the advanced capitalist world to the and of the Finst World War and the Revolution, Without doubt, So Citier onese ocesion could have changed the face of revol donary struggle in the twentieth 2 JANUARY 1959: Havana, the capital of Cube was taken and the Batista years of struggle in the countryside by Fidel Cairo and his guerrilla army. The Cuban revolution, which want on to overthrow capitalism and imperialism completely in the next two years, was the first sucoesful revolution in the Western hemisphere.
for revolutionary attempts elsewhere in Latin America throughout the 1960% Castro's lieutenant, Che Guevara, by his unstinting revolutionary internat ing to start the revolutionary process anew in Bolivia in 1966-7, was an insp militants in Europe and around the world in the late 'B0s. 4 JANUARY 1969: A civil rights march land was ambushed by loyalist thugs, many of them off-duty members of the '8' Special Constabulary at Burncollet Bridge. Later that evening the Roval Ulster Conststulary invaded the catholic Bogside ares in Derry, smashThe civil rights campaign, organised to win equality for the oppressed catholie mingrity in the North, was the He was in his mid-sixties.
by Penguin Books to produce this work, completed.
IMG Executive Bureau LL 1945 Comrade Jabra Nicola, a founder-member of the Trotskyist movement in Palestine and for many years a member of the International Executive Committee of the Fourth Internalional, died in London last Friday Comrade Jabra was better known to many readers as A, Said, under which name he wrote a number of articles for the press of the Fourth International and for journals such as Black Dwarf and Politique Heodo His last project was to have been a study of the development of Arab society from antiquity to the present day. He had been commissioned but unfortunately ill-health prevented him from consistent work and only the introduction was As an old Palestinian revolutionary, Jabra Nicola's work was well- • known to many members of the early Arab Communist Party, and he provided for the comrades of the Fourth International in the Arab East an essential link with the old traditions of communism in the area, His death has come as a sad blow to the Fourth International, In our next Isue we will be publishing a fuller approciation of comrade Nicola.
workors" struggles throughout bistay:
Although 1945 was a very eventful year, this does mcan there are some rather langu pips whor nothing Happoned. The reading, though fascinating is not as inspiring either, as that year wes larecty one of delial and counter-ror clution.
But we can still learn many lessons the year of thu Stalin Churchill-Roosevelt LET TO ERE WOE TO SPROTOS DE influence, the yoar of the opening of the McCarthy tribunals in the USA.
Above all, the year of a whole wave of workers struggles around the world, most of which were defeated, misted and destroyed by imperialism and the collaborationist "popular front" policies of Stalinism. Greece, Italy and France are the prime examples.
There were some victoricy and partial victories - Yugoslavia, Vietnam and the struggle in China and Korea