D-Day commemorated: why we fight capitalism even when it is ‘progressive’

By Sean Matgamna, written in June 2004 on the 60th anniversary of D-Day: On D-Day, 6 June 1944, an armada of ships and planes launched British, American and Commonwealth soldiers into a full-scale invasion of Hitler-ruled mainland Europe. The official celebration of the anniversary of that momentous event cannot but arouse mixed feelings in socialists. …

Portugal: the Carnation Revolution of 1974-5

Above: crowds in Lisbon, April 1974 (Wikimedia Commons) Portugal’s revolution began on 25 April 1974, set in motion by a military coup against the country’s nearly-50-year-old fascist regime. It was effectively ended by another coup on 25 November 1975. Portugal started 1974 as a backward, isolated colonial power run by an authoritarian regime, and began …