Revolutionary History is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 journal

Academic journal

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 dedicated to the history

History

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 of the far left

Far left

Far left, also known as the revolutionary left, radical left and extreme left are terms which refer to the highest degree of leftist positions among left-wing politics...

. It was founded in 1988 by Sam Bornstein

Sam Bornstein

Sam Bornstein was a British Trotskyist historian and activist.Bornstein was a member of the ILP Guild of Youth, but eventually moved towards Trotskyist ideas and joined the Workers International League, helping to build their branch in Stepney....

 and Al Richardson and has maintained an editorial board representing many strands of British Trotskyism

Trotskyism

Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky considered himself an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party of the working-class...

. In its articles, it also covers other anti-Stalinist communist traditions. Most issues are themed and consist of either documents which have never appeared in English or have been out of print for many years together with contextual and introductory materials. Some issues however consist of original studies of episodes of revolutionary struggle or studies of specific individuals or organization. The journal appears approximately once a year. It has published articles by Ernest Rogers

Ernest Rogers

Ernest Rogers was communist activist based in Glasgow during the twentieth century. Towards the end of his life he was known as the last living Oehlerite....