Anniversaries

The papers marked dates: the centenaries of Marx's death and Trotsky's birth, ten years since the coup in Chile, twenty since British troops went onto the streets of Northern Ireland, the bicentenary of the French Revolution. They are gathered here by the last digit of the year in which the event happened, because that is the digit its round anniversaries fall on. Within a group, the dates run in calendar order.

Only texts that mark a date are listed, not those that mention one in passing. Each date was checked against the text; where the text counts from a different date, the note says so.

Years ending in: 0 · 1 · 2 · 3 · 5 · 6 · 8 · 9

Years ending in 0 1920, 1940

• Leon Trotsky: a magnificent failure21 August 1940 · Death of Leon Trotsky · marked 50 years on, in Living Marxism No. 22, August 1990 · by Frank Richards
• Sixtieth anniversary of a republican's death25 October 1920 · Death of Terence MacSwiney on hunger strike · marked 60 years on, in The Next Step No. 8, November–December 1980

Years ending in 1 1971, 1981

• From the hunger-strike to the release of the Birmingham Six (editorial)5 May 1981 · The 1981 hunger strike: death of Bobby Sands · marked 10 years on, in Irish Freedom No. 14, May–June 1991 · introduces the issue's "special commemorative feature on the tenth anniversary of the hunger-strikes"; dated here by the death of Bobby Sands
• On the twentieth anniversary of internment (editorial)9 August 1971 · The introduction of internment in Northern Ireland · marked 20 years on, in Irish Freedom No. 15, July–August 1991

Years ending in 2 1972

• March against British murder in Ireland30 January 1972 · Bloody Sunday in Derry · marked 15 years on, in The Next Step, 9 January 1987

Years ending in 3 1883, 1973

• Centenary of proletarian revolution14 March 1883 · Death of Karl Marx · marked 100 years on, in The Next Step, Preparing for Power supplement, 1983 · the RCP's 1983 summer school was billed as a Marxist celebration of the centenary
• Ten years after the Chilean coup... This time let's win!11 September 1973 · The military coup in Chile · marked 10 years on, in The Next Step No. 39, September 1983

Years ending in 5 1945, 1975

• Where will America strike next?30 April 1975 · The fall of Saigon · marked 10 years on, in The Next Step, 26 April 1985 · opens on the tenth anniversary of America's defeat in Vietnam
• War and peace, then and now8 May 1945 · VE Day · marked 50 years on, in Living Marxism No. 79, May 1995 · by Mick Hume

Years ending in 6 1916

• Easter24 April 1916 · The Easter Rising · marked 75 years on, in Irish Freedom No. 14, May–June 1991 · on the Dublin government's muted commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary

Years ending in 8 1938, 1968

• Fiftieth anniversary of Trotsky's transitional programme: we need a programme for todayApril 1938 · Trotsky completes the Transitional Programme · marked 50 years on, in The Next Step, 22 April 1988 · by Frank Richards; the text dates the anniversary by Trotsky's completing the programme "50 years ago this month". It was adopted at the Fourth International's founding conference in September 1938
• Interview: Oliver Kearney5 October 1968 · The civil rights march in Derry · marked 25 years on, in Irish Freedom No. 24, Winter 1993 · given in London for an Irish Freedom Movement rally commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the civil rights movement; Kearney dates it from 5 October 1968

Years ending in 9 1789, 1879, 1939, 1959, 1969, 1979

• Thirtieth anniversary of Castro's insurrection1 January 1959 · The victory of the Cuban revolution · marked 30 years on, in The Next Step, 13 January 1989 · by Adam Eastman (title and author from the paper's own index); dated by Batista's flight, which the text says "marked the end of the regime"
• The children of Bohemia19 January 1969 · Death of Jan Palach · marked 20 years on, in The Next Step, 27 January 1989 · a report of the Prague demonstrations marking the anniversary
• There is an alternative (editorial)3 May 1979 · The election of the first Thatcher government · marked 10 years on, in The Next Step, 5 May 1989
• Vive la revolution!14 July 1789 · The storming of the Bastille · marked 200 years on, in Living Marxism No. 9, July 1989 · Frank Richards, on the bicentenary of the French Revolution
• The people who applaud the IRA (editorial)14 August 1969 · British troops sent onto the streets of Northern Ireland · marked 20 years on, in Living Marxism No. 10, August 1989 · the issue is given over to the twentieth anniversary of what it calls the start of the Irish War
• Second World War fever3 September 1939 · Britain declares war on Germany · marked 50 years on, in Living Marxism No. 11, September 1989 · by Toby Banks
• Review: Duncan Hallas, Trotsky's Marxism; Ernest Mandel, Trotsky7 November 1879 · Birth of Leon Trotsky · marked 100 years on, in The Next Step No. 3, March 1980 · a review of two books "prompted" by the centenary

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