This section contains historical narratives and analyses. Since the borderline between politics and history is fluid, the dividing line between Political Writings and Historical Writings may sometimes be arbitrary.

• 1970: The Bogus Priest
• 1979: American Embassies
• 1979: Bang Bang!
• 1979: Vietnam's Thirty Year War
• 1986: STRIKING AGAINST SUEZ
• 1989: Left Without Ideology
• 1989: REVIEW OF PIERRE BROUÉ’S TROTSKY
• 1989: VOLTAIRE AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
• 1995/2007 OXFORD MANDELA DEMO 1964
• 1995: Nelson Mandela
• 1995: ORAL HISTORY AND BRITISH TROTSKYISM
• 1995: Winston Churchill
• 1996: Neither Jacobin nor Utopian: Marx, Engels and Babeuf
• 1996: The First World War
• 1998: Review of Jim Higgins: More Years for the Locust
• 1998: Richard Evans on Postmodernism
• 1999: Alfred Rosmer
• 2002: LANGUAGE IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE
• 2002: The Battle of Wood Green
• 2004 : DEUTSCHER ON TROTSKY
• 2005 : “A LOT FOUGHT BACK”
• 2005: In Their Own Words
• 2008: “Socialism and Freedom”
• 2010: Out Of Service
• 2011: PCF: THE MISSING FOUNDERS
• 2012: Le Sou du Soldat
• 2013 : STALIN
• 2013: Peter Sedgwick, Lenin and "Leninism"
• 2013: POUJADE AND THE FRENCH LEFT
• 2013: The Programme of the International Socialists
• 2014: France Under Fire
• 2014: FROM SLAUGHTER TO MUTINY
• 2014: Le mouvement ouvrier français avant et en 1914
• 2014: THE CGT IN 1914
• 2014: World War I
• 2015: Exits from Empire
• 2015: FROM THE SCHOOLROOM TO THE TRENCHES
• 2015: Jaurès on the French Revolution
• 2015: Paul Levi in Perspective
• 2016: MAKING USE OF HISTORY: MAURICE DOMMANGET’S APPROPRIATION OF BLANQUI
• 2016: PEACE IS NOT ENOUGH
• 2016: THE GENERAL STRIKE SEEN BY THE FRENCH LEFT
• 2016: WHY DID WALTER BENJAMIN MISREPRESENT BLANQUI?
• 2017: Review of Matthieu Renault, CLR James
• 2018 : Fighting Antisemitism: The Dreyfus Experience
• 2018 : Review of Chuzeville, Un Court Moment Révolutionnaire
• 2018: SIMULTANEOUS REVOLUTION?
• 2019 : MONATTE'S WARTIME CORRESPONDENCE
• 2020: Anti-Nazi Germans