On October 27th 1956, Peter Fryer, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and correspondent for its paper the Weekly Worker, arrived in Hungary. This was four days into an uprising of ...

An image shared online of a purported Fox News headline comparing “Tankies,” a derogatory term for supporters of communism, and the left-wing anti-fascist Antifa movement is fake and not an authentic ...

When a still unidentified man stepped in front of a line of tanks that were leaving Tiananmen Square the day after the massacre that killed around 1,000 student protesters, it was at the risk of his ...

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What are “Trots” and “Tankies”? Unpicking the political name-calling on the British left. By New Statesman Tom Watson, the deputy Labour leader, once hit out at “Trotsky entryists” who he claimed were ...

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Badger Squadron was the last of the 2nd Tank Regiment to return from the six month tour Soldiers from the Army's 2nd Royal Tank Regiment are back at their Wiltshire base after six months in ...

Soldiers from the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment have paraded through Maidstone to mark their return from Afghanistan. The march in the Kent town was a homecoming as many of the "Tankies" come from the town ...

Badger Squadron was the last of the 2nd Tank Regiment to return from the six month tour Soldiers from the Army's 2nd Royal Tank Regiment are back at their Wiltshire base after six months in ...