Wales online has an excellent article that looks back at the Gays and Lesbian support group and the impact it had in the mining communities of South Wales during the 1984-85 strike.
Rima Majed's piece for Al-Jazeera asks, "Did Arab leftists betray the revolution?" and suggests that the old Stalinist influenced left has failed the test of revolution. She points to a new left, such as the Revolutionary Socialists in Egypt, that does grasp the dynamics and opportunities.
Are new service sector jobs different to old fashioned factory work? Simon Head's vivid pictures of Amazon's factory methods for Salon.com suggests not. He calls Amazon's warehouse an example of "American Stakhnovism".
A useful overview and assessment of the state of the European far right by Greek socialist Thanasis Kampagiannis can be found on Monthly Review's website
Gary Younge wrote an excellent and daming piece for the Guardian about the extraordinary scale of the criminalisation of black people in the US - almost half of black men under 23 have been arrested
For invaluable analysis of Egypt, go to the new international section of the Revolutionary Socialists in Egypt's website, which has articles and translations in English (as well as french and German)
