Unemployment has risen to its highest level since 1997, and is set to continue increasing dramatically in the near future as the recession starts...
Voters in Glenrothes backed Labour in a surprise by-election win last month. The victory in itself was not the only boost for the beleaguered...
The scale of the crisis, and the avalanche of job losses, underlines the need for the working class to fight. This is why it was so disappointing...
By the time you read this, "Sachsgate" - the events that culminated in the suspension of two of the BBC's highest-profile presenters and the...
They leech off the system, destroy public services, and bring unemployment and now they're threatening to come to Britain. But this is one group...
The impact of the economic crisis over the past year has led to a significant change in our phone habits according to recent figures from...
Historically regarded as one of the state's tools of repression, Egypt's property tax collectors are today spearheading the fight for independent...
What will Barack Obama's presidency bring? That depends on the balance of forces argues Jonathan Neale.
Barack Obama as president symbolises change and finally something I'd consider a revolutionary transformation.
I was with an African American guy on the morning of the election; a thoughtful working class guy who must have been in his 50s. When I asked him what it felt like to come out from voting he...
I always say that if Obama was delivered to the White House with Jesus Christ, a five-piece band and six gilded seraphims holding up his fucking balls he still won't be able to do anything because...
I am normally a Politics professor, but in late October I entered a parallel universe doing "participant-observer research" as a Democratic Party activist in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
What are Barack Obama's political roots? Manning Marable considers his historic election and argues that he is part of a new generation of post-racial black politicians.
As he reaches his 80th birthday this month, Noam Chomsky looks at Barack Obama's victory, today's economic crisis and his memories of a childhood shaped by the 1930s Depression.
Studs Terkel was that rare thing - a sensitive, thoughtful and attentive listener.
Ahmed Ali reports from Baquba on the treatment of Iraqi people at the hands of the US military.
One of the most popular placards on any Stop the War demonstration in the past few years has been Socialist Worker's image of George W Bush with the slogan "World's #1 Terrorist". It's not...
We have just concluded a 57 day strike. People have really sacrificed over that period. But it felt good to conclude it with a significant win and even over job security - where the company seemed...
The efforts of governments and central bankers to prop up the financial system and make workers pay for the crisis can be derailed by rising anger.
"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!" English poet William Wordsworth's reaction to the fall of the Bastille in 1789 conveys the exhilaration of those precious...
Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne talk to Jim Wolfreys about the solidarity that transcends the tragedies of existence facing their characters and their latest film, The Silence of...
Shaun Doherty outlined the developments in the government's academies privatisation plans (Frontlines, Socialist Review,...
If you thought short selling was crazy enough now check out "naked short selling". (The value of money, Socialist Review,...
Tom Davies is entitled to have a low opinion of Francis Bacon (Feedback, Socialist Review, November 2008)....
Mike Gonzalez paints Andy Warhol as a passive huckster of art (Culture, Socialist Review, October 2008). I...
Over the past month we have seen the effect the economic crisis on the lives of working class people with rising job losses and home repossessions (How will the crisis affect people's lives?, ...
Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Verso, £7.99
The Xmas holidays will bring The Wizard of Oz onto TV once again. John Newsinger looks at the life of socialist Yip Harburg who wrote the song "Over the Rainbow".
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