Rarely can a prime minister have been so weak in the run-up to a general election as Tony Blair. Iraq runs like a festering sore right through the...
In early 2001 Exxon sent a memo to the White House. The world's biggest private oil and gas company requested that the chairman of the...
Over 300,000 public sector workers demonstrated throughout France last month as part of a week of action against attacks on public services.
Mass protests by pensioners in Russia have forced major concessions from the Putin government.
The government's plans for 'independent treatment centres' (ITCs) - privately run units that carry out routine hip, knee and cataract operations...
On 1 January this year Wal-Mart introduced a system of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on pallets and cases of merchandise going to 150...
Two reports have revealed that the issue of torture of Iraqi detainees is far more widespread than either US or British officials would have us...
The first Palestinian election since 1996 has been greeted with a great international fanfare of publicity and a groundswell of expectations that...
Whose elections are they anyway? Mundher Adhami looks at the prospects for democracy in Iraq.
Despite New Labour's claims social justice and the free market are unhappy bedfellows.
Workers faced down the police and the army to unionise in 1930s America. Charles R Walker's classic American City takes up the story.
Bush's faces more problems in his second term than many realise, argues Chris Harman.
There is nothing inevitable about an increasing number of deaths in natural disasters.
Carl Webb from the US and George Solomou from Britain explain to Andrew Stone and Simon Assaf why they refuse to go and fight in Iraq.
Satirical cartoonist Michael Leunig discusses art and politics with Peter Morgan.
Jane Hardy's review of Simply Heavenly and of Langston Hughes's other work ('We Know We Are Beautiful', January...
It was good to read the article on Bob Marley ('Roots Revolutionary', January SR). However, I thought the...
I enjoyed the article on Bob Marley ('Roots Revolutionary', January SR), and concur with its thoughts of...
The person that Orson Welles based Citizen Kane on certainly did go 'to extraordinary lengths to try and get the film shelved', as Stephen Philip wrote in his review of The Aviator (Movie...
The government is indeed attempting to rule through the politics of fear by 'putting security at the centre' of its programme ('Here Comes the Fear',...
Eileen Short's article on council housing and why we must defend it ('Street Spirit', December SR) was...
Reading Mary Brodbin's review of Andrew Marr's book made me a little queasy ('I Heard the News Today', January SR...
As I write this, the news is all about the Asian tsunami - what a terrible tragedy.
As a smoker of seven years, and then a non-smoker of 36 years, I am astonished at the way some of your readers miss the point about the proposed smoking ban (Letters,...
What Andrew Stone ignores in his discussion of the proposed smoking ban ('The Drag Factor', December SR) is...
Review of 'The Greenpeace to Amchitka', Robert Hunter, Arsenal Pulp Press £13.99
Review of 'Confronting an Ill Society', Patrick Hutt with Iona Heath and Roger Neighbour, Radcliffe £19.95
Review of 'The Plot Against America', Philip Roth, Jonathan Cape £16.99
Review of 'The Social Europe We Need', editor Robin Blackburn, Spokesman £9.99
Social struggles are at the heart of many great American novels from the first half of the last century.
Review of 'The Yes Men', directors Dan Ollman, Sarah Price and Chris Smith
Censorship of the arts is something that must be resisted, argues Patrick Connellan.
Review of 'Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 22 January-12 April