Activists in Johannesburg are organising their local communities to oppose the recent violent attacks on foreigners there, Silumko Radebe from the...
Christian Aid's recent report, Death and Taxes, exposes the role of multinationals in conning poor countries out of vital tax revenue.
Each week we face sensationalist media headlines about the danger of online predators and paedophiles who stalk the internet to prey on children...
As Socialist Review went to press protesters were due to converge on Heathrow in a demonstration to oppose the airport's expansion.
"I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in...
In 1989 Westminster Council voted to expel homeless families from the borough's hostels. They were transferred to asbestos-ridden tower blocks in...
Labour's crushing election defeats and the increase in the vote for the Nazi BNP has led some to believe the country is drifting rightwards. Lindsey German opens our analysis of the situation by...
Many workers are gaining confidence to join the resistance to pay cuts and privatisation. Charlie Kimber assesses the pressure on Gordon Brown from below.
The recent local elections saw the BNP gain ten councillors and a London Assembly member. Judith Orr puts these results in context, and argues that the fascists can, and must, be stopped once more...
The abandonment of council housing building has worsened dramatically the housing crisis, both socially and financially. Glyn Robbins argues the case for publicly-owned, democratically-run and...
When British academic Chris Jones, acclaimed for his writing on radical social work, went to live on a small Greek island he discovered that he was living on a frontline. He reports on the plight...
Recent events exposed the weakness of the US-backed government and both the strength and limitations of the Hezbollah-led opposition, argues Bassem Chit.
The PCS civil service workers' union conference last month may turn out to have been the most significant in the union's ten year history.
Along with every great success come new challenges. That will be the case for Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR).
"...for the first time [it] awoke feeling and class-consciousness in millions upon millions as if by an electric shock... the proletarian mass... quite suddenly and sharply came to realise how...
Poet, novelist and musician Benjamin Zephaniah talks to Weyman Bennett and Judith Orr about politics, culture and why Boris Johnson's appointment of a black deputy should fool no one.
Grosvenor Square 1968 has become a common piece of historical shorthand (Feature, Socialist Review, May 2008...
Congratulations to Hassan Mahamdallie on a beautifully argued riposte to the vile Martin Amis (Feature, Socialist Review,...
Call centres (Union-Made, Socialist Review, May 2008). Just those two words together are enough to provoke a...
The Abortion Rights demonstration outside parliament on 20 May was a great success.
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Jack Shaheen's book Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People appeared just a few months before 11 September 2001. The impact that the 9/11 attacks had on the "dream factory" in the...
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