The impact of the economic crisis is heightening tensions in Italy and sharpening the need to reconstruct a political opposition to Silvio...
The Territorial Support Group (TSG) - the "public order" section of the London Metropolitan police - has been accused of 159 assaults over the...
Last month the mainstream press reported on Romanian born student Alina Percea who "auctioned" her virginity on a website so that she could "...
The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) has reconquered all of the areas previously held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
With politicians jumping over one another to claim that they are steering the world back to economic recovery, there are still few indicators that...
Voters in the European elections were urged to punish the "greedy Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem MPs" by UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader...
As workers lose their jobs and homes because of the recession, MPs from all the main parties have been caught on a spending spree with taxpayers' money. Michael Lavalette, a socialist councillor...
Valerie Wise was a political assistant to her mother, left wing Labour MP Audrey Wise, on two occasions between 1977 and 1979 and between 1987 and 2000. She talked to Socialist Review about...
Recent attacks on the Swat region of Pakistan have caused a deep political crisis in the country. Geoff Brown looks at the situation and talks with Asim Jaan, a socialist based in Karachi, about...
The global car industry has been rocked by the recession, thousands of jobs have gone and many thousands more are threatened. Kevin Devine reports on how bosses' attempts to save their profits...
The rise of blogging, "citizen journalism" and free online content has been held as partly responsible for the demise of the newspaper industry. Dave Crouch argues the media corporations' greed is...
What are the forces in this month's election and what are the prospects for the left? Bassem Chit reports
There is nothing that well paid commentators and writers like more than being able to expose what they see as hypocrisy from the left.
What does the Congress party victory in India's recent elections mean for the struggle against neoliberalism?
Luke Stobart is looking forward to the BFI Southbank film season on the Spanish Civil War
Xenophobia - literally fear and loathing of "the alien", "the stranger", "the foreigner" - has enjoyed a long if inglorious past, not least in Britain.
Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes pay homage to the founder of the Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal, who died last month
Director Ken Loach and scriptwriter Paul Laverty talk to Martin Smith about their new film Looking for Eric and looking for a new left
In his new book Mahmood Mamdani puts the war in Darfur in historical context and challenges the Save Darfur Coalition's characterisation of the conflict and its call for international intervention...
In light of the current economic crisis and the political situation, it would appear that the fascist British National Party (BNP) are gaining popularity in a big way (...
When we finally won the redundancy money we fought for we called off our 24-hour picket. Our last day was good, but...
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Radical Nature - Slumdog - Milk - Edinburgh Film Festival - Ornette Coleman