After over 100 days of strike action National Gallery workers voted to return to work last month having won nearly all their demands. Socialist Review and five strikers discussed the lessons...
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell are championing economic policies that challenge the neoliberalism of the past four decades. Simon Guy argues that to make them...
Over the past 15 years a creeping process of outsourcing has been taking place inside the military. John Newsinger argues that the use of mercenaries and contractors undermines democracy.
Self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders has gathered unprecedented support in the US presidential primaries. Lewis Nielsen looks at how significant a shift Sanders' success represents...
On 19 November 1915 Joe Hill was executed by the State of Utah on trumped up charges. Dave Gibson reminds us of the power of Hill's organising and songwriting skills at a time of upheaval in US...
Grace Lee Boggs, who died last month, was an important figure on the US left. Working with CLR James and others she helped to rescue revolutionary socialism from the dead weight of Stalinism, as...
Author Matthew Carr speaks to Socialist Review about the political significance of the current refugee crisis on the borders of Europe.
All you punks and all you teds
National Front and natty dreads
Mods, rockers, hippies and skinheads
Keep on fighting till you’re dead.
This verse...
This little book collects five essays about the Paris Commune of 1871 and some of the writers who looked to it for inspiration.
Ross seems to have set herself the task of marrying the two...
Michael Griffin’s study of Islamic State is a useful book for anyone interested in its growth and impact on the Middle East.
Griffin tracks the development of ISIS from its origins in the...
Bourne starts off quite badly by stating “anyone that claims to understand Nigeria is either deluded or a liar”. He goes on to repeat the old chestnut that it “comprises so many ethnicities and...
Between the World and Me is one of the most powerful and poignant pieces of literature that I have read this year.
I say read — in actual fact, I downloaded and listened to it on audiotape...
This is a really good book and I’d recommend it to anyone new to the ideas of the great Marxist thinker and activist of the German Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg, or, indeed, new to the genre of the...
Fiction based on historic events can suffer from the lack of plot surprises when the conclusion, in this case the 1984 Brighton bombing of the hotel the Tory cabinet were staying in, is well known...
Any book which argues that “capitalism doesn’t work and alternatives are possible” should be welcomed by revolutionary socialists.
The author Derek Wall, a leading member of the left in...
In 1814 Francisco Goya, who was almost 70 years old, was commanded to paint the portrait of the restored king of Spain, Ferdinand VII. Ferdinand’s father, Charles IV, had appointed him first court...
By the time of his death in 2011 a set of fans saw Steve Jobs as a prophet of the future and the most important person on the planet. Jobs was head of Apple — which created the Macintosh computer...
The British Art Show is a five yearly overview of contemporary art and a chance to survey in one place the work of leading, younger generation contemporary artists. Significantly the exhibition...
The opening credits of Tangerine — curly script on a pink paper backdrop — suggest an old-fashioned romantic screwball comedy. Although the film is ultra-modern in its themes and techniques, that...
If anybody should have a film made about them, it should be Malala Yousafzai. Still only seventeen years old, she has a huge story to tell — she survived a bullet to her head, she is the youngest...
This short film documents the demolition of a south London housing estate and its impact on the residents. Seen through the eyes of one working class couple who were forced from their home after...
Rizzla is a New York-based DJ and producer of electronic music, a well known figure in the city’s vibrant underground club scene, part of “queer artist collective” Kunq, and resident at innovative...