It is sometimes said that trade union conferences are merely the echo of the battle rather than the battle itself. If so then the TUC conference...
Seldom does the struggle for justice intrude on, let alone dominate, media sports coverage, but the report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel...
The Paralympics were, it is universally agreed, the most successful yet. All the venues sold out, and Channel 4's coverage reached just shy of 40...
In 2007 General Richard Dannatt, head of the UK armed forces, complained, "The British public do not support the troops enough." Within weeks a...
The crisis in the marking of this year's GCSEs should give us one reason to be grateful: it has exposed the farce that is at the heart of our...
With the regime of Bashar Assad desperately trying to cling to power, the death toll has risen to 30,000 fighters since Syria's revolution began. Simon Assaf argues that the revolution remains...
The Second World War is usually portrayed as a "good war". But in a recent book Donny Gluckstein argues that the war was both an imperialist war and a people's war. Mark Kilian explores this...
The waves of strikes that have swept Egypt since the overthrow of Mubarak have fractured the state machine, giving a boost to reformist forces. Anne Alexander looks at how revolutionaries should...
Dave Renton writing as Judge Red
The Employment Reform and Regulatory Reform Bill, currently before parliament, contains a series of measures which are likely to make life harder for every...
Anthony Arnove and David Horspool are co-editors of a new book of speeches and writings by British rebels and radicals from 1066 to the present. They spoke to Rebecca Short and Estelle Cooch
The killing by police of 34 striking platinum miners at Marikana echoed the worst massacres of the old apartheid era. Socialist Review spoke to Claire Ceruti, a South African socialist, about the...
Since 1962 when art critic John Berger uprooted himself from the hectic rat race of London he has lived in a renovated old barn in the depths of the Haute-Savoie valley in eastern France. Here he...
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos, available now on DVD and digital download
Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is being performed at the Old Vic Theatre, London, until 10 November
Caryl Churchill's new play at the Royal Court Theatre, London, until 13 October