'It was grim, it was grim for me, grim for TB [Tony Blair] and there is this huge stuff about trust.' So lamented New Labour's chief spin-doctor...
Was Alastair Campbell responsible for the government's deliberate lies about Iraq's 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'? The Hutton inquiry evidence...
Badge "endangers" aircraft - Cabinet Office IT company run by former Tory minister - New Labour schools minister can't do sums
The decision taken by the Socialist Alliance at its annual conference in May to explore the possibilities of building a broader and more credible...
Workers' confidence has continued to show signs of recovery in the last couple of months. The huge stop the war movement has politicised a whole...
Before the war, John Barry of Newsweek produced an amazing scoop. He obtained a leaked copy of the interview between General Kamal, Saddam'...
War on Want and Justice for Colombia organised a mock execution of 13 British trade union leaders and several MPs outside parliament recently, in...
Two years after Washington launched the 'war on terrorism', Alex Callinicos examines the motivations of the neo-cons and the difficulties they face.
Anne Ashford charts the resistance to the occupation of Iraq.
Britain is colluding in torturing prisoners from the Afghan war.
Andrew Murray and Lindsey German reflect on the achievements of the anti-war movement.
Chair of the Birmingham Stop the War Coalition Salma Yaqoob proposes her ideas for a progressive alternative to New Labour.
Thirty years ago the left wing government of Chile was drowned in blood. Ian Birchall tries to draw lessons from the tragedy.
Sally Campbell investigates claims that 'time is the new money' for women workers.
Author Mike Davis explores the seedy overbelly of the US.
'Distributed Computing' is one of the most interesting computing phenomena of recent years. Millions of people voluntarily take part in projects that use their computers to aid scientific research...
The defeat of Mick Rix has important lessons - but not those the Blairites would have us believe.
What happens when social democracy fails to deliver concessions?
It was extremely satisfying to see the coverage of the George Orwell centenary (July/August SR).
I read John Newsinger's review of the recent biographies of Orwell (July/August SR) with a smile, as it seemed to bear out my contention that 'Orwell' is primarily used today as a political weapon...
As co-editor of the rank and file paper for firefighters, Red Watch - and, indeed, a member of the Labour Party - I can assure Martin Wicks that our publication is not an SWP front (Letters...
In her article (July/August SR) Elaheh Rostami Povey provides a general picture of recent protests in Iran.
Saying, as Nick Grant does (Letters, July/August SR), that all violence in films constitutes a drip-drip effect making us inured to the real violence inflicted on us every day by the ruling class...
At the Marxism 2003 event anti-racist activist Asad Rehman talked, quite rightly, of the BNP's shift to focusing on northern England, largely as a result of the resistance the Nazis have faced...
Pat Stack's amusing attack on the guff-espousing excrement that is David Aaronovitch (July/August SR) is telling and engaging.
The New Labour controlled Neath Port Talbot council, together with its PFI partner HLC recently succeeded in building a giant incinerator complex...
Review of 'Reclaim The State', Hilary Wainwright, Verso £15 and 'Radicals in Power', Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Zed Books £14.95
Review of 'Discovering the Scottish Revolution', Neil Davidson, Pluto Press, £17.99
Review of 'Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge', Evan Gottesman, Yale University Press, £25
Review of 'Politicide', Baruch Kimmerling, Verso £15 and 'Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict', Norman G Finkelstein, Verso £15
Review of 'The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War', Hugh Wilford, Frank Cass, £18.50
Review of 'Home is a Place Called Nowhere', Leon Rosselson, Oxford University Press £6.99
Review of 'Pugilist Specialist' by The Riot Group/Adriano Shaplin, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
Review of 'Edward II' by Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London
Review of 'Hobson's Choice' by Harold Brighouse, Young Vic, London, then touring
Review of 'Goodbye Swingtime', Matthew Herbert Big Band, Accidental Records £13.99