The US-backed invasion of Somalia by Ethiopian forces has predictably turned into a disaster for the Somali people.
Tory leader David Cameron has been to Manchester to launch a Conservative cooperative movement.
"The party can only win the election by putting forward radical socialist policies," claimed a Labour MP in the October 1994 issue of Socialist...
Just as people are getting ready for Christmas shopping, tens of millions of toys have been found to pose a health hazard - not only to children...
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
"I don't think anyone got killed there!" responded Wendy Deng, wife of Rupert Murdoch, when asked about China's treatment of the people of Tibet...
With two disastrous wars under their belt, the desperate neocons in the White House are pushing for one more throw of the blood stained dice. Lindsey German looks at their plans for another regime...
The last few months have seen vigorous arguments over the future of Respect, culminating in George Galloway leading a split from the coalition. Martin Smith looks at where we are now and the...
Fires in California hit the headlines with stories of Arnold Schwarzenegger giving hope to his super-rich friends. But the real victims weren't those who lost a wing of their mansion, writes Mike...
A Woody Guthrie song commemorates the heroic attempts by Michigan copper miners to achieve union recognition in 1913. The bosses resorted to any murderous means they could and in one incident 62...
Peasants and small farmers across India are fighting government land grabs for "Special Economic Zones", where multinational companies can make their own laws. Kavita Krishnan reports.
This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the private member's bill which led to the Abortion Act of 1967, allowing abortion up to 28 weeks of pregnancy, that was lowered to 24 weeks in 1990 by...
On 5 November I was sacked after 25 years from the job I loved as a community psychiatric nurse. Three days later 150 community mental health workers went on strike indefinitely for my...
Divisions within the left, such as that which has occurred in Respect, always have their basis in political disagreements. Socialists must always fight for their principles to take the movement...
Not a week passes without the Daily Mail or the Daily Express bitterly complaining that art has been taken over by anarchists and crackpots.
The modern gay liberation movement was born out of two nights of rioting in June 1969 after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn gay bar in New York.
John Parrington's article about James Watson's views on genetics is persuasive (Science, Socialist Review, ...
Charlie Kimber is right about how solid the postal workers' dispute has been (The Politics of the Post Strike, Socialist Review,...
Lindsey German highlighted the importance of Respect last month (In my view, Socialist Review, November 2007...
Trevor Griffiths, co-writer of the film Reds, talks to Phil Turner about why he is committed to making a film on 18th century radical Tom Paine.
US historian Marcus Rediker talks to Hassan Mahamdallie about oppression and resistance.
Director: Andrew Dominik; Release date: out now
Souad Massi started in a rock band in her native Algeria, eventually fleeing the country because of the political nature of the outfit and its popularity - during live performances Massi used to...
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