Ukip look set to make major gains in this month's European and local elections. Socialist Review looks at what lies behind Ukip's rise and how their racist populism can be challenged.
A mass campaign has delayed moves to liberalise the island's economy in favour of Chinese capitalism. Socialist Review reports on the roots of the campaign and the challenges it faces.
Continuing the debate on the role of Leninism, Joseph Choonara argues that the Bolshevik leader's concept of the party remains the model around which socialists should unite.
Dave Sherry's book John MacLean: Red Clydesider has recently been republished by Bookmarks. Here we print an abridged version of the new introduction which looks at the importance of Maclean in...
"I stand in the Gorbals and before the world as a Bolshevik, alias a Communist, alias a revolutionary, alias a Marxist. My symbol is the red flag, and I shall always keep it flying high."
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Protests have erupted across Australia at the new Tory government's anti-refugee policies.
Teachers, firefighters, council workers and health workers are all moving to either strike or hold ballots for strikes. Socialist Review looks at the shift in mood and argues that any strikes will...
The fightback against austerity is reshaping the disability movement in Britain.
As the 20th century ended, there were many predictions about what we might expect from the next century but one particularly resonated with policy-makers across the world. It was the claim that...
Internet entrepreneur Adam Dell set up Shared Earth in 2010, a web service for connecting would-be gardeners to unused plots of land. Jeremy Rifkin enthuses about the start-up's rapid expansion....
The Gypsy Goddess is set in Tamil Nadu, India, in 1968. This is the true story of agricultural labourers working under tyrannical, feudal landlords who begin to rebel and defy their masters in a...
This new book is a dynamic re-working of Marx in an attempt to analyse the changing face of globe capitalism and the last seven years of economic crisis, and to provide a framework for a political...
When radical black American leader Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union in 1963 his speech was hailed as a "30 minute explosion that is perhaps the best encapsulation of [his] ultimate views on...
In his explosive and thought-provoking new volume Film After Film: Or, What became of 21st Century Cinema? James Hoberman argues that the world of making movies has undergone a ground-breaking...
The idea that humans are naturally greedy and selfish and that "you can't change human nature" is often used to explain the atrocities that happen in the world. From imperialist wars, to racism,...
