The European Social Forum in Florence from 6 to 10 November will be a crucial staging point for the anti-war movement.
Psychiatric tests for politicians? - Sweets firm in music charts - Coke and Pepsi fined for defacing the Himalayas
After years of simmering resentment, there are clear signs of a return to industrial militancy.
The reaction of the Washington hawks should dispel any doubt that it was opposition to war on Iraq that sealed victory for Gerhard Schröder's Red/...
An increasing number of government agencies are using tax havens such as Guernsey to avoid paying the higher rate of tax in this country,...
Some 115 million Brazilians go to the polls on 6 October to elect a new president, and various federal and state deputies. The frontrunner for...
The world's mightiest imperialist power is on the warpath again.
'Iraq had made frequent use of a variety of chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war... In 1988 Saddam...used mustard and nerve agents against Iraqi Kurds at Halabja in northern Iraq. Estimates...
'Saddam Hussein is a threat that has to be dealt with. He has twice before started wars of aggression. Over 1 million people died in them. When the weapons inspectors were evicted from Iraq in...
'The inspectors and the directorate of the inspections were pressurised to undertake controversial inspections... and thereby cause a stalemate which could form the basis for direct military...
'A report came out of the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] that they [the Iraqis] were six months away from developing a weapon. I don't know what more evidence we need. It threatens the...
'In 1990...the world imposed economic sanctions on Iraq. Those sanctions were maintained after the war to compel the regime's compliance with security council resolutions... Saddam Hussain has [...
Bush's cabinet and their corporate links.
The Guardian has been running a series investigating the extent to which our lives are recorded and analysed (see www.guardian.co.uk/...
Will the last privatisation fiasco please turn off the lights?
The US is preparing to flex its military muscles. But its strategy is a very risky one indeed.
I agree with Mike Gonzalez that corporations are colonising bits of the world through tourism (September SR). However, it seems to me that he then goes on to place some of the blame with the...
Steve Smith's otherwise interesting article on dystopia in film (September SR) was ruined by his casual definition of dystopia.
While watching the jingoistic posturing of Bush and his poodle Blair, am I alone in remembering that in my teenage years the US still practised apartheid? Can this be the nation that lays claim to...
Sabby Sagall (September SR) makes important points about the tradition of international solidarity of British workers, but a key point needs to be underlined--the taking of industrial action in...
Can I congratulate you on publishing Sabby Sagall's article 'Solidarity Forever' (September SR).
The useful pensions article by Solomon Hughes (September SR) contrasted 'pay as you go' and pre-funded (savings) pension systems, but it omitted a crucial economic point.
Being an avid reader of 'Socialist Review', imagine my dismay on turning to the back page, which is the first one I read (Pat's hilarious column), to hear him wailing on the demise of football (...
Ninety percent of Spain's parliament and Spanish judge Garzon have decided to ban Batasuna the Basque nationalist party.
Alex Callinicos examines the extraordinary life of Duncan Hallas.
Review of 'Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life', Eric Hobsbawm, Allen Lane £25
Review of 'Terrorism and War', Howard Zinn, Seven Stories Press £7.99; 'Bin Laden, Islam and America's New War on Terrorism', As'ad Abukhalil, Seven Stories Press £6.99 and 'Terrorism: Theirs and...
Review of 'Bad Boy Brawly Brown', Walter Mosley, Serpent's Tail £12
Review of 'The Years of Rice and Salt', Kim Stanley Robinson, Harper Collins £16.99
Review of 'Zimbabwe's Plunge', Patrick Bond and Masimba Manyanya, Merlin Books £14.95
There are now signs that the daily intensification of global politics is beginning to find an echo within popular music.