Siobhan Brown looks at the likely impact of the Tories' welfare reforms.
One of the pillars of the Tory government's agenda is the Trade Union Bill. This is an ideological attack aimed primarily at the public sector, and it must be resisted, writes Ralph Darlington....
Greek workers have refused to surrender despite Alexis Tspiras capitulating to the Troika. Costas Pittas reports on how we can see workers' power in the industrial and political turmoil.
In last month's Socialist Review Joseph Choonara put the case for voting No to EU membership. James...
The protests before the UN climate talks in Paris this winter can be a crucial staging post for our movement, writes Suzanne Jeffery.
The debt crisis that is tearing Greece apart has echoes in Argentina at the beginning of this century. Heike Schaumberg draws out lessons from the workers' response to neoliberal strangulation....
In last month's Socialist Review Susan Rosenthal argued that Marxists have nothing to gain from Sigmund Freud's theories,...
Working class women are hit hardest by austerity. On campuses gross sexism has become a routine part of life. No wonder many women identify as feminists. It’s time to take on women’s oppression....
It is not often a TV news reporter writes a book espousing Marxist economics, explaining the labour theory of value and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, and suggesting the transition...
Sarah Boston’s newly revised study charts the history of women workers’ struggles within and with the British labour movement from the 1830s to 2010.
Two new chapters discuss the advances...
This book begins with a dramatic account of the horrific murder of 29 passengers at China’s Kunming station in March last year. Nick Holdstock uses the remainder of the book to give context to...
This was Harper Lee’s first attempt at writing a novel. When she took it to the publishers they told her they wanted the story alluded to in the many flashbacks of the main character Jean Louise (...
This short collection of essays by the great historian of Chartism, Dorothy Thompson, is an enjoyable read. It brims with important political activists, both men and women, who helped build what...
Tamas Krausz, Hungarian activist and theorist, avoids the twin pitfalls of Stalinism and Cold War propaganda in his in-depth study of Lenin.
Rather than the standard chronological approach...
Judith Butler has been an important voice speaking out against the power of the mighty and in favour of standing up against oppression. She has noted that the dead of 9/11 were separated into...
As the title suggests, this is a story of 12 months in the life of a city. Subtitled “The year that changed soul”, it is much more than that. Leading black music label Motown is at the heart of...
At the end of March 1933 Guy Liddell, a senior MI5 officer, visited Berlin to liaise with the Prussian political police organisation that was soon to become the Gestapo.
He was given...
It is almost a decade since Shane Meadows’ film This is England was released and his characters — from 12 year old lost boy Shaun to the terrifying National Front supporter Combo — grabbed us by...
This new stage adaptation of Lanark, which premiered at Edinburgh International Festival in August, is self-concious about being just that. Its source material, Alasdair Gray’s much-loved novel of...
Here is a film made by Abel Ferrara, the enfant terrible of New York cinema (the auteur behind Driller Killer and Bad Lieutenant), about Pier-Paolo Pasolini, the enfant terrible of 60s and 70s...
For the past 40 years the films of Alan J Pakula have defined the genre of the conspiracy thriller. The Parallax View and All the President’s Men depict the sinister, secretive world of the...
The year 1968 was a defining one for a generation of political activists and it is not surprising that artists sought to reflect this. In Europe film makers such as Jean-Luc Godard and Lindsay...
I asked a friend, whose opinion I generally rate highly, what he thought about Sleaford Mods. “I’m glad I went to see them. But I’m not sure I’d go again.”
Nevertheless, in a music scene...
Kinshasa is the capital of the long suffering Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and From Kinshasa is the latest remarkable music to emerge from it. It is a startling mix of innovation and...