This week’s SWP branch meeting will be on ‘The Communist Manifesto’ with Dave Sewell. It will be a chance to discuss the legacy of Marx and Engels’ great call to arms in the midst of the 1848 revolutions across Europe and to discuss its legacy today. At the branch meeting, we will also be discussing our [...]
A World To Win
I’ve just come back from Marxism 2009: Festival of Resistance (and spent about 15 hours alternating between bed and the bath to recover). Not sure I can express just how invigorating it has been to be part of something like this – thousands of people from all over the world coming together to fight for [...]
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Socialist Worker- 'We will defy the bankers' - Greek workers speak out May 15, 2012“No one wants to be governed like before,” says Costas Katarachias, a doctor and union rep at Agios Savvas cancer hospital in Athens
- Anti-war protesters rally outside US embassy May 19, 2012Several hundred protesters rallied outside the US embassy in London today, Saturday, as Nato leaders met in Chicago to discuss the ongoing “war on terror”
- Global protests planned as Nato meets in Chicago May 16, 2012Nato leaders are preparing to gather in Chicago on Sunday for a two day conference on the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan
- Russia's first Occupy protest builds opposition to Putin May 16, 2012Hundreds of anti-government protesters have been camping out in central Moscow for over a week, in Russias first occupy protest
- Caravan for climate jobs sets off May 13, 2012Climate campaigners gathered in London and Edinburgh yesterday (Saturday) to wave off the Caravan for a Million Climate Jobs on its tour of Britain
- Rochdale sex abuse is nothing to do with race May 15, 2012High-profile grooming case exposes the bleak reality of some young womens lives, says Judith Orr
- Egypt: Faith in the revolt May 15, 2012The lefts attitude to Egypts Islamists has long been a point of debate – Revolutionary Socialist Hossam el-Hamalawy says a sit‑in at Egypts Ministry of Defence shows its vital to take sides
- After 10 May: where next for the pensions dispute? May 15, 2012May Day came late for hundreds of thousands of public sector workers, writes Martin Smith, SWP industrial organiser
- Tories' panic mounts as Cameron's chum Rebekah Brooks charged May 15, 2012David Cameron has put off his appearance before the Leveson inquiry amid mounting panic in Downing Street, writes Simon Basketter
- Nurses jeer at Andrew Lansley's lies May 15, 2012The Tories are hellbent on destroying the national health servicebut far-fetched soundbites wont quell workers anger at snowballing job cuts, writes Julie Sherry
- 'We will defy the bankers' - Greek workers speak out May 15, 2012
- Socialist Review
- The myths that tumble with tyrantsThe uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia have set the entire region ablaze with revolt. Mark L Thomas opens our coverage by considering the historic significance of these events.
- The gravedigger of dictatorshipThere have been many conflicting interpretations of events in Egypt. Anne Alexander argues that the working class is the key force in Egyptian society with the power to drive the revolution forward.
- Tunisia: the revolution has only just begunWith dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali long gone, media attention on Tunisia has waned. But there is now an ongoing battle to cleanse the country of Ben Ali's cronies, reports Mohamed Tonsi.
- Tories sow false divisionsLast month David Cameron used a speech in Munich to attack multiculturalism, gaining fulsome praise from far-right and fascist organisations across Europe. Hassan Mahamdallie exposes Cameron's racist lies, while considering the legacy of multiculturalism in Britain.
- Socialism and women's liberationIt is 100 years since the first International Women's Day was held in March 1911, yet despite many victories gender inequality still exists today. Sally Campbell argues that only socialism can bring genuine liberation
- The myths that tumble with tyrants
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