Dave Sewell welcomes Brian Cox’s new TV programme on evolution, but argues that we cannot ignore human agency
Moyra Samuels was active in the campaign to defend the Mangrove restaurant in west London in the 1980s. Here she discusses the lessons it holds for today
The upheaval in the global financial markets last week raised the spectre of a new crisis. It was also proof that the old one is still sending shudders through the system.
Brian Richardson argues that the history of black workers’ struggles from the past can arm militants fighting today
Jim Main argues the left must seize the moment and carry the spirit of the radical Yes vote into the fight against austerity
Imaginative vision isn’t the preserve of a creative few—and mass struggles can unleash its potential, writes John Parrington
The West 's rulers are preparing for a long war in the Middle, but there’s no prospect of a simple rerun of the George W Bush years
The left in Scotland has the sort of opportunity that comes around only very occasionally.
The Campaign for Real Poverty is what privatisation should be called, argues author James Meek.
Panos Garganas argues that fighting the fascist Golden Dawn in Greece must go hand in hand with fighting against austerity
Sections of our ruling class are being driven wild by the opinion polls on the Scottish referendum. Apparently if a small country on the edge of Europe votes for independence, civilisation as we know it is over.
Dave Sewell looks at what socialists in Britain can learn from the unravelling of Francois Hollande’s Labour-style government
