The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is lacking in empathy, sensitivity and compassion. That’s not just the view of the left, it’s what the IPCC thinks about itself.
One of the most exhilarating and exciting things about the miners’ strike is the mobilisation of women, writes Paul Foot.
Is Socialist Worker right to argue for a Yes vote? Two Labour Party members in Scotland, Vince Mills and Bob Thomson, debate how the left should vote in September’s poll
New gene editing technology offers humanity new ways to better treat disease, explains John Parrington
The storms that have battered Britain this winter have exposed the government’s complacency in the face of climate change.
After a period of sexual liberalism during the Second World War, the establishment cracked down, writes Noel Halifax
By 28 votes to two Labour’s national executive committee last week endorsed the package of “reforms” put forward by party leader Ed Miliband.
John Rose looks at the career of the former Israeli prime minister who was even found responsible for a massacre by his own government
Physicist Lise Meitner made major breakthroughs while contending with racism and sexism, explains John Parrington
Restrictions on the ability of Romanians and Bulgarians to work and settle in other European Union (EU) countries are lifted on 1 January 2014. Anti-migrant campaigns are being used by the government and the press to convince people that immigrants are to blame for social problems but this does nothing to help working people.
David Cameron has declared that British troops can leave Afghanistan next year with “heads held high” after 12 years of war and occupation. After the 9/11 attacks in the US we were told the invasion of Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries in the world, was to halt the growth of Al Qaida.
Michael Gove thinks an international survey shows a need for exams—but that’s not what it says at all, writes Ralph Tebbutt
