As president of the US, George Bush has brought us the "war on terror" and all the slaughter, racial profiling and occupation that entails.
Being poor and white is oddly popular in certain circles at the moment.
The mainstream media today often seem incapable of sustained attention or precise study. Papers concentrate on one or two "major news stories" at a time and neglect regular, steady reporting on all regions of the world.
The fight is on to defend postal workers’ pensions. Socialist Worker last week reported that Royal Mail has announced its intention to close our final salary pension scheme – despite the company organising a "consultation period" in which 99 percent of employees opposed its plans.
Socialist and former MSP Tommy Sheridan has accused Lothian and Borders police of mounting a vendetta against himself, his family and his political allies. It certainly seems that way.
The remarkable momentum of Barack Obama’s campaign to be the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party is raising the hopes of millions of Americans who have felt marginalised by mainstream politics.
Revolutionary socialists in the Balkans face a difficult period ahead. The region has long been at the centre of imperial rivalry between the US and European Union (EU) on one side and Russia on the other. Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence marks a new stage in the ratcheting up of tensions.
Just about everything the two million anti-war marchers in London predicted five years ago on 15 February 2003 has come true.
Civil rights campaigners have welcomed last week’s decision by the appeal court to overturn the convictions of five young Muslims who were jailed under anti-terrorism laws simply for downloading material from the internet.
Film director Steven Spielberg has won wide praise for his decision to withdraw as artistic adviser to the 2008 Olympics in protest at China’s role in the Darfur conflict.
The fifth anniversary of the great anti-war march of 15 February 2003 was celebrated by the anti-war movement last week, as a high point of a truly unique mass movement that brought millions of people into political activity and ultimately led to the downfall of Tony Blair.
It may be easy to dismiss Peter Hain, who was forced to resign last week over donations to his deputy leadership campaign, as just one more sleazy politician with his nose in the trough. Was he just one more sharp suited ambitious greedy product of the New Labour era?
