The skeletal ruins of the old Peiraiki-Patraiki textile factories dominate the landscape south of Patras, Greece’s third city.
Abdullah from Somalia spent six months in a detention camp in Greece. "You are hungry all the time in there," he told Socialist Worker. "At ten in the morning they give you milk that’s thin like water. Then there’s a really small meal at four and another at eight.
Walid from Homs, Syria, fled to Greece to escape war. "I wasn’t part of the uprising in Syria, I just stayed in my house," he told Socialist Worker.
In the fourth part of his series John Riddell, the pre-eminent historian of the Communist International, looks at the rise of national liberation movements in countries under the yoke of colonial occupation
We are often told socialism can’t work because people will not shift the way they think. John Molyneux shows how dramatic shifts are possible and have occured in the past
The Tories are ripping up the lives of working class women, according to a new report by the Fawcett Society, writes Judith Orr
In part three of our series on black radicals Hassan Mahamdallie looks at Claudia Jones
North Korea is demonised as a pariah state. Sadie Robinson argues that its fear of attack is not so irrational if you know its history
The Syrian revolution is portrayed as degenerating into anarchy and sectarianism, now at the mercy of outside powers. But Simon Assaf interviewed revolutionaries taking part in the committees determined to take control of their own lives in the midst of the fighting
Haitham is a revolutionary from the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. He spoke about the role of Palestinians in the Syrian revolution at last month’s World Social Forum in Tunisia
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943 was a high point of Jewish resistance. And in both its scale and heroism it was one of the key events in the history of resistance to the Nazis.
For five weeks television viewers around the world saw non-violent protesters, including young children, attacked by police with dogs and fire hoses. They saw Martin Luther King arrested and jailed. They saw white racist thugs lining up to batter unarmed black people. And after they had seen all that they asked, how can this be happening in the heart of the “free world”?
