The revolutionary socialist tradition has always combined a commitment to workers’ revolution with opposition to imperialism.
The British media reports Greece’s crisis as if it was down to the idleness of Greek workers being supported by a generous Europe. Nikos Loudos is a journalist on Workers Solidarity, Socialist Worker’s sister paper in Greece. He spoke to people about the reality of life under the hammer of austerity.
The main shopping street in Rochdale is crowded with charity stores, pawn brokers, pound shops and "cash converters".
In France’s presidential elections in April Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the radical left candidate, waged a dynamic campaign and won around four million votes. But at the same time the fascist Front National (FN) leader Marine Le Pen achieved a record 6.4 million votes.
The poster for the new film Red Tails shows Second World War fighter aircraft in combat. It doesn’t show that the pilots are all black. You wouldn’t know that the Red Tails’ greatest achievement was overcoming racism. The 332nd Airborne were the only black fighter pilots in the segregated US Air Force, where racism was deeply entrenched.
More than 1,100 people in UK prisons committed suicide between 1996 and 2009. By 2010 there were around 35 incidents of prisoners self-harming every day—and this rate has continued to rise.
Britain’s prisons are more overcrowded than ever, with around 16,000 more people in prison than a decade ago.
Women account for almost half of the self-harm incidents in prison—even though only 5 percent of prisoners are women.
Forty years ago this June saw one of the biggest industrial disputes of the 20th century. Builders began their first national strike since 1924.
The Building Workers Charter had been formed in 1970 and the paper soon had a sale of tens of thousands on the sites, with a much wider circulation.
Every royal anniversary or wedding is met with an outpouring of drivel about the ancient rituals of the monarchy and its ceremonies.
The current queen’s image has been a strange mix of pomp and domesticity throughout her reign.
