The prospect of an oil tanker drivers’ strike threw the establishment into a tailspin.
You can rely on the playwright George Bernard Shaw to have a good remark to say about almost anything.
This month, we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Bolivia’s revolution of 1952. Despite brutal repression, poverty and a low level of development, the stranglehold of the tin barons and the political elite was broken through revolutionary struggle.
The nationalists were not the only revolutionary opposition in Bolivia. The Workers’ Revolutionary Party (POR) was one of the world’s biggest Trotskyist organisations.
Potatoes for the people In a disused car park on the former Athens Olympics site, farmers were selling their produce at cost price.
Keeping workers fed at Greece’s occupied newspaper Eleftherotypia: ‘It’s solidarity coming out of necessity’ Moisis Litsis, Eleftherotypia journalist and workers’ committee member
The previous columns in this series looked at how the ruling class tries to weaken the working class by dividing it. It sets employed workers against unemployed, and those who claim benefits against those who do not.
The murders of three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, last week were horrific acts. They followed the shooting of three soldiers, two of them Muslims, in Toulouse and nearby Montauban the week before.
It remains to be seen what impact events in Toulouse last week will have on France’s presidential election campaign.
Last week we looked at how unemployment is built into capitalism. The system produces a "reserve army of labour"—a pool of jobless workers—and plays them off against those with jobs to drive down wages for everyone.
Socialist Worker has supported the revolution in Syria—but not everyone on the left agrees. Here, Sami Ramadani argues that those leading the resistance are acting in the interests of the West. Simon Assaf, who writes regularly for Socialist Worker on the Middle East, responds by explaining why we should back the revolt and oppose Western intervention
There are around 2.7 million people unemployed in Britain—8.4 percent of the "economically active population", according to official figures. This is the highest rate since 1995.
