Your writing about the Egyptian Revolution celebrates the courage, imagination and resilience of ordinary people. Why are they your focus?
The Egyptian Revolution did not come out of thin air. Despite arrests, disappearances and torture, brave activists were a frequent thorn in the side of dictator Hosni Mubarak in the decade before his overthrow.
The Bolshevik party—the party that led the 1917 Russian Revolution—was formed a century ago this month. It did not emerge from nowhere. The Bolsheviks split with the Mensheviks, ending a period in which the two groups had been factions inside the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP).
Russia’s revolutionary movement at the turn of the century was shaped by the country’s large peasantry and small and historically young working class.
They want us to retire into poverty Under the Tory plans public sector workers will receive lower pensions when they finally retire—despite paying more into them. The average public sector pension is currently less than £100 a week.
2011 was the year when what often seemed like Marxist abstractions—crisis, revolution and mass strikes—became living realities.
The Socialist Workers Party held its annual conference last weekend.
Michael Bradley, an SWP industrial organiser, opened a session on class struggle and organising in workplaces.
The murder of Stephen Lawrence in April 1993, and the nearly two-decade campaign for justice that followed it, changed Britain forever.
One day in June 1998 I sat in a cafe in the Elephant and Castle shopping centre in south east London during a break in the Macpherson inquiry.
As Stephen lay bleeding to death, police received the first reports of an attack.
