When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, 50,000 people turned out to hear him speak.
Last week I explored how divisions over the question of revolution led to the break up of the First International.
How can we stop the jobs massacre? by Tom Walker
Inequality is alive and well in Britain, as a new government report has admitted. But although politicians and the media will accept that inequality exists, few acknowledge that class is the basis for that inequality.
Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez has called for the formation of a Fifth International to unite socialists around the world.
Over 900 people packed into the Right to Work conference last weekend. Socialist Worker reports on the key themes of the day and looks ahead to building on broad networks of resistance
Participants in the conference in Manchester speak about the day
"Today has been inspirational but we have to move on from just being inspired", Raymond from the steering committee told the conference’s final session.
The people of Haiti have a powerful record of resistance. They have fought back even in the most appalling conditions – from the great slave rebellion in the 1790s, to the movement that destroyed the brutal regime of "Baby Doc" Duvailer in the 1980s.
I travelled to Port-au-Prince with a group of Haitians living in the US and the Dominican Republic.
For all the talk of aid, ordinary people in Haiti are still waiting for basic supplies – and many have had nothing. Geographer Kenneth Hewitt coined the term "classquake" when examining the 1976 earthquake in Guatemala, because of the accuracy with which it hit the poor.
Nearly half of young black people in Britain are unemployed. This stark figure comes in a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think-tank.
