Abusing hooded prisoners is not the work a few rogue soldiers, but a systemic US policy of torture that dates back to the start of the Cold War. The US military watched with interest the Russian show trials of the 1930s and 1940s, in which opponents of the regime stood up and admitted to anything and everything they were accused of.
Every Labour government has been elected on a promise to protect and improve workers’ living standards, and each has tried to impose cuts in pay.
It's not often that a politician's actions can rally together millions of ordinary people from all walks of life. But that's what chancellor Gordon Brown has managed to do by imposing a maximum 2 percent wage rise across the public sector.
For over 100 years 1 May has been international workers’ day – a day of working class solidarity and a celebration of internationalism.
May Day sees the relaunch of the Socialist Review, with a new format and glossy look. It will be a monthly magazine that will get to the heart of and analyse the major issues facing socialists and activists in the movements.
It was four in the afternoon. The Junkers, Heinkels and Italian Savoias flew straight over the main street of the town of Guernica dropping splinter bombs and incendiaries. Within three hours, the town was a skeleton and over 1,600 of its people were dead. It was 26 April 1937.
In April 1937, Pablo Picasso read an article in the French Communist daily, L’Humanité, reporting that "Guernica, the most ancient town of the Basques, was completely destroyed yesterday afternoon by insurgent air raiders.
In my first three columns I showed that capitalism is based on a fundamental division, between capitalists who control production and workers who have no choice other than to sell their labour power.
A new biography of Michael Foot, the former Labour leader, lays open the contradictions at the heart of the Labour Party. During his long career Foot was a founding member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), a journalist and pamphleteer, and a cabinet minister.
Last week I showed how the value of a commodity is a reflection of the labour time required to produce it. The commodity is produced by "living labour" (fresh labour put in by workers) and "dead labour" (the old labour embodied in raw materials, machinery, etc).
"Tony Blair’s comments about how black families have a special responsibility for solving knife and gun crime outraged me. Blair said he was "lurching into frankness", adding that violence would not be stopped "by pretending it is not black kids doing it."
A group of young people on the Morningside estate in Hackney, east London, spoke to Socialist Worker about knife crime.
