DONATIONS TO the Socialist Worker appeal enable us to have a reach far beyond Britain. This week we received a message from Madhuresh, a supporter in Kolkata, India.
V ictor Serge was born in Brussels in 1890. In 1908 he went to Paris, where he edited an anarchist paper.
AS THE holiday season approaches, Socialist Worker asks our readers to send cards or letters to political prisoners and victims of miscarriages of justice in Britain and abroad.
Iraqi doctors have accused the US military of committing a war crime after they destroyed a neighbourhood clinic during the assault on Fallujah.
IN 1953 Britain overthrew the democratically elected government in British Guiana (now Guyana), which was then a British colony with an element of self government. The April 1953 elections had resulted in victory for the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) under Cheddi Jagan, a popular nationalist government committed to a redistributive economic programme intended to reduce poverty.
RECENT elections reveal three main themes. Firstly, the bulk of the population, which has long been suffering from neo-liberal policies and increasing immiseration, is now open to real social and economic alternatives.
What is good journalism? Good journalism is truth telling. It is not bowing to manipulation and deception. It is looking behind facades, pushing back screens, lifting rocks.
WE HAVE passed the halfway mark to our target of £150,000, but there is still a way to go.
The election of 2004 is now history. In a stunning victory, Republican George W Bush prevailed handily over his Democratic opponent, Senator John Kerry.
A CAMPAIGN to hold Tony Blair to account for the war on Iraq is gathering steam with the finalising of a parliamentary motion to "impeach" the prime minister.
nowadays most people recognise that Stalin’s rule in Russia was a perversion of the very name of socialism. But for many years those on the left who spoke out against Stalin were few in number and often persecuted.
NEW LABOUR has discovered an ingenious method for dealing with climate change—increasing the amount of greenhouse gases Britain can produce.