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On 3 October, at a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference, education secretary Michael Gove went out of his way to sing the praises of Rupert Murdoch. Gove admitted that he remained "a great admirer of Rupert Murdoch, he's a force of nature, a phenomenon, he's a great man". For a senior minister to still admit to being one of Murdoch's creatures is quite remarkable, but there was a good reason for Gove standing by his man: Murdoch has a central role in Tory plans for British education.

Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within broke records when it was released in Brazil in 2010. It was the country’s highest grossing film ever and one of the most successful Latin American films ever made. Like the first film, The Enemy Within focuses on the BOPE (Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais) – the special unit...

Estelle Cooch and Jack Farmer spoke to Owen Jones, a left wing member of the Labour Party and author of Chavs, about New Labour, capitalism and the demonisation of the working class

Remastered edition out now.

The left and the Muslim Brotherhood in the Egyptian Doctors' Union A rank and file slate, including socialists, won major successes in recent elections to Egypt's Doctors' Union, long a bastion of the Muslim Brotherhood. Anne Alexander spoke to Mohammed Shafiq, an organiser of this electoral campaign and a doctor at Manshiyet al-Bakri hospital in Cairo

National Theatre until 26 February 2012

In the August edition of Socialist Review I wrote about the crises that have hit successive ruling class institutions, from parliament to the banks. Few would have predicted that the next pillar of the establishment to be riven with turmoil would be the Church of England.

One of the starting points for this publication of the Magnum photo-collective’s impressive collection of contact sheets and the accompanying exhibition is that this once intrinsic part of photographic work has now been “rendered obsolete by digital photography”. However, the book shows examples of contact sheets produced as recently as 2010. The contact sheet is...

The Kyoto Protocols are set to become an empty shell following the 17th meeting of the UN Convention on Climate Change ("COP 17") in Durban.

Using collections from the Women's Library and strengthened by material from the TUC, this exhibition attempts to cover 150 years of work performed by women and, in part, their resistance.

Josh Hollands argues that a revolutionary party can play a crucial role in helping workers to organise against the system

The British Museum until 19 February