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The rail unions have built up some powerful muscle they can flex.

Review of 'Voices of Revolution', Rodger Streitmatter, Columbia University Press £13.50

Can workers take control in Argentina? Chris Harman examines the evidence.

Review of 'Full Spectrum Absurdity', ed. Ken Coates, Spokesman Books £5 and 'The Last Frontier', ed. Ken Coates, Spokesman Books £5

People left on hospital trolleys waiting for treatment; bosses recruiting non-union labour to break a legitimate strike, with a nod and a wink from the government; a cash for favours scandal erupts engulfing ministers and their advisers. You could be mistaken for thinking that the dark days of the Tories have returned. But no, this is life under New Labour.

Why the British ruling class like nothing better than a complete failure.

Review of 'Trotsky and the Origins of Trotskyism', Alfred Rosmer, Francis Bootle £10

The international movement against capitalist globalisation faces two important tests. The first is the protests against the bosses' jamboree of the World Economic Forum, moved this year from Davos in Switzerland to New York. The second is the World Social Forum (WSF) that meets in Porto Alegre in Brazil between 31 January and 5 February.

The treatment of Afghan prisoners shows the brutal face of US imperialism.

Review of 'Ali', director Michael Mann

Kodak website dispute - Insurance claims - China and the WTO

Peter Morgan's article 'Tales From The Tabloids' (January SR) illustrates how during war the government, the military and the media collude in a reconstruction of truth.