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Malcolm X

The road to revolution

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NHS strike called off

Last month Socialist Review reported that NHS workers would be back out on strike in January and February. As we went to press all the unions involved had called off the action following negotiations. Unite and Unison officials are claiming that the offer is the best they could achieve. But the offer of a 1...
30 January 2015
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Germany: racists take to the streets

Khaled Idris Bahray was murdered outside his front door on Monday 12 January. The door was daubed with a swastika and the chilling slogan, “We’ll get you all”. A 20 year old Eritrean refugee to Germany, Khaled lived in Dresden. The eastern city has seen a series of large anti-Islamic demonstrations organised by Pegida, the...
30 January 2015
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Malcolm X: The road to revolution

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the murder of Malcolm X. Antony Hamilton looks at his life and politics.
30 January 2015
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Call for global resistance

Saladin Ambar, author of Malcolm X at the Oxford Union, spoke to Socialist Review about Malcolm's historic 1964 speech, and why his ideas will remain relevant as long as oppression persists.
30 January 2015
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Egypt: murder that rocked the regime

The heartbreaking murder of a young woman activist has exposed the fragility in the rule of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. Shaimaa al-Sabbagh, a well respected member of Egypt’s left wing Socialist Popular Alliance Party, was shot in the chest by riot police as she was preparing to lay a wreath in Tahrir Square on the fourth...
30 January 2015
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What Green growth means for the left

The Greens' advance in the polls is welcome because it shows the clear mood for radical change in the UK. But, as Mark L Thomas argues, there are limits to the project the party presents.
30 January 2015
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Homophobia in the First World War

The Black Book trial of 1918 exposed the extent of anti-gay feeling in a British society at war. And, writes Noel Halifax, it gave us Noel Pemberton Billing, the Nigel Farage of his day.
30 January 2015
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Capitalism, alienation and the family

In the second part of her two-part series on the family, Canadian socialist Susan Rosenthal explains how families can trap men, women and children in violent and abusive relations.
30 January 2015
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The hero of New Orleans

After hearing that hundreds of racists had joined in the lynching and mutilation of a black labourer, Robert Charles called on black people to take up arms in self-defence. John Newsinger tells his incredible story.
30 January 2015
Reviews & Culture

Taken at Midnight

It’s hard to comfortably watch a set so sparse and foreboding while seated at the Theatre Royal, sumptuous, gilded and warm as it is. A single chair we know means torture, grey walls, the world seen in black and white, cold concrete — like some post-apocalyptic underground car park. The story of left wing Jewish...
30 January 2015
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Satire should spear the powerful

The savage killing of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and journalists by terrorists in Paris is utterly contemptible, but not inexplicable. For me as a cartoonist this seemed to be horribly close to home. As the great cartoonist Joe Sacco commented immediately after the massacre, “This is my tribe”. Sadly, the ensuing media storm has done...
30 January 2015
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Inherent Vice

This entertaining movie has been described as a “surfer noir” and Joaquin Phoenix’s private investigator, Doc, as not so much a “gumshoe” as a “gum sandal”. It is the first film to be based on a novel by Thomas Pynchon and is suffused with dope smoke, paranoia and trippy episodes. The novel, which was published...
30 January 2015