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ONE FACTOR has been largely overlooked in the coverage of Bush’s election—Blair’s crucial role in securing him a second term.

A HUGE groan went up around the world on Thursday of last week when it became clear that George Bush had won another term of office as US president. Even those who doubted whether John Kerry would have been much better were depressed at the thought of Bush and his gang winning another four years to pillage the planet and wage the global war they declared after 11 September 2001.

By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair

George Bush won re-election by proving himself a militarist and imperialist that would make the "founding fathers" proud.

THE VICTORY of George Bush on 2 November is a stunning defeat for the Democratic Party. But it is not a defeat for the progressive political movement in the US.

THE anti-war movement was already taking to the streets before the all-out assault on Fallujah.

In my new book, The Defender, the main character, a 14 year old boy called Ian, comes home to find two menacing characters waiting for his dad.

Taking its title from one of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s greatest poems, in which the future poet of the Russian Revolution revealed that he could be as tender hearted as "a cloud in trousers", this play sets out to bring us the story of the man himself.

Camouflage is Relative Pete Miser

The dreadful killing of David Morley in London has brought to attention the continuing prevalence of homophobia.

Children should be heard and not hit So let's get this right. After last week’s parliamentary vote you can smack your child – but only a mild smack – and take care to leave no signs of visible bruising, or you will be in trouble!

IN 1989 mass demonstrations, strikes and confrontations brought lightning-fast transformation to the Stalinist states that most people thought would never change.