The death of Adrienne Rich leads Colin Wilson to recall the lesbian feminist politics of the 1980s
Only five days after George Osborne's Budget handed money back to rich top-rate taxpayers, the Sunday Times published a video showing Tory Treasurer Peter Cruddas promising undercover reporters "premier league access" to David Cameron in return for donations of £250,000.
In late February George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. That much is not in dispute - Zimmerman and his lawyer admit it. It's a scandal, but not for the reasons most of the media are telling you.
The government claims that the Bill for housing benefit is out of control and is introducing major cuts. Eileen Short examines the myths that surround housing benefit and looks at the impact that the cuts will have.
The great potential of the 30 November strike is in danger of being frittered away after unions called off national strikes on 28 March. Martin Smith looks at why the pensions fight has hit a roadblock and how we can restart the fightback
Calls for intervention in Iran seem to echo those in the lead up to the attack on Iraq in 2003. Ali Alizadeh asks whether history is about to replay itself and what is the state of resistance inside Iran today?
The fascist British National Party is nearing collapse, while the racist English Defence League has been contained by successful anti-fascist mobilisations - but the climate in society means they are very likely to regroup. Tash Shifrin looks at shifting alliances among Britain's far right.
In this article from 1986, Duncan Hallas takes up the argument that the American working class has been historically immune to socialist ideas. One of the most important developments over the last year has been the revival of radical movements in the US. The uprising in Wisconsin, the Occupy movement, the Oakland shutdown and now the protests over the killing of Trayvon Martin (see Jonathan Neale in this issue of Socialist Review) all point to a new mood. American workers have long presented an enigma for socialists. Why has the most powerful working class in the world never been able to create even a mass Labour-type party (the Democratic Party has always been a purely capitalist party). Hallas explains how the conditions of American capitalism initially acted to prevent the emergence of stable working class organisation and to limit the influence of socialist ideas, but argues this no longer applies.
The very public demotion of Bo Xilai, former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) boss of the south western province of Chongqing, marks the biggest public split among China's rulers since 1989. Then a split in the top leadership helped spark a major nationwide revolt from below, inspired by the students in Tiananmen Square, that culminated in troops gunning down protesters in Beijing.
Estelle Cooch and Jack Farmer spoke to Geoffrey Crothall from the China Labour Bulletin about workers' resistance in China.
