Cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek offers a thought provoking analysis of how ideology embeds itself by structuring the way we react to the conditions of our daily lives
Post-revolutionary China needed rapid industrialisation to meet the demands of the middle class and compete with other capitalist states, but it was the workers and peasants who paid the price. Simon Gilbert continues our series on the revolution's sixtieth anniversary
In Killeen, Texas, the Under the Hood Cafe is getting military families and soldiers organised. Its founder, Cynthia Thomas, talks to Judith Orr
Migrant workers are no longer a marginal part of the workforce in Britain or simply a "reserve army of labour".
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, many on the left concluded that socialism had failed. Others of us saw these countries as state capitalist and an integral part of the world system. This theory has renewed relevance today
Big celebrations took place when US president Barack Obama announced that his administration had dropped plans to base a missile defence radar in the Czech Republic and anti-missile rockets in Poland.
This summer saw a sinister new development on the far right of British politics.
On the morning of 22 September French riot police razed a makeshift camp in Calais where mostly Afghan refugees were living as they waited to cross over to Britain.
The current bickering between the three major parties about cuts in public spending started with accusations being tossed between them over who was going to make the cuts and who wasn't. But now consensus has been reached.
Foreign secretary David Miliband wrote in the Guardian last month on the impending UN security council meeting on nuclear disarmament.
Our increasingly poverty-stricken MPs are having an apparently tough time keeping up with debt repayments.
In response to recent right wing attacks, workers are organising to put pressure on Hugo Chávez to deepen the revolution, reports Luke Stobart.
