A study released earlier this year made the headline-grabbing claim that 5 percent of students are sex workers. The Student Sex Work Project, based at Swansea University, was set up to explore the specific experiences of student sex workers and review support networks and advice centres inside Higher Education. The study has reignited debates around...
An argument has developed on the left regarding the effectiveness of so-called “A to B marches”. A critique, articulated by some activists on the left, argues that the cycle of annual anti-austerity demonstrations has failed, and counterposes “more radical” actions, such as occupations, direct action and community organising. Why has this developed? The past five...
The Tories' election victory has provoked moves towards 'doing politics differently'. Shaun Doherty stresses how workers' confidence to fight back lies in industrial struggle.
Today when the working class is under sustained attack from the Tories, John Newsinger's new book on the class war in Britain is timely. Here he picks out the lessons from the explosive year of 1911.
As the debate over European Union membership heats up, Joseph Choonara argues that socialists should argue for a left wing No vote, despite the right wing dominating the campaign for a "Brexit".
In the late 1960s the Black Panthers and the early gay liberation movement fought against different forms of oppression. But, as Noel Halifax explains, they could find common ground.
Socialist Review spoke to Ewa Jasiewicz and Rafel Sanchis of the Unite Hotel Workers Branch about organising in the hospitality industry
The pioneer of psychiatry began as an advocate of the oppressed, documenting the effects of trauma on mental health. But he soon switched sides to justify the status quo, writes Susan Rosenthal.
People from a fishing village in Aceh organised a dramatic rescue to save hundreds of migrants who were in peril off Indonesia after they were shunned by navies in the region. The refugees, who are from a Muslim minority, are fleeing persecution in Myanmar and Bangladesh. The Thai navy threatened to open fire on their...
The National Gallery in London has sacked leading PCS public service workers’ union rep Candy Udwin in a bitter fight over privatisation. National Gallery bosses wanted to privatise 400 out of 600 jobs as part of its plans for the gallery. In response the PCS union launched a campaign of strike action that won a...
The Egyptian state has once again arrested Mahienour el-Massry. Mahienour, along with renowned revolutionary Youssef Shaaban and six others, has been charged with storming the al-Raml police station in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria in March 2013. On the day a small group of demonstrators staged a protest outside the trial of policemen accused of...
The Coalition campaign to destroy the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has failed to dent the Islamist movement. Despite thousands of bombing missions by Western warplanes, the Iraqi army and its Syrian counterpart continue to retreat in the face of a few hundred determined fighters. The Coalition and its allies promised earlier this...
