Tory education secretary Michael Gove has set out to destroy progressive education. But he is meeting increasing resistance, and even falling out with some of his friends.
The government's plans to privatise education are mired in financial scandal and under pressure from campaigns by teaching staff, parents and local authorities.
The strike at STEM6 Academy in north London against zero hours contracts and for union recognition shows that if you get organised and fight hard you can win.
The battle over Scottish independence is heating up especially with signs the polls may be narrowing
Two events last month indicate the growing importance of socialist ideas and the working class vote within the independence debate. In Kirkcaldy, Fife, Tommy Sheridan, the former Socialist MSP, spoke to a meeting of over 200. In the space of a few weeks the video of the meeting has clocked up over 74,000 views (and...
Calls for a new social democracy in Scotland where workers and bosses cooperate ignores the reality of a class society
Thirty years on from the 1984-85 miners' strike most commentators, including many on the left, claim the power of the state made defeat inevitable. But Sheila McGregor argues we could have won but for betrayal by trade union officials and Labour leaders.
The notion that immigration is putting workers' wages under pressure is widely accepted even among some on the left. Yet this argument is both dangerous and wrong.
Socialist Review spoke to Weyman Bennett, joint secreatary of Unite Against Fascism, about the Stand Up to Racism demonstration on 22 March and challenging the scapegoating of migrants.
Fascist parties are once again proclaiming the anti-Semitic filth they have kept hidden for years. Rob Ferguson explains why they feel confident to do this now, how their ideolgy works, and how anti-racists and the left must respond to this growing threat.
Lenin described Nikolai Bukharin’s Imperialism and World Economy as essential to understanding not only the economic basis of imperialism, but also its political and social impact. The book, which was published at the height of the First World War, set out to prove that the war was not a “descent into madness”, or to halt...
Conflicting figures and competing forecasts for Britain make confusing reading for anyone trying to make sense of what is going on in the economy. In early autumn 2013 chancellor George Osborne was trumpeting economic recovery, but between October and November 2013 there was a sudden slump of output in construction, and manufacturing flatlined. By January...
