Leicester was one of the turning points in the battle to stop the EDL. It was to be the first major UAF demo built locally, despite facing a national mobilisation by the fascists. At the time it represented an attempt to turn the EDL strategy on its head. Instead of them leaving behind local groups, UAF would use the opportunity to put down deep roots.
Paul Sillet, UAF national campaigner
The murder of an anti-fascist activist has galvanised the campaign to stop the Front National, but the strategy of the movement falls short of what is needed.
Socialist Review spoke to Petros Constantinou, an Athens councillor for the left wing Antarsya coalition and the national coordinator of the Movement Against Racism and the Fascist Threat (Keerfa) in Greece.
Healthcare under capitalism has always been a contest between the needs of workers and desires of capital, and now the National Health Service faces its biggest battle ever.
The Left Unity initiative has attracted significant interest and a founding conference is taking place at the end of November. Socialist Review invited Andrew Burgin, a supporter, to put the case for why the left needs a new party.
The new policy briefing on children's education by Michael Gove's top advisor is a justification for inequality
Can the working class in less developed countries lead a socialist revolution, even when it is not a majority in society? Leon Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution provides, under certain circumstances, a positive answer to this question. Trotsky’s theory was one of the great developments in Marxism. The birth of the theory of permanent revolution...
