British imperialism

Two Muslim women protesting on Saturday 25 November in central London (Picture: Guy Smallman)
Features

Ex-Labour leader in Walsall says ‘Leave party. It has let you down’

Some 60 Labour Councillors have now left
02 December 2023
International

Fresh light on British murders in Afghanistan

SAS operatives killed people then covered up the truth
12 October 2023
News

Labour has backed Zionist terror for 100 years

The Labour left supported Israel even when the leadership didn't
11 October 2023
What We Think

Stop the march to a wider war over Ukraine

Drone assaults on Moscow and Kiev
30 May 2023
royals prince Charles
Features

Royal parasites on parade  

Coronation will cost millions
30 April 2023
News

Unions shouldn’t line up behind the West’s deadly arms race with China

Say no to Aukus pact
16 March 2023
Man with bicycle walks past a partially destroyed building in village of Novoselivka, near Chernihiv, in Ukraine
Features

Ukraine: Year one of a terrifying imperialist war

How imperialism turned Ukraine into a proxy war
20 February 2023
News

Britain says dead Afghan child is worth just £1,656

Is that the price of a child’s life?
15 November 2022
Soldiers from the SAS
The Troublemaker

Who sends supremacist messages wins in the SAS    

Troublemaker looks at the week's news
15 November 2022
Avtar Singh Jouhl
Obituaries

Avtar Singh Jouhl, 1937-2022

Avtar was a principled fighter all his life
17 October 2022
Long Reads

Legacy of Violence—A history of the British Empire review

True and brutal history of Britain
05 October 2022
The British royal family.
News

Now abolish the monarchy

We don't need the royals
12 September 2022
Shamima Begum taken be a Candaian spy to join Islamic state
The Troublemaker

You only scoop twice—how media discovered a spy again

Troublemaker looks at the week's news
06 September 2022
Features

British state racism led to millions of famine deaths

Crimes of the British Empire
25 July 2022
Reviews & Culture

Born in Blackness—Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World by Howard W French review

Putting Africa centre-stage
01 June 2022
Russians protest: Night time demonstration shows scores of people in cold weather clothing.
International

Russian socialists on Ukraine anti-war protests and turning resistance into class war

More oppose war than in 2014
26 February 2022
Vladimir Putin with Russian flag and with finger raised
International

No to war in Ukraine as Russia launches invasion

Socialists must oppose Putin's move and any Nato escalation
24 February 2022
British troops in Poland
What We Think

Ukraine — it’s about more than who fired first shot

We oppose all imperialist aggressions
22 February 2022
Keir Starmer holds a meeting with General Jens Stoltenberg from Nato
News

Labour lies can’t hide true history of Nato

Starmer throws weight behind imperialism
15 February 2022
Socialist Review Archive

1919: Britain’s forgotten war on Russia

As celebrations commenced at the signing of the General Armistice that ended the First World War, the British army, among others, decided to continue hostilities, this time against the new Soviet Republic of Russia. Steve Guy tells the story of this shady episode in British history.
04 December 2019
Socialist Review Archive

Trinidad 1919: A glimpse of liberation

Returning soldiers and sailors became the driving force behind a series of mass strikes that, says Christian Høgsbjerg, created a ‘social volcano’.
05 November 2019
Socialist Review Archive

The day the Zulus beat the British Empire

The Zulu victory over British forces at Isandlwana in southern Africa 140 years ago profoundly shocked a Victorian society ideologically bound to the notion of white superiority over black "barbarism". Barry Conway explains why the victory should be celebrated by every socialist.
04 January 2019
Socialist Review Archive

100 years of RAF bombing

This year the establishment has been celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Royal Air Force. All very well if you enjoy celebrating colonialism made cheaper and more deadly.
03 September 2018
Socialist Review Archive

Regime change in Iran: yesterday and tomorrow

President Donald Trump is ratcheting up the pressure against Iran, as well as elsewhere. Indeed, his election campaign was fought partly on the “bad deal” that was struck over Iran and nuclear weapons. Now he has pulled out of the deal and is putting pressure on others to do the same. In order to understand...
04 June 2018