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Why is Trump bringing the war back home?
Does colonial violence abroad return home?
01 February 2026
Teach Yourself Marxism
What are the roots of racism?
Racism is not natural or inevitable, so how did it arise?
26 September 2025
Comment
Why Robert Jenrick is wrong about the British Empire
There is no 'debt of gratitude'
30 October 2024
In Depth
Labour and its Indian independence myth
What were the real reasons why the Labour government decided to grant independence to India in 1947?
20 July 2024
News
Climate change solutions must resist colonialism
Solutions to climate change must confront the system
16 June 2024
Palestine & Middle East
Colonialism dehumanises Palestinians
One Israeli equals 50 or more Palestinians.
10 June 2024
In Depth
The crisis of Israeli settler colonialism
There are fragilities in the Israeli state
10 March 2024
In Depth
A bloody history of settler colonialism
Israel state borrowed racist tactics
23 February 2024
Reviews & Culture
Film Round-Up: The brutality of settler colonialism laid bare in new film
Plus a review of Poor Things
05 February 2024
In Depth
Britain’s brutal history of colonial conquest in Yemen
Historian John Newsinger writes
14 January 2024
News
Banks and states plunder half a trillion dollars from Global South
Debt flows from legacy of colonialism
19 December 2023
In Depth
The Nakba 75 years on ‘The injustice will not last’
Palestinian women speak to Socialist Worker
06 May 2023
Comment
Who should pay for Britain’s part in the slave trade?
Did everyone in Britain benefit?
24 March 2023
In Depth
Who would live in a house like this?
40 bedroom London mansion is for sale
03 March 2023
In Depth
Are progressive values only found in the West?
Should "culture" be a barrier to change?
19 November 2022
News
Empire and colonialism—the brutality of monarchy
Royals oversaw the brutality of empire
13 September 2022
In Depth
Indian liberation was won through ferment of revolt
How ordinary people won Indian independence
08 August 2022
In Depth
A general strike that helped India win freedom
Workers fought back
08 July 2022
Comment
Can the Sri Lankan revolt overcome ethnic divisions?
Joint struggle can create unity
12 May 2022
In Depth
Uncommon Wealth—the toxic legacy of empire
Detailing the impact of empire
16 April 2022
The SW View
Britain—leave Chagos now
Some Chagossian islanders returned without British supervision
15 February 2022
Comment
Destruction from the air in British-ruled Somaliland
A crime of British empire
30 January 2022
Background Check
British troops murder, burn and kidnap in Kenya
The British Army commits brutal crimes in Kenya
08 November 2021
Socialist Review Archive
Toussaint L’Ouverture: The Gilded African
Locked in an Alpine castle, Toussaint L'Ouverture died in April 1803 having led the slave insurrection of Saint-Domingue and challenged French domination of the Caribbean.
01 February 2010
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