Egypt: SCAF face defeat; the Brotherhood face a crisis
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has to be overthrown and the Muslim Brotherhood are no longer welcome in Tahrir. Read more
Welfare ‘reform’ and the regime of fear
Creating a climate of fear that intimidates all working class people is the real intention of the Welfare Reform Bill argues Neil Faulkner. Read more
We can stop this nasty, weak government
The Tories are crowing over their opinion poll lead and claiming majority support for cuts. But the left shouldn’t believe the hype, argues Adrian Cousins. Read more
The Crusades series: justifying new wars?
Elaine Graham-Leigh argues that the BBC's The Crusades repeats the ideological justifications for the war on terror. Read more
Tweets from Tahrir
Nadine El-Hadi reviews Tweets from Tahrir, documenting the thoughts and emotions of key activists during the 18 days of revolutionary upheaval in Egypt one year ago. Read more
Don't attack Iran
 UK media peddles myths to support the case for war on IranThere is no more evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons than there was for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction but that hasn't stopped the media stoking the flames of war. Iran | News UnSpun | Friday, 27 January 2012 |
News & Comment
Wincanton drivers strikeUnionNews reports on the start of seven days of strike action by more than 120 fuel haulage drivers in a campaign of ind... |
Comment: Social media and freedom of speech in universitiesOn Saturday 21st January 2012 the following email was sent to all students at the University of East Anglia (UEA): ... |
Video: Plymouth police harrass pensioner in Pickles protestPolice accuse a pensioner opposed to a new incinerator of "causing a breach of the peace" for attempting to deliver a le... |
Not just the usual suspects: Unison and GMB leaders attack Labour’s cuts capitulationThe acceptance of Tory cuts and the suggestion that Labour will support the pay freeze and even pay cuts has caused eve... |
Video
 Video: Speeches from protest against sanctions and war on IranSpeeches by Tony Benn, John Rees and Andrew Murray at today's Stop the War Coalition protest at the US embassy called to oppose the growing threat of military a... Video | Dan Poulton | Saturday, 28 January 2012 |
International
 The anniversary SCAF didn't want us to reportThe anniversary SCAF didn’t want John Rees and Joseph Daher report on a historic day in Cairo. International | John Rees and Joseph Daher | Wednesday, 25 January 2012 |
Marxist History Series
 A Marxist History of the World part 59: The Franco-Prussian WarIn this week's chapter of the Marxist History series Neil Faulkner looks at how Germany’s ruling elite brought about a bourgeois revolution ‘from above’. A Marxist History of The World | Neil Faulkner | Monday, 23 January 2012 |
Theory
 Climate change movements: Where are we going?Since 2009, the climate change movement has been losing momentum. But failure should not be taken as the whole story of Copenhagen and its aftermath, argues Ela... Climate change | | Tuesday, 24 January 2012 |
Book Reviews
 Howard Zinn: On WarThis collection ranks as one of the great denunciations of war. Above all it takes the notion of ‘good’ or ‘humanitarian’ military intervention to pieces. It ... Book Reviews | | Thursday, 19 January 2012 |
Opinion
 You're fired!Education secretary Michael Gove is proposing to introduce measures to make it easier to sack teachers - Alastair Stephens argues its represents a worrying tren... Opinion | Alastair Stephens | Wednesday, 25 January 2012 |
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The People Demand: A short history of the Arab revolutions
By John Rees and Joseph Daher
Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
By John Rees
Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukacs
By Chris Nineham