Monday, 07 January 2013 09:31
The markets were celebrating the last minute deal to avoid the 'fiscal cliff' but American workers have been betrayed by Obama writes Sean Ledwith
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A novel by Roger Smith, which has gathered praise, disappoints with its misogyny and many failures of both politics and craft
Historian Neil Faulkner concludes 
The gang rape of a young woman – who later died from her injuries – led to widespread protests across India. Lindsey German puts the assault in context
The actions of one principled young US soldier, Bradley Manning, have embarrassed and enraged the most powerful nation on earth
After half a century of stable, even boring, politics Japan has entered a more unpredictable era - with an emerging space for the growth of a new left
Obama promises 'meaningful action' but can we expect change from a politician who sheds tears for American children whilst killing their counterparts in Afghanistan?
Britain is speeding up withdrawal from the failed Afghanistan war to support new interventions in Syria and Iran argues Robin Beste
There are calls for banking reform from within the financial sector, why are there no calls from within government and the industry for the break-up of media empires asks Des Freedman?
Four years after the beginning of the crisis, the neoliberal elite is trapped by the contradictions of the system on which its wealth depends, writes Neil Faulkner
István Mészáros’ updated study of Sartre is a valuable exploration of the political implications of that great philosopher’s commitments and ideas
Neil Faulkner looks at the revolutionary history of Christmas
The financial crisis represents the end of an era in which greed and casino-madness had been given free rein by market deregulation and rising debt
Gove wants the deregulation of education and the increased privatisation of schools writes John Westmoreland
George Osborne has announced real-terms cuts in benefits. The attack on welfare is an act of class war, argues Adam Tomes
As Assad's regime faces defeat, the prospects of western military intervention increase day by day argues Lindsey German
The current weakness of American imperialism has provoked much new debate, but we still need Lenin and Trotsky, argues William Booth
The failure of the NUS leadership to build student protests has led to calls from some activists to break up the NUS and create alternative structures – a mistake argues James Meadway
With the world’s biggest economy teetering over a ‘fiscal cliff’, Sean Ledwith explains the current anxieties in the American ruling class
Chris Bambery provides some useful historical context to the latest bout of unrest in Belfast
The Al-Qaida terror attacks allowed the great powers to justify new imperialist wars to safeguard the interests of global capital, writes Neil Faulkner
Saturday 22 June 2013
9:30am – 5pm
Central Hall Westminster
Books
How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women
By Lindsey German
A Marxist History of the World
From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
By Neil Faulkner
The People V Tony Blair
Politics, the Media and the Anti-War Movement
By Chris Nineham
Timelines
A Political History of the Modern World
By John Rees
A People's History of London
By Lindsey German and John Rees
Counterfire Books
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
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