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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in the UK , photo Paul Mattsson
7 March 2013
Hugo Chavez dies but the struggle continues
Redouble efforts to fight for socialism - revolutionary and democratic: Millions of Venezuelan workers, the poor and youth will mourn the death of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez on Tuesday 5 March, writes Tony Saunois, CWI secretary.
23 January 2013
Les Miserables is a first class film. The momentum never stops and there are some fantastic performances by Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Anne Hathaway as Fantine and Russell Crowe as Javert, writes Derek McMillan.
14 January 2013
Anti-capitalist movement and the programme
The SWP's increasingly opportunist turn in this century has been accompanied by an exaggeration of the importance and the scale of practically every social movement that has taken place in the last decade...
14 January 2013
The SWP today finds its ideological roots in post-1945 British Trotskyism, which split into three main trends...
28 November 2012
Egypt: Mursi power grab provokes mass protests
Build a united front of workers and poor for 'second revolution': The declaration of sweeping new political powers by Egypt's president Mursi has provoked a violent backlash, leaving two dead and hundreds injured, and further polarised society along pro- and anti-Mursi lines...
Che Guevara, photo Alberto Korda
14 November 2012
Che Guevara - Symbol of fashion or symbol of struggle?
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is perhaps the most recognisable revolutionary icon, his image having graced countless posters and t-shirts, writes Tom Baldwin, South West Socialist Party.
Leon Trotsky reading The Militant newspaper in 1931
29 August 2012
Leon Trotsky: A revolutionary's life
Book review: The 72nd anniversary of the assassination of the great Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was commemorated even within Britain's capitalist press...
11 July 2012
Egypt: Will Mursi's presidential election victory bring real change?
A week after Egypt's new president - Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood - took office, a dramatic confrontation with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) erupted
20 June 2012
Egypt's military instigates a 'soft coup'
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood stated the revolution is facing 'a life and death moment' after it claimed victory in presidential elections but now faces an attempt by the ruling military junta to impose a 'constitutional coup'
14 June 2012
In February 1917 in Russia, women textile workers in Petrograd went on strike and during subsequent days were joined by industrial workers across the city, small business people, students and many soldiers...
Photo Paul Mattsson
7 March 2012
International Women's Day 2012
For more than a century, 8 March has been the day to commemorate and celebrate the fight of working class and revolutionary women for a better deal and a socialist society, writes Remembering the struggles and victories of women workers.
7 March 2012
Revolution through Arab eyes - the Factory
Film review: David Johnson reviews a new documentary showing the history of struggle in the Middle East's largest factory...
Leon Trotsky reading The Militant newspaper in 1931
15 February 2012
Another attempt to assassinate the legacy of Leon Trotsky?
Condemnation of Leon Trotsky is well-trodden ground for so-called biographer Robert Service. Service was condemned by The American Historical Review (June 2011), which considered his 'biography' of Trotsky
Anti-government demonstrations during the 2010–2011 Tunisian uprising, photo Creative commons
1 February 2012
Interview: the Tunisian revolution one year on
"Revolution is a process, not a single act": 14 January marked the first anniversary of the downfall of the hated dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali by the Tunisian revolution
25 January 2012
Egypt - A year of revolution and counter-revolution
The 2011 revolutionary movements of young people, workers and the most downtrodden swept through north Africa and the Middle East and inspired social movements across the world...
4 January 2012
In this special new year feature, Peter Taaffe looks back at 2011, a year of crisis, struggle and revolution. This article is based on a statement prepared for the Committee for a Workers' International, the world socialist organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated.
7 December 2011
Goodbye Barcelona: The idea of a musical commemorating the epic Spanish civil war (1936-39), and inspired by the heroism of the International Brigades may appear incongruous, writes Tony Saunois.
30 November 2011
Egypt: Millions cast their votes in the first post-Mubarak elections
But military-controlled elections do not signal transition to democracy: Long queues formed at many polling stations, on 28 November, in Cairo and other Egyptian cities and towns, writes Niall Mulholland.
23 November 2011
Egyptian masses fight for real change
Thousands of activists have fought running battles with security forces for control of Tahrir Square, Cairo...
21 November 2011
Capitalism is crisis - there is an alternative - fight for socialism!
The titanic 30 November strike will display the colossal power of the working class to resist the savage cuts demanded by the capitalists and Con-Dems, writes Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party.
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