Politicians should not use the Norway attacks to drag the idea of multicultural failure into mainstream acceptability, write Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin in this excellent piece at Comment is Free.

What motivated Anders Behring Breivik to kill over 90 people in Norway? His actions can only be understood in the context of rising Islamophobia and the far right, argues Dave Stockton

With Greece on the verge of default the crisis is set to deepen, writes Simon Hardy and Richard Brenner. The Eurozone is in serious trouble with Spain and Italy sinking deeper into debt

Greece is in a prolonged pre-revolutionary crisis. Dave Stockton points to how it can be resolved

By Simon Hardy The year 2011 is a year of revolution. Uprisings sweep across the Middle East as rebellion against kings and dictators move from one country to another. And in Europe the crisis is spreading upheaval from Greece to Spain and beyond. This article looks at another “mad year” and ask what lessons the […]

Darren Cogavin reports on the recent violence in Northern Ireland as Loyalist gangs cause havoc in Catholic areas

Mass anger has again hit the streets of Athens in a general strike against the austerity measures killing the country. John Bowman reports for socialistrevolution.org

The neo-liberal drive to cut taxation on the rich and strip away public services in favour of private provision has massively reduced the ability of states to raise sufficient finance from their own capitalist and middle classes, while hugely expanding the role of capital markets and private investment in every sphere of life. So after […]

The Eurozone is in crisis, Richard Brenner explains the latest developments of the financial saga

The occupation of Madrid’s Puerta del Sol square, the Plaça de Catalunya, Barcelona, and those of other cities across Spain marks an important new development in the fight against the cuts across Europe, writes Dave Stockton

The arrest of Ratko Mladic exposes the connection between the war criminals of the former Yugoslavia and the western powers, writes, Marcus Halaby

Thousands of people have begun protests across Spain in the run up to the elections, a camp modelled on Tahrir square has been set up in Madrid’s city centre. So who are the protesters and what do they want?

Are the cuts about ideology or necessity? Many on the left have argued they have more to do with Tory politics than raw economic necessity, a case put forcefully by journalist and blogger Johann Hari. Richard Brenner puts forward an alternative perspective

The explosion that claimed the life of Omagh policeman Ronan Kerr does not further the struggle against British occupation in Ireland one jot, writes Bernie McAdam.

Hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets of 200 Italian cities on 13 February calling for “dignity” and greater rights for women, Rebecca Anderson

A new political situation has emerged in Ireland with real opportunities for the left to lead the anti cuts struggle. Bernie McAdam reports

UK Prime Minister David Cameron flew into Cairo after Hosni Mubarak was forced out, saying he wanted to be the first Western politician there since the revolution. He was flanked by British arms dealers on their way to the huge Idex weapons fair in Abu Dhabi. This was the latest episode in Britain’s bloody history […]

The European debt crisis is expanding, pitching country against country, with the major economies attempting to push recession onto the working class of economically weaker nations. With the system itself in crisis, governments aim to shift their debt burden by attacking jobs, pay and services at home, and dumping the worst of the crisis onto […]

Why have US workers never had a party of their own?

Originally published in Trotskyist International, no. 22, July-December 1997 Mark Abram reviews Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, by Jon Lee Anderson Bantam Press, London 1997, £25 The conditions for writing a biography of Ernesto “Che” Guevara have improved dramatically since 1989, though for reasons its subject would hardly have welcomed. The overthrow of the ruling […]

By Emile Gallet GRAINY BLACK and white film of Parisian students hurling rocks at the police; crowds choking on clouds of tear-gas. The passing of time lends romance to the media view of May ’68; a student insurrection which came out of nowhere and was essentially libertarian in its politics. The romance is tinged with […]

With important elements of dual power established across the country, the next weeks and months will be decisive for the outcome of the Portuguese revolution.

A balance sheet of the last decade must be the first step in the production of a revolutionary programme that can break with nationalism, economism and sectarianism.