Pakistan’s finance minister, Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, has an international reputation as a privatiser, writes Shehzad Arshad of the RSL. He…

Sudan’s Southern region is set to hold a referendum on 9 January, widely expected to result in a majority for…

The USA, its intelligence services and right-wing media such as Fox and Sky are waging a brutal world wide campaign…

World leaders failed the planet yet again in Cancún, Mexico when the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP16)…

In the summer of 1994, when I was visiting my Iraqi cousins in Baghdad, I told them the story of…

Eleven months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January 2010, the country is now suffering from an outbreak of…

The pure horror of the Sri Lankan government’s genocidal war against the Tamils in May 2009 has been released in…

The Government’s Green Paper on legal aid proposes a set of changes that will destroy this vital public service. The…

The European debt crisis is expanding, pitching country against country, with the major economies attempting to push recession onto the…

Unions are gearing up to defend public sector pensions in what could be a key battle with the Con-Dems in…

Teachers need on-the-job training, not proper education, according to the latest government white paper, The Importance of Teaching. Put forward…

The sheer breadth and depth of the cuts has angered hundreds of thousands. Activists across the country have responded with…

Well! In Unite’s leadership election, left-wing candidate Len McCluskey won with over 100,000 votes. Over 50,000 members voted for second-placed…

On 9 December thousands of students defied the law, passed by the last Labour government, to march into Parliament Square….

The youth movement REVOLUTION has played a leading role in the student protests by organising young people across the country…

Now that parliament has voted to increase tuition fees and abolish the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), the student movement needs…

Youth and students in Britain have run an astonishing campaign against cuts to education funding, tuition fee increases and the…

We staged a 24-hour “teach-in” on Wednesday 8 December in a form of protest against this coalition Government, which has…

The day after the mass student walkout on 24 November, the Daily Mail ran the headline, “The Rage of the…

2010 may well always be remembered for its last few weeks when hundreds of thousands of young people came onto…

Over 1000 Oxford students marched through Oxford protesting spending cuts and the Browne review. A student body noted for its…

Keith Spencer makes a case-study analysis of a ‘Great Power’ that was at the centre of the global financial whirlwind:…

Two years ago this month, the credit crisis erupted and the world banking system was moments from collapse. Governments carried…

The ConDem Cuts are part of an international offensive against working people. But how we can turn the tables on…

Our series on the lives and struggles of great revolutionary women continues with Marija Cubalevska’s look at the life of…

We continue our series on revolutionary women with a look at the great German socialist Clara Zetkin pioneer of the…

Helen Keller “Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!” Here we look…

The resignation from the Socialist Workers Party of 42 members of the Left Platform, including leading figures such as Lindsey…

Yevgenia Bosch This site begins a new series on revolutionary women to highlight their often forgotten role…

The UK economy has officially come out of recession. Unemployment has fallen for the first time in two years. Consumers…