The murder by a white police officer of an unarmed 19-year-old black man was the spark which ignited the accumulated tinder of racism and poverty in Cincinnati last week. In the biggest “race riots” since […]
With support from the Democratic leadership, Congress passed the Bush education plan, which will require public schools to administer basic skills tests in math and reading to students in grades 3 to 8 by the […]
The collapse of the talks at the Hague has brought the issue of global warming back into the headlines. Mick Brooks looks at the reasons for the collapse of the talks, the failures of the […]
The horrific deaths of 58 Chinese migrants found in Dover, revealed to the world the monstrous effects of Britain’s immigration regime. By making it virtually impossible for refugees and migrants to enter this country legally, […]
The only surviving member of the 1985 bombing of the MOVE house by the polce tells her side of the story. The police bombed their home and murdered innocent men, men women and children, yet […]
The state-sanctioned murder of Shaka Sankofa (a.k.a. Gary Graham) once again raised the issue of the death penalty in the public eye. Rob Sewell takes a look at the death penalty and police brutality in […]
"According to the defenders of capitalism and the "free market", socialism in general and marxism in particular is all but dead and buried. However it may be instructive to examine one of the main environmental […]
This document outlines the first steps given by Marxism to fight for women’s rights, what the first successful revolution meant for the emancipation of women, conditions of women under capitalism both in advanced and Third […]
John Peterson interviews Pakistani activist and author Lal Khan for New Youth Magazine, the forerunner to Socialist Appeal.
We reproduce here an article from 1988 which examines the position of women in the former USSR.
Lal Khan talks about the reasons for the recent resurgence of fundamentalism around the world.