Climate change: a global warning
[Workers Power Britain, May 2000]March 2000 was the fourth warmest March since accurate records began in 1880. April was the wettest this century. Now predictions are that this century mean temperature could rise by 8 degrees. What is going on?

Taking sides in the science wars
The class struggle is, as well as strikes and protests, a battle of ideas. And a battle is currently raging between post-modernist "radicals" and scientific defenders of the status quo. Jack Tully makes sense of the science wars that have gripped the USA, and argues that socialists must be at the forefront of a critical defence of science

Marxism versus postmodernism
[Trotskist International 24, 1997]If there is a late 20th century zeitgeist – a spirit of the age which pervades culture, academic thought and politics – it is to be found in the ideas grouped under the banner of postmodernism. A Marxist critique of postmodernism has to challenge its intellectual core and uncover its material roots.

Trotsky, revolution and culture
Geraldine Drayton and Warren Gropper review "Culture and revolution in the thought of Leon Trotsky"

Film and Freedom
An interview with socialist film-maker Ken Loach

London's millennium dome – a large corporate tent
The Millennium Dome is New Labour’s ideology projected into the soul-less space of a trade fair. It combines all the tacky insincerity of Blairism with all the shoddy showmanship of the UK private sector, writes Paul Morris.

Euro 2000; the money game
[Workers Power Britain June 2000]This month television screens across the continent will be dominated by Euro 2000. This footballing feast involves much more than just watching men kick a ball around.