Keith Spencer makes a case-study analysis of a 'Great Power' that was at the centre of the global financial whirlwind: Britain Read more...

Afghani prisoners are brutally tortured by British troops and the Afghan secret police on a daily basis, a new court case has revealed. Read more...

• No to all cuts coalitions!
• For a workers’ united front against the cuts!

The big story of the 2010 General Election is that millions of working class people voted for Labour to keep the Tories out. They succeeded in denying the Tories a majority – but they may not have stopped them from forming a government. Read more...

Anticapitalist - Workers Power candidate in South London fighting for defence of public services and for a new party Read more...

The resignation from the Socialist Workers Party of 42 members of the Left Platform, including leading figures such as Lindsey German and John Rees, delivers an important opportunity for SWP and Left Platform members alike to reconsider critical elements of their political tradition. Richard Brenner explains Read more...

Both Labour and the Tories are playing a game of smoke and mirrors with the electorate, covering up the huge cuts they will introduce in office argues Keith Spencer Read more...

The British SWP is in crisis with a faction fight, expulsions and a major dispute on tactics for the period ahead. Richard Brenner surveys the dispute and examines the linked issues of party democracy, the united front, industrial policy and the fight for a new workers’ party Read more...

Recent months have seen an increase in the number of homophobic attacks across the country. Alex Kelby and Jim Parker argue for a militant campaign of resistance Read more...