A festival of sporting genius, or an incitement to chauvinism? James Turley looks at the contradictions of the football extravaganza. The world’s eyes are on South Africa - and not because of Aids epidemics or the legacy of apartheid. The French nation is locked in mutual recrimination, the English narrowly avoiding the same fate by hanging ...
Dave Isaacson condemns leading SWP members who continually undermine and sabotage attempts to forge rank and file organisation There was one significant omission in Jim Moody’s article on the sell-out of the postal strike by the Communication Workers Union leadership, which allowed CWU president Jane Loftus to come out of it looking rather good, when actually ...
This report is from this week's Socialist Worker: Students at the University of St Andrews protested on Friday of last week against the closure of Fife Park, one of the university’s two budget halls. The protest highlighted the lack of affordable accommodation in the town. The campaign is winning widespread support with over 1,000 students signing a petition ...