“The string that ties the robbers bundle” The monarchy still does the ideological heavy lifting for the bourgeoisie, as this Spring’s two major Royal events have shown. The marriage of the Queen’s grandson William in April was a carnival of [...]
I got the text while I was at work. But my phone was off and I did not read it till 4.30 that afternoon. By then my 17 year old daughter, S, had been “kettled” for over three hours. She [...]
How to build a united mass movement is a key question for any successful resistance to the onslaught on jobs, wages and services, just as it is for the campaign against fascism or to get the troops out of Afghanistan. [...]
The outcome of the General Election may be looking less and less certain, but few are placing bets on New Labour winning a fourth term. With the media consensus that its, “time to give the opposition a chance”, there’s a [...]
On BBC 2’s Question Time at the end of April, right wing historian and media pundit David Starkey raged against British police. He complained about their increasingly paramilitary style and hostile behaviour towards those they are meant to serve. Watching [...]
1917 to 1924 in revolutionary Russia were years of war, famine and hardship followed by reconstruction. They also yielded a rich seam of artistic activity. A cultural avant garde emerged with an influence on western art, photography, theatre, cinema, architecture, [...]
Two soldiers and a police officer were shot dead by republican groups in the space of 28 hours in early March, in the North of Ireland. This followed a period of less successful attempts to regenerate the “armed struggle”, otherwise [...]
England People Very Nice by Richard Bean at the National Theatre, London. Tickets £10-20. Running till the end of April. Reviewed by Piers Mostyn This three hour play about the history of Bethnal Green as seen through its successive migrant [...]
The Credit Crunch: housing bubbles, globalisation and the worldwide economic crisis by Graham Turner (Pluto 2008) £14.99 Piers Mostyn’s review will appear in issue 4 of Socialist Resistance magazine. At any time there would be a crying need for a [...]
Piers Mostyn looks at the bloody truth behind the creation of the Israeli State and its legacy of war, racism, ecological devestation, national oppression and poverty. This article will be in the next issue of Socialist Resistance. On the 14th [...]
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