Comment & Analysis

Over 100,000 workers, youth and others exploited by capitalism are expected to attend the 2005 World Social Forum (WSF) in Porte Allegre, Brazil between 26-31 January.

When most of the world’s mass media is firmly "embedded" into the thinking of governments and the big business interests that lie behind them, the publication of a collection of some of the greatest pieces […]

What forms revolutionaries? Maybe they are not so different to everyone else but are the ones who realise first that something has to be done. They are the ones who can’t just shrug their shoulders […]

The price of oil has surged during 2004, after a period of relatively low prices.

The sluggish world economy is being dragged along by two coupled locomotives, with US capitalism at the head of the train and with China as a key auxiliary.

Before the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, an accident or illness could be a catastrophe for working class people.

A ’black gold’ rush is in full swing.

Finance Ministers and central bank chiefs from the seven richest imperialist states, the G7, meet in Washington at the start of October.