This morning, we visited the rather splendid Lviv office of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine.The office is in the House of Scientists, a stunning neo-baroque building that ...

When Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848, socialism had only begun to emerge as an ideology. The meaning of socialism, communism and related ideas were heavily contested and unfinished.

This week, a delegation of UK educators and union activists is visiting Ukraine in solidarity with educators in a country at war. Reports will be posted on this blog. This morning, we visited a ...

No film recommendation this week, but a moan about something that really gets on my nerves. I have just watched Child 44 (2015), a film based, very loosely, on the apprehension of Andrei Chikatila, a ...

Once you are a driver, there aren’t many things you can be promoted to that would keep you a driver. So for those with what the company would like to think of as “ambition” the option is becoming a ...

The Cabinet Office has announced that civil servants must spend 60% of their working time in the office, irrespective of the nature of their work, their personal circumstances and preferences, and ...

Last week’s Socialist Worker rejects the Taiwanese people’s right to self-determination. In an article headed “Analysis: US and China draw battle lines in Taiwan”, Thomas Foster offers a veneer of ...

A new open letter signed by 2,000 Israeli citizens, some living in Israel, others abroad, calls for intensified international pressure on Israel. The letter’s authors are undoubtedly motivated by ...

I agree wih the thrust of Hein Htet Kyaw’s article in Solidarity 722, but I think the section on the sectarian religious film Lady of Heaven may mislead readers. Hein says that the push to adopt ...

This is the second of our blog posts reporting from the solidarity delegation to Lviv in Ukraine. On Thursday afternoon, we visited a secondary school, Lyceum no.83. We were shown around the school by ...

On Thursday, 24 October, Magdalena Biejat, former co-leader of the left-wing Razem party in Poland, announced on Instagram: “We are leaving Razem today… You can guess it was a difficult and painful ...

On 28 October, the Israeli parliament passed new laws severely restricting the ability of Unrwa, the United Nations agency responsible for supporting Palestinian refugees, to operate. The laws ban ...