Editorial: Socialism needed to save humanity

Lessons of the murder of Stephen Lawrence

Police racism can no more be abolished under capitalism than can racism generally – it is a vital weapon in the bourgeois armoury of divide-and-rule tactics that keep the working class weak and impotent.

Disbanding of the Gibson inquiry

The government has announced that the plug is to be pulled on the Gibson inquiry into Britain’s role in the kidnap, transfer across borders and torture of terror suspects over the past decade.

Release of 1981 Cabinet papers

Lessons to be learnt and questions raised.

Police report recommends extreme measures against protestors

As the crisis of capitalism deepens and the anger of the masses grows, the naked force of capitalist rule is ever more starkly revealed.

Korean communists determined to maintain socialist road

Syria: Assad looks East

The Syrian president has reasserted his government’s anti-imperialist credentials and his people’s determination maintain their dignity and independence.

Libya: green flag raised in Bani Walid

The green resistance forces are regrouping, while the imperialist stooges fight amongst themselves.

The genesis and development of modern finance capital

Translated from Henri Houben’s La Crise de Trente Ans, Chapter 10, with thanks.

Sean Garland wins extradition fight

But veteran Irish politician may yet face trial at home on trumped up anti-DPRK charges.

Egypt: the masses are still in Tahrir Square