By Jacinta Chavulak, Socialist Party
In her book Living Dolls, Natasha Walter paints a horrifying picture of Britain’s sex culture. The book explores the modern reality of sex in our everyday lives and explains that sexism is worse now than ever before.
Walter begins her book by examining children’s toys. She looks at the difference between [...]

Post-hardcore band Enter Shikari’s latest album is fuelled with discontent about the current political situation in Britain and around the world. “Common Dreads” demands that all ordinary people unite against the system, and correctly states that we will never win divided.
“Common Dreads” is only the band’s second album but it contains not only musical maturity [...]

Blackwater: The rise of the world’s most powerful mercenary army
The new year began with a US court throwing out a case against five Blackwater guards accused of killing between 14 and 17 Iraqis in the infamous 14 September 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad. Witnesses allege that they fired indiscriminately when the convoy they were [...]

“Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil”
Karl Marx likened capitalism to a vampire which lives and expands by sucking “living labour” from the worker by extracting “surplus value”, “unpaid labour”.
But that is while the worker lives. Now we learn through Michael Moore, the US radical film-maker, that the biggest vampire, Wal-Mart - [...]

Review of Jeyakumar Devaraj’s “Malaysia at the Crossroads, a Socialist Perspective” by Peter Taaffe
Jeyakumar Devaraj, member of the Central Committee of Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) and Member of Parliament for Sungai Siput, published a book on perspectives for Malaysia in August 2009. Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales) [...]

Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara; revolutionary, Marxist and doctor. Together with Fidel Castro, he waged war against Cuban capitalism, and overthrew it, during the Cuban revolution of 1959. Che: Part One explores this inspiring tale of struggle.
By Jacinta Chavulak, Socialist Party

A ‘dis-Service’ to Leon Trotsky
This book is very thick – running to 600 pages – but is very thin when it comes to an honest political examination and analysis of the ideas of Leon Trotsky, the subject of Service’s tome. His justification? That this book is, allegedly, the first “full-length biography of Trotsky written by [...]

I come from a Labor voting family in Preston (Melbourne). In our house the rights of workers and social justice are things we always talk about. The problem is that Labor doesn’t actually represent ordinary people anymore. They are a big business party and just another cog in the capitalist machine.
By Joel Simmons, Socialist [...]

Unlike Land and Freedom or The Wind that Shakes the Barley, the latest Ken Loach film Looking for Eric is not an ‘in your face’ political movie. Nevertheless socialist values – the power of truth and collectivism over lies and individualism – shine throughout this wonderful tale.
Reviewed by Stephen Jolly , Socialist Party

The latest offering from Anti-Flag at first seems like a bit of a trip down memory lane for the band. Quite a few of the songs are rougher and shorter than their previous album and sound more like their albums from around 10 years ago.
Reviewed by Iain Dalton, Socialist Party