Interview with Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today and member of the International Secretariat of the CWI (Committee for a Workers’ International): Economy - Is the worst over?

150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin’s theory of ‘natural selection’ changed the way that we look at ourselves. It contradicted the idea of an outside ‘intelligent designer’, so it met a reaction from the religious establishment that still exists in part today. Some schools, particularly in the US, are [...]

On the 20th anniversary of 1989…
When the Berlin wall was dismantled in 1989 and Stalinist regimes came crashing down, capitalism declared itself victorious. The collapse of Stalinism was used in a global ideological offensive against socialism, which was unjustly equated with that dictatorial, bureaucratic system, to drive through brutal, neo-liberal capitalist policies worldwide. In this [...]

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 [...]

What steps has humanity taken?
“That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong’s famous phrase marked the first human footstep on the moon. It is now 40 years since the historic achievement of Apollo 11 in 1969, but his words are still instantly recognisable to people of all generations.
By [...]

Seventy years ago, the major powers plunged humanity into the horror of world war.
By Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party England and Wales

This pamphlet by James Connolly has introduced millions of workers to the basic ideas of socialism. We are reprinting it so that workers and young people today can continue to read it and learn from its arguments. It is also available from in hard copy for only $2 from the SP National Office.

“Workers of the world unite!”
The famous slogan (above) appears in the 1848 Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels. In it they explained that the material interests of working people are essentially the same in all capitalist countries.
By Steve Score, Socialist Party

The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) was the bloodiest stage in the ten year-long Spanish revolution that began in 1931. As Hannah Sell explains below, Spain was a further confirmation of Leon Trotsky’s theory of ‘permanent revolution’, which was earlier borne out in the Russian workers’ socialist revolution of 1917.
By Hannah Sell, Socialist Party

The Tories’ £6 billion battle against the working class
Twenty five years ago the great miners’ strike of 1984-85 started. It was the longest lasting and most bitter industrial dispute of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. It had a huge impact on virtually every subsequent industrial and political development.
By George Bailey, [...]