A hundred years on from the foundation of the Bolshevik party in Russia, Julie Sherry looks at the debates behind its decision to go it alone and build a revolutionary organisation

The Cork Branch of the Socialist Workers Party was deeply saddened to learn of the
death this week of our Comrade, the Socialist and Trade Unionist Jim Blake.

Francis Fukuyama came to prominence nearly two decades ago with his book The End of History and the Last Man.

Colin Barker looks at what makes a revolutionary situation—those moments in history when everything seems possible—and what shapes their outcome

In the wake of the English riots, Art Historian, John Molyneux, exposes the ruling class as the real source of violence in capitalist society.

Global capitalism is in its biggest crisis since the 1930’s, the ruling classes in Europe are struggling to maintain their European project and uprisings and riots have spread from the Arab world to S

Global capitalism is in its biggest crisis since the 1930’s, the ruling classes in Europe are struggling to maintain their European project and uprisings and riots have spread from the Arab world to S

Pat Stack makes the case for revolutionary Marxism rather than anarchism as the way of bringing about a better society

James O’Toole reviews Marxist critical literary theorist Terry Eagleton’s new book, Why Marx was right?, published by Yale University Press.

Tony Cliff, founder of what became the Socialist Workers Party, was a tireless fighter for socialism – here Ian Birchall, author of a new biography of Cliff, tells his story