Reviews and comments
19 February 2020
Brilliant Korean film exposes class inequality
Cinema - Parasite: It's the rich who are the real parasites
12 February 2020
New BBC series - Insight or whitewash?
The BBC programme 'Universal Credit: inside the welfare state' is a series of three programmes on the highly criticised benefit system.
5 February 2020
Liverpool council: "No more cuts" - Is Joe Anderson serious?
Joe Anderson, Liverpool's elected mayor, has caused a publicity storm in the city by publicly announcing that he will refuse to make any more cuts at the behest of the Tory government.
29 January 2020
TV review: The Trial of Christine Keeler
Benjamin Disraeli, two-time Tory prime minister in the nineteenth century, once said: "A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy". The Christine Keeler story on BBC1 would seem to bear out that analysis.
22 January 2020
Robert Burns: of the people, for the people
Burns was 'just' a poor farmer and low-paid public sector worker - we celebrate the 18th century radical democrat
22 January 2020
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Labour leadership; pensions struggle; political policing; university stress
15 January 2020
Environmental journalist and campaigner George Monbiot recently narrated a thought-provoking documentary on Channel 4 - Apocalypse Cow.
15 January 2020
Sustainable food production and the need for socialism
Millions of predominately young people around the world protested in 2019 at the lack of governmental action to halt global warming which is leading to catastrophic climate change.
27 November 2019
Plymouth Blairites side with anti-tenant landlords
Labour's manifesto seems to have struck a chord with working-class people. It gives us hope that austerity may be coming to an end.
27 November 2019
The Socialist is running a debate. How can we end low pay and what minimum wage level should we be fighting for? In this issue, readers share their thoughts.
27 November 2019
The private sector will never provide broadband to every home, nationalisation will
I was really interested in your article on nationalising broadband.
20 November 2019
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Austerity kills, defend the CWU, no rape justice, disabled poor
13 November 2019
Theatre: On Bear Ridge - an examination of loss, set in a post-apocalyptic world
On Bear Ridge is the story of John Daniel (Rhys Ifans), his wife Noni (Rakie Ayola) and Ifan William (Sion Daniel Young), friend of the couple's dead son, and the trio's struggle to survive in a derelict butcher's and general store on a desolate mountain in Wales.
13 November 2019
Readers' opinion: Twitter's banning of political ads threatens workers' voice
On 30 October, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, announced in a tweet that Twitter plans "to stop all political advertising" on its platform. His apparent reasoning behind this was his belief that "political message reach should be earned, not bought."
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