In 2007, four trade unionists from different UNISON branches were publicly and unjustly accused of racism. Yet all were committed anti-racists and led well-run union branches.
Why would a trade union turn against its own activists? All four are well-known members of the Socialist Party. But this provides only part of the explanation; the bureaucracy was also driven by a desire to make the union safe for its full-time machine, and safe for the Labour Party.
This book tells the story of the ultimately victorious campaign and legal challenge that cleared them of all charges, and which exposed the true nature of UNISON’s bureaucracy.

July/August Issue

Includes articles on:
The Great Imperialist Slaighter
100 years since world war one
The Bolsheviks and the war
New article by Trotsky
Class war in Britain

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This small pamphlet vividly relates the drama of a five-day, unofficial strike in the Italian city of Genoa in November 2013 - how it was prepared, how it was fought and what it achieved. The process of privatisation and job destruction in public services was resisted and brought to a halt, in spite of politicians and trade union leaders who said such things were inevitable. Of course, this is not the end of the story. Many more battles impend in Genoa and across Italy before a generalised struggle to usher in a socialist society develops.

Members of ControCorrente, the organisation in Italy affiliated to the Committee for a Workers’ International, played an important role in developing this struggle, pointing to importance of leadership and democratic discussion in building the determination and fighting capacity of workers.

December/January 2014/15 issue

Includes articles on:
World Economy: The Great Stagnation
In defence of TUSC
Caste and class
US midterms
Catalonia

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This book is the result of a discussion between Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party in England and Wales, and a member of the International Secretariat of the Committee for a Workers' International, and an Italian Marxist, Yurii Colombo.

It tackles head on vital contemporary issues: war, including the Lebanese conflict, the future of Israel/Palestine, the environment, China and its future, economic prospects for world capitalism and many more controversial issues. This provides a vital Marxist analysis for all those who wish to understand how Marxism can affect the worldwide ideological struggle between capitalism and socialism and lay the basis for a new world of human solidarity.

2nd edition with a new 8-page introduction dealing with new developments since Marxism in Today's World was first published in 2006.

Read the review in the Socialist no.800