Panos Garganas of the Greek Socialist Workers Party told Patrick Ward how resistance to austerity became a rebellion

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

In late June the Irish Ship to Gaza will set sail along with a dozen or so other ships from across the globe as part of Freedom Flotilla 2. The Flotilla is an international effort to undermine the stranglehold that the Israeli state continues to force upon the 1.5 million Palestinian people that reside in Gaza.

The Saville Report’s recognition that all of the 13 Bloody Sunday dead and 13 wounded had been innocent unarmed civilians sparked an eruption of joy in Derry. The sea of shining faces gathered in Guildhall Square on 15 June 2010 could have lit up a continent. This was the acknowledgement which the Bloody Sunday families and their supporters had craved throughout their long trek towards the truth, and it was sufficient unto the day.

Egyptian socialist Sameh Naguib looks at the role of Islamists in the Egyptian Revolution

THREATENED BY defections in the armed forces and the resilience of the revolutionary movement, the Syrian state is moving to crush the popular movement with mass slaughter, raising the specter of a civil war.

MILITANT STRUGGLE returned to Madison's Capitol Square June 6 in the form of a brief occupation and direct action. The protest--which came three months after the last mass labor demonstration against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union legislation--was inspired by mass occupations in Spain. Over the weekend, activists began a tent city named "Walkerville" as a base camp for fighting Walker's austerity budget, which is under consideration in the state legislature this week. Walkerville quickly became the stage for escalating direct action campaigns.

The lid has been temporarily lifted on the murky, disturbing and hidden world of the Irish ruling class. More than 1,900 US embassy cables have been made public to the Irish people by Wikileaks: they are being called ‘the Ireland cables’. What some of the cables reveal is the scandalous behaviour of the Irish political establishment on issues ranging from secret rendition flights from Shannon, to the remarkable levels of gross incompetence in the way the government dealt with the economic crisis.

Women’s oppression and violence against women are features of our society. But can we get rid of them? Sadie Robinson looks at the roots of sexism and offers some answers

In many ways the Greek Left has a stronger and more vibrant tradition than Ireland.Athens has much left wing graffiti; there are stalls for Afghan asylum seekers and regular, large protests in front of the Greek parliament. This explains why the country has experienced eleven general strikes in the past 12 months.