The United States of America is the greatest capitalist economy in the world.  What does capitalism bring?  Does it bring better standards of living?  Does it bring happiness?  Does it bring justice and fairness?  Those questions have been answered elsewhere, but the short answer is ‘no’.  But one thing it definitely does not bring is equality of income and wealth.

Today is May Day – International Workers Day.  Mick Brooks looks at the origins and traditions of May Day and why it matters.

One the events board are just some of the events taking place today and over the weekend to celebrate May Day. In London workers will be assembling at 11.30 at Clerkenwell Green to march to Trafalgar Square – see you there!

The workers and poor of South Africa voted massively for an ANC that had
been purged of its right wing. Now that the ANC is once more in office,
the bourgeois – having failed to stop this – are putting enormous
pressure on its leaders to steer away from any radical pro-worker
policies. What is required is a struggle within the South African
labour movement to anchor its organisations to genuine socialist
policies. David van Wyk  in South Africa looks at the election results and what they mean for the working class.