The People's Assembly will be a focus for many wanting to see a fightback. Charlie Kimber argues this is welcome, but we need to address the role of trade union leaders and the Labour Party if we are to build a movement that can break the government and its savage austerity programme

Some commentators claim the attack on a soldier in Woolwich has nothing to do with the “war on terror”.
Ken Olende explains how the brutality of Western imperialism feeds bitterness, resentment and violence.

A brash new film version of the classic American novel, The Great Gatsby, struggles to be more than the sum of its spectacle, writes Josh Hollands