On Adrian Mitchell’s Answerphone

Alan Morrison: A polemical poet Jan Goodey meets poet Alan Morrison and explores his latest work on mental illness

Palestine’s wandering poet Mike Marqusee on Mahmoud Darwish, the poet of the Palestinian people

The message is not the medium Radical poetry just sloganises, argues BRIGG57. Good poetry is about much more than its politics

February 15, 2003: The day the world said no to war Phyllis Bennis argues that while the day of mass protest did not stop the war, it did change history

Egypt: The revolution is alive Just before the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, Emma Hughes spoke to Ola Shahba, an activist who has spent 15 years organising in Egypt

Workfare: a policy on the brink Warren Clark explains how the success of the campaign against workfare has put the policy’s future in doubt

Tenant troubles The past year has seen the beginnings of a vibrant private tenants’ movement emerging. Christine Haigh reports

Co-operating with cuts in Lambeth Isabelle Koksal reports on how Lambeth’s ‘co-operative council’ is riding roughshod over co-operative principles in its drive for sell-offs and cuts in local services