Month: December 2009

The British Labour Party was formed over 100 years ago to provide an independent political voice for working-class people. Ed Doveton describes this struggle, which is paralleled by today’s campaign for a new mass workers’ party. First published in Socialism Today […]

Joe Higgins MEP (17/12/2009) lambasts the hypocrisy shown by capitalist rulers when they criticise human rights abuses abroad while ignoring human rights abuses at home. Few criticisms have been made of the Danish state, which arrested hundreds of peaceful protestors in "preventative arrests", during the recent Copenhagen Summit, despite Denmark being a member state of the European Union. […]

The fall of Stalinism from 1989 to 1991 changed the world. Listen here to the introductions to debates at Socialism 2009 about the collapse of the Soviet Union and the mass movements in the former Stalinist east German state (GDR) in 1989 which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. […]

Listen here to a discussion on events in Iran 1979, which took place at the November 2009 ’Socialism 2009’ event, held by the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales). […]

2010 – Time for united working class opposition! […]

We are sickeningly familiar with the arrogant, cruel statements of Sri Lankan prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, and his cronies. They dismiss any criticism of their brutal war against Tamil-speaking people and the horrific aftermath of mass internment camps, militarised zones and a clampdown on media freedoms and democratic rights. But how can Rajapaksa & Company get away with it? […]

Socialist MEP condemns Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd […]

Masses need socialist alternative to end poverty, wars and oppression […]