 latest news
19/05/2013: Increasing concerns and contradictions
18/05/2013: Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike
18/05/2013: Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background
of deep divisions in society and the regime.
17/05/2013: Australia’s federal environment minister Tony Burke gave the go ahead to
Toro’s $270 million uranium mining project in the Wiluna region of
Western Australia.
15/05/2013: Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards
14/05/2013: We shouldn’t let either of the major parties tell us that ‘tough
decisions’ or ‘hard cuts’ are required.
13/05/2013: Bus workers take strike action over savage wage cuts and attacks on
conditions
12/05/2013: 15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies
12/05/2013: How can a state be realised?
11/05/2013: The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new
phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial
power.
11/05/2013: On 8 May the PKK has begun to withdraw from Turkey. Millions are hoping
now for an end to oppression and for democratic rights.
10/05/2013: Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters
and young people
10/05/2013: On 2 May the neo-fascist Golden Dawn attempted to distribute food in
Syntagma square in Athens to people holding proof of Greek nationality.
10/05/2013: Time for a new mass workers’ party
09/05/2013: New clashes on the horizon
08/05/2013: Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots
08/05/2013: The United Socialist Party’s May Day demonstration passed successfully
through a number of populous areas of Colombo, ending at Grand Pass
Junction.
07/05/2013: Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8
percent – but important issues are unresolved
06/05/2013: ’Get a job!’ is the constant refrain of privileged Tory ministers and
vicious right-wing tabloids. A million unemployed young people are the
subject of a relentless campaign of smears and lies.
05/05/2013: Great event remembers the ’47’ struggle
05/05/2013: Christine Thomas’ book outlines how inequalities and discrimination
against women have not disappeared and women’s struggles must be bound
up with wider class struggle to be successful. Read the complete book
online here.
04/05/2013: Those who created the crisis should be forced to pay.
03/05/2013: The last set of DSM members still in the detention of the state security
service (SSS) in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, and Ibadan Oyo state,
Southwest Nigeria, as of yesterday, has been released.
03/05/2013: Progressive Workers Federation (PWF), TURCP and SMP organised and
intervened in the May Day activities across the country
03/05/2013: It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more
so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 400 garment workers
crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
03/05/2013: Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more
besides…
02/05/2013: ‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’
02/05/2013: Photos of May Day demonstration in Sindh
02/05/2013: DSM comrades arrested and detained
01/05/2013: CC rules budget illegal for second time, government declares war against
it
01/05/2013: The CWI sends revolutionary greetings and solidarity to workers, young
people and all those exploited by capitalism.
30/04/2013: Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.
29/04/2013: Writing off of any debt accrued due to the bedroom tax, supporting the
building of new social housing, opposing all cuts and austerity measures
28/04/2013: Socialist policies needed
28/04/2013: SSM member, Suiher Daska and other left candidates were elected to the
leadership of the union on the background of the coming struggles
against austerity
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| 26/08/2012, Yet another ex-News of the World (NoW) journalist has been charged with
having committed perjury during the 2010 trial of Scottish socialist
Tommy Sheridan. Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI Scotland)
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| 03/04/2012, What Was Behind the Internet Censorship Controversy? George Martin Fell Brown, Socialist
Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)
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| 31/03/2012, Protest must continue! Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland)
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| 20/03/2012, How to end a nightmare? Robert Bechert, CWI
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| 24/11/2011, Cameron, the Murdoch empire and the police have been involved in a
corrupt attempt to subvert the democratic rights of the British people Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland
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| 07/07/2011, We demand a full and independent inquiry, involving workers’
representatives, into the links between media moguls and the capitalist
state Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)
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| 17/12/2010, The continuing publication of leaked US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks
highlights the role US imperialism plays in every corner of the world. John Sharpe, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)
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| 03/03/2010, Bring the media monsters into public ownership Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWI Scotland)
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| 09/08/2006, Tommy Sheridan has won his libel action against the News of the World
(NoW) and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. Sinead Daley, SSP executive member and CWI |
| 15/12/2004, When most of the world’s mass media is firmly "embedded" into the
thinking of governments and the big business interests that lie behind
them, the publication of a collection of some of the greatest pieces of
investigative journalism could not come sooner. Niall Mulholland, cwi |
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