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struggle for women rights remains more relevant than ever
23/05/2013: After Lafontaine’s proposal to get rid of the Euro – what should the
left say?
22/05/2013: Protests needed via embassies
22/05/2013: How Ireland is used as a tax haven by multinational corporations while
the government is preparing to steal the property tax from people’s
wages, social welfare and pensions
22/05/2013: Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year
21/05/2013: Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism
21/05/2013: An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass
working peoples’ defence committees!
20/05/2013: This year’s G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh, Northern
Ireland, on 17th – 18th June. This gathering brings together the heads
of government of eight of the world’s largest capitalist economies to
discuss how they can further the interests of those they represent – the
super-rich, big business and the bankers.
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…
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TrotskyLeon Trotsky was, next to Lenin, the main leader of the Russian Revolution
of 1917 and one of the greatest theoreticians of the workers’ movement.
His theory of the permanent revolution brilliantly anticipated the class
forces involved in the outcome of the Russian revolution, and still
conserves its clear validity for the struggle against capitalism and
landlordism in the neo-colonial world today. After the bureaucratic
degeneration of the Russian Revolution following the isolation of the 1917
revolution, Trotsky became the leading figure of the international Left
opposition, which organised the political struggle against Stalinism, and
upheld the methods of Marxism and internationalism. He was assassinated by
an agent of Stalin in 1940, just two years after having completed his
famous work, “Transitional Programme”, which served as the central
document for the founding conference of the 4th International, and from
which crucial lessons must be drawn for today’s worldwide struggle of the
working class against the capitalist crisis. |
|  27/08/2012, Memorial meeting remembers the great revolutionary who died in August
1940
USP reporter
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|  20/08/2010, 70 years on from his asasination, is it “Springtime for Trotsky?”
Three articles from The Moscow News
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|  16/08/2010, Coming mass revolts will see workers and youth look to Trotsky’s ideas
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)
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|  18/02/2010, Introduction to new Urdu edition of ‘Permanent Revolution’ by Leon
Trotsky
Peter Taaffe
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|  16/02/2010, Unison union witch-hunt - employment tribunal
Lynn Walsh, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)
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|  13/02/2010, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) general secretary, Peter Taaffe
replies to historian, Robert Service
socialistworld.net
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| 02/11/2009, Robert Service declines invitation to debate the life of Leon Trotsky
Socialistworld.net |
|  19/10/2009, On the 20th anniversary of 1989…
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party (CWI in England &
Wales). Article from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party.
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| 14/10/2009, Review of Trotsky, a Biography by Robert Service
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) general secretary |
| 04/03/2003, The death of Joseph Stalin, took place half a century ago this month.
However the anniversary has been largely covered in a superficial manner
in the international media. Although the press has spent much time
recording the terrible crimes of Stalinism and providing psychological
profiles of the absolute ruler, little or no attempt is made to
seriously analyse the reasons for the rise of the phenomena of the
totalitarian system he headed. Furthermore an attempt is being made with
the anniversary to once again besmirch the banner of genuine socialism
as commentators try to paint a direct link between Stalinism and
socialism. As we saw after the collapse of the Stalinist states in the
early 1990s, the capitalist class and their spokespeople will strive to
use the horrors of Stalinism to convince the working class that there is
no point in struggling to change society as all efforts to build
socialism ’end up’ with tyranny and economic collapse.
Niall Mulholland and Robert Bechert, CWI online |
| 05/05/2000, To commemorate the contribution of Leon Trotsky in building the workers’
movement internationally, we print here three articles which look at
different aspects of his political work. Their publication mark the
sixtieth anniversary of the murder of Leon Trotsky by an assassin hired
by Stalin in Mexico in August 1940. All three articles are reprinted
from Socialism Today , the
theoretical journal of the Socialist Party, the CWI’s section in Britain.
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| 05/05/2000, Sixty years ago, the dictator Stalin orchestrated the murder of Leon
Trotsky, exiled and isolated in Mexico. Stalin was motivated not merely
by personal rivalry and malice but by the ruling bureaucracy’s need to
crush the Fourth International, which continued to fight for
internationalism and workers’ democracy.
Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today, journal of the Socialist Party,
CWI in England and Wales. |
| 05/05/2000, In the 1930s Trotsky and his family were finding it impossible to secure
safe refuge. Deported from France, refused entry into Britain, they
moved to Norway. LAURENCE COATES describes how an alliance of
Stalinists, fascists and ’democrats’ ensured that Trotsky’s days of
living on a planet without a visa were not over.
Laurence Coates |
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