
latest news
18/06/2013: Well over 250,000 in approximately 20 cities took to the streets
18/06/2013: Revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have exposed US
hypocrisy over cyber-spying
17/06/2013: End the rule of big business, poverty and war
16/06/2013: Mass demonstrations against the increase of bus fares in all major cities
15/06/2013: “We will defend our rights and continue fighting”.
15/06/2013: Fed up with continued oppression, workers under the banner of ’Pradeep
Laminators Workers’ Union’ have started a propaganda campaign against
the bosses.
13/06/2013: MEP Paul Murphy criticises EU foreign policy representative, Catherine
Ashton, over calls for ’restraint on all sides’
12/06/2013: Unions must organise general strike action now!
12/06/2013: Socialist MP slams huge security operation and anti-working class record
of world leaders
11/06/2013: Erdogan seeks trial of strength with mass protests
11/06/2013: Oppose the summit of capitalist leaders, argues Paul Murphy in the
European Parliament
11/06/2013: Report from London, with CWI comment on the developments in Turkey
11/06/2013: A genuine working class fighter and a revolutionary socialist
10/06/2013: Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy travelled to Istanbul to see the
protests first-hand – and in his diary from the visit he tells us that
the response from the country’s Prime Minister has been “brutal”.
08/06/2013: 24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors
08/06/2013: Urgent need for independent working class socialist organisations
08/06/2013: Paul Murphy to visit heart of Turkish Protests
07/06/2013: An 18-year-old student activist Clement Meric was murdered in Paris in
broad daylight, on 5 June, by neo-fascist skinheads. This must be
answered by mass mobilisation to halt attempts by the far right to raise
its head.
07/06/2013: Police repression in the belly of the beast
06/06/2013: A group of 12 MEPs from the left wing group in the European Parliament,
GUE-NGL, have signed a joint message of support to Anti-G8 protestors
ahead of the summit in two weeks’ time.
05/06/2013: Unrest grows over economic and social issues
04/06/2013: Public sector workers take strike action against police violence – For a
one day general strike as a next step to bring down the government!
04/06/2013: Over 2,000 poeple attended the anti - bedroom tax rally in Glasgow’s
George Square on June 1 called by the Scottish Anti Bedroom Tax
Federation.
02/06/2013: Secret Services bolster police ahead of G8 Summit in N Ireland
01/06/2013: Vital lessons for today’s democracy struggle
31/05/2013: ‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS
campaign
30/05/2013: Rising support for UKIP shows both the erosion of established party
loyalties and the existence of a profound vacuum of working-class
political representation.
29/05/2013: EU council meeting: Another attempt to put the burden of the capitalist
crisis on the shoulders of youth and working people
28/05/2013: Sweden once had a reputation as some kind of ‘social-democratic model’
with far-reaching public services and social support. But that has been
dismantled by two decades of attacks – what the Economist magazine calls
a ‘silent revolution’
28/05/2013: Profits from destruction
25/05/2013: The one day protest general strike held on 21 May was a significant step
forward for the working class in Sri Lanka.
24/05/2013: Neo-liberalism and police violence have created social time-bomb
24/05/2013: Interview on Militant, the Labour Party and the struggle of the
socialist led council 1983-87 in Liverpool
24/05/2013: The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of
Europe.
23/05/2013: MEP demands immediate release of Housing Campaigners - solidarity still
needed