While South Africa is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the end of the Apartheid regime, students at Wits University in Johannesburg are protesting against cuts in university funding and cuts in student bursaries.
After 8 long years the wait is almost over.
THE LATEST attempt by the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) ministers to unify the divided island of Cyprus has ended in failure, amid bitter recriminations.
For a socialist alternative
On 1 May ten countries will join the European Union after months of negotiations and a series of successful referendums. ‘New Europe’, as famously described by Donald Rumsfeld, has married ‘Old Europe’, but is this […]
1999 imperialist war against Serbia in the dock
The women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and ’70s reached its peak when women won the right to choose an abortion and the Supreme Court legalized the procedure in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case. […]
Court decides electoral registration office ban was illegal
A half-century of fascist rule was swept aside in a day.
Can we rely on the Democrats?
The jumbo circus of Indian elections with all its fanfare and trickery has come visiting once again.
The fight for same-sex marriage rights
AS SOON as Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, returned home from a triumphalist meeting with US President Bush, he turned his mind to the assassination of the newly appointed leader of the Islamic Palestinian organisation, […]
But lower poll indicates growing alienation
Only united working class can show way out of crisis
Electoral registration office bans Belgian cwi contesting elections
Unions urged to take up concerns of casual workers.
Brash plays the race card as Labour fails Maori and working class
Despite bureaucratic obstacles, lists handed in today.
Across Western Europe there is a debate on the left as to the best way to create or recreate new mass parties of the working class. The sharp move to the right of the social […]
ANC has failed the masses – Time for a new party of the working class
“Bush’s Vietnam” conflict worsens
Socialist Alternative plays key role in organising event
Time for unions to break with government/bosses’ ‘social agreement’
After a few days in Lagos I met Joseph, a socialist activist from Ghana, who, like me, had come to attend the conference of the Democratic Socialist Movement of Nigeria.
At the 2001 Labour Party conference Tony Blair set out his "moral commitment" to the world. He told the delegates that if Rwanda happened again today we would have a moral duty to act to […]
Will the truth come out?
An Epic Struggle
“Counter-terrorism” was one of the main issues at the EU summit in Brussels 25-26 March.
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party, and one of the founding members of the cwi, spoke to Tanja Niemeier.
United Socialist Party achieves record result
Lessons of the California grocery workers strike
Huge anger against Schröder’s ‘Agenda 2010’ onslaught
Military Families Speak Out against Bush’s war and lies
Prospect of new wave of workers’ struggles
THE FIRST debate on Saturday was on the SSP’s draft manifesto for the European elections in June.
Women in occupied Iraq
New opposition to SPD government offer big opportunities.
The government of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, or Lula, leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) is now in its most critical period since taking office in January 2003.
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