Month: October 2004

The final death toll may rise to over a hundred at the Daping coal mine in what is China’s worst mining disaster so far this year.

"Qassam" rockets, terror attacks, devastation, bloodshed… Can the "Disengagement Plan" bring the end of the Israeli-Palestinian bloodbath any closer?

The new £430 million Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh was opened by the Queen in a blaze of establishment pomp and ceremony recently.

On Sunday, 17 October, thousands of workers converged on Washington DC to voice opposition to the policies of US big business. Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative (US CWI) Working people in the US have been under […]

A ’black gold’ rush is in full swing.

Tony Blair and George Bush, both seeking re-election, are desperately trying to put a good light on the deteriorating situation in Iraq.

Gives voice to the anger of the thousands of working class people he represents.

Top down ‘solutions’ provoke instability

Socialism is not merely an option – we face socialism or nothing.

back to article esf anti-war rally Joe Higgins and Peter Taaffe speaking at the cwi rally pictures: Molly Cooper

Strike needs to spread not end

Solidarity appeal

The swift angry and determined answer of the workers at Opel’s Ruhr area factory in Bochum to General Motor’s announcement of 12,000 redundancies throughout Europe has seized the headlines in Germany. They immediately went on […]

Solidarity with striking Opel workers in Germany

Interview with a Pizza Hut worker fighting for a union

Symptoms of a sick culture

There is justifiable revulsion, shared by the socialist, at the videoed public beheading of Ken Bigley. However, Ken Bigley’s brother, Paul, was right when he said that "Blair has blood on his hands".

Underfunding 101

Workers must fight attacks on living standards

Counting the extra $87 billion Congress approved for the war in Iraq, last year’s U.S. military budget totaled over $488 billion. The government spends workers’ tax money to invade and occupy Iraq, while U.S. public […]

Can we reign in corporate power within capitalism? Or is socialism necessary?

THE ESF is an off-shoot of the World Social Forum, (WSF) which following its first event in Porto Allegre, Brazil in 2001, drew up a description of the WSF as being: "an open meeting place […]

Although it was pouring with rain, October 9th saw more than 500 antifascists (mainly youth) marched through Linz, an industrial city of over 200,000 people in Austria.

On the night of Thursday, October 7, around 10 PM, an explosion shook the Hilton Taba hotel, located in the Sinai Peninsula, only a short distance from Egypt’s border with Israel.

Five general strikes since June 2000!

Between one-and-a half and two million Muslim people live in Britain today.

Howard didn’t win it…Latham lost it!

Forty years fighting for socialism

Media highlights Joe Higgins’ opposition in parliament

Protest against action by Cinram bosses

Chants of "workers’ solidarity" and "Free Yao and Xiao" greeted China’s vice premier Wu Yi as she arrived at Gothenburg’s East India Docks on the final day of her Swedish visit.

During the recent years, while the municipal councils served as the main target of the budget cuts and massive redundancies, they were given new authority and responsibilities. Starting about a year and a half ago, […]

Tony Blair has announced that he will go on to serve out a third term as prime minister.

Again, the pump prices of the petroleum products have been increased.

US-sponsored elections regarded "a joke"

Anti-racists protest against Holocaust denier

Pakistani has its third Prime Minister in two months.

Massive turnout of trade union movement in Amsterdam

A battle between warmongers

Unite against the jobs massacre

Finance Ministers and central bank chiefs from the seven richest imperialist states, the G7, meet in Washington at the start of October.

TONY BLAIR may claim he is not the ’wobbling’ kind. But the long shadow of the Iraq occupation, the hostage crisis and Labour’s majority being reduced to less than 30 seats at a general election […]