Month: March 2005

Travelling from Malaysia to Karachi in Pakistan is to go from the ‘Second World’ to the ‘Fourth World’. Malaysia is certainly no showcase for Asian capitalism, as the apologists for the Kuala Lumpur regime argue. […]

Threat of co-ordinated strike action by public-sector unions over pensions forces major climbdown.

A return to power by Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats at the next election "could not be ruled out", according to Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins.

This General Election, perhaps more than ever before, will be fought over by politicians who are a million miles removed from the real lives and problems facing the majority of working people.

Debate within the movement

In the run-up to the G8 Summit, to be held in July in Gleneagles, it is as important as ever to raise the question: how can the world’s problems be alleviated?

The Sri Lankan United Socialist Party (USP) – affiliated to the Committee for a Workers International (cwi) – held its most successful ever congress on 25 – 26 March in Colombo.

“The fish starts rotting from the head. Don’t you smell the rot of our fish?” An Egyptian human rights lawyer, speaking out at a press conference on February 22nd, expressed the growing confidence of opponents […]

I have called this conference to thank my friends and school mates in Palmerstown Community School in Dublin who have been protesting and picketing over my unjust deportation to Nigeria by Irish government on March […]

Thank you all

Reply by the Peter Taaffe (CWI) to ‘The Ukraine scam, internationals and internationalism’, by John Percy (DSP, Australia)

Challenges and opportunities for WASG (electoral alternative- work and social justice), the new left party

McDowell to allow Nigerian to return

‘Tulip revolution’ declares government overthrown

Who gains from Brown’s plans?

“A sad and disappointing day for the right to protest.”

Maavak Sozialisti members, along with other student activists, have just ended a joint election campaign in the name of the Social Student Front (SSF). This was an extremely hard campaign for us to organise. From […]

Restored version of ‘Battleship Potemkin’ at 55th Berlin Film Festival

Socialist Party TD (MP) and Nigerian cwi take up case of student

A very successful First Congress of the Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP) – affiliated to the cwi – took place over the weekend of the 19/20 March 2005 in Lahore.

Need for unity in struggle and a political alternative

Lively International Socialist Resistance contingent on 100,000-strong London protest

Malaysian state in tune with US aggression

From the ’Orange Revolution’ in Ukraine to the ’Cedar Revolution’ in Lebanon, the authoritarian regimes of the world are forced to reform in the face of US-sponsored "democratic revolts", or so says the Bush administration […]

Today, the Belgian Youth March for Work, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), and the European Social Forum are jointly protesting against growing unemployment, against insecure jobs, against the Iraq war and imperialist occupation and […]

Two years ago, the US regime promised a short war to ’liberate’ Iraq – ’operation shock and awe’.

Lebanon rocked by assassination and huge protests. The workers’ movement has to give a lead

Workers ready for militant struggle but not union leaders

Socialist Party exposes slave labour scandal

Even though less than one third of voters actually turned out for Bush last November, the Democratic Party has taken his victory as a sign that America in general is moving to the right. To […]

From the international theme, another world is possible, social movements and civil society organizations in Africa, its regions and countries have adopted same slogan. They say: another Africa is possible; another West Africa is possible. […]

Brazil is known as one of the countries with the greatest inequality in ownership of wealth on the face of the earth. It is one thing to read or hear this statistic. It is however […]

We won’t go back, we will fight back!

More than 200 000 people marched through the streets of Santiago on Tuesday 8 March to say farewell to Gladys Marin, who died of cancer on Sunday night.

Huge 8 March demonstration marks setback for US imperialism

Workers give generous solidarity for tsunami campaign

"More than 50 million [U.S.] workers don’t have a union but want one. Few workers are able to join unions and their strength is divided … into separate unions instead of building their strength in […]

It started with the killing of the American missionary Dorothy Stang on the 12th of February. She was murdered because she fought against the powerful interests that carry out illegal logging in the Amazons.

Fight the system of poverty and inequality. Fight capitalism!

Working class communities courageously speak out and protest for justice

Members of Maavak Socialisti (cwi Israel) and other students at Jerusalem University are facing vicious repression for standing in elections to the student union leadership.

Working class communities courageously speak out and protest for justice

Members of Maavak Socialisti (CWI Israel) and other students at Jerusalem University are facing vicious repression for standing in elections to the student union leadership.