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. […]

Peter Taaffe comenta dos libros recientes que iluminan la historia de Cuba y la situación actual. socialistworld.net

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)

‘Tulip revolution’ declares government overthrown

McDowell to allow Nigerian to return

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

Who gains from Brown’s plans?

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

Mobilisations against the Raffarin government merge with opposition to the European constitution.

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 […]

Hace poco mas de un año, el 29 de febrero de 2004, tropas norteamericanas invadieron Haiti, se apoderaron de Jean-Bertrand Aristide, presidente electo de la republica, lo enviaron al centro de africa, y anunciaron que […]

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.

Estoy en Santiago de Chile y todo me parece que no es lo que parece ser. Todo es como un decorado de television, como arquitectura efimera, de quita y pon, donde lo que parecia un […]

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

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

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 […]

Malaysian state in tune with US aggression

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

Need for unity in struggle and a political alternative

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

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 […]

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

Socialist Party exposes slave labour scandal

Workers ready for militant struggle but not union leaders

No nos rendiremos, nosotras lucharemos!

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 […]

Un millón de personas se tomaron las calles exigiendo mejores salarios y contra el alargamiento de la semana laboral.

We won’t go back, we will fight back!

Apenas dos días después del fin de las vacaciones de mitad año de todos los estudiantes secundarios de Francia, las calles se llenaron con alumnos de educación media en huelgas y manifestaciones contra la “reforma” […]

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.

One million people took to the streets demanding better wages and battling against a longer working week

Huge 8 March demonstration marks setback for US imperialism

Workers give generous solidarity for tsunami campaign

¿Que explica esta situación?

"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!