Month: April 2005

May day greetings from around the world

Reactionary capitalist parties risk explosion of anger

Student society under threat of exclusion from university for fighting racism.

In a vindictive move, Turkish multinational construction company Gama, has said it is today sacking over three hundred workers who have been on a work stoppage for the past three weeks. Gama workers have vowed […]

A survey of public opinion in Scotland carried out at the start of the election campaign found that 79% of people believed that wealth should be redistributed in society.

On May Day, workers and socialists honour and celebrate past struggles as we  commit ourselves again to the spirit and practice of international solidarity, struggle and socialism.

Immigrant workers forced to work without being paid for months

Relentless campaign sponsored by university Rector to ban ALS

The protests by students and young people in China, and similar protests in South Korea, against Japan’s resurgent militarism, are causing growing apprehension among world political leaders, businessmen and now, it seems, the Chinese regime […]

Hundreds OF Turkish workers employed by GAMA walked off building sites in unofficial industrial action despite threats and intimidation from the company.

CWI members in Ireland and Nigeria force Irish government to bring back deported Nigerian school student

One measure of the surge in speculative activity is the sharp rise in foreign exchange (FX) dealing. In September 2004 the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) published its sixth triennial survey of foreign exchange and […]

The planned sell-off would place the majority (51 per cent) of the company’s equity in private hands – the official definition of a “privatised” company.

Seventy-three percent of those who were asked in a national opinion poll were in favour of increasing the top rate of income tax on incomes of greater than £100,000 from 40p in the pound to […]

The Socialist Party is standing a candidate in the general election to highlight the scandal of Rover’s collapse and to call for the renationalisation of the company. Louise Houldey, who has stood three times before […]

Talk to Joe. Officially, he isn’t in charge, but he gets things done.

Both the Indian and Pakistani governments are celebrating the launch of a bus service on 7 April between Srinagar and Muzafarabad, the two main cities in Indian and Pakistani occupied Kashmir respectively.

Filipina women workers in the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, have been locked in battle with the China Times Weekly (CTW), one of the country’s three top circulation newspapers, over a racist and sexist article it ran […]

Since 4 April, 350 Turkish workers at Gama Construction in Ireland have been on strike, fighting against extreme exploitation.

Big defeats for Forza Italia in regional elections

Unions must strike against John Howard anti-workers’ policies

Campaigning work of a Socialist Party councillor in Melbourne

A brutal police attack on an anti-pollution protest at an industrial park on the outskirts of Dongyang city, Zhejiang province, triggered huge clashes between thousands of protesters and 3,000 riot police.

A profile of Joe Higgins TD in the Sunday Business Post

Despite all the claims of the present regime, women are still facing a horrific situation in Pakistan.

The G8 are eight – we are billions! Join the anti-capitalist protests!

Telecommunication workers in the state-owned Telecom Company PakTel Communications Limited (PTCL) started a protest campaign after the death of one telecom worker in Rawalpindi region.

Unions call for strikes against government’s industrial relations ‘reforms’

The ’ugly face of capitalism’

Gama workers protested outside the Irish parliament (Dáil Éireann) on Tuesday 12 April.

Gama workers protested outside the Irish parliament (Dáil Éireann) on Tuesday 12 April.

2005 has had a very uncomfortable beginning for the republican leadership.

Angry anti-Japan protests erupted in several Chinese cities at the weekend, with a crowd of 6,000 mostly students and youth marching on the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, while 3,000 demonstrated outside Japan’s consulate in the […]

Dáil Éireann, Leaders’ Questions, 12th April 2005

On Saturday 2nd of April, pan-European day of action against racism, a big demonstration for immigrants’ and refugees’ rights was held in Athens.

Stop exploitation of GAMA workers! Pay them their back wages

Pope John Paul II died Saturday 2 April – the first ever Polish pope and first non-Italian since 1523.

The tsunami and its terrible aftermath is the overarching issue that still dominates every aspect of Sri Lankan society.

So they’re off and running in the general election stakes. But for ordinary voters looking for a party to back there appear to be more and bigger obstacles than anything in the Grand National course.

A flurry of diplomatic initiatives and counter-initiatives from Taiwan’s sharply divided political establishment – the anti-independence pan-blue bloc and formally pro-independence pan-greens – has shifted the cross-strait issue (i.e. relations with China) into overdrive.

For the third election in succession, the Robert Mugabe-led Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) has thwarted the will of the people and retained power through rigged elections. This time it obtained a ’landslide’ – […]

Workers organisations must take decisive mass action now!

Mass protests forced concessions, but no change of direction

Workers’ movement needs to adopt independent, class policies

Just two weeks after a successful mobilisation for the Youth March and European Trade Union demonstrations of 19 March, the LSP/MAS (cwi, Belgium) held its national educational weekend – ‘Socialism 2005’ – in Brussels.

“Haninge Council gives in to Elevkampanjen and abolishes charges for school meals from Autumn 2005,” the daily Swedish paper, Dagens Nyheter reported on 21 March. The Social Democrat leadership on the council retreated from the […]

Since the introduction of universal suffrage, the gap between the world of Westminster and the reality of people’s lives has never been greater. In mid-February, when New Labour launched its election campaign, the country was […]

Hundreds walk-off building sites in Dublin and Galway in show of strength

Minor debt relief will not end poverty for millions

Blair is preparing to declare the general election.

Four hundred meet to discuss resistance against social cuts and capitalism

There is new evidence that the threat from global warming is increasing. (Global warming is the rise in the Earth’s temperature due to high concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other so-called greenhouse gases in […]

Socialist Alternative joined with other community organizations to lead the largest anti-war events held in Boston since Bush’s re-election.

Walk into any big chain restaurant around the country and the scene will predictably be the same: fresh-faced workers hustling and bustling around the dining room and kitchen bussing tables, waiting on customers, and cooking […]

Thousands of past and present employees of construction giant Gama are set to reclaim millions in lost wages after previously unknown accounts were yesterday discovered in Holland.

Former nurse offered job as prostitute by Labour Service

Right-wing government proposes draconian new immigration law

If the Scottish National Party expected a "Salmond bounce" following the election of Alex Salmond to lead the SNP they have so-far been disappointed.

Jessica Pruitt’s father served in the Vietnam War, and her brother-in-law is currently stationed in Fallujah. Justice (journal of Socialist Alternative) spoke with Jessica about how she and her friends and family are dealing with […]