Month: April 2005

La izquierda esta creciendo, después de muchos años estamos empezando a ver los cambios por los que hemos luchado tanto.

Joe Higgins condemns company’s “cruelty” and Irish government’s inaction

Reactionary capitalist parties risk explosion of anger

Este primero de mayo encuentra a nuestro país en una situación diferente a la que estabamos acostumbrados, el animo entre los trabajadores, los jóvenes y los pobladores es claramente distinto al de años anteriores.

Todos los sectores utilizan el tema mapuche, para sacar provecho para sus respectivas posiciones políticas y nunca para defender las posiciones de la nación mapuche.

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.

El mes pasado ha visto una nueva alza en la lucha contra las políticas neo-liberales, incluidas las de la explotación de los recursos naturales en Bolivia.

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 […]

Immigrant workers forced to work without being paid for months

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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

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

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.

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

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 […]

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

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

A profile of Joe Higgins TD in the Sunday Business Post

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.

Campaigning work of a Socialist Party councillor in Melbourne

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.

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

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

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.

The ’ugly face of capitalism’

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

Hay nueva evidencia que la amenaza debido al calentamiento global está aumentando.

Hay nueva evidencia que la amenaza debido al calentamiento global está aumentando.

Dáil Éireann, Leaders’ Questions, 12th April 2005

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 […]

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

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

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

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’ – […]

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.

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.

Workers organisations must take decisive mass action now!