Month: May 2005

The Pakistani Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) Trade Union Action Committee has decided to boycott negotiations with management in a meeting which finished late during the night of 29 May.

Ten unions announce support for Telecommunications strike

The TURC-P, formed in April this year, is a fighting campaigning organisation in Pakistan.

The cwi in Brazil, active in PSOL and the unions has just set up a new website.

Socialists confident that chances to build class unity are increasing

The strike of Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd (PTCL) workers has entered its fifth day as negotiations failed once again.

Protest messages needed urgently

‘Councillor’s Diary’ website launched

Telecom workers struggle against privatisation.Letter for MP’s, Councillors, Trade Unions. PDF format.

Joe Higgins calls for properly funded sports facilities in schools

Sixty thousand telecom workers of Pakistani Telecommunications Ltd (PTCL) have started an indefinite strike today. This decision was taken in a meeting of union’s actions committee in Islamabad yesterday, after negotiations with management failed to […]

The rallies and daily two hour strikes by Pakistan Telecom workers against privatisation continues across the country.

“Government threats will not be able break our strike”

Socialist Alternative members stood with others as WASG candidates

Days before the referendum in France and the Netherlands on the proposed EU constitution, the ‘No’ camp leads.

New elections called for the autumn

Leaflet from the Pakistani Trade Union Rights Campaign

During the elections all the main parties were forced to refer to the issue of water charges.

Negotiations fail, while the movement picks up momentum

"They want to starve us out,"

Joe Higgins clashes with Prime Minister

“We are prepared to strike as long as needed”

US-backed Karimov dictatorship unleashes bloodbath

The Anti Privatization Campaign launched by an alliance of nine unions in the telecom sector has received a tremendous response from workers throughout the country.

Timid reforms will not solve deep political crisis

Banks and credit card companies celebrate

“We hope that the EU can acknowledge fully the negative influence on bilateral trade relations when it imposes limits on Chinese textile products.”

Voter apathy rises in face of political stalemate

Offering a working class alternative to bigots and pro-market policies

Determined mass opposition needed to save health service

New Labour wins third term but with lowest percentage support in history.

President forced to flee as workers take to the streets

US President hears demands for an end to Iraqi occupation

Students succeed in right to campaign against military recruitment

Turkish Workers’ Action Group, press statement

Unions outraged by governor’s “kicking their butts” threat

Origins of the war, big business and fascism, and lessons for the workers’ movement

Time to mobilise and fight back!

Election shows growing numbers have had enough of Tony Blair

The swing against New Labour across Britain was also reflected in Scotland where New Labour’s lost votes and 5 MP’s with the Lib Dems being the main beneficiaries.

CWI members arrested for trying to go to Histadruth festival

But government privatisations are corruption and theft on a huge scale

Three socialist activists interviewed about their lives of struggle and facing oppression

 Today, 5 May, we ae planning to hold a teach-in against military recruitment in schools. However, under pressure from the JROTC at my school, my principal, Sharon Schauss, informed me yesterday that our meeting would […]

Inspiring demonstration of unions, miners, women, minorities and youth

See report posted on 2 May 2005

The members of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) took part in the May Day 2005 demonstrations in the ‘silicon city’ of India – Bangalore – with a two-page leaflet in the Kannada language. The theme […]

CWI members and supporters of the Jammu and Kashmir Trade Union Rights Campaign organised a demonstration of over 200 workers and youth in Kotli, Kashmir.

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Sri Lanka and Japan are both reeling from horrific public transport disasters, in each case resulting from the privatisation policies of their governments and the blind chase for profits.

Such is the distaste of the majority of the population for the coming general election that the numbers watching TV news has dropped 300,000 in the four weeks of the campaign.

The Westminster election is being held against the background of increasing sectarian division on the ground, and the breakdown of the Good Friday agreement with little hope of its resurrection and will inevitably be another […]

Overview of some of the solidarity messages. Sign the online petition.

Threat regarding eviction and food lifted

Mass action needed to stop anti-poor policy

Members of the Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP) and the Pakistan Trade Union rights Campaign (PTURC) organised demonstrations and seminars in eighteen cities, while we participated in other Mayday activities in over twenty-one cities and towns.

Tamil and Sinhala Trotskyists march united against poverty and communalism

When Mikhail Gorbachev was selected as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s general secretary 20 years ago, in March 1985, it marked the beginning of the end of Stalinist rule in the Soviet Union […]