07/01/2005 | Committee for a Workers International

g8: G8 can’t save the planet

07/01/2005 Ken Douglas, Socialist Party, England and Wales

The discussions on climate change at the G8 summit in Gleneagles seem doomed before they have even started.

Australia: 100 000s of workers bring Melbourne to a halt

07/01/2005 Steve Jolly, Socialist Party Councillor, Yarra City Council, Melbourne

Possibly over 100,000 workers marched through Melbourne on 30 June, against the imminent attacks of the Federal Government of John Howard under the new Industrial Relations legislation.

Iran: Election blow to pro-capitalist wing of ruling elite and imperialism

07/01/2005 Robert Bechert

The rich defeated but Ahmadinejad is no alternative

Iraq: Deeper in the quagmire

07/01/2005 Judy Beishon

No-one believed US vice-president Dick Cheney when he said the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes".