The management of transnational company Connex on Thursday sacked Per Johansson, secretary of the fighting trade union branch, Seko 119, which organises 700 underground train drivers. This signals the most serious attack so far of […]
Sri Lanka is experiencing one of its deepest-ever crises. Since the new millennium began, there have been four major elections in this country. Many of Sri Lanka’s workers and down-trodden people are faced with a […]
Helicopter-borne French commandos storm anti-privatisation protest
Anger at Iraqi occupation and New Orleans disaster
International solidarity week with workers’ struggles
Red youth on 24 September demo say end imperialist occupation and capitalism
Tens of thousands took to the streets of London on Saturday 24 September to protest against the occupation of Iraq. The Socialist Party and International Socialist Resistance contingent marched under the banner of ’unity against […]
On 15 August 2004, a recall referendum aimed at ousting Venezuelan president Chávez was resoundingly defeated by a mobilisation of the masses – particularly in poor shantytowns, through electoral ‘battle units’ and other organisations of […]
Tens of thousands took to the streets of London on Saturday 24 September to protest against the occupation of Iraq. The Socialist Party and International Socialist Resistance contingent marched under the banner of ’unity against […]
Five general strikes in five years and still Nigerian workers and youth continue their struggle against fuel price rises
Anger at ‘neutral’ Irish government’s complicity in Iraq occupation
Hurricane Katrina carnage shows brutal logic of neo-liberalism
The London bombings had a profound impact in West Yorkshire once it emerged that the alleged bombers came from Leeds and Huddersfield.
Now is the time to organise resistance!
Local workers’ leader candidate causes a stir
Socialist alternative needed to capitalist barbarism
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Lebanon’s descent into 15 years of horrific civil war.
“An inspiring event”
What hurricane Katrina shows about US capitalism
Una derrota masiva para la derecha y para la izquierda y una gran victoria para la izquierda, fue el resultado de las elecciones anticipadas en Alemania.
¡La victoria abre una nueva etapa!
Los socialistas estadounidenses piden un programa de acción para después del desastre del huracán.
Every day 8 rape cases are reported but for every case reported there are two that go unreported in Pakistan
The widely promoted all-European summer camp in Greece of neo-fascist parties and groups from Italy (Forza Nuova), Germany (NDP), Spain (Falang) and of course Greece (Chrysi Avgi), expected by the organizers to attract about 1.000 […]
A massive defeat for the right and a big victory for the left, was the result of the early German election
Results shows workers oppose 20 years of neo-liberalism
The massive turn-out by Nigerians in their hundreds of thousands to a rally called by Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) against the incessant increase in the fuel price and other neo-liberal, anti-poor polices of […]
With 89% of the votes, Egypt’s first contested presidential election on September 7th could have been a crushing victory for Hosni Mubarak. But according to official figures only 23% voted.
"Socialism is alive and kicking, and it has a world to win" Clare Doyle, CWI, Malaysia, Thursday 15 September 2005 History was made in Kuala Lumpur last weekend, when over 700 people poured into the […]
The Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi has gained an unexpected overwhelming victory in the elections on Sunday 11 September.
The scenes from the streets of Belfast and other towns across Northern Ireland during the weekend have provided a stark warning that the ’peace process’ could at some point unravel and be quickly replaced by […]
Trade Union Rights Campaign statement
In May 2005, four neofascist European groups (NPD from Germany, Forza Nueva from Italy, Falanx from Spain and Chrisi Avgi from Greece) announced that they would organize their first European Youth Camp on the 16 […]
Oppressed workers and poor resist regime
At least 200 members of P-Sol (Part of Socialism and Liberty), from 15 states, participated in the first international seminar of the recently formed party, in Rio de Janeiro, from 20-21st of August.
Textiles crisis between China, the EU and the US
It is David versus Goliath as residents of Mayo try to halt Shell’s efforts to bring Ireland’s gas ashore. They say the oil giant’s plans are unsafe – and five protesters are now in jail.
The end August 30% rise in Nigerian fuel prices has provoked a renewed outburst of mass anger in Africa’s most populous country.
"Poverty stricken residents were left abandoned and in desperate circumstances"
Socialist MP demands release of "people of great character and bravery"
New party has potential to become third biggest party in Bundestag
US socialists call for action programme after hurricane disaster
The tragedy of Baghdad – with almost 1000 Shia pilgrims killed in Iraq’s bloodiest day on 31 August – competes with the catastrophe of New Orleans in a kind of “league of horrors”.
How can the working class stop the bigots?
The effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi could be the US’s worst natural disaster, with a projected 10,000 or more people dead and its biggest refugee crisis since the American Civil War. […]
Algunos comentaristas dicen que esto fue inevitable. Pero eso es una mentira.
G8 fail to ‘Make Poverty History’
Marxists often state that counter-revolution invariably always act as the whiplash of revolution. This is the best way to interpret the easy manner with which some of the slogans which were raised by the DSM […]
The fragmentation of Iraq?
Hundreds of thousands are left homeless. Tens of thousands have been shipped to Texas as refugees. Buildings have collapsed. Entire communities have been reduced to rubble. The city of New Orleans, one of the centres […]
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