Month: June 2006

Unions need to step up strike action

Neo-liberal policies have been a catastrophe for the Latin American masses.

The World Cup parties could not hide the growing unpopularity of the German government or popular fears of what the future holds.

A continuación publicamos dos artículos sobre la situación de los territorios ocupados: publicado en el semanario The Socialist trata sobre la deriva hacia la guerra civil en la Autoridad Palestina mientras el segundo, una traducción […]

Seven weeks after the uprising of the Greek university students which began in the first week of May, 415 out of 456 colleges throughout Greece are still occupied.

La "compañera" Carmen Hertz a sido nombrada por el gobierno de la Concertación como la nueva embajadora en Hungría.

In the 1950s, Lee Kuan Yew formed a political association with the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) which had been able to amass and maintain a huge following among the working class.

"In order to understand this struggle it is important to look at the historical background."

Mass protests against Bush visit to Vienna

The recently concluded general election on 6 May in Singapore was considered an exciting election, at least by Singaporean standards.

‘Irish Times’ reports

Prime Minister rattled but Joe Higgins won’t “go away”

As every living being in Europe will have understood, last week the world cup started in Germany.

The United States is the strongest power the world has ever seen.

Working class leadership needed against racism and poverty

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The struggle for social liberation continues

Palestinians recently interviewed in the press described their life in Gaza and the West Bank as like "living on the set of a horror film".

Early in the morning on Thursday, 15 June, two claymore mines exploded destroying a bus packed with farmers, workers and children.

Una de las mayores movilizaciones de estudiante que haya habido nunca esta en desarrollo en Grecia desde el 8 de mayo.

En la segunda semana de mayo se produjo una convulsión en el sistema financiero mundial. Poco después de elevarse hasta alcanzar niveles cercanos al tope, las acciones cayeron drásticamente en el mercado cambiario de capitales, […]

Intolerable conditions lead to desperate actions

‘Militancy once again!’

Supreme Court ruling on sexual offences provokes government crisis

United action to stop all sectarian attacks!

One of the biggest ever university student mobilizations is in development in Greece since May 8.

More than 80 % of the population oppose continuation of President Obasanjo’s rule

"Immediately withdraw facilities for the U.S. Military" – Joe Higgins TD (MP)

A massive wave of occupations has been spreading throughout Greek universities from Crete in the South to Alexandroupolis, in North East Greece. The reason for this is a new education bill that the neo-liberal New […]

Central Santiago streets a ‘battleground’

Below, we carry the text of a leaflet distributed by members of Youth Against Nationalism, and CWI members, in Cyprus, followed by an appeal for solidarity and a model protest letter.

Kholodmash factory workers letter applauds international solidarity

Important headway made – poll indicates increased support

Scandal of state compensation paid to mass murderer

The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) has been rocked by the release of an open letter by Tommy Sheridan to SSP members which accuses "an unsavoury cabal of comrades at the core of the leadership who […]

 Las masivas  movilizaciones estudiantiles, que actualmente se desarrollan, están golpeando al corazón del desigual  y aberrante sistema educacional chileno. Las reivindicaciones de estudiantes  y  profesores  acerca de la derogación de la LOCE (Ley Orgánica Constitucional […]

Mattias and Joel, Stockholm’s “Citizens of the Month”

Was this merely a timely ‘correction’ of speculative bubbles or a preliminary tremor marking the onset of a deeper crisis?

International workers’ solildarity, a must for workers in Kashmir

Right-wing suffer setback

400,000 on strike and occupying schools