Month: October 2006

In February of this year, crowds gathered on the streets of Manila to commemorate the ‘People Power’ revolution of twenty years.

ON February 24, a Friday, the Philippine media reported an aborted coup d’etat allegedly launched by rebel military forces against the government of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Two recent opinion polls indicated a significant boost in support for the coalition government, particularly Fianna Fail.

In less than a week the Bush and Blair administrations have been forced into humiliating public retreats over their Iraq policy.

The description of Sri Lanka as ‘tear-shaped’ has never been more apt than it is today.

cwi lobbies of Sri Lanka embassies in Stockholm and London

Last weekend the Socialist Party in Ireland held Socialism 2006, a weekend of debate and discussion, in Dublin.

Reinstate 144 sacked leaders of teachers organisations

Cypriot government intends to hand over Kurds who won struggle for refugee rights, into the hands of their Syrian torturers.

We would like to bring to your attention and protest at the inhuman conditions facing Kurdish refugees in Cyprus who amongst others were involved in a protest campaign last May 2006 to force the government […]

When workers in their millions rose against Stalinism

Around 3.5 million still ill-equipped, under- nourished and homeless

Send protests against state repression!

Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) meeting in Islamabad attracts 150 from different public sector trade unions

National government’s defeat hidden by media!

Journalist critic of Russia’s Caucuses policy, Anna Politkovskaya, murdered

Quake survivors caught in limbo

Why is the Taliban resurgent?

2,250 vote in Vienna against capitalism

Imperialist powers hypocritical condemnation

Women and children suffer most

The final result of the first round of the Brazilian elections was a terrible shock for Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, the candidate of the Workers’ Party (PT). Lula, the PT and polling organisations together […]

Stop the reprisals against the leaders of the student movement, the “penguin revolution”.

CWI contests local elections to highlight case for new workers’ party

Veteran workers’ leader discusses a new political initiative

Tawdry affair exposes government divorced from of people" – says Joe Higgins, Socialist MP

Urgent international support needed!

This was the headline in the US Wall Street Journal in its weekend edition on 1-3 September.

The campaign by Rupert Murdock against Tommy Sheridan, and through him against socialism, in Scotland took a new turn last week.

Greatest protest for 20 years in country’s second city. Eye-witness report from the day of action

Supposedly anti-corruption party PiS caught selling minsterial posts

"Life for the Tamil people of Sri Lanka has become unbearable."

Nothing could more clearly demonstrate the toothless nature of the United Nations (UN) than its ineffectual posturing over the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Western Sudan.

Joe Higgins parliament speech "tore the Taoiseach [PM] apart"

"From this day on, there is no government anymore!"

Dutch Socialist Party must fight November elections on socialist policies

THE NEWS of the World (NoW), who suffered a sensational defeat at the hands of Tommy Sheridan in his defamation case against them in August, has unleashed a massive new offensive against him.

Capitalism’s ruthless struggle for oil and gas