Month: November 2006

On Monday, November 27, several hundred protesters surrounded the entrance to Cochabamba’s municipal building in what turned out to be a sharp clash with right-wing thugs and provocateurs and the Cochabamba police. 

Send urgent protests to stop demolitions and evictions!

Greens fail to make promised breakthrough

The leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in his Heroes’ Day speech, has warned of an end to the cease-fire and of the ‘Tigers’ renewing their demand for independence.

More than 300 Trade Unionists in attendance

Left course needed to build on Socialist Party’s polls breakthrough

Right-wing opposition to left-leaning Bolivian president, Evo Morales, and his governing party, Movement towards Socialism (MAS), has increased dramatically in the last week as potential conflicts that have been brewing for months have recently come […]

Confrontations between police and demonstrators result in 48 wounded and 60 arrests

Largest SP poll from public housing voters

Up to 11,000 jobs threatened

Two day public services general strike

For a bold socialist programme – No to a coalition with rightwing parties!

An explosion in Halemba mine in Poland has killed 23 miners.

Reinstate Ilsiyar Sherafutdiniva, victimised union leader!

Pro-western Siniora government hangs on by its fingertips

This Italian edition of "Marxism in today’s world" is published by the Italian publishing collective ‘Giovane Talpa’ that asked the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) for information about our ideas and policies on the […]

Twenty three arrested and held while devastation wrought

"Se ve, se siente, tenemos presidente"

Masses yearn for end to despotism, wars and poverty

As Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinistas, scraped home as president, thousands took to the streets of the capital, Managua, hooting car horns, sounding football klaxons and setting off fireworks to celebrate the victory.

Trade Union Rights Campaign meeting attracts over 100 activists

Trade unionists and left activists under threat

Protests at the murder of prominent Tamil MP, Nadarajah Raviraj, continue to pour in to embassies around the world and directly to the office of the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapakse.

‘Monument to the Revolution’, Mexico DF – that is our rendezvous for last Saturday morning, 9 am.

The US economy slowed down sharply before the mid-term elections.

Thousands march in Colombo; embassies picketed around the globe

Last Wednesday, Nov 15, a meeting took place between the Cypriot Minister of the Interior N. Silikiotis and representatives from the Cypriot Kurdish Friendship Association – the organisation that struggles to win asylum for the […]

Six months after it narrowly defeated the right-wing government of Silvio Berlusconi, Romano Prodi’s centre-left coalition in Italy is hanging by a thread.

“He doth bestride the narrow world, like a colossus; and we petty men, walk under his huge legs and peep about”. (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar) Bush, decked out as a poor imitation of a modern ‘Caesar’, […]

25 deaths, 400 disappearances as the federal state clamps down to kill APPO

AKEL decides to close office early to avoid protesters!

Socialist Movement organises Solidarity Demonstration for Kurdish Refugees.

Respect the right to asylum of the Kurdish refugees!

Fifteen people attended a protest outside the Cypriot embassy in Dublin last Friday to oppose the deportation of Kurdish asylum-seekers from Cyprus to Syria.

Friday 10 November was the first day of protests against the possible deportation of Kurdish asylum seekers from Cyprus in many countries across the world.

Twenty five comrades in Athens and fifteen in Thessalonika took part in protests – one outside the Cyprus embassy in Athens and the other at the Cyprus consulate in Thessalonika.

Rebels to give up arms and to enter new coalition government

Green elected mayor of Richmond, California

Working class says no to war and neo-liberalism

Kurdish refugee asylum campaign

Cypriot Minister of Interior to meet with asylum seekers representative!

Since the early 1980s, world capitalism has followed a trajectory based on globalisation and neo-liberal policies.

High profile assassination demands massive response

A balance sheet after the 12 October 100,000 strong demonstration

November 9th saw hundreds join a demonstration against racism and fascism in Vienna initiated by the Socialist Left Party, SLP.

How the events are seen today

Recent political developments in Hungary

In its nine years in office New Labour has presided over the brutal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the privatisation of more public services than the Tories, and a bonanza of riches for the elite […]