Month: December 2006

For the second time in a year in Lagos State and for the umpteenth time in the country as a whole, another tragic fire has resulted from a burst fuel pipeline claiming the lives and […]

Today’s Fianna Fáil government also “in the pockets of speculators”

The 15 day long tea plantation strike – the longest in recent history – is supposed to have come to an end.

Capitalism creates grotesque inequalities

Build non-payment in working class communities

Extremely succesfull meeting of the Belgian left socialists

On the 10th December, at 14.15 hours, the greatest killer and thief that Chile has ever known, the former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, died.

Urgent solidarity appeal.

Refugees to get either asylum or a stay permit

The British and Irish governments ended the three days of all party negotiations in Scotland by announcing the "St Andrews Agreement".

There is again heated debate going on around the veil worn by Muslim women.

Three days before the congress of the United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka) was convened in Colombo, a suicide bomb attack in the city targeted the minister of defence – the brother of the president, […]

Calderon government accused of state terrorism against the peoples of Oaxaca

Cypriot ministers promise to find solution for the 117 Kurdish refugees that faced life- threatening deportation to Syria.

Three years after massive job cuts at Ford-Genk (the loss of 3,000) and nine years after the closure of Renault-Vilvoorde, the announcement of Volkswagen that it will cut 4,000 jobs in its plant in Vorst […]

Continued threat of counter-revolution

CWI member, Lucy Redler, elected to National Committee

"The discussion this weekend is how we can change the world".

One and half million public and private sector workers in Italy went on strike on Friday 17 November.

Hizbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) have planned mass street demonstrations for this week in opposition to Prime Minister Siniora and his weakened, imperialist-supported, March 14th or Future movement government.