Month: March 2007

Two hundred years after the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed in Britain’s Parliament.

Cost cutting for profits behind preventable tragedies

Victory for non-payment campaign!

Interview with community activists

Banks make super profits while students face sub-standard education

“I tried to rip up my ballot paper” –Leung Kwok-hung known as ‘Long Hair’, an independent socialist legislator in the Hong Kong Assembly

At this year’s recently concluded National People’s Congress (NPC) meeting, the Chinese government promised to increase efforts to cut pollution, spend more on poor rural areas, the health service and schools.

Area campaign reaches out to working class

From its foundation in 1991, Rifondazione Comunista (Prc) has been a point of reference and an expression of hope for the future, not just for the Italian working class but for workers throughout Europe.

Alarm bells have been ringing, left and right. John Pilger, the radical journalist, wrote an article, Iran: The War Begins (New Statesman, 3 February), warning that a US air attack on Iran was imminent.

West’s attempt to impose ‘solution’ risks provoking new conflict

Big business sabotage industry

Fourth anniversary of Iraq invasion

At a summit in Berlin on 25 March, the European Union will celebrate its 50th birthday.

A review article on ‘The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century’ (by Will Hutton)

Brazilian military police violently attack anti-Bush protesters

Bush and Chávez vie for influence

Students join local protests

Corruption, gun fights and economic regression

Privatisation plans meet furious response

Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) and some associates in the ’United People’s Movement’ escaped with their lives when over 300 armed thugs, led by a deputy minister, raided the […]

Mass class struggle in impoverished, repressive society

Ninety years ago, the working class of Russia, led by the immortal workers of what is now St Petersburg, rose in a revolution that overthrew the 1,000-year dictatorial rule of the Tsar.

Smaller coalition parties say no to joining the United Socialist Party of Venezuela

For democratically-organised, mass non-payment

Political force representing working class needed

Scottish banks make billions while 1 million live in poverty

Bodies of murder victims likely those of kidnapped Tamils

Independent, working class policies needed to build on successes

International Women’s Day – 8 March – commemorates the struggles of women workers worldwide against low pay and exploitation.

Health, education and poor countries biggest losers – – Joe Higgins, Socialist MP

Private developers’ thugs and police demolish local homes

Step up class struggle and democratisation of unions!

Kurdish women, who are oppressed inside their community in Syria, are facing two kinds of oppression.

The United Nations Human Development Report of 2006 places Nigeria at 151 out of 177 nation-states rated basically in terms of life expectancy, educational attainment, income, seats in parliament held by women, female professional and […]

A successful showcase for fighting, socialist ideas

Former ‘radical’ journalist’s diatribe against anti-war movement and Left

In the 1920s women workers were only paid about half of what male workers earned.

‘We Won’t Pay’ leads campaign for mass non-payment

Ruling elite fear social explosions

House that hosted Lenin and Luxemburg bulldozed

Fighting programme of socialist change vital

The fundamental emancipation of women lies in the achievement of a classless society.

Parents, teachers and school students’ anti-cuts campaign

Discussion on Sri Lanka

The lessons of ‘Kwame Nkrumah’s rule and Pan-African ‘socialism’

Next step general strike?

It is quite common to hear authorities, public figures, or even some less conscious activists say that sexist violence, the violence suffered by women, “is a private issue”.