Month: January 2008

Workers demand higher wages to off set rising energy and food prices.

“One of the 20th century’s biggest killers and greatest thieves”

State and society in crisis

Global capitalism faces its worst crisis since 1945.

On 2 December 2007, Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, unfortunately suffered his first electoral defeat since winning power in 1998. Hugo Chávez’s defeat in December’s referendum marks a key point in Venezuela’s revolution. The high […]

Sixty arrested and held in police cells

Tukwila School authorities forced to back down

Workers need party that fights bosses’ system

As share values tumbled in the most dramatic falls since 9/11, the talk was not so much of whether there will be a recession, but of how deep and long it will be.

On 16 December, former Scottish Socialist Party MSP Tommy Sheridan was charged by Lothian and Borders police after the most expensive perjury investigation ever in Scotland.

Independent working class policies only solution to oppression and ethnic strife

“We’ve given enough!” – Public sector industrial action likely

Violent confrontation could erupt

Workers need a political alternative to pro-capitalist parties and ethnic conflict

Hindu Rights Action Force campaign underlines need for socialist solution

Union leaders try to break strike

Memory of Bobby Sands invoked by SF to deflect from right wing policies

”This is the most disastrous defeat since the establishment of the party” – Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian

Electorate looking to shed the legacy of the Bush administration

Behind the rhetoric of "hope" and "change"

Society polarised

Urgent solidarity action needed!

Growing national and religious tensions – How do socialists approach this issue?

Dean Roberts from ‘The Socialist’ newspaper in Australia visited China where he met with Li Gang who is a 25 year old white collar worker and socialist from Shanghai

The wheels have come off the Gordon Brown bandwagon.

Full-scale war to follow assassination and bombings

Germany is the economic powerhouse of Europe, accounting for just over 20% of total European Union Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Pakistan People’s Party leadership ’bequeathed’ and no change in policy indicated

Crisis will be used to argue it is impossible to build a mass force to the left of Labour.