Month: January 2008

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

Defeat of German workers’ movement led to Nazi barbarism

Los medios de comunicación chilenos han informado que la compañera Patricia Troncoso, la Chepa, presa política mapuche, tras una heroica huelga de hambre de 110 días, le ha puesto fin, después que el gobierno accedió […]

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

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.

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.

¿Cómo es posible justificar el asesinato de jóvenes mapuches?

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

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

Union leaders try to break strike

Luego de la derrota del 2 de diciembre la ofensiva del gobierno había sido de confrontación contra la derecha pero este discurso ha ido cambiando con el tiempo luego de no obtener los resultados esperados. […]

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

Algunos puntos para discutir sobre perspectivas para Chile

La Coordinadora de Juventudes Anti-Fascista, con el nombre aún en disputa, nació como una reacción directa al amedrentamiento constante, directo y abusivo de la derecha capitalista.

El referéndum inminente para la nueva Constitución Política de Estado (CPE) ha forzado a todas las organizaciones e individuos de los movimientos sociales a considerar la siguiente pregunta: ¿Debemos apoya o rechazar la nueva CPE?

Mientras participantes de más que 30 países en la reunión del Comité Ejecutivo Internacional (CEI) del CIT regresaron a casa, una intensificación de la lucha de clases en el año que viene pareció más y […]

Price hikes cause riots and struggles for higher pay

Behind the rhetoric of "hope" and "change"

Electorate looking to shed the legacy of the Bush administration

Society polarised

Urgent solidarity action needed!

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

Matías Catrileo acaba de ser asesinado por carabineros en una comunidad mapuche de Villarica

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).

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

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