Egypt
Egypt: Regime’s ‘reforms’ and deep recession widen massive inequalities
Strikes and mass protests harbinger of social and political explosions
Month: November 2009
Germany
Germany: New government’s savage cuts by stealth
Struggles brewing – huge potential for Die Linke
History & Anniversaries
History: Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938
Political Genocide in the USSR – Review of new book by Russian historian Vadim Z. Rogovin (Mehring Books)
ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019
Russia: British Marxist debates Stalin and Trotsky
CWI represented in Moscow debate
ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019
Russia: Russia/Georgia War, capitalist crisis and the workers’ movement…
Vital debates for socialists
ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019
Ireland: 250,000 public service workers take part in one-day strike
Union leaders discuss sell out despite historic action
Indonesia
Indonesia: Eyewitness report from refugee boat in Merak
Deplorable conditions for 254 Tamil refugees
Video
Economy: Is the worst over?
Video interview with Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today (www.SocialismToday.org) and member of the International Secretariat of the CWI (Committee for a Workers’ International)
ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019
Ireland: Socialist Party Conference
Build the fightback!
Science & Technology
Climate change: More evidence….
Socialist planning needed!
ARCHIVE | ChinaWorker.info was the CWI section in China, Honk Kong and Taiwan until 2019
Hong Kong: Huge clash looming over universal suffrage
Mass struggle needed to break the undemocratic grip of Beijing-backed capitalist elite
Venezuela
Venezuela: A new phase and greater dangers.
Which way forward?
History & Anniversaries
Soviet Union: Revolutionary ferment of twenty years ago
The nightmare of capitalism’s return to the land of the October Revolution
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe: Towards a new general strike?
‘French West Indies’ boiling again
Scotland
Scotland: New Labour holds Glasgow seat in lowest ever by-election turnout
Solidarity’s Tommy Sheridan only viable socialist candidate
ARCHIVE | ChinaWorker.info was the CWI section in China, Honk Kong and Taiwan until 2019
China: 3,000 female garment workers take strike action
Hainan staff take on European lingerie giant ‘Triumph’
ARCHIVE | Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna was the CWI section in Sweden until 2019
Latvia: Worst unemployment in Europe
Government gives in to EU pressure for further austerity
ARCHIVE | Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna was the CWI section in Sweden until 2019
Iran: Biggest street protests since June mass opposition movement
Interview with exiled socialist students
Youth & Students
Youth in Revolt: Fightback spreads in Germany
Occupations in 17 colleges and universities!
Britain
Britain: Socialism 2009
1,000 people attend weekend of dicussion and debate hosted by Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)
ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019
Irlanda: 90.000 personas se manifiestan en el día nacional de protesta
¡Los sindicatos deben terminar con sus políticas de consenso social y luchar para derrotar al gobierno!
ARCHIVE | Pakistan
Pakistan: Baluchistan at tipping point
No end to the violence
Our activity
Joe Higgins MEP speaks on trade and human rights in Columbia & Peru at International trade commission
In the video below, Joe Higgins Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP, highlights human rights in Columbia at the Commission on International Trade at the European Parlament on 9 November 2009.
Middle East & North Africa
Middle East: Deadlocked ‘peace deals’, bloody occupations, threat of new wars…
Mass opposition movements & strikes the way forward – Workers need to organise independently!
Indonesia
Indonesia: Tamil-speaking refugees on boat in desperate situation
Bombard embassies with protests!
ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019
Ireland: 90,000 march in national day of action
Unions must finish with the policies of social partnership and fight to defeat the government!
Science & Technology
Climate Change: Climate summit Copenhagen December 2009
Save the climate – scrap Capitalism!
ARCHIVE | Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna was the CWI section in Sweden until 2019
Sweden: Fighting spirit at CWI section’s Congress
Copenhagen climate summit a focus for the party
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Successful Congress of United Socialist Party
Delegates defied “very difficult circumstances”
Austria
Austria: University and school students, kindergarden workers and metal workers protest in joint day of action
15th day of university occupations – at least 20,000 on the streets
Our activity
Car industry: GM pulls out from Opel/Vauxhall sale
Workers threatened with blackmail again
ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019
1989: From perestroika to capitalist restoration
The end of the Soviet Union
History & Anniversaries
1989: Germany – Power was lying on the street
East German revolution and counter revolution
ARCHIVE | Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna was the CWI section in Sweden until 2019
Climate change: Capitalism – costing the earth
Climate change threatens the future of humanity
ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019
US: Ford Workers Reject New Concessions
Build a movement to change the UAW!
ARCHIVE | Poland
Poland: Defeat from the jaws of victory
In August 1980, Poland’s Stalinist regime was rocked by a massive strike wave which swept across the country.
Scotland
Scotland: Scottish National Party (SNP) tables ‘independence’ referendum bill
SNP, New Labour & Tories – All pro-capitalist parties threaten major cuts in jobs and services
History & Anniversaries
History: A Planet without Debates
Robert Service declines invitation to debate the life of Leon Trotsky