Month: May 2010

The first slice of cuts under the ’Con-Dem’ coalition government makes it clear that young people face a bleak future under its stewardship.

"Strike until success – re-constructing the trade union!"

Counter-summit to meeting of European, Latin American and Caribbean leaders discusses alternatives to the current crisis.

A CONSTANT stream of Tamils flowed into Parliament Square, London, on Tuesday 18 May.

Dismissals with Sixt because of foundation of a works committee

A mass student strike has shut down university campuses for nearly two months in Puerto Rico.

LSD’s 278,931 votes to Donald Tsang’s 649 votes – who has failed to muster support?

At a Plenary Session of the European Parliament, Joe Higgins MEP condemns the brutal repression of protesters in Thailand by the military

Workers alternative needed to agenda of Europe’s bosses

Not-so-new politics

Preparing for mass struggle

Time for mass struggle to fight the cuts

Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, gave a sober but inspiring analysis of the general election outcome on a London meeting of the Socialist Party. Hear his speech here (40 min, mp3-file).

At a central meeting of SYRIZA in Athens last Friday, 14 May, Joe Higgins, MEP for the Socialist Party in Ireland, spoke, along with Alexis Tsipras (chair of SYRIZA’s parliamentary group), Manolis Glezos (member of […]

The Chinese revolution of 1925-27 represented one of the most gigantic and splendid movements in human history.

Obituary

State colludes with Multinational

10,000 students and school students protested in Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana, on 19 May. A demonstration began on Preseren Square. Students then moved to the Slovenian parliament and smashed its facade with eggs, stones and bottles. […]

The Conference of the Democratic Left (CDL) is an initiative to bring together left organisations, social movements and activists to confront the disastrous social, economic and political crisis in South Africa.

PETER HADDEN, Northern secretary of the Irish section of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI), the Socialist Party, sadly died at the age of 60, in Belfast, on 5 May after a three year […]

By the time this report was written, the tension had increased to a new level in the streets of Bangkok since the passsing of Wednesday night’s ultimatum.

A week-end of discussion on perspectives for the left – in Italy and in Europe – against the background of international capitalist crisis.

Tinkering or transformation?

Let them eat cake – the ugly backdrop to the beautiful game

Britain has been ‘Con Dem-ned’ to a future of savage attacks on public services, pay, pensions and benefits combined with tax increases for working and middle-class people.

Cabin crew turn up the pressure on BA boss

Unions respond to new austerity measures

Message from Ainur Kurmanov on his release from jail

"We feel that successful co-ordinated protests in the week of 21 to 26 June would have a major impact and send a clear message to the European establishments."

"We will not pay for your crisis!" – Members of the GUE / NGL group (United European Left /Nordic Green Left) in the European Parliament speak out in favour of European Days of Protest and […]

Hit back against the ruling gang of unelected government and billionaire tycoons

The disaster caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was a human disaster but not of the workforce’s making. It is due to decisions of the oil companies and the US government.

The Berlin area leadership of the German metal workers’ union has begun the procedure to expel left wing, combative members. Please write messages of protest!

Over 140 people discuss socialist politics

International campaign continues!

The dictatorship of the financial markets continues apace and those currently being crushed by its dictat are the workers, the pensioners and the poor of Greece.

All capitalist parties ’losers’

Constant stigmatisation of Muslim population

Nationalise the oil and gas giants

TUSC stands for socialism…and prepares for the battles ahead

A lifelong socialist activist in Ireland

International Workers’ Day protests around the world

CWI leaflet

Refuse to pay the debt, nationalize the banks!

The countries that adopted the euro are facing the most precarious situation for their currency union since they started using the euro in 2002.

This morning, Wednesday 5 May, the court in Almaty sentenced Esen Ukteshbaev to five days imprisonment simply for being at a peaceful May Day demonstration last week-end. URGENT ACTION NEEDED.

It is clear that a wave of arrests and repression against left and social movement activists in Kazakhstan is gathering pace.

Free Ainur Kurmanov and drop all charges against leaders of workers’ movement

Political landscape little changed since 2008 ‘tsunami’

Turkish and Kurdish workers and youth send a signal of their strength

Why, fundamentally, the Green Party is not offering a way forward for working class people