Month: August 2010

SNP are putting independence on the backburner

Aren’t people motivated by money? Wouldn’t socialism stifle hard work and innovation?

Lawyer attacked and arrested in run-up to Euro MP’s visit

Business and media circles are agog at “the most significant development in philanthropy” for many decades.

On August 28, the right-wing populist Tea Party Movement, an assortment of conservative organizations, and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck will descend on Washington, D.C. for the so-called “Restoring the Honor” rally.

The Australian Federal election held on August 21 delivered a hung parliament – the first in 70 years. Neither the Labor Party led by Julia Gillard nor the Coalition led by Tony Abbott won the […]

Strike and protest action in around 4,000 factories

“Criminal negligence” of government and the super-rich

Accordging to the Police Federation of Northern Ireland, dissident republican groups have been responsible for carrying out an average of two attacks a day since the beginning of the year.

Up to 1,000 firefighters poured into the conference room of TUC headquarters for a mass meeting of the London Fire Brigades Union (FBU) on Tuesday night (24 August).

The Hungarian parliamentary elections in April 2010 secured a landslide victory for the conservative FIDESZ party, with their leader Victor Orbán retaking the Prime Ministerial position that he had held from 1998 to 2002.

The government hid information to the families for hours

London Socialist Party members travelled to Watford (North of London) to deliver a protest letter to the Vinci regional office.

Solidarity vital

Solidarity message from socialist brutally assaulted by thugs

DSM demands: General Strike to support public sector workers

Towards a 24 hour all-European general strike!

With thousands of young people being denied a university place, facing a substandard education, forced into low paid work or left on the scrapheap of unemployment, a nationally organised fightback is essential.

Workers in Europe donate

Trotsky’s key 1938 work shows rich application of the method of Marxism

70 years on from his asasination, is it “Springtime for Trotsky?”

Employers bow down to their demands

Response to brutal attacks on Russian activists

TWENTY MILLION people affected, over 1,600 dead and thousands face starvation, but the Pakistan government’s lacklustre response and incompetence has made the disaster worse.

Urgent response to solidarity appeal needed!

…amid fears of a double-dip recession

Eye-witness accounts from flood-devastated areas

While most of Germany is on summer holiday the southern city of Stuttgart has seen, every few days, thousands of people take to the streets in protest…

More protests needed!

Coming mass revolts will see workers and youth look to Trotsky’s ideas

Small farmers and peasants to suffer the most

Towards a wave of struggle?

Letter of protest by Joe Higgins MEP to Russian Ambassador

Wages have been slashed, unemployment has exploded and our public services have been cut savagely as the economic crisis developed in Ireland. All of this is the result of the policies of the right-wing government […]

Appeal for workers’ solidarity!

Longer strike may follow after negotiations on Thursday

Stop the destruction of the Khimkinskii forest – Stop brutal attacks against socialists and environmental activists

Solidarity with Igor Yashin and the CWI comrades in Moscow! We demand an immediate end to all violence and persecution of protestors and antifascists in Russia!

Trade Unions must condemn the outrageous nomination fees, and actively build and fund the Party

Last Friday, 6 August, Komorowski (Civic Platform) was sworn in as the new president in Poland.

Against violent attack on environmentalists

According to President Obama, America has come “90 percent of the way” towards ending racism. This statement, however, is violently contradicted by the brutal police killing of Oscar Grant, a young black man, by a […]

The concerted might of the strongest and largest military force in the world, that of the US, is failing to defeat the disparate and crudely equipped Taliban militias in one of the poorest countries of […]

Organise protests at Russian embassies and against the Vinci company – send copies of solidarity

Dozens have died in fires, hundreds have been arrested, thousands have drowned in the last month as the ecological crisis and the struggle against its causes find their epicenter in Moscow.

Leaflet of New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

Socialist Alternative representative Ramy Khalil debated Tea Party leader Keli Carender on radio

20,000 people marched along the streets of Warsaw on 17 July on what was Eastern Europe’s largest ever gay rights demonstration.

The Fianna Fáil/ Green Party Government has just about limped to the shelter of the Dáil summer recess, battered and severely frayed at the edges.

An IPSOS/MRBI poll published in June in the Irish Times showed Labour as the most popular party in the Irish Republic with 32% support. This has never happened before in the history of elections or […]

After New Labour’s axe men began the education cuts, the Con-Dem butchers seem to have been let loose with a chainsaw.

Thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh took to the streets of Dhaka to dismiss the recently announced increase in the minimum wage as completely inadequate.

Workers need a party of their own!

For international solidarity and struggle for socialism!

Workers from the Kennon Auto factory in Melbourne’s northern suburb of Preston went on strike in early July. After being denied a pay rise for more than 3 years these low paid workers decided to […]

The PCS civil servants union’s national executive committee (NEC) has met to discuss how to respond to the Tory/Liberal coalition government’s cuts and privatisation programme.

After weeks of vacillation the TUC has finally agreed NOT to call a national demo against the cuts this year.

Protests have broken out in Guangzhou and Hong Kong over a proposal from Guangzhou-based official Ji Kekuang that Guangdong Television stop its news coverage in Cantonese and go over to Putonghua (Mandarin), China’s official language.