Month: October 2010

Interview with Alex Lecoq, Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France), a student in Rouen

Appeal for solidarity

Kazakh Socialist and human rights activist, Ainur Kurmanov, addresses the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights about the dictatorship in Kazakhstan and human rights abuses there.

Ainur Kurmanov slams regime’s record in Human Rights Committee of Euro-Parliament

Largest non-sectarian demonstration since anti-war movement

The planned economy and the struggle for socialism

Solidarity needed!

Jesse Lessinger, Socialist Alternative (CWI USA)

4,000 workers from at least ten different trade unions, led by 100 striking firefighters, marched through central London on Saturday 23 October.

Millions of workers and youth want an end to the Sarkozy ’dictatorship’

Build a one-day public sector strike!

For a one-day public sector general strike

Socialist Party MEP Joe Higgins commented on the outcome of reported talks between President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel against the background of the EU Finance Ministers meetings in Luxembourg: “The capitalist establishments of France and […]

2010 Socialist Party National Conference resolution

Trade union forced to respond with action

Shi Chuan, chinaworker.info Due to infamous sweatshop working conditions, serial suicides and accidental deaths, the largest global OEM corporation (original equipment manufacturer), Foxconn, is shifting its manufacturing bases from China’s southeastern coast to inland provinces. […]

To stop cuts and bailouts Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) must take real action

£81 billion cuts announced on "axe Wednesday"

“it’s one for all and all for one”

Demands Joe Higgins MEP

9 years after invasion and occupation

Sri Lanka has once again lived up to its reputation as one of the most dangerous places for a journalist to work

Workers and youth challenge cuts through mass strikes and protests

Will Ireland go bankrupt?

Pro-big business politicians can be forced to retreat

Important tool of the working class

Workers can bring the whole economy to a halt

IMF summit fiasco

On the same day the Irish government announced a further rescue package of €35 billion for Anglo Irish Bank, finance minister, Brian Lenihan, declared that the projected budget cuts of €3 billion will have to […]

The illusions in “Lulismo” and the challenge facing the socialist left

Capitalism faces one of its greatest crises – Need for mass parties of the working class

New paper and website of CWI in Netherlands!

Step up international protests!

New stage in the fight against Sarkozy’s policies

“Organise common struggle”

Neil Kinnock’s speech to the 1985 Labour Party conference signalled the start of a purge of Marxists from the party and anticipated the creation of New Labour.

What strategy to beat the cuts?

United Socialist Party and the fight for democratic rights

Community Defense Campaign Immediately Launched

Socialist Report and Analysis

Harassment and threats will not stop struggle for prison and democratic rights

The horrific living conditions faced by many Indigenous people are a blight on Australian capitalism.

Urgent messages of protest needed!

A paper presented on September 28, 2010 by Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary, at the 21st Annual Education Conference of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria

Beggars death in Bangalore

The threat of counter revolution stronger!

The battle against ‘Stuttgart 21’ reaches new heights

Tommy and Gail Sheridan’s trial on charges of perjury has started in Glasgow.

Fight school closures!

When it comes to putting forward prescriptions for dragging their economic system out of its current mess, the breathtaking arrogance of members of the capitalist establishment never ceases to amaze.

"A tidal wave of protest is rolling towards the coalition government, roaring, foaming, darkening the sky, sucking every political argument into a lethal wall of water… delegates to the TUC, freed from decades of impotence, […]

Growing social war underway

Workers of Lisbon Municipal council face the biggest threat on jobs and services ever

It’s been 18 months since Victoria was rocked by the Black Saturday bushfires which left over 150 people dead and thousands of homes destroyed. But despite government commitments to improve firefighting facilities, serious questions remain […]

More than one hundred thousand children left homeless by Pakistan’s floods are in danger of dying because they simply do not have enough to eat, according to UNICEF.

The first step!

On the European Day of Action, 29 September, the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) distributed a leaflet in Dublin, which we re-publish here.

30,000 public sector and 10,000 private sector jobs under threat

Organised protest action shakes Kazakhstan authorities

The October 2nd “One Nation” event has been pegged as a march for jobs for all, “and an economy that works for working people; funding for education and health care, not warfare; clean, renewable energy; […]

Tea Party Candidate Upsets Republican Party Pick for Governor of New York