Month: January 2011

Interview with Ghassen Kamarti, by CWI reporter in Tunis

Stand off continues as workers’ siege of company headquarters enters third day

Urgent Solidarity needed – Support Shawn Whatley! Stop all retaliations against Georgia prison strike activists!

Regime deploys army on streets to try to crush mass movement

Workers and youth resist UBP government’s austerity measures

Unprecedented political vendetta ends in draconian sentence

One day strike in engineering industry this Friday

Radical political force dealt a serious blow • Pro-Beijing camp jubilant

“Tunisia is the solution”

Religion, politics and the working class

For the building of a mass workers alternative against sectarianism, war and poverty

The Struggle Continues

Army ordered to block roads as police join the movement

Labour agrees to rush through draconian Finance Bill and to implement austerity measures

A united struggle of Arab and Jewish workers against ‘contract labour’ and for decent wages.

The first phase of the revolution ousted Ben Ali! It must continue!

Nearly 600 people, mostly workers with elected positions in trade union branches, trades councils, workplaces and anti-cuts alliances, met in London on 22 January for the special anti-cuts conference of the National Shop Stewards Network […]

Nationalise Foxconn under workers’ control and management – end the scourge of ‘blood factories’

National Shop Stewards Network conference 22 January

20,000 jobs under threat – protesting workers forced the authorities to retreat

Masses demand real democracy and change to social conditions

Militant workers protesting in central Athens clash with thier union leaders

Growing authoritarianism as economic crisis deepens and workers’ resistance grows

Deficit Commission’s Bitter Medicine

Follow their example of struggle

Protesting port workers of Port Qasim in Karachi walked out and effectively took over the port on 17th of January.

The Struggle for LGBT Rights Continues

Solidarity needed

Why has it taken so long for the EU governments to support the movement against the dictatorship in Tunisia, asks Radio France International

The political establishment is away behind the majority of the population in their decision to implement the diktats of the financial markets.

The attack of Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six other people is a warning to working people about the serious political danger involved in the rise of the extreme right wing.

Chinese authorities have made 96 detentions of people suspected of producing and selling melamine-tainted dairy products

Mass popular uprising forced Ben Ali to flee the country

“The people sacrificed so much – they are not ready for fake promises”

Parliament rubberstamps ‘referendum’ to postpone election until 2020

Both Parties Plan Attacks on Working People

The challenge of the United Left Alliance (ULA) to the right wing consensus in Irish politics is strengthening rapidly. As of today, a total of 17 constituencies will be contested by 18 ULA candidates in […]

‘Voice of the Republic’ newspaper staff harassed and arrested

Defend the right to demonstrate

Stop the repression, for international solidarity!

How to defeat cuts and tax rises?

A thousand protests made worldwide against jailing of trade union and social activist

Religious extremism on the rise

Solidarity with the Algerian and Tunisian masses!

Protests and creation of independent unions show potential for workers’ unity

Socialist writings on Ireland and the national question

Tax Deal Provokes Fury on the Left

Presidential Election brings the country to the brink of full scale war and worsens the crisis of capitalism

Message of solidarity from Joe Higgins MEP to Tunisian trade unionists, socialists and democracy activists

After December’s mass action, build a mass movement to end the "new Jim Crow" policy of mass incarceration!

Joe Higgins’ New Years Message

Book Review: ’James P Cannon and the origins of the American revolutionary left, 1890-1928’ by Bryan D Palmer

How to fight the far right?