Month: August 2011

Defeat and climbdown by government

Necesitamos construir una alternativa política de los trabajadores.

August’s explosive events revealed a class society in crisis

Protest against Shell’s unsafe onshore pipeline

A solidarity picket in defense of oppressed oil workers in Kazakhstan was held near the Consulate of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the headquarters of the firm ’Oil and Gas Exploration’, in Krakow on August […]

Workers must take the struggle to the next level

Daily increase in number of students, tremendous devotion from volunteer teachers

Relative “social peace” shattered

No to foreign military intervention · Libyan workers, youth and poor must act independently of imperialism

Attempts to form a new left umbrella party

Interest among people to organize has increased

Capitalist strategists are filled with gloom at the prospect of a new economic downturn.

Workers join students on stage of struggle

“I really hope more trade union organizations give support”

Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary struggle continues

Estudiantes + Apoderados + Trabajadores X el Paro General.

Un movimiento masivo de trabajadores es necesario para derrocar el gobierno

Second major protest against pollution in one week

When workers shut down GM

SocialistAlternative.org interviewed a package handler, "Steven" at FedEx in Brockton, Massachusetts, who led a union drive with his co-workers.

Attempted Stalinist counter-revolution speeds up capitalist counter-revolution

Premier of New South Wales (NSW) want to "take on" public sector

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is organising a lobby of this year’s TUC (Britain’s trade union confederation) conference in London, 11 September

A protest took place in Dublin on the 12th of August in solidarity with striking oil workers in Kazakhstan who are engaged in a 3 month long strike against Kazmuniagas.

The life of half a million garment workers in Bangalore is nothing but a hellish existence.

Fight racism • United struggle needed against neo-liberalism and capitalism

Prisoners’ campaigner, Vadim Kuramshin, arrested twice in 3 days

Mass, trade union-led response needed

The business-woman, Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of the controversial former prime minister, the tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra, was chosen by Thailand’s parliament as the country’s 28th prime minister on 5 August.

Labour broker workers march to Minister of Labour for permanent jobs

Los violentistas que tanto le sirven al gobierno y la represión.

Wanted: ‘cleansing’ of immigrants and showdown with ‘traitors’

Hundreds sacked and union lawyer sentenced to six years in jail. Intransigent employer refuses negotiations. Now a striker murdered!

A mass workers’ movement is needed to defeat the government

Trying to control an anarchic and blind system, none of the measures taken stem the downward spiral

"Just look at this ground shaking everywhere…"

A rally was held during the CWI summer school to mark the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of civil war in Spain and to commemorate the heroic Spanish revolution.

Fatal police shooting sparks eruption of protest and anger

The death toll is rising from the Syrian army’s brutal assault on the mass uprising in the city of Hama and other areas.

US recovery strangled and European debt crisis deepening

After months of vicious manoeuvring between Republican and Democratic factions, the US Congress and president Obama agreed on a budget deal only hours before the deadline to raise the Federal government’s borrowing limit.

Inner-party struggles as repression tightened

The CWI School, which took place in Leuven, Belgium between 24 and 29 July, was opened by Peter Taaffe of the CWI’s International Secretariat on ‘Europe in turmoil, the youth revolt and the current stage […]

Working class beginning to lose fear

The package does little or nothing to reduce the unsustainable debt mountain or stimulate economic growth