Month: October 2012

For a Southern European-wide general strike on 14 November!

Vienna protests publicised in Kazakhstan

If demands of working people to be realised, it is necessary to be self-organised with clear aims

Opulence for robber capitalist elite but no boom for working masses

But growing contradictions for President Dilma Rouseff, as Party of Socialism and Freedom makes gains

A workers’ alternative is urgently needed!

Preparing for a one-day general strike

Young people demand real job creation and an end to attacks on public services

Who was Malcolm X?

New phase in struggle against austerity Workers travelled from across Britain to London today to express their fury at the Con-Dem government’s vicious cuts in living standards. The Trades Union Congress (TUC), which organised this […]

Rising national tensions point to new turbulent era in East Asia

US presidential race gap closes

The struggle for social justice continues

No desperate accolades from Nobel or anywhere will stop this present decline or shore up the EU’s biggest faultline – the eurozone crisis.

The class struggle in South Africa is far sharper than in many countries. Socialist consciousness is far higher among the powerful, industrial working class.

Massive strike after 50 years against outsourcing and cheap wages

Campaign Kazakhstan banner denounces attacks against oil workers

Text of Socialismo Revolucionario leaflet

A daily occurence

International Solidarity needed

National Strike Coordinating Committee launched on 13 October

But Ivanishvili’s ‘Georgian Dream’ is a false dawn for working class and poor

Spread of committees needed to prepare for general strike

A significant feature of the thousands strong march on 29 September in Dublin to mark International Decriminalisation of Abortion Day was the number of young people, especially young women.

Step towards national coordinated strike action

‘March for a Future’ a “powerful statement”

The struggle for a new mass workers’ party with a socialist programme

For a general strike movement to bring down the government and kick out the Troika

But socialist policies needed.

Labour leader promises more ’tough settlements for public services’

Great event in London on 2 October raises the demand for freedom for Aron Atabek and imprisoned Zhanaozen strikers

A strike on 3 October prevented the daily newspaper from being published the next morning. Workers fight back against lay-offs and cuts.

Under pressure from below, a number of unions have started to adopt a program for occupations and escalation of repeated 48 hour general strikes

The “Joint Strike Coordinating Committee” of all mines on strike in Rustenburg calls for a march next Saturday to confront the government. It argues for a general strike for a national living wage of R12,500 […]

Now for an united and international mobilisation to take the struggle forward!

It is 50 years since The Beatles’ first single, Love Me Do, released on 5 October 1962, a rough sounding beat record.

Joe Higgins challenges European Parliament President Martin Schulz in the Dail

Time to strike a united blow against EU/Troika austerity! For a European-wide day of general strikes and mobilisations this autumn! Towards a 24-hour all-European general strike!

Mine workers’ strikes boosted by success at Lonmin – coordinating committee needs solidarity

Factory fire kills 300 workers, hundreds injured

Aged 95, Hobsbawm still participated in the debate about the alternative to capitalism

CWI holds enthusiastic week-end of discussion and planning