Month: April 2013

Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.

Writing off of any debt accrued due to the bedroom tax, supporting the building of new social housing, opposing all cuts and austerity measures

Socialist policies needed

SSM member, Suiher Daska and other left candidates were elected to the leadership of the union on the background of the coming struggles against austerity

"Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s hidden war" by Frances Harrison

Teachers at Garfield High school in Seattle, Washington, faced down possible suspension for boycotting the winter Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test, which purports to evaluate student progress in reading and maths.

La Alianza y la Oposición (Concertación más el PC), cual repetido chiste de payasos se dan golpes falsos acusándose de lo que el otro hizo o no hizo, buscando así el apoyo del público

Hundreds of people protested outside London’s Houses of Parliament on 14 April to demand that caste oppression in Britain be outlawed.

A surprisingly devastating critique of the ANC’s failure to ensure ‘a better life for all’; BBC2 April 24th and online

Nacionalicemos la banca para resolver el problema de la vivienda

Socialist polices needed to resolve crisis in the interests of majority

Paquete de Estímulo Sin Precedentes – una apuesta desesperada

Following the launch of the WASP the work is ongoing to, on the one hand, complete the formal registration of the party and, on the other, sink its roots and establish its structures across South […]

NO to Racism and Repression

Unprecedented stimulus package – a desperate gamble

Recently discovered photos of the Spanish civil war

‘No’ vote puts Labour Party on the ropes

Workers must take urgent steps to defeat capitalism and the right-wing.

"The Provisional IRA: from insurrection to parliament" by Tommy McKearney looks in detail at the IRA’s development

Socialist Party statement on the Australian political situation

The Troika’s bail-out package is an economic and social disaster for the people of Cyprus.

University of Ibadan (UI): End victimisation of student activists! – Call for protest letters and solidarity

Paul Murphy speaks out as European Parliament debates Human Rights

Lively meeting of party members and supporters elects Lagos state executive

On 13 March, seven young men were executed in Saudi Arabia by firing squad.

Appeal for protest letters and solidarity

Es hora de profundizar la Revolución Bolivariana o la derecha nos derrotara

¿CUALES SON LAS PERSPECTIVAS?

The bombings today [15 April 2013] at the Boston Marathon are an absolute tragedy and a horror that shouldn’t happen in Boston or anywhere else in the world.

Nearly 10,000 show determined, angry and positive mood

In the first week of March share prices surged on the New York Stock Exchange followed by other major exchanges. Does this signify a revival of the global capitalist economy?

Con 78,71% de participación y 99,12% de los votos escrutados, Nicolás Maduro gana con 7.505.338, que represento 50,6%.

A socialist perspective on fighting women’s oppression

Peter Taaffe was invited on 10 April to give a series of interviews to BBC Radio local stations on whether there should be protests at Thatcher’s funeral.

Millions have been waiting for this day, 8 April 2013. Margaret Thatcher will never be forgiven for the devastation that her Tory governments’ policies wrought on working class communities in the 1980s – and is […]

About 70,000 activists from around the world gathered at the WSF in Tunis, 26-30 March.

Angry, bitter and undeterred, hundreds of pensioners and activists rally in Lagos

Fifteen years without a pay rise – “We are like slaves of the company!”

Just over a month since the death of Chavez and with less than a week till the presidential elections, Venezuelans are experiencing the highest level of political polarization seen in years.

“Ella es vista por muchos como una especie moderna de Gengis Khan. Elegida en 1979 desató un feroz asalto contra el nivel de vida y los derechos democráticos de la clase obrera.”

“Ella es vista por muchos como una especie moderna de Gengis Khan. Elegida en 1979 desató un feroz asalto contra el nivel de vida y los derechos democráticos de la clase obrera.”

Mere sabre-rattling or real risk to lives of millions?

Thatcher’s bitter legacy

We must stop them!

Tres miembros del Movimiento Socialista de Pakistán murieron en la violencia sectaria en Quetta

Weak Israeli government will try to implement austerity budget, and would try to maintain the occupation, possibly under a new cover of "negotiations" with Palestinians. Resistance likely on all fronts.

Anti-bedroom tax protests attracted thousands of people in Glasgow and Edinburgh last weekend – reflecting the mass opposition to the hated ConDem policy.

No political voice for working class