Month: May 2013

EU council meeting: Another attempt to put the burden of the capitalist crisis on the shoulders of youth and working people

Sweden once had a reputation as some kind of ‘social-democratic model’ with far-reaching public services and social support. But that has been dismantled by two decades of attacks – what the Economist magazine calls a […]

Profits from destruction

The one day protest general strike held on 21 May was a significant step forward for the working class in Sri Lanka.

Neo-liberalism and police violence have created social time-bomb

The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of Europe.

MEP demands immediate release of Housing Campaigners – solidarity still needed

Statement on Woolwich killing

In the «most developped country for women in the Arab world», the struggle for women rights remains more relevant than ever

After Lafontaine’s proposal to get rid of the Euro – what should the left say?

Protests needed via embassies

Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year

Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism

An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass working peoples’ defence committees!

This year’s G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, on 17th – 18th June. This gathering brings together the heads of government of eight of the world’s largest capitalist economies to discuss […]

Increasing concerns and contradictions

Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike

Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background of deep divisions in society and the regime.

Australia’s federal environment minister Tony Burke gave the go ahead to Toro’s $270 million uranium mining project in the Wiluna region of Western Australia.

Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards

We shouldn’t let either of the major parties tell us that ‘tough decisions’ or ‘hard cuts’ are required.

Bus workers take strike action over savage wage cuts and attacks on conditions

15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies

How can a state be realised?

The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial power.

On 8 May the PKK has begun to withdraw from Turkey. Millions are hoping now for an end to oppression and for democratic rights.

Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters and young people

On 2 May the neo-fascist Golden Dawn attempted to distribute food in Syntagma square in Athens to people holding proof of Greek nationality.

Time for a new mass workers’ party

New clashes on the horizon

Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots

The United Socialist Party’s May Day demonstration passed successfully through a number of populous areas of Colombo, ending at Grand Pass Junction.

Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8 percent – but important issues are unresolved

’Get a job!’ is the constant refrain of privileged Tory ministers and vicious right-wing tabloids. A million unemployed young people are the subject of a relentless campaign of smears and lies.

Sosyalist hareket üyesi 3 Pakistanlı Quetta’da mezhepçi çatışmada katledildi.

Great event remembers the ’47’ struggle

Christine Thomas’ book outlines how inequalities and discrimination against women have not disappeared and women’s struggles must be bound up with wider class struggle to be successful. Read the complete book online here.

Those who created the crisis should be forced to pay.

The last set of DSM members still in the detention of the state security service (SSS) in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, and Ibadan Oyo state, Southwest Nigeria, as of yesterday, has been released.

Progressive Workers Federation (PWF), TURCP and SMP organised and intervened in the May Day activities across the country

It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 400 garment workers crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the […]

Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more besides…

‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’

Photos of May Day demonstration in Sindh

DSM comrades arrested and detained

CC rules budget illegal for second time, government declares war against it

The CWI sends revolutionary greetings and solidarity to workers, young people and all those exploited by capitalism.