Month: June 2013

Workers demand nationalisation of KazakhMys metal foundry

Representatives of the 1% pledge more austerity, war and environmental degradation

Beijing’s sharp credit squeeze adds panic on global financial markets

Disband the NSA! Repeal the Patriot Act!

British trade unionist speaks out

3,000 march from Enniskillen to summit perimeter fence

Tremors of the coming revolt

An injury to one is an injury to all

Leaders of Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE) call for genuinely independent enquiry

Khamenie and Rouhani are riding a tiger

Leaderships of unions and Left parties fail to provide decisive leadership

Governors of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and many other cities cut transport fares but the struggle must continue.

New layer of workers, youth and poor has entered the scene with the promise: “This is just the beginning – the struggle continues”

Socialist MEP condemns police violence during Turkey/ EU trade relations session

Well over 250,000 in approximately 20 cities took to the streets

Revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have exposed US hypocrisy over cyber-spying

End the rule of big business, poverty and war

Mass demonstrations against the increase of bus fares in all major cities

“We will defend our rights and continue fighting”.

Fed up with continued oppression, workers under the banner of ’Pradeep Laminators Workers’ Union’ have started a propaganda campaign against the bosses.

MEP Paul Murphy criticises EU foreign policy representative, Catherine Ashton, over calls for ’restraint on all sides’

Unions must organise general strike action now!

Socialist MP slams huge security operation and anti-working class record of world leaders

Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy travelled to Istanbul to see the protests first-hand – and in his diary from the visit he tells us that the response from the country’s Prime Minister has been “brutal”.

24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors

Urgent need for independent working class socialist organisations

Paul Murphy to visit heart of Turkish Protests

An 18-year-old student activist Clement Meric was murdered in Paris in broad daylight, on 5 June, by neo-fascist skinheads. This must be answered by mass mobilisation to halt attempts by the far right to raise […]

Police repression in the belly of the beast

A group of 12 MEPs from the left wing group in the European Parliament, GUE-NGL, have signed a joint message of support to Anti-G8 protestors ahead of the summit in two weeks’ time.

Unrest grows over economic and social issues

Public sector workers take strike action against police violence – For a one day general strike as a next step to bring down the government!

Over 2,000 poeple attended the anti – bedroom tax rally in Glasgow’s George Square on June 1 called by the Scottish Anti Bedroom Tax Federation.

Secret Services bolster police ahead of G8 Summit in N Ireland

Vital lessons for today’s democracy struggle