Month: November 2013

Tony Benn’s latest volume of diaries continues his frank and honest appraisal of his political life. He has campaigned long and hard – but in vain – to halt the degeneration of the Labour Party.

Urgent solidarity needed

«It is already 10 past midnight»

The world situation and the tasks for the CWI

Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) holds inaugural convention

“Earth-shattering consequences” in the US and internationally

Victory rally in Seattle sets the tone for struggles ahead and more historic opportunities for the socialist left

Democrat Richard Conlin concedes to Socialist Alternative challenger

Big success for $15/hour minimum wage campaign; breakthrough for independent working class politics

With the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) taking place from 10 to 17 November all eyes are on Sri Lanka

Socialist challenges make history

But union leaders launch attack on CWI activist

Statement on the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting taking place (CHOGM) in Colombo

Workers’ action mounts

Preparing for a new Bachelet government, Marcel Claude and the building of a new force for workers and youth

Paul Murphy MEP speaks on a preferential trade agreement with Myanmar (Burma) when there is still serious human rights abuses taking place in the country against ethnic minorities

Cameron to Sri Lanka – not in our name

An interview with the maker of Utopia, John Pilger

Interview with Hidouri Abdessalem, member of the regional UGTT office for secondary education, Sidi Bouzid

The beginning of a wider struggle against the far-right and racism

Strongest showing by socialists in decades – Opportunities for working-class politics must be seized

Who gains from terrorism?

An important step to renew working class feminism

Reflecting a thirst to resist and the search for ideas

Class hatred of an out-of-touch capitalist elite

Joe Higgins speaks in parliament on legacy of 1913

Chinese state steps up repression against Uighurs and other national minorities

Debate centres on question of EU following massive human chain in favour of independence on 11 September