Month: December 2013

Joe Higgins walks out of Irish parliament and calls for mass boycott of new water tax

How to change the world

The Troika is not going anywhere

Urgent solidarity needed

Politically explosive investigation of former security czar marks a new phase of internal power struggle

Society turned back forty years, in nine months

Social and political instability to continue into next period

Informe del debate sobre Europa en la última reunión del Comité Ejectivo Internacional del CIT

Violent attack from neo-nazis gets massive reply

Report of discussion on Latin America at CWI’s International Executive Committee

Defend the refugees! Defend union members!

Indefinite strikes, occupations, seeds of workers’ control

Historic decision to cut ties with the ANC

Fighting plans to close student facility and convert it into ‘high class teaching suites’ and corporate dining area

World moving from being ‘unipolar’ to ‘bipolar’

Report of the discussion on Europe at the recent meeting of the CWI’s International Executive Committee

MEP Paul Murphy condemns brutal State violence against peaceful protesters in Kiev

But tide begins to turn as workers startto take action

Document discussed, amended and voted at the recent meeting of the International Executive Committee (IEC) of the CWI, which took place in Belgium during the first week of December

Report from the session on ’world perspectives’ which took place at the recent International Executive Committee (IEC) of the CWI

Massive and evident fraud sees right-wing claim victory in Presidential elections

Privatisation of local transport delayed

Abstention and polarisation reflect reality of current conjuncture

Behind the Tories and UKIP, but ahead of the Lib Dems and Greens who both have the advantage of a national profile

What should be the attitude of the socialist left?

In the midst of talk about Ireland’s exit from the Troika programme and recovery supposedly in sight, the mortgage crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of ordinary people is being deliberately understated.

Heroically leading ANC to power but struggle tragically into dead end

This pamphlet by the firefighters’ union in Britain makes a case for using a publicly owned banking system as a tool for economic planning.

Scottish constitutional referendum: Yes to an independent socialist Scotland, no to a continuation of capitalist austerity

Obama’s speech falls far short of what’s needed to tackle historic levels of inequality

Black Friday and beyond

Xi Jinping’s shift from dictatorship-by-committee to new ‘paramount leader’ is a high-risk strategy