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Private developers’ thugs and police demolish local homes

Step up class struggle and democratisation of unions!

The United Nations Human Development Report of 2006 places Nigeria at 151 out of 177 nation-states rated basically in terms of life expectancy, educational attainment, income, seats in parliament held by women, female professional and […]

A successful showcase for fighting, socialist ideas

Former ‘radical’ journalist’s diatribe against anti-war movement and Left

In the 1920s women workers were only paid about half of what male workers earned.

‘We Won’t Pay’ leads campaign for mass non-payment

House that hosted Lenin and Luxemburg bulldozed

Ruling elite fear social explosions

Fighting programme of socialist change vital

The fundamental emancipation of women lies in the achievement of a classless society.

Parents, teachers and school students’ anti-cuts campaign

Discussion on Sri Lanka

The lessons of ‘Kwame Nkrumah’s rule and Pan-African ‘socialism’

It is quite common to hear authorities, public figures, or even some less conscious activists say that sexist violence, the violence suffered by women, “is a private issue”.

Next step general strike?

No support for war amongst Sri Lankan community

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has narrowly won a confidence vote in the Italian Senate by 162 votes to 157.

Since last Autumn, a new government composed of four traditional capitalist parties rules Sweden.

Almost one in every two women in Europe (about 45%) will, during their lifetime, be subjected to some form of violence.

Riding pillion behind Bush, Blair has embroiled Britain in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Turmoil in Party of Communist Re-foundation

Majority of children malnourished and majority of population illiterate

Is it some historical joke that the Parti Socialiste (PS) candidate for the presidency of the French Republic is called Royal?

Left lacks coherent alternative policies

Only workers’ unity and a struggle for socialism offers a way out

"We don’t want a militarised city; we want to decide our own future".

Successful second CAP Conference

Protest carried on national TV

New right wing government formed – What way forward for Left opposition?

Histadrut union federation takes membership dues but ignore struggle

Medecin Sans Frontier threaten striking health workers with dismissal

Working people demand: “Let us live!”

Another US retreat?

Socialist MP backs Aer Lingus workers 95% vote for industrial action

But will the Democrats allow change from within?

The fact that the Assembly [local ‘power sharing government body] election is going ahead on 7 March does not mean that an Assembly will be set up first on 26 March.

But what can we expect from Democrats?

But who is getting richer?

Solidarity and protest letters urgently needed

The situation in Sri Lanka has become even more difficult for the left forces, especially the activists fighting against the war and against the repression of the rights of the Tamil-speaking minority.

Imperialism meddles as conflict widens

Volatile political situation

Courageous fighter for socialism

An unmistakeable message from Will Hutton’s important book is that China is heading for revolution, although the author merely predicts serious ‘convulsions’.

The 300-year anniversary of the Scottish parliament voting itself out of existence by agreeing a union with England in January 1707 passed with very little formal celebration – save the minting of a commemorative £2 […]

Protest letters and solidarity messages still needed

Delegates at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis in Dublin on 28 January voted by an overwhelming majority to back a leadership motion to support the police and judicial system in Northern Ireland.

Socialist MP condemns Prime Minister over health crisis

The campaign against repression and war in Sri Lanka has gathered even more momentum.

London lobbies on Wednesday 31 January: Stop the killings! Put Mervyn Silva on trial! Hands off Siritunga Jaysuriya!

Such is the anger at today’s unparalleled inequalities; it was even felt in a very different conference taking place a week later, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. There, the representatives of capitalism […]

Union leaders hand over initiative to opposition parties

Hundreds of journalists and media workers from five Sri Lankan media organisations staged a joint protest at Colombo Fort railway station last Tuesday, 23 January, against the threats and intimidation against journalists and their frequent […]

Protest letters continue to bombard the office of the president of Sri Lanka following the brutal gangster attack on an anti-war meeting in Colombo.

Serving soldiers join mass demonstrations

World relations and the world economy

The Trade Union Rights Campaign – Kashmir have been in the forefront of helping to organise solidarity for thousands of earthquake affected public sector workers in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir (POK).

Protests outside embassies and consulates.

Letters of strong protest from two of Ireland’s Socialist Party councillors:

The DSM has been invited to address the NLC’s 9th Delegate Conference which is being held in Abuja, the Federal capital, on February 15 and 16. Below is the goodwill message that the DSM sent […]

Two weeks of intense mobilisations, protests, and street blockades calling for the resignation of right-wing departmental Prefect (elected head of the regional administration), Manfred Reyes Villa, culminated in a popular assembly on January 16th in […]

On Tuesday, 16 January, five thousand people demonstrated and blocked the railway station at Vicenza in north-eastern Italy.

"The most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam" were the words Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam war veteran used to describe Bush’s latest revised Iraq strategy. Hagel, however, is not only a Vietnam […]

Court reinstates sacked teachers’ union leaders

‘Red-Green’ government feels working people’s anger

Demands for decent compensation and living conditions

Please draw up protests on the basis of the resolution for MPs (see below)

There is great interest in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, Eva Morales’ Bolivia and Fidel Castro’s Cuba among workers and young people, worldwide.

Government fails to solve the problems of the quake affected public sector workers.

Only a united working class can stop cuts and defeat imperialism

Opposition to water charges unites working people

Siritunga Jaysuriya of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) and a handful of associates in the ‘United People’s Movement’ escaped with their lives when over 300 armed thugs, led by a deputy minister, raided […]

TURCP campaigners and social rights activists condemn police inaction

Can poor loans system end poverty and hunger?

Capitalism, both in Britain and worldwide, means increased poverty, unemployment and war for the peoples of the world. This is the unmistakeable message from the past year’s events.

The joint struggle of the Federal Union of Journalists and the Newspaper Hawkers Union forced the newspaper bosses to retreat from reducing the newspapers holidays from 8 to 6 days annually.

Troops were deployed throughout Bangladesh on Sunday 11 December supposedly to “maintain law and order”, according to a Presidential order.

Frankenstein kills out of control monster

For the second time in a year in Lagos State and for the umpteenth time in the country as a whole, another tragic fire has resulted from a burst fuel pipeline claiming the lives and […]

Today’s Fianna Fáil government also “in the pockets of speculators”

The 15 day long tea plantation strike – the longest in recent history – is supposed to have come to an end.

Capitalism creates grotesque inequalities

Build non-payment in working class communities

Extremely succesfull meeting of the Belgian left socialists

On the 10th December, at 14.15 hours, the greatest killer and thief that Chile has ever known, the former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, died.

Urgent solidarity appeal.

Refugees to get either asylum or a stay permit

The British and Irish governments ended the three days of all party negotiations in Scotland by announcing the "St Andrews Agreement".

There is again heated debate going on around the veil worn by Muslim women.

Three days before the congress of the United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka) was convened in Colombo, a suicide bomb attack in the city targeted the minister of defence – the brother of the president, […]

Calderon government accused of state terrorism against the peoples of Oaxaca

Cypriot ministers promise to find solution for the 117 Kurdish refugees that faced life- threatening deportation to Syria.

Three years after massive job cuts at Ford-Genk (the loss of 3,000) and nine years after the closure of Renault-Vilvoorde, the announcement of Volkswagen that it will cut 4,000 jobs in its plant in Vorst […]

Continued threat of counter-revolution

CWI member, Lucy Redler, elected to National Committee

"The discussion this weekend is how we can change the world".

One and half million public and private sector workers in Italy went on strike on Friday 17 November.

Hizbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) have planned mass street demonstrations for this week in opposition to Prime Minister Siniora and his weakened, imperialist-supported, March 14th or Future movement government.

On Monday, November 27, several hundred protesters surrounded the entrance to Cochabamba’s municipal building in what turned out to be a sharp clash with right-wing thugs and provocateurs and the Cochabamba police. 

Send urgent protests to stop demolitions and evictions!

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Workers’ anger forces TUC to call protests

Greens fail to make promised breakthrough

The leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in his Heroes’ Day speech, has warned of an end to the cease-fire and of the ‘Tigers’ renewing their demand for independence.

Left course needed to build on Socialist Party’s polls breakthrough

More than 300 Trade Unionists in attendance

Largest SP poll from public housing voters

Right-wing opposition to left-leaning Bolivian president, Evo Morales, and his governing party, Movement towards Socialism (MAS), has increased dramatically in the last week as potential conflicts that have been brewing for months have recently come […]

Confrontations between police and demonstrators result in 48 wounded and 60 arrests

Up to 11,000 jobs threatened

Two day public services general strike

An explosion in Halemba mine in Poland has killed 23 miners.

For a bold socialist programme – No to a coalition with rightwing parties!

This Italian edition of "Marxism in today’s world" is published by the Italian publishing collective ‘Giovane Talpa’ that asked the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) for information about our ideas and policies on the […]

Pro-western Siniora government hangs on by its fingertips

Twenty three arrested and held while devastation wrought

Reinstate Ilsiyar Sherafutdiniva, victimised union leader!

Masses yearn for end to despotism, wars and poverty

"Se ve, se siente, tenemos presidente"

As Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinistas, scraped home as president, thousands took to the streets of the capital, Managua, hooting car horns, sounding football klaxons and setting off fireworks to celebrate the victory.

Trade unionists and left activists under threat

Trade Union Rights Campaign meeting attracts over 100 activists

Protests at the murder of prominent Tamil MP, Nadarajah Raviraj, continue to pour in to embassies around the world and directly to the office of the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapakse.

‘Monument to the Revolution’, Mexico DF – that is our rendezvous for last Saturday morning, 9 am.

Last Wednesday, Nov 15, a meeting took place between the Cypriot Minister of the Interior N. Silikiotis and representatives from the Cypriot Kurdish Friendship Association – the organisation that struggles to win asylum for the […]

Thousands march in Colombo; embassies picketed around the globe

The US economy slowed down sharply before the mid-term elections.

Six months after it narrowly defeated the right-wing government of Silvio Berlusconi, Romano Prodi’s centre-left coalition in Italy is hanging by a thread.

“He doth bestride the narrow world, like a colossus; and we petty men, walk under his huge legs and peep about”. (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar) Bush, decked out as a poor imitation of a modern ‘Caesar’, […]

Cypriot Minister of Interior to meet with asylum seekers representative!

Kurdish refugee asylum campaign

Respect the right to asylum of the Kurdish refugees!

Socialist Movement organises Solidarity Demonstration for Kurdish Refugees.

AKEL decides to close office early to avoid protesters!

Friday 10 November was the first day of protests against the possible deportation of Kurdish asylum seekers from Cyprus in many countries across the world.

Twenty five comrades in Athens and fifteen in Thessalonika took part in protests – one outside the Cyprus embassy in Athens and the other at the Cyprus consulate in Thessalonika.

Fifteen people attended a protest outside the Cypriot embassy in Dublin last Friday to oppose the deportation of Kurdish asylum-seekers from Cyprus to Syria.

25 deaths, 400 disappearances as the federal state clamps down to kill APPO

Green elected mayor of Richmond, California

Working class says no to war and neo-liberalism

Since the early 1980s, world capitalism has followed a trajectory based on globalisation and neo-liberal policies.

High profile assassination demands massive response

November 9th saw hundreds join a demonstration against racism and fascism in Vienna initiated by the Socialist Left Party, SLP.

A balance sheet after the 12 October 100,000 strong demonstration

How the events are seen today

Recent political developments in Hungary

Build a third round of struggles

In its nine years in office New Labour has presided over the brutal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the privatisation of more public services than the Tories, and a bonanza of riches for the elite […]

Urgent campaigning needed in working class communities

New workers’ party necessary to fight back

Danger of army intervention

Important step towards a new workers’ party

Reactionary Jewish and Arab groups unite in homophobic campaign

Solidarity campaign plays important role in his release

Embassy officials attempt to intimidate protesters

Solidarity appeal for Venezuelan fishermen in struggle

Demands for better wages and more resources for public education.

In February of this year, crowds gathered on the streets of Manila to commemorate the ‘People Power’ revolution of twenty years.

ON February 24, a Friday, the Philippine media reported an aborted coup d’etat allegedly launched by rebel military forces against the government of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Two recent opinion polls indicated a significant boost in support for the coalition government, particularly Fianna Fail.

In less than a week the Bush and Blair administrations have been forced into humiliating public retreats over their Iraq policy.

The description of Sri Lanka as ‘tear-shaped’ has never been more apt than it is today.

cwi lobbies of Sri Lanka embassies in Stockholm and London

Last weekend the Socialist Party in Ireland held Socialism 2006, a weekend of debate and discussion, in Dublin.

Reinstate 144 sacked leaders of teachers organisations

Cypriot government intends to hand over Kurds who won struggle for refugee rights, into the hands of their Syrian torturers.

We would like to bring to your attention and protest at the inhuman conditions facing Kurdish refugees in Cyprus who amongst others were involved in a protest campaign last May 2006 to force the government […]

When workers in their millions rose against Stalinism

Around 3.5 million still ill-equipped, under- nourished and homeless

Send protests against state repression!

Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) meeting in Islamabad attracts 150 from different public sector trade unions

National government’s defeat hidden by media!

Journalist critic of Russia’s Caucuses policy, Anna Politkovskaya, murdered

Quake survivors caught in limbo

Why is the Taliban resurgent?

2,250 vote in Vienna against capitalism

Imperialist powers hypocritical condemnation

Women and children suffer most

The final result of the first round of the Brazilian elections was a terrible shock for Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, the candidate of the Workers’ Party (PT). Lula, the PT and polling organisations together […]

Stop the reprisals against the leaders of the student movement, the “penguin revolution”.

CWI contests local elections to highlight case for new workers’ party

Veteran workers’ leader discusses a new political initiative

Tawdry affair exposes government divorced from of people" – says Joe Higgins, Socialist MP

Urgent international support needed!

This was the headline in the US Wall Street Journal in its weekend edition on 1-3 September.

The campaign by Rupert Murdock against Tommy Sheridan, and through him against socialism, in Scotland took a new turn last week.

Greatest protest for 20 years in country’s second city. Eye-witness report from the day of action

Supposedly anti-corruption party PiS caught selling minsterial posts

"Life for the Tamil people of Sri Lanka has become unbearable."

Nothing could more clearly demonstrate the toothless nature of the United Nations (UN) than its ineffectual posturing over the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Western Sudan.

Joe Higgins parliament speech "tore the Taoiseach [PM] apart"

"From this day on, there is no government anymore!"

Dutch Socialist Party must fight November elections on socialist policies

THE NEWS of the World (NoW), who suffered a sensational defeat at the hands of Tommy Sheridan in his defamation case against them in August, has unleashed a massive new offensive against him.

Capitalism’s ruthless struggle for oil and gas

Ditching hated PM will not end New Labour rightwing policies

Dutch Socialist Party must fight November elections on socialist policies

‘Unione’ government plans pension ‘reforms’ and job ‘deregulation’

A campaigner’s report

Tumultuous twins sack Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper

US imperialism certainly expects ‘regime change’, not just in the government of Cuba but also in its social system.

Army suppresses democratic rights

WASG Berlin wins 2.9% in Berlin parliamentary elections

Workers win pay parity across threes sites

CWI wins eight city council seats – a vital platform for coming struggles

A socialist analysis and a socialist alternative

Labor no alternative to rightwing Coalition – New workers’ party needed!

Outrage over austerity measures and government arrogance

But warning in jump of neo-fascist vote

For a fighting, democratic union!

Workers’ alternative needed against new right-wing government

Over 500 Auckland workers fight for union rights

Serving soldiers amongst suspects

Time for a new workers’ party

CWI candidates campaign for higher public sector wages and more jobs.

Fifth CWI member elected as councillor in Germany

Corporation connives with local authorities in forcible evictions

Bush exploits tragedy to promote imperialism and repression

Repeal the anti-women ‘Hudood Ordinance’

Only international working class can end conflicts

Protesting Bangladeshi garment workers torch factories

‘Solidarity – Scotland’s Socialist Movement’, was launched at a packed rally on Sunday 3 September, in Glasgow. Every seat was taken and every piece of wall supported a comrade. More crammed into the side entrances […]

New socialist movement must fight on bold socialist policies

13 dead and hundreds arrested…strike and violent protests continue

5 killed, 50 injured security force shootings

On the night of 9-10 August, New Labour’s home secretary, John Reid, announced a dramatic terrorist plot

Juan Baretto threatens to seize golf greens

A recent commemorative article in Socialist Worker on the Spanish civil war says a lot about the rightward political evolution of the SWP, argues BOB LABI.

Berlin WASG possibility of getting elected to regional parliament

2,500 teachers demonstrate outside Chief Minister House against union ban

Event attracts new members to CWI Kashmir

Only workers’ unity can show a way out of war and poverty. Part Two

Limits of Israeli military power exposed. Part One

Strike closes main highways

Courts deny Parti Sosialis Malaysia the right to register as a party

Thousands join massive encampments stretching for seven miles

August 6 saw 4,000 people take to the streets of Chamchamal, a Kurdish city in northern Iraq, in protest against the huge increase in fuel prices and the lack of water and electric.

Working class people need a political voice

Democratic Socialist Movement, press statement, August 11, 2006

After nearly a month of carpet bombing the country, by air, sea and land, the enormous sound of the Israeli war planes is now sinking into the background with noises of people trying to go […]

From 1 – 5 August, the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) held its Summer school in Ghent, Belgium, with over 300 participants from all over Europe, but also with delegates from our sections in […]

As Israeli missiles continued to bombard Lebanon, an immediate ceasefire was demanded by an emergency demonstration of 100,000 people in London on 5 August.

Tommy Sheridan has won his libel action against the News of the World (NoW) and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

Trade unions and politics in Northern Ireland

Joe Higgins addressing the 2,000 participants said:

’The politicians and generals are dragging us into the quagmire’

There has been rage and revulsion worldwide at the barbaric treatment by Israeli forces of innocent families in Lebanon fleeing in terror.

Letter from CWI’s councillors to ‘rebel’ Senators

Workers ‘self-management’ and socialism

Ted Grant, one of the founders of Militant, the forerunner of the Socialist Party, has died at the age of 93, in London.

Consequences of war and poverty will lead to future protests

Interview with leading organizer Jesse Diaz, leading organizer of the immigrant rights movement in LA and the May 1 immigrant workers strike in the US

Workers are paying the price

For a socialist alternative to imperialism, war and authoritarianism

Imperialism gives full support to Israel capitalism, its ally in the region

Union federation supports NLC candidate

Residents resist brutal police repression

Anthony Beevor is a very popular author, shown by the huge sales of his previous books, Stalingrad and Berlin, because unlike many other capitalist historians he is largely objective in describing events.

‘Down with capitalism!’ opens Social Forum

New court date set for 18 July – protests needed!

Hatred of imperialist oppression climbs to new levels

Court case and possible imprisonment on Friday

Putin government shows its intentions

"If there is no solution, there will be revolution"

Send urgent protests!

Only chronic poverty and conflict for resources-rich “new nation”

But fight against cuts and privatisation must go on.

Now workers and ’communist’ parliamentarians must mobilise to prevent attacks from ’centre-left’

The Country threatens to erupt if the right steals another election

Dutch Socialist Party must fight November elections on bold socialist policies

Socialist MP lambasts militarisation

Unions must end class collaboration and defend interests of working class

Tension rises over demand for release of Palestinian prisoners

Strikes and protests force back corruption and oppression

Where is the ‘peace process’ heading?

The shift towards the left in social attitudes over the last ten years has meant that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have won important rights in Britain.

The Moscow city authorities banned the Pride march planned for 27 May and the courts upheld this ban.

Unions need to step up strike action

Union activists picket Australian Embassy

Neo-liberal policies have been a catastrophe for the Latin American masses.

The World Cup parties could not hide the growing unpopularity of the German government or popular fears of what the future holds.

Seven weeks after the uprising of the Greek university students which began in the first week of May, 415 out of 456 colleges throughout Greece are still occupied.

"In order to understand this struggle it is important to look at the historical background."

In the 1950s, Lee Kuan Yew formed a political association with the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) which had been able to amass and maintain a huge following among the working class.

Mass protests against Bush visit to Vienna

The recently concluded general election on 6 May in Singapore was considered an exciting election, at least by Singaporean standards.

Prime Minister rattled but Joe Higgins won’t “go away”

‘Irish Times’ reports

As every living being in Europe will have understood, last week the world cup started in Germany.

The United States is the strongest power the world has ever seen.

Working class leadership needed against racism and poverty

The struggle for social liberation continues

Palestinians recently interviewed in the press described their life in Gaza and the West Bank as like "living on the set of a horror film".

Early in the morning on Thursday, 15 June, two claymore mines exploded destroying a bus packed with farmers, workers and children.

Intolerable conditions lead to desperate actions

‘Militancy once again!’

United action to stop all sectarian attacks!

Supreme Court ruling on sexual offences provokes government crisis

One of the biggest ever university student mobilizations is in development in Greece since May 8.

More than 80 % of the population oppose continuation of President Obasanjo’s rule

A massive wave of occupations has been spreading throughout Greek universities from Crete in the South to Alexandroupolis, in North East Greece. The reason for this is a new education bill that the neo-liberal New […]

"Immediately withdraw facilities for the U.S. Military" – Joe Higgins TD (MP)

Central Santiago streets a ‘battleground’

Below, we carry the text of a leaflet distributed by members of Youth Against Nationalism, and CWI members, in Cyprus, followed by an appeal for solidarity and a model protest letter.

Scandal of state compensation paid to mass murderer

Important headway made – poll indicates increased support

Kholodmash factory workers letter applauds international solidarity

The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) has been rocked by the release of an open letter by Tommy Sheridan to SSP members which accuses "an unsavoury cabal of comrades at the core of the leadership who […]

Mattias and Joel, Stockholm’s “Citizens of the Month”

Was this merely a timely ‘correction’ of speculative bubbles or a preliminary tremor marking the onset of a deeper crisis?

400,000 on strike and occupying schools

Right-wing suffer setback

International workers’ solildarity, a must for workers in Kashmir

Six years after their first military intervention, a second Australia-led military and police force has re-occupied East Timor.

The world economy today is hooked on fossil fuels: oil, gas and coal.

The launch in Melbourne at the week-end of ’Unite’ – a new union for fast food and retail workers – has received huge publicity in Australia.

Eyewitness account of how capitalism brings tragedy and violence to Brazil’s poor

On the policies and practice of Linksruck (the German equivalent of the British Socialist Workers’ Party)

"Struggle against unemployment and not against the unemployed"

A fifteen year old Catholic school student, Michael McIlveen, was brutally assaulted in a sectarian attack in Ballymena town, County Antrim, on 7 May. He made it home but then collapsed and was taken to […]

Sri Lanka has just come to the end of a period of elections.

Mass resistance stops homes demolition

Australian government despatches troops to ’secure’ Dili airport

First successful national meeting of the WASG Left

Government scapegoats refugees for poor welfare and lack of housing

Capitalist independence will not end poverty and ethnic divisions

May’s local elections exposed the deep discontent in British society.

"For the first time in my life I feel I am a human being"

‘Junge Welt’ debate between Lucy Redler (SAV) and Christine Buchholz (Linksruck)

Joe Higgins and independent TDs (MPs) condemn anti-union, pro-war leader

Trade Union Rights Campaign (TURCP) condemns police brutality and organises solidarity demonstration

Youth Against Nationalism in Cyprus appeals for solidarity

One thousand four hundred workers reinstated as result of struggle

Implement the agreement or face strike action!

Workers’ representatives will have to fight for real change

‘Communists’ garner the votes of poor but policies are increasingly pro-business

Socialist MP denounces John Howard’s right wing government

Urgent solidarity needed!

Bosses indicate wage concessions but jobs remain precarious

No deportations to “one of the most disturbed and violent places on earth”

International solidarity plays role in victory

Stop the repression of Trade Union rights in the pharmaceutical company RACE

We seek the support of the international workers’ movement

But anti-cuts Berlin WASG re-affirm standing independently

Urgent solidarity appeal!

“A day in Baghdad” was how many journalists and commentators in Brazil described Sunday 14 May.

Trade union bureaucracy holds workers’struggles back

“Shock therapy to end the welfare state.” New book by Swedish right-wing author finds high praise amongst capitalists.

Government aids “speculator landlords” and “profiteering developers”

;Nine days that shook British capitalism to its foundation.

Nine days that shook British capitalism to its foundation.

Fighting, socialist policies needed to resist war, cuts and capitalism

First serious setback for government’s new anti-union laws

“We’re voting for Jackie – she’s the only one we trust to fight for our services. All the others have promised us everything and delivered nothing”.

The results in last Thursday’s local authority elections were a devastating blow for New Labour and could be a death blow for Blair.

For an end to class and national oppression

Millions of immigrant workers take to the streets

Activities go ahead despite intimidation of authorities

Press statement from the Socialist Party

A reply to Linksruck, sister organisation of the British SWP

Silvio Berlusconi, the tycoon prime minister of Italy for five years, has finally tendered his resignation.

Socialist Left Party’s newspaper nearly all sold!

Pictures

This year’s May Day demonstration in Hong Kong marked a historic event for the Committee for a Workers’ International.

After many years the May Day march in Kuala Lumpur organised by the Parti Sosialis Malaysia (Malaysian Socialist Party) reached its final destination despite heavy police repression.

Support the call for a mass working peoples party

United Socialist Party (USP – CWI Sri Lanka) campaigns to stop the dangerous slide into new civil war.

CWI members campaign for an end to attacks and for a decent minimum wages in preparation for September elections

The May 1st rally and march in Seattle was a powerful expression of strength by the immigrant working class. Thousands of workers in Seattle and across Washington State participated in job actions and strikes, with […]

International workers day celebrated with a lot of enthusiasm.

Four students arrested

A dangerous move to the right

Immigrants respond despite ‘officials’ pulling out of protests

System change needed

A socialist strategy

The importance of the immigrant rights’ movement

Analysis and tasks

"The Government is giving hundreds of millions of euro in tax breaks to profit-seeking speculators, to build for-profit hospitals."

Demonstrations recede but political crisis will continue

Future not capitalism

The Socialist Party in Ireland (CWI) held an extremely successful party conference at Maynooth, over Easter.

New book by Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party

Victory celebrations – will the masses go further?

On Tuesday, 25 April, a suicide bomber attacked the car in which the top Sri Lankan army commander was travelling.

Article on www.chinaworker.org/

Anti-cuts alternative confirmed for September poll

Corruption and despair – Interviews with accident victims

King threatened with insurrection.

Alma-Ata authorities feel pressure of worldwide protests

End low pay

Socialists and activists demand party’s registration

The horrendous assassination of three people in Caracas has been used by the opposition to Hugo Chavez as an excuse to start an offensive against the government. After the brutal murder of the Faddoul brothers […]

World’s worst nuclear accident

On Friday 7 April the CWI in Venezuela held a successful public meeting about the situation in France

Explosion of mass demonstrations as immigrants protest in their millions

But political crisis persists

But union leaders refuse to seize opportunity

Workers must act to block the return of the tycoon prime minister

’Immigrants General Strike’ called for 1 May

Unions leaders finally call national protest action

Police and bulldozers repelled by shanty town residents

Public meeting discusses how to combat capitalist crisis

“Taoiseach [prime minister] in company of sharks, not Irish people”

Socialist Party councillors make a difference

Extend the action – for a general strike!

Workers need a party of their own!

Neither ‘Orange’ nor ‘Grand’ coalition government solution for workers

Appeal for world-wide solidarity.

Visit of Kazakhstan president prompts Moscow authorities’ repression

Argument for Aer Lingus privatisation doesn’t stand up

What do the WASG and LeftParty.PDS results show?

Party making “a leap forward”

Unions need to step up action to win

Mass struggle needed to defeat government’s cuts

Urgent protest action need!

In the council and provincial elections which took place on Thursday, 30 March, the United Socialist Party (CWI in Sri Lanka) won one seat and massively improved its vote in many other areas.

Volcanic anger of working class against New Labour

Activists arrested – Solidarity needed urgently!

Hundreds hear the socialist case at CWI meetings

No to boss’s backsliding – Support the Kholodmash plant workers!

No to anti-immigrant legislation! Full rights for immigrants – papers for all!

Over one million local government workers across Britain and Northern Ireland are expected to strike over their pension rights, on Tuesday 28 March.

On the 26th of March, there were federal state elections in Germany, and local council elections in Hessen.

Tuesday March 28’s "day of action" saw new mass protests and strikes throughout France against the government.

But workers face petty, vindictive management

‘Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are’