Articles by Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (England and Wales)

Only a united working class can stop cuts and defeat imperialism

"We’re moving towards a socialist republic of Venezuela"

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.

Los honores militares del Ejercito a Pinochet.

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.

Sigue la amenaza de una contra revolución

Urgent solidarity appeal.

Refugees to get either asylum or a stay permit

Solo los asesinos rinden honores a los asesinos

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

El lunes, 27 de noviembre, varios cientos de manifestantes rodearon la entrada del edificio municipal en Cochabamba en lo que se transformó en un duro enfrentamiento con matones derechistas y la policía de Cochabamba. 

En las últimas semanas, la oposición derechista hacia el presidente boliviano de centro-izquierda Evo morales ha subido dramáticamente al culminarse los conflictos que se estaban fraguando recientemente.

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

No todos los muertos son buenos, siempre hay excepciones a la regla. En la madrugada del domingo 3 de diciembre millones de chilenos y mapuche, nos levantamos con una gran alegría, supuestamente el dictador Augusto […]

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