Gate Gourmet, a catering company supplying British Airways, sacked up to 800 predominantly Asian workers at a few minutes notice at one of their sites at Heathrow on Wednesday 10 August.
Over 350 members and friends of the cwi from all over the world gathered in Gent/Belgium to discuss the current world situation and the tasks of the cwi in building a strong world party for […]
A socialist alternative is the only way out
Strike action shows workers are not prepared to see wealth polarization continue
Hiroshima, 6 August 1945, 8:00 am. The ‘all clear’ sounded, signalling the end of an air raid by US bombers. Workers and school children left their homes, putting out fires, clearing damage and going to […]
Can the parades issue be resolved?
Leaving workers to crash
Not one cent for the people!
How Can We Unionize Wal-Mart?
Medium-sized rallies are being organised on an almost daily basis in the Philippines with the aim of driving the pro-US President Arroyo from power.
Campaigners against multinational’s exploitation of natural gas jailed
An open memorandum to the national assembly concerning the June 30, 2005 Paris Club Deal
‘Shoot to kill’ death of Jean Charles de Menezes – “This crime was unacceptable”
The newly elected president of Iran, the religious conservative and former revolutionary guard Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was elected on the 24 June tried to play down fears of Iranian workers during the election campaign that […]
A statement by the IRA on its future role, which has been in the pipeline for some time, is still eagerly awaited by the British and Irish governments and the main political parties.
Recent events have dramatically heightened the atmosphere of insecurity and tension in Britain, and particularly London.
More than 120 trade union activists and leaders of different trade unions attended a meeting organised by Trade Union Rights Campaign in the Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited Colony in Islamabad on 13 July.
A Yorkshire trade union rep’s viewpoint
Since the bombings, the Socialist Party has been calling for an emergency demonstration to be organised with the clear message: ‘No to terror, no to war, no to racism’.
Weeks of a vicious propaganda campaign against the proposal to hold a Pride Parade in Jerusalem resulted in demonstrators being stabbed by a reactionary ultra right-wing settler at the event on June 30.
The main reaction of working people to the horror of the London bombings has been a mood of unity against terrorism.
An attempt to discredit the Chinese Revolution and, by association, the ideas of socialism.
AFL-CIO convention
Fraud and corruption revelations forces top level resignations
“Philosophers have interpreted the world the point is to change it”.
What attitude should Marxists adopt to the national question in Taiwan?
There is a huge wellspring of sympathy and solidarity – shared by the socialist – for the victims of the London tube and bus bombings. The unspeakable horrors that have been visited on the innocent […]
Workers need a political voice
Segun Sango, general secretary of the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) has just been interviewed by Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2 on the problems of debt and poverty in Africa.
Lenin by Christopher Read
A reply to the distortions of ‘Class Struggle’
Hardliner’s victory stuns Western leaders
In business to spread poverty
For mass united working class action against imperialism and capitalism
Workers show anger at Industrial Relations legislation
National congress of new left-wing party WASG in Germany prepares for general elections
The Make Poverty History demo over, the leaders of the counter summit organised a series of meetings and rallies to put forward strategy for the movement. Many of those who attended the meetings were clearly […]
"The massive protests we saw show that people really do want poverty to end and have an eagerness for another world.
It was impossible not to be moved by the CWI rally on Saturday after the main demo. I heard the comment, "That was fantastic" again and again afterwards.
As the leaders of the G8 imperialist powers begun to assemble in Gleneagles, Scotland, where hotel room rental runs to £685 per night, millions of people around the world took to the streets on demonstrations […]
Four page cwi leaflet for G8 protest. PDF. Opens in new window. 72KB.
Yahya Al-Faifi has had to seek refuge in Swansea because the Saudi Arabian government has deemed that he is guilty of the ‘crime’ of trying to organize his fellow workers.
The resignation of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has opened up the most contentious political battle so far of Bush’s second term.
As the leaders of the G8 imperialist powers begun to assemble in Gleneagles, Scotland, where hotel room rental runs to £685 per night, millions of people around the world took to the streets on demonstrations […]
Biggest political demo ever in Scotland.
The experience of eight years of a pro-capitalist, pro-war New Labour government has graphically illustrated that Blair and Co are a party of big business.
During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis the world stood on the brink of nuclear war, as representatives of two super powers, the USA and the Soviet Union, carried on their ’Cold War’ brinkmanship.
International solidarity – more then a slogan!
During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis the world stood on the brink of nuclear war, as representatives of two super powers, the USA and the Soviet Union, carried on their ’Cold War’ brinkmanship.
The rich defeated but Ahmadinejad is no alternative
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