El Primero de mayo, los trabajadores y los socialistas conmemoramos y celebramos luchas pasadas, y nos comprometemos nuevamente en el espíritu y la práctica de la solidaridad internacional, la lucha y el socialismo.
CWI members arrested for trying to go to Histadruth festival
But government privatisations are corruption and theft on a huge scale
Three socialist activists interviewed about their lives of struggle and facing oppression
Today, 5 May, we ae planning to hold a teach-in against military recruitment in schools. However, under pressure from the JROTC at my school, my principal, Sharon Schauss, informed me yesterday that our meeting would […]
Inspiring demonstration of unions, miners, women, minorities and youth
See report posted on 2 May 2005
The members of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) took part in the May Day 2005 demonstrations in the ‘silicon city’ of India – Bangalore – with a two-page leaflet in the Kannada language. The theme […]
CWI members and supporters of the Jammu and Kashmir Trade Union Rights Campaign organised a demonstration of over 200 workers and youth in Kotli, Kashmir.
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Sri Lanka and Japan are both reeling from horrific public transport disasters, in each case resulting from the privatisation policies of their governments and the blind chase for profits.
Such is the distaste of the majority of the population for the coming general election that the numbers watching TV news has dropped 300,000 in the four weeks of the campaign.
The Westminster election is being held against the background of increasing sectarian division on the ground, and the breakdown of the Good Friday agreement with little hope of its resurrection and will inevitably be another […]
Overview of some of the solidarity messages. Sign the online petition.
Threat regarding eviction and food lifted
Mass action needed to stop anti-poor policy
Members of the Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP) and the Pakistan Trade Union rights Campaign (PTURC) organised demonstrations and seminars in eighteen cities, while we participated in other Mayday activities in over twenty-one cities and towns.
Tamil and Sinhala Trotskyists march united against poverty and communalism
When Mikhail Gorbachev was selected as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s general secretary 20 years ago, in March 1985, it marked the beginning of the end of Stalinist rule in the Soviet Union […]
Education a right, not a privilege
La izquierda esta creciendo, después de muchos años estamos empezando a ver los cambios por los que hemos luchado tanto.
Este primero de mayo encuentra a nuestro país en una situación diferente a la que estabamos acostumbrados, el animo entre los trabajadores, los jóvenes y los pobladores es claramente distinto al de años anteriores.
Todos los sectores utilizan el tema mapuche, para sacar provecho para sus respectivas posiciones políticas y nunca para defender las posiciones de la nación mapuche.
Joe Higgins condemns company’s “cruelty” and Irish government’s inaction
May day greetings from around the world
Reactionary capitalist parties risk explosion of anger
El mes pasado ha visto una nueva alza en la lucha contra las políticas neo-liberales, incluidas las de la explotación de los recursos naturales en Bolivia.
Student society under threat of exclusion from university for fighting racism.
In a vindictive move, Turkish multinational construction company Gama, has said it is today sacking over three hundred workers who have been on a work stoppage for the past three weeks. Gama workers have vowed […]
A survey of public opinion in Scotland carried out at the start of the election campaign found that 79% of people believed that wealth should be redistributed in society.
On May Day, workers and socialists honour and celebrate past struggles as we commit ourselves again to the spirit and practice of international solidarity, struggle and socialism.
Immigrant workers forced to work without being paid for months
Relentless campaign sponsored by university Rector to ban ALS
The protests by students and young people in China, and similar protests in South Korea, against Japan’s resurgent militarism, are causing growing apprehension among world political leaders, businessmen and now, it seems, the Chinese regime […]
Hundreds OF Turkish workers employed by GAMA walked off building sites in unofficial industrial action despite threats and intimidation from the company.
CWI members in Ireland and Nigeria force Irish government to bring back deported Nigerian school student
One measure of the surge in speculative activity is the sharp rise in foreign exchange (FX) dealing. In September 2004 the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) published its sixth triennial survey of foreign exchange and […]
The planned sell-off would place the majority (51 per cent) of the company’s equity in private hands – the official definition of a “privatised” company.
Seventy-three percent of those who were asked in a national opinion poll were in favour of increasing the top rate of income tax on incomes of greater than £100,000 from 40p in the pound to […]
The Socialist Party is standing a candidate in the general election to highlight the scandal of Rover’s collapse and to call for the renationalisation of the company. Louise Houldey, who has stood three times before […]
Talk to Joe. Officially, he isn’t in charge, but he gets things done.
Both the Indian and Pakistani governments are celebrating the launch of a bus service on 7 April between Srinagar and Muzafarabad, the two main cities in Indian and Pakistani occupied Kashmir respectively.
Filipina women workers in the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, have been locked in battle with the China Times Weekly (CTW), one of the country’s three top circulation newspapers, over a racist and sexist article it ran […]
Since 4 April, 350 Turkish workers at Gama Construction in Ireland have been on strike, fighting against extreme exploitation.
Big defeats for Forza Italia in regional elections
Unions must strike against John Howard anti-workers’ policies
Campaigning work of a Socialist Party councillor in Melbourne
A brutal police attack on an anti-pollution protest at an industrial park on the outskirts of Dongyang city, Zhejiang province, triggered huge clashes between thousands of protesters and 3,000 riot police.
A profile of Joe Higgins TD in the Sunday Business Post
Despite all the claims of the present regime, women are still facing a horrific situation in Pakistan.
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