Articles by Editorial from Xekinima (no. 410, 6-20 May 2015), fortnightly newspaper of CWI Greece

Workers’ common front, north and south, can find solution to island’s division

New chapter opens in country’s political and ‘moral’ crisis

Local community direct action secures victory

Contemptuous remarks reflect government concerns over non-payment of water charges

Potential for industrial response to cuts but needs determined leadership and campaigning

"When bankers and bondholders’ gambles crashed, their massive burden of private debt was placed onto the shoulders of the Irish people"

Campaign needs to build independent political power

Labour leader’s ’responsible capitalism’ shows its bankruptcy

Stock market frenzy and fabricated GDP figures cannot hide the reality of an economy in deep trouble

SNP sweeps to victory by posing as an anti-austerity alternative

Labour’s failure puts centre stage the need for new mass anti-austerity force

Plan of action for a general strike needed

How to fight cuts, sectarianism and to build workers’ unity

Russell Brand calls on people to elect a Labour government, saying Ed Miliband will ’listen’ and wants pressure from below

Photo gallery of the CWI taking part in May Day event across the world

What sort of new society are we struggling for?

Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the south Asian region has been further devastated by the recent earthquake.

The aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death

What the 1% will do to defend their class interests

125 years since first May Day – Build a united workers’ movement for socialism!

Workers need to build mass opposition

LGBT and women’s rights campaigners boosted

From Mare Nostrum to Triton

Historic handshake between Barack Obama and Raúl Castro, turmoil in Venezuela, and stalled reforms in Bolivia – as well as crises in Brazil – symbolise a new turn in Latin America and the Caribbean

Finns Party second biggest in parliament

In aftermath of disastrous Iraq occupation, Obama administration balancing between region’s forces

The SNP, according to the polls, will win 53 of Scotland’s 59 Westminster MPs

Socialist Partty (CWI) and Anti-Austerity Alliance TD speaks at march of tens of thosuands against water charges on April 18

Jawad Ahmed, Singer and central committee member of International Youth and Workers Movement (IYWM) from Pakistan spoke to CWI about the work of IYWM.

Build a country-wide socialist civic movement. Fight for jobs, houses and services for all

Broadcast goes out on all 5 national terrestrial channels

Oppose the ’logic of capitalism’

New class battles loom

Socialist Partty (CWI) and Anti-Austerity Alliance TD speaks in Irish Parliament

Snapshot of the movement – the fight for $15 in 7 major cities

Build a united mass movement to challenge racism, sectarianism and all forms of bigotry

For unity of workers and poor against imperialism and sectarianism

Students take strike action against austerity

Five women activists released in rare climb down by Beijing regime

300, 000 people marched on demonstrations across France on Thursday 9 April

Federal government preparing the ground for their second budget

Workers’ unity to defend pay jobs and services

For an end to imperialism and capitalism, long live socialist and revolutionary united solidarity in our Americas!

Growing regional destabilisation

Coalition of students and workers demand $15 minimum wage at University of Washington

Build solidarity now!

Only ‘minority’ to blame for society’s problems is ultra-rich 1%

The cyclone that devastated the Pacific island of Vanuatu in March, the most severe ever recorded in the region, highlighted again the very likely connection between extreme weather events and global warming.

But only mass struggle can guarantee the interests of workers and poor masses under buhari’s presidency

The SNP (Scottish National Party) looks set to win the majority of Scottish seats in the general election

The sudden plunge of oil and gas prices has underlined the volatility in the world capitalist economy

Stand against racism & Islamophobia!

Workers treated unfairly by council for years

Expulsion opens new chapter in working class struggle

Apologist for neo-liberalism and autocracy

Department results show need for fightback against austerity and racism

Urgent need for international solidarity

Main parties guarantee austerity – A mass party of the Left with a socialist programme needed

Big demo and blockade against the reopening of the Central Bank

South Africa’s metalworkers union in discussion with WASP and CWI

An active, critical and inspiring comrade

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) standing throughout Britain in May elections

A struggle against outsourcing

New coalition will face unresolved crises and bitter struggles

Has the commemoration of International Women’s Day also now been outlawed in China?

Political vacuum pushes FIOM to take initiative

Eurozone’s QE intensifies currency wars

Necessary to clarify ideas upon which successful struggles of European working class will be conducted

Down with terror! Down with capitalism!

New action plan against right wing government takes off

Only independent working-class mass movement can remove the region’s authoritarian rulers

For a second day of strike action in the run-up to the May general election!

Workers determined to stop austerity

Faced with lack of water for the people, Sao Paulo water company SABESP cuts costs, sacks more than 500 workers and victimises trade union activists

Tommy Sheridan departs from principled socialist position with call for “lending vote" to cuts-making SNP

Its Tory-oriented anti-immigration, anti-EU rhetoric has been adapted to a right-wing populism aimed at winning voters fed up with the political establishment

Socialist MPs in Southern Ireland Parliament send message of support to strikers

Poisonous bigotry must be challenged

Struggle can force politicians back from austerity measures

Increasing demands for a living wage

Dead-end of rightwing, sectarian politics – new anti-sectarian party which fights for working class needed

Articles from CWI sections celebrating IWD

The working class and social movements must enter the struggle for their rights

For democratic reforms and end to budget cuts

Right-wing Ball events, PEGIDA, and neo-nazi Violence: A Month of Intense and Successful anti-fascism in Austria

“None of this will intimidate us – we will struggle until we win collective bargaining”

As economic crisis deepens, social explosions loom

Disrupt them like they disrupt us!

Socialist policies needed, not deals with the Troika

Philip Stott Socialist Party Scotland

Niall Mulholland interviewed NICOS ANASTASIADES, of Xekinima (CWI Greece), just as Syriza leaders agreed a four-month bail-out extension with the EU.

Libyan people bearing the brunt of NATO’s fiasco

Mired in recession, the eurozone is haunted by the spectre of stagnation

Popular mood shows anti-austerity, socialist policies would win huge support

Three decades ago he debated with Militant leaders who warned about degeneration of his party

German racist mobilizations split but danger continues

Respect the right to freedom of speech!

International solidarity protests needed!

¡Que el pueblo griego decida!

Economic and social crisis requires independent pro-worker, socialist policies!

Preparing the forces to fight capitalist austerity

International solidarity protests continue

United struggle needed against right-wing policies

Dangers of “moderation” and domestication

Interview with Dali Malik, CWI supporter in Tunis

The Gardai have simultaneously targeted the community of Jobstown, the anti-water charges movement and the Anti-Austerity Alliance

Government conspires to quell growing opposition

Hong Kong court finds employer guilty of torture-like crimes

Socialist Party (CWI) and AAA TD Paul Murphy speaks following five days of political arrests of anti-water

Let the Greek people decide!

Result reflects growing mass discontent

8th Latin American school largest ever held by the CWI on the continent

Arrests continue

"No more arrests"

Organise international solidarity!

Biggest workers’ struggle for many years

Solidarity protests needed

Masses will regain confidence and willingness to fight

Send protests against political policing and repression

Arrests of Anti Austerity Alliance elected representatives and We Won’t Pay activists is another cheap attempt to denigrate the movement against the water charges

Conflict between SYRIZA government and EU escalates

Joe Higgins speaks in Irish parliament

The days of Australia being cushioned from the crisis are fast coming to a close

Defend the right to strike!

Paul Murphy speaks in Irish parliament

“We must fight entire right-wing politics”

Will the end of Kobanê’s siege turn the tide against IS?

Right-wing ‘Pan-democrats’ float “compromise” proposals

Markets and EU leaders react against Athens

Atrocious human rights records no concern for Western powers

For socialist policies to end austerity nightmare!

An inspiration for workers and youth across Europe

Left parties fail to form government – Syriza goes into coalition with populist right Independent Greeks

Economy decelerated 30 percent in five years

Threat of capitalist restoration accelerates

A victory for all workers and an inspiration to resist the ‘race to the bottom’

Article first published in the Colombo Telegraph

"Why can’t Barack Obama say “Black Lives Matter”?"

As death toll rises, economies plunge into freefall

Mass intervention of working class to struggle for socialist policies is vital

Socialism or Barbarism

Clare Doyle reviews ’Eleanor Marx – A Life’ by Rachel Holmes

Socialist MP grills establishment over banking bubble and collapse

Boko Haram and the war in the north-east

"You march in Paris, yet uphold laws any religious fundamentalist would envy"

President Sirisena aims for clean government but will face difficulties

International action needed to overturn latest conviction and to immediately release Behnam

Unions and Left must organise against racism and for jobs and decent living standards for all

Unity against racism and capitalism!

Workers need to build political alternative to major parties’ big business agenda

The shocking, cold blooded slaughter at Charlie Hebdo, and more killings in subsequent days, has been met with mass outrage

Two-hour protest against worsening working conditions

Period of uncertainty opens

“Peace deal” between government and right-wing opposition

General elections on 25 January

Defend freedom of speech! Don’t let us be divided!

A fighting democratic movement must be created to continue and build upon this historic “first round”

Over 150 people participated in the ‘Socialism Conference 2014’ in Tel Aviv, organised by the Socialist Struggle Movement (SSM – CWI in Israel-Palestine)

Agreeing Not To Agree, Again

Have capitalist governments around the world finally woken up to the danger of global warming?

As crisis of capitalism worsens, vital to organise and continue the struggle

As the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition gears up for its biggest ever electoral stand…

A socialist solution to national oppression

Murphy’s election means trade unions must build a new workers party

Former Australian Labour Party (ALP) prime minister

China’s economic slowdown already being felt throughout world economy

An article written by LEON TROTSKY, exposing the hypocrisy of world powers towards national minorities and oppressed peoples, translated into English for the first time

Workers digest first rounds of anti-cuts battles and prepare for next rounds

CWI meeting discusses a volatile period in global and class relations

Socialists organise protests against Taliban barbarism

The role of state intelligence

Towards a second plan of action to get rid of this government and austerity!

Solidarity messages needed with “requisitioned” airline workers

Struggle to free political prisoners continues

Document on Latin America, agreed by CWI International Executive Committee

Taiwan’s ‘Sunflower Movement’ and democracy protests in Hong Kong fuel massive rejection of ruling party

Signs of revival of class struggle signposts the future

New political voice vitally needed

Dublin City centre came to a standstill as different marches made their way to the Dáil

Right-wing alliance relied on racist party to defeat budget

Kick out the austerity government and Troika! For a Syriza government with bold socialist policies!

Socialist candidate challenges all other forces

Acciones crueles y vengativas por parte del Estado y la élite gobernante

For a new political movement to bring the "mob" to power

Cruel and vengeful actions by the State and ruling elite

Paul Murphy and Ruth Coppinger speak in Irish parliament

Socialist Party leads successful campaign against Toll Road and for investment in public transport

From Ferguson to Staten Island

Dave Carr

Forced evictions, poverty wages and repression is the reality for millions

Signs of revival of class struggle signposts the future

Labour’s pro-austerity ‘opposition’ no alternative

Rebuild the trade union movement on socialist principles!

Another show of strength for independence – fight for a Socialist Catalonia

Government and Water Charges completely undermined

Xekinima (CWI) member wins key union position in Athens Municipality sector

Mass boycott will defeat water charges

New rounds of repression answered by new wave of rage and protest

Big Gains for Republicans while Voters Support Progressive Ballot Measures

Ruth Coppinger, Socialist Party TD (MP) appears on ‘Prime Time’

Who is sabotaging who?

Mass struggle needs genuine internal democracy and fighting working class programme to defeat dictatorship

Tanaiste (Deputy PM) trapped by protestors; AAA TD (MP) and Socialist Party member, Paul Murphy, assaulted

Initiative to build mass party of working class and rural poor urgently needed

Working people need socialist alternative to warring oligarchs and outside powers

Majority of ‘Yes’ voters want end to austerity – anti-cuts candidates needed!

Last week German train drivers and on-board staff went on strike for four days, shaking and polarising the country

Lefts, local authority workers and communities’ united can resist Troika’s policies

Socialism 2014 – infused with contagious confidence

Shows anger against austerity

In 1994, the IRA and Loyalist paramilitaries called ceasefires. Four years later the Good Friday agreement was declared to mark the end of the ‘Troubles’…

Berlin Wall brought down by mass revolutionary movement

NDP increasingly irrelevant to needs of workers, immigrants and youth

Narrow win for Dilma sets scene for more crisis and instability

November 7th anniversary of workers taking power

Movement of workers and youth needed against racism and fascism

Tory government whips-up terrorist fears to boost Canada’s imperialist role

How the Anti Austerity Alliance won a parliamentary seat and the way forward for the Left

For political and class independence – Struggle, solidarity and socialism!

Weekend of discussion & debate hosted by the Socialist Party – London 8-9 November

Pro-choice ROSA campaigners swallow abortion pills after rail journey

A one-day strike of all workers is needed

No to military rule! Continue mass struggle – the whole rotten system must go!

Video of one of the city’s biggest protests

What does US military ‘assistance’ mean for the Kurdish struggle?

The right wing coalition must go, and all austerity policies!

Latest US-backed ‘drugs war’ horror sends shock waves throughout Mexico

New technological innovations are having a huge impact on the capitalist system, a subject explored in a new book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society.

The unreported Nigeria – mass struggles by the working class

Pharmaceutical industry/big corporations need to be brought into public ownership and resources used to provide urgent aid

Pro-capitalist parties teaming up for more of the same – urgent need to rebuild a political voice for the working class and youth

For democratic working people’s defence and mass struggle against capitalism

50 years of socialist ideas and workers’ struggle

Inside the ‘umbrella revolution’

Catalonia; ’Podemos’, and the left

1 million refuse to register for water charges

61% support for Kshama Sawant in her electoral district…Jess Spear`s campaign against one of the most powerful corporate politicians in Washington State gaining momentum…indications of yearning for representation for working class people

Calls for local government strike action to be reinstated

Workers pay the price for crony capitalism

Beijing’s scare propaganda doesn’t stand up to examination

End poverty, inequality and capitalism

’Political awakening’ continues after independence referendum

Paul Murphy TD (MP) makes maiden speech in Parliament

Paul Murphy wins parliamentary seat as 100,000 march against water charges

As battle for Kobane rages, IS forces make major gains in Iraq

Anti-Austerity Alliance victory shocks political establishment, reflects mass revolt against water charges and austerity

Dire position of South African capitalism and inequality adds momentum towards creation of workers’ party

For a ’no-cuts budget’ and mass campaign to win back billions stolen by ConDem government!

For democratic workers’ defence and Kurdish self-determination

No justice for Palestinians and no peace for the region – For a socialist solution!

Organise democratic defence committees to repel attacks and kick out CY Leung’s government!

Labour Party and the Left in crisis

Consequence of profit before health

Regional war poses new challenges for struggle for Kurdish self-determination

Stop imperialist slaughter!

Anger over police violence fuels spontaneous “umbrella revolution” and growing strike movement

Labour conference a carefully stage-managed affair

Seeking alliances with austerity parties

The referendum has turned British politics upside down – even though the No vote won

Build a working class alternative

“We must all keep going…we have no other way to survive than to fight-back”

Protest against Iranian government’s brutal sentences!

Urgent to build new mass party for the working class

Massive social resistance is looming

A right-wing, sectarian demagogue who courted paramilitary violence

"Britain will never be the same again"

Only working class struggle can guarantee the right to decide and resist austerity

CWI success, defended four council seats

"You will not take this opportunity away from us"

Socialist Alternative articulates political strategy to break from Democratic Party and capitalism

John McInally, PCS national vice-president (personal capacity), adresses the issue of Scottish independence at a meeting of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)

Anger against austerity growing

Space for Left alternative to win support

Warmongering governments ratchet-up national tensions in struggle for regional dominance

Big business, politicians and media attack independence

Spreading and organising the movement for decent wages

Authorities deploy heavily armed response

1973 bloody coup against Popular Unity government

Only united working class action can secure lasting peace

United Socialist Party, Sri Lanka’s section of Committee for a Workers’ International has paid tribute to veteran trade unionist, Bala Tampoe, who passed away recently at the age of 92. Philip Balendra Tampoe became General […]

How looting of the economy led to mass social protests

Profit drive obstructs treatment and prevention

“In the past four weeks support for the union has drained away at an astonishing rate. The Yes campaign has not just invaded No territory; it has launched a blitzkrieg.”

The 2015 general election is a mere eight months away yet impossible to call. But what is clear is that none of the capitalist parties hold any real attraction for working class voters.

After NPC ruling democracy activists are perplexed by Benny Tai Yiu-ting’s comments that the strategic part of struggle “should end”

Support jailed labour activist’s demands against critical dentention conditions

Over 18,000 people have attended Hope Over Fear public meetings to hear socialist Tommy Sheridan.

International tensions escalate

Mass resistance against one-party dictatorship is the only way forward!

Hannah Sell, deputy general secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales) speaking at recent summer camp

Hollande removes ‘lefts’ from government

Significant poll gains for the left coalition HDP

A fight for all workers!

Demand the release of the arrested workers!

Vigilance required from LASU students and workers to ensure that victory is permanent

As ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and a-Shams) crossed the border between Syria and Iraq, it proclaimed this to be the “annihilation of the disgrace of Sykes-Picot” and the formation of an ‘Islamic state’ […]

Text of a leaflet handed out by Socialist Alternative members in Ferguson and St. Louis

Protests, strikes and equality

Working class will bring the real revolution and change

Spread the protests – unite against racism and inequality

Iraqis and Kurds must not trust imperialist ‘helpers’

Ukraine, Israel/Palestine and other countries

“We’ve only just gotten started”

September 18 will see an unprecedented mobilisation to the polls for the referendum on Scottish independence

New face; same problems

Socialist councillor denounces Israeli state terror

Military conflict escalates

System offers economic crisis, insecurity, poverty and wars

For an independent socialist Scotland

What is the role of imperialism in the conflict?

Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) Former MEP and parliamentary bye-election candidate speaks to thousands protesting against Israeli state terrorism

Working class must organise for future struggles

Only socialist policies can end extortion of vulture markets

Mass action needed to stop bloodshed

CWI calls for protests and financial assistance

CWI condemns attack and requests solidarity

Signs the mammoth property bubble is finally bursting belie Beijing’s upbeat GDP data

Article by LEON TROTSKY translated into English for first time

The horrors of the first world war, and the economic and social turmoil it created, led to mass upheaval. In Russia alone did this lead to a successful revolution…

Before 1914, the Second International resolved to act to prevent war…

Industrial action must take forward call for a new workers’ party

An Establishment cover-up?

USP mounts motor cycle ‘march’ to fight for united struggle against chauvinists

Ten million killed and more than ten million seriously injured

Mass action needed to end the slaughter and blockade!

Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis Strikes

Over 100 Gazans have been killed in one week, including 20 children

"Cameron’s defeat was dire."

Build workers’ movement

Extracts and updates from a series of articles on the website of Socialist Struggle Movement, the Israel-Palestine section of the CWI.

Battle-lines hardening as masses push for democracy while government steps up repression

A response to the “practical idealism” of the Common Weal

United private-public sector strike vital

42 workers sacked for going on strike

Photo report of march

Forward to a living wage – end labour broking

Labour claim opposition to project but refuse to rip up contracts

At least four people were killed and 100 injured in anti-Muslim attacks

Joe HIggins, Socialist Party (CWI) TD raises Vadim’s case in Irish parliament

Debt crisis is back – the class struggle and tasks for the Left

Thomas Piketty: The new Marx?

Significant step forward in the struggle for a living wage for all

Half a million people flee the area

Call a general election now

Only organised, united working class can end war and social misery

Israeli nationalist thugs cowardly attacked Socialist Struggle Movement activists after the protest

The quickening pace of global warming poses a threat to US national security, says a leading, federally-funded military research organisation

Workers need political movement to counter extremist ideology and capitalism

Why has Boko Haram insurgency grown?

Escalating sectarian conflict threatens to draw in surrounding countries

1989 massacre apologists accuse Socialist Action (CWI) and radical legislator ‘Long Hair’ of ‘violence’

More pictures from solidarity protests around the world

Working people fearing all-out war

Solidarity protests taking place on 13th June Friday

Exposing the ‘architecture of oppression’

1984 state-organised riot against striking miners

New stage of the class struggle

Article in British ’Observer’ newspaper

New bi-communal radical left coalition contests euro-elections

180,000 attend ‘6.4’ anniversary protest • Rival protest events show political polarisation

Join international protests at Brazilian embassies on Friday 13 june

CWI supporters elected to Volos council

‘Podemos’ capitalises on failures of IU bureaucratic leadership

Impressive Enniskillen vote a warning to main parties and drilling multinationals

In country after country, May’s elections to the European parliament saw governments and traditional parties defeated

National Front profits from social and economic discontent

“We have a world to win.”

Pastor’s “Satanic” anti-Muslim comments defended by First Minister

Serbian and Bosnian governments’ inaction provokes fury

Renzi seen as last chance for way out of impasse

How Socialists Built a Winning Movement

Regime calls for “national dialogue” should be rejected

Now Trade Unions must lead our fightback

Joe Higgins speaks in Irish parliament

Down with Erdogan and his murderous regime!

Socialist Party wins a second TD and Anti Austerity Alliance 14 councillors

Gains for the far right but some successes for genuine Left

The result has lit up the idea that fighting councillors can help build support for a real alternative to austerity

Ruth Coppinger elected to the Irish parliament

Celebrations by big business a warning to working class

"Labour bringing people back to work, for 1€ an hour on forced labour schemes"

Three years after January 25th revolution, workers need independent unions and a workers’ party

Questions and answers on socialist ideas

Socialist candidates contest local council seats in Belfast and Enniskillen

PCS calls for co-ordinated unions’ action to stop attacks on public sector workers and austerity

Soma mine disaster deadliest in the country’s history

Azyz and Sabri must be immediately released without charge

TUSC beginning to build an electoral voice for the millions not the millionaires

Hundreds rally to demand their release

Second visit of US President in 50 years

Case against former security czar risks dangerous splits in ruling party

Can a solution to the insurgency be found under capitalism?

Neither old elites nor populists have answer for workers and poor

Only united working class action can stop the catastrophe

The ANC victory, WASP and the EFF.

Paul Murphy, standing for reelection as Socialist Party (CWI) MEP for Dublin, speaks on ’The People’s debate’ with Vincent Browne

Photos of United Socialist Party march and meeting

Instability sets to grow

Unions prepare for struggle

Commemorating union leader Bob Crow and socialist Labour MP Tony Benn

Protest against Goods and Services Tax

CWI supporters celebrate international workers’ day

The Haymarket Martyrs and coming revolt of American workers

For a socialist world!

Urgent need for a revolutionary alternative

Local government, police and company bosses coordinate crackdown

No recovery for working people and poor

Pictures from the conference

Justice for the martyrs!

United workers’ action needed to prevent war

A half-century of fascist rule was swept aside in a day.

Urgent solidarity needed

Building a bridgehead to a new mass workers’ party

Protest letter from Paul Murphy and other MEP’s

The socialist case for independence

First Santiago Socialism event organised by CWI in Chile

40th anniversary of the founding of the CWI

Repression can provoke opposition

40,000 workers paralyse world’s largest sports shoe maker

For democratic self-defence committees

Four thousand attend three-day event in Athens

WASP campaigning material available on pdf

New party expresses, but cannot solve, major discontents

Paul Murphy MEP

One year of the right wing Anastasiades government

Paul Murphy MEP

Trade union and socialist coalition (TUSC) candidate count reaches 476 for May local election

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What are the lessons of the island’s ‘sunflower movement’?