Articles by WASP (Workers and Socialist Party) Reporters, S Africa

Could signal a real step-change in the longer war against austerity

Spark for another regional war in Africa?

Campaigning for WASP socialist alternative at May polls

Low wages, non-payment of salaries and increased terror attacks

Sporting excellence, yes…but also corruption, waste, atrocious workers’ conditions and anti-LGBT laws

Forceful collective voice needed to end poverty and abuse

“I think this is a genuine Bosnian spring. We have nothing to lose…”

Workers continue their struggle against brutal management

Deep economic crisis, savage austerity and social upheaval have polarised Greek society.

Scottish Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation and affiliated campaigns show what can be achieved with a strong campaign

Demand a constituent assembly

Article first published in Socialism Today

Seize the historic opportunity of the 2014 elections

Segun’s car damaged in attack

Demand the immediate and unconditional acquittal of the oil workers of Las Heras

Let’s make 2014 the year of the political general strike!

More and more tensions develop in the Left Front

New ‘technocratic’ government no response to workers’ demands

"We need our own political party. Independent of big business, and independent of the parties of big business"

After weeks of violent clashes, powerful oligarchs intervene

“To achieve justice we must change the whole system!”

Working class and rural poor need party of their own

Growing discontent in society generates interest in socialist ideas

A question of gender and class

Anti-democratic legislation criminalizing asylum seekers provokes strikes and mass protests

Growing from an initiative of the Socialist Party (CWI in Australia) the #TunnelPicket campaign has gone from strength to strength

Both sides mired in corruption and violence

More workers and youth will conclude working class must raise own independent interests

‘Lenin’ by Lars T Lih

Paul Murphy, Irish CWI MEP in the European Parliament

Workers from Swedish company Alfa Laval India Pvt Ltd. situated at Kasarwadi, Pune are on strike for the last three months

It is a Legalised Assault on Democratic Rights

The butcher of Sabra and Shatila has died

Who would have imagined that in a major American city, at a post election inauguration ceremony attended by 1,000 people, a new, directly elected Mayor and other members of the City Council would be completely […]

Videos of CWI comrades Tony Saunois and Bilbo Goransson addressing mass rally

Big industrial battle brewing in London underground

180 attend combative and enthusiastic event held in Sao Paolo, Brazil

European business connives at suppression of democratic rights.

Much of the right-wing media whipped up hostility and alarm in the run up to the 1 January end of restrictions on entry to Britain for people from Romania and Bulgaria

Between 20,000 and 30,000 march on New Year’s Day, but frustration and divisions are rising within the pro-democracy struggle

On the way to a second bailout

Hundreds gather to witness socialist’s historic inauguration

Vast wealth should be taken into common, democratic ownership

Join the Fight for a $15/hour Minimum Wage!

The case for joint coordinated industrial action

A small antidote to the misinformation about World War One the ruling class will unleash

To develop a carbon-neutral global economy, economic and political power must be taken out of the hands of the ‘noxious 90’

Appeal of socialist change will grow

Workers’ movements need determined opposition to Western imperialism and all Middle Eastern elites

Joe Higgins walks out of Irish parliament and calls for mass boycott of new water tax

How to change the world

The Troika is not going anywhere

Urgent solidarity needed

Politically explosive investigation of former security czar marks a new phase of internal power struggle

Society turned back forty years, in nine months

Social and political instability to continue into next period

Informe del debate sobre Europa en la última reunión del Comité Ejectivo Internacional del CIT

Violent attack from neo-nazis gets massive reply

Report of discussion on Latin America at CWI’s International Executive Committee

Defend the refugees! Defend union members!

Indefinite strikes, occupations, seeds of workers’ control

Historic decision to cut ties with the ANC

Fighting plans to close student facility and convert it into ‘high class teaching suites’ and corporate dining area

World moving from being ‘unipolar’ to ‘bipolar’

Report of the discussion on Europe at the recent meeting of the CWI’s International Executive Committee

MEP Paul Murphy condemns brutal State violence against peaceful protesters in Kiev

But tide begins to turn as workers startto take action

Document discussed, amended and voted at the recent meeting of the International Executive Committee (IEC) of the CWI, which took place in Belgium during the first week of December

Report from the session on ’world perspectives’ which took place at the recent International Executive Committee (IEC) of the CWI

Massive and evident fraud sees right-wing claim victory in Presidential elections

Privatisation of local transport delayed

Abstention and polarisation reflect reality of current conjuncture

Behind the Tories and UKIP, but ahead of the Lib Dems and Greens who both have the advantage of a national profile

What should be the attitude of the socialist left?

In the midst of talk about Ireland’s exit from the Troika programme and recovery supposedly in sight, the mortgage crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of ordinary people is being deliberately understated.

Heroically leading ANC to power but struggle tragically into dead end

This pamphlet by the firefighters’ union in Britain makes a case for using a publicly owned banking system as a tool for economic planning.

Scottish constitutional referendum: Yes to an independent socialist Scotland, no to a continuation of capitalist austerity

Obama’s speech falls far short of what’s needed to tackle historic levels of inequality

Black Friday and beyond

Xi Jinping’s shift from dictatorship-by-committee to new ‘paramount leader’ is a high-risk strategy

Populist, anti-immigrant parties aim to exploit anti-EU mood in May elections

"Increasingly harsh reality of life for huge swathes of ordinary working people in Europe"

Tony Benn’s latest volume of diaries continues his frank and honest appraisal of his political life. He has campaigned long and hard – but in vain – to halt the degeneration of the Labour Party.

Urgent solidarity needed

«It is already 10 past midnight»

The world situation and the tasks for the CWI

Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) holds inaugural convention

“Earth-shattering consequences” in the US and internationally

Victory rally in Seattle sets the tone for struggles ahead and more historic opportunities for the socialist left

Democrat Richard Conlin concedes to Socialist Alternative challenger

Big success for $15/hour minimum wage campaign; breakthrough for independent working class politics

With the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) taking place from 10 to 17 November all eyes are on Sri Lanka

Socialist challenges make history

But union leaders launch attack on CWI activist

Statement on the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting taking place (CHOGM) in Colombo

Workers’ action mounts

Preparing for a new Bachelet government, Marcel Claude and the building of a new force for workers and youth

Paul Murphy MEP speaks on a preferential trade agreement with Myanmar (Burma) when there is still serious human rights abuses taking place in the country against ethnic minorities

Cameron to Sri Lanka – not in our name

An interview with the maker of Utopia, John Pilger

Interview with Hidouri Abdessalem, member of the regional UGTT office for secondary education, Sidi Bouzid

The beginning of a wider struggle against the far-right and racism

Strongest showing by socialists in decades – Opportunities for working-class politics must be seized

Who gains from terrorism?

An important step to renew working class feminism

Reflecting a thirst to resist and the search for ideas

Class hatred of an out-of-touch capitalist elite

Joe Higgins speaks in parliament on legacy of 1913

Chinese state steps up repression against Uighurs and other national minorities

Debate centres on question of EU following massive human chain in favour of independence on 11 September

Millions routinely spied upon by state agencies

Great momentum for Socialist Alternative’s candidates sees major national lobby group and big business stepping in for opponents

Support grows in campaign for release of imprisoned workers’ representative

Workers in conflict with management over unpaid wages

Unite members not offered a fighting strategy, other than to accept cuts

The Venezuelan economy faces runaway inflation, speculation and severe food shortages. At the same time, capitalist forces are increasingly emboldened by the growing divisions in the government.

Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD, speaks on Roma children and unemployed youth

Unions’ decisive plan of action need to defeat this act of corporate vandalism

Time to gather forces for a real workers’ alternative is now

Big business greed vs. community need

‘Unions of the Base’ and social movements on the streets

The people no longer believe this farce! The fight continues, tomorrow it will be even bigger!

Socialist Action calls for one-day strike by media workers

"This barbaric feudal remnant can be confined to the dustbin of history"

A fight the trade union movement cannot afford to lose

A small but important victory in the ongoing struggle for freedom of speech

Shenzhen factory workers’ representative held by police for five months

Paul Murphy, Socialist Party MEP, adressing deepening sectarian & ethnic tensions and role of imperialism

Defend pensions – General strike now to bring down the government!

A fighting, working class left remains to be built

Independent workers’ organisation and socialist programme needed

Paul Murphy MEP speaks against racist immigration policies

New neo-liberal parties enter fray but workers need a strong socialist alternative

Video of Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy

Governmental shutdown reveals again the need for a new party of the 99%

But SWP’s sectarian actions could damage Paul’s chances

For an alternative plan of massive investment in public transport system!

“Let’s bury it for good!”

New generation can learn from experience of Malaya Communist Party leader

Letta government faces continuing economic and social crisis

Free Wu Guijun! Free the Guangzhou 12!

Esenbek Ukteshbayev, arrested as part of last weeks housing protests, is being held in solitary confinement and denied access to even a lawyer. In response, he has gone on hunger strike

Need for struggle against cuts and unemployment

Strong unions needed to stop worker exploitation ahead of 2022 World Cup finals

Mood for action against ConDem government

New book charts economic, social and political decay of America

Solidarity with protesting workers, youth and women!

Police reinforcements called in against new protests

Pavlos Fyssas’s murder – Left-wing rapper stood up against fascism and injustice until the end

Trade unionists debate how organised working class can have a political voice

Building a left alternative; link fight against regime with struggle of oppressed Tamils and system change

Defend all plants and jobs – save factories through nationalisation – for a 30-hour week at Opel/Vauxhall without loss in pay

Dutch people want a real alternative to austerity

The case for a socialist alternative

But unstable times lie ahead

Socialist Party Scotland alone calls for public ownership of major sectors of economy

New wave of arrests of activists

Racist-populist ’Progress Party’ now to be in government

A reply to Andrew Kliman

Socialist and union organizer targetted by feudal lords and corrupt state officials

Determined and unified action pay

Teachers show the way! Build for all-out general strike action to defeat new austerity attacks!

The Left and organised working class needs to organise a powerful anti-fascist front

Discussions on political representation as elemental class rage develops under the surface of society

Need to build widespread strike action over workload, pay and working conditions

56 care homes under threat

A contribution to the debate ahead of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum

Main parties, few differences; DIE LINKE must support struggles of working class and fight for a socialist future

Regime risks internal earthquake, as power struggle sharpens

Vadim Kuramshim’s courageous campaigning recognised by lawyers’ prestigious award

TUC must name the date for a 24-hour general strike

As austerity shock-effects wear off, workers’ opposition will grow

Under the timetable of Nigeria’s current constitution, the working may have to endure the country’s rulers until the next general elections twenty months away!

In re-building a socialist movement, lessons of coup need to be learnt

Break with the Democrats, Corporate America’s Other Party of War!

But anti-war campaigning must be maintained; No to imperialist intervention!

One or other corporate party is no ‘choice’ for working people

The role and the background to police spy Peter Francis as revealed in the book Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police.

Obama – guilty by omission

State continues to prepare for intensification of repression as social upheavals loom

Growing prospects for a new movement

Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto public meeting on socialist alternative

“No to war!", "No to Big Brother Obama!"

New leaders facing economic and political crisis

Two rappers sentenced to prison for standing up against brutal police methods – solidarity needed

During a recent radio show, Weizmann Hamilton (DSM and WASP) outlined the perspectives on re-building a powerful workers’ movement and a new mass working class party in South Africa.

Seamus Whelan, a registered nurse and union activist, member of Socialist Alternative, is running for City Council in Boston, and this campaign is helping to build the struggles organized by working people in the city.

Popular Front’s alliance with ‘Nidaa Tounes’ provokes big turmoil on the left

3 September, 1938, marked the start of the Fourth International’s founding conference

Rejoinder to ‘Daily Trust’ fabrication

Transforming energy efficiency requires ending the waste of the anarchic market system

Name the day for a 24-hour general strike!

An immense struggle between the workers’ movement and big-business leaders

No to imperialist intervention!

Report from the Trade Union commission

"The movie’s meant to be an allegory for class warfare." – Neill Blomkamp, director

But fails to explain widespread conspiracy of silence

On August 16, the anniversary of the police massacre of striking workers at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, over 5000 mineworkers gathered on ‘the mountain’ where their comrades had been shot down one year […]

Further burden on working class and young people

In an unprecedented move, the 30,000 strong Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Minnesota State Council endorsed Socialist Alternative candidate Ty Moore for Minneapolis City Council.

Abolish the Prawer-Begin plan! Stop racist discrimination

35%, over 44,000 votes – Kshama Sawant’s stunning result in Seattle primary

On 21 August 1940 Leon Trotsky, the Marxist thinker and fighter, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution, along with Lenin, was murdered by one of Stalin’s agents.

Need to build an independent workers’ movement to confront terror, sectarianism and poverty

For a tiny few at the top Britain is really booming…

Increasing sectarianism threatens revolution’s future – Workers’ independent action urgently needed

Both capitalists and working class prepare for unforeseen turmoil

Without the Israeli government being willing to grant this basic right of self-determination, the talks will remain a charade.

Rajoy and Cameron governments distract attention from domestic crisis with new flaring up of tensions over Gibraltar

United Socialist Party makes election challenge

Socialist campaign is gaining support and momentum over Democrat’s challengers

Trade unions need to actively combat sectarian threats and attacks, in the workplaces and in the communities

Fragile governments will be rocked by mass movements of workers and poor

Seattle Gives Green Light to Oust Richard Conlin from City Hall

Workers, Communities and trade unionists unify their struggle

An independent, working class leadership needed. It is two and a half years ago when the ‘Arab Spring’ began – a series of events which have radically transformed the Middle East, reported Serge Jordan introducing the […]

The UGTT and the Popular Front must provide a strategy to finish with capitalism – no agreement with forces of the old regime! Towards a revolutionary socialist government of the workers, the youth, the unemployed […]

Labor’s revival is as a rejection of both Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, not a welcome embrace of Kevin Rudd

… but capitalism sets the agenda

For mass struggle from below, major protests, strike action, marches on checkpoints – “This is what I think is absolutely needed now.”

Ed Miliband’s decision to rush through the end of trade union bloc affiliation to the Labour Party at a special conference next spring has all the symbolism of Tony Blair’s ’Clause Four moment’ in 1995.

2013 has seen a continuation unrelenting assault on women’s rights

Anti-foreclosure group Stand Against Foreclosures and Evictions (SAFE), Seattle Socialist Alternative, City Council candidate Kshama Sawant, and other allies gathered to peacefully resist an eviction.

The socialist alternative to a continent in crisis

“A strong SAV strengthens the left in DIE LINKE”

Interests of energy giant ENI over-ride democracy and party policies

Introductory video to a plenary session on ‘Building the CWI’, showing examples of the campaigning work from 45 CWI sections

Bloody repression can be turned against striking workers and youth

Leaflet of CWI supporters calls for general strike to bring down the government

World capitalist crisis and the class struggle

People in China’s cities are choking on smog. This past winter the capital Beijing, and other northern cities, suffered their worst air pollution readings on record.

This year’s CWI Summer School, held in Belgium this week, began with an inspirational account of the recent dramatic developments of workers’ struggle in South Africa, the important participation of the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI […]

How workers won the NHS

Anti-Tamil pogroms organised by ruling class

It is a year since the opening of the London Olympics. As protests rage in Brazil against the profiteering and corruption revealed in the preparations for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics the […]

Trade unions must build a political voice for the working class

Organised working class enters stage of struggle

The racist system is guilty!

A victory for the whole working class

Socialist Campaign Gaining Broad Support

No to a government of “national unity”! For mass action to deal final blow to rotten coalition and impose a workers’ alternative!

The revolution must continue! For a government of workers and the poor!

Rather than paying lip service to issues important to LGBT people, the Kshama Sawant campaign used the opportunity to reach thousands of people with our message of truly fighting for the far-reaching change that LGBT […]

[UPDATED VERSION OF “Egypt: Morsi removed – No trust in the generals” ON 10 JULY]

High profile dispute puts union ties to New Labour into question

Plutocrats wield power and influence by virtue of their wealth. The ultra-free-market, globalised capitalism of recent years has produced a new breed of super-rich plutocrats.

On the road to independent working class political representation

‘Down with CY Leung’ – but what are the next steps in democracy struggle?

"Scrap the Surveillance!"

Instability ahead regardless of election outcome

For independent action by workers and poor

"For a united front of the left to fight for a workers’ government!"

Campaign Kazakhstan British Secretary, Mick Whale, condemns David Cameron’s visit to build links with Kazakh dictator

National Shopstewards’ Network (NSSN) conference: how to defeat government’s austerity?

No to the generals’ intervention! For a workers’ government!

Continue and escalate the struggle until victory! For a united front to fight for a workers’ government

Fighting poverty pay

A threat to democratic rights

Workers demand nationalisation of KazakhMys metal foundry

Representatives of the 1% pledge more austerity, war and environmental degradation

Beijing’s sharp credit squeeze adds panic on global financial markets

Disband the NSA! Repeal the Patriot Act!

British trade unionist speaks out

3,000 march from Enniskillen to summit perimeter fence

Tremors of the coming revolt

An injury to one is an injury to all

Leaders of Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE) call for genuinely independent enquiry

Khamenie and Rouhani are riding a tiger

Leaderships of unions and Left parties fail to provide decisive leadership

Governors of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and many other cities cut transport fares but the struggle must continue.

New layer of workers, youth and poor has entered the scene with the promise: “This is just the beginning – the struggle continues”

Socialist MEP condemns police violence during Turkey/ EU trade relations session

Well over 250,000 in approximately 20 cities took to the streets

Revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have exposed US hypocrisy over cyber-spying

End the rule of big business, poverty and war

Mass demonstrations against the increase of bus fares in all major cities

“We will defend our rights and continue fighting”.

Fed up with continued oppression, workers under the banner of ’Pradeep Laminators Workers’ Union’ have started a propaganda campaign against the bosses.

MEP Paul Murphy criticises EU foreign policy representative, Catherine Ashton, over calls for ’restraint on all sides’

Unions must organise general strike action now!

Socialist MP slams huge security operation and anti-working class record of world leaders

Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy travelled to Istanbul to see the protests first-hand – and in his diary from the visit he tells us that the response from the country’s Prime Minister has been “brutal”.

24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors

Urgent need for independent working class socialist organisations

Paul Murphy to visit heart of Turkish Protests

An 18-year-old student activist Clement Meric was murdered in Paris in broad daylight, on 5 June, by neo-fascist skinheads. This must be answered by mass mobilisation to halt attempts by the far right to raise […]

Police repression in the belly of the beast

A group of 12 MEPs from the left wing group in the European Parliament, GUE-NGL, have signed a joint message of support to Anti-G8 protestors ahead of the summit in two weeks’ time.

Unrest grows over economic and social issues

Public sector workers take strike action against police violence – For a one day general strike as a next step to bring down the government!

Over 2,000 poeple attended the anti – bedroom tax rally in Glasgow’s George Square on June 1 called by the Scottish Anti Bedroom Tax Federation.

Secret Services bolster police ahead of G8 Summit in N Ireland

Vital lessons for today’s democracy struggle

‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS campaign

Rising support for UKIP shows both the erosion of established party loyalties and the existence of a profound vacuum of working-class political representation.

EU council meeting: Another attempt to put the burden of the capitalist crisis on the shoulders of youth and working people

Sweden once had a reputation as some kind of ‘social-democratic model’ with far-reaching public services and social support. But that has been dismantled by two decades of attacks – what the Economist magazine calls a […]

Profits from destruction

The one day protest general strike held on 21 May was a significant step forward for the working class in Sri Lanka.

Neo-liberalism and police violence have created social time-bomb

The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of Europe.

MEP demands immediate release of Housing Campaigners – solidarity still needed

Statement on Woolwich killing

In the «most developped country for women in the Arab world», the struggle for women rights remains more relevant than ever

After Lafontaine’s proposal to get rid of the Euro – what should the left say?

Protests needed via embassies

Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year

Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism

An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass working peoples’ defence committees!

This year’s G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, on 17th – 18th June. This gathering brings together the heads of government of eight of the world’s largest capitalist economies to discuss […]

Increasing concerns and contradictions

Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike

Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background of deep divisions in society and the regime.

Australia’s federal environment minister Tony Burke gave the go ahead to Toro’s $270 million uranium mining project in the Wiluna region of Western Australia.

Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards

We shouldn’t let either of the major parties tell us that ‘tough decisions’ or ‘hard cuts’ are required.

Bus workers take strike action over savage wage cuts and attacks on conditions

15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies

How can a state be realised?

The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial power.

On 8 May the PKK has begun to withdraw from Turkey. Millions are hoping now for an end to oppression and for democratic rights.

Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters and young people

On 2 May the neo-fascist Golden Dawn attempted to distribute food in Syntagma square in Athens to people holding proof of Greek nationality.

Time for a new mass workers’ party

New clashes on the horizon

Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots

The United Socialist Party’s May Day demonstration passed successfully through a number of populous areas of Colombo, ending at Grand Pass Junction.

Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8 percent – but important issues are unresolved

’Get a job!’ is the constant refrain of privileged Tory ministers and vicious right-wing tabloids. A million unemployed young people are the subject of a relentless campaign of smears and lies.

Sosyalist hareket üyesi 3 Pakistanlı Quetta’da mezhepçi çatışmada katledildi.

Great event remembers the ’47’ struggle

Christine Thomas’ book outlines how inequalities and discrimination against women have not disappeared and women’s struggles must be bound up with wider class struggle to be successful. Read the complete book online here.

Those who created the crisis should be forced to pay.

The last set of DSM members still in the detention of the state security service (SSS) in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, and Ibadan Oyo state, Southwest Nigeria, as of yesterday, has been released.

Progressive Workers Federation (PWF), TURCP and SMP organised and intervened in the May Day activities across the country

It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 400 garment workers crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the […]

Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more besides…

‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’

Photos of May Day demonstration in Sindh

DSM comrades arrested and detained

CC rules budget illegal for second time, government declares war against it

The CWI sends revolutionary greetings and solidarity to workers, young people and all those exploited by capitalism.

Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.

Writing off of any debt accrued due to the bedroom tax, supporting the building of new social housing, opposing all cuts and austerity measures

Socialist policies needed

SSM member, Suiher Daska and other left candidates were elected to the leadership of the union on the background of the coming struggles against austerity

"Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s hidden war" by Frances Harrison

Teachers at Garfield High school in Seattle, Washington, faced down possible suspension for boycotting the winter Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test, which purports to evaluate student progress in reading and maths.

Hundreds of people protested outside London’s Houses of Parliament on 14 April to demand that caste oppression in Britain be outlawed.

A surprisingly devastating critique of the ANC’s failure to ensure ‘a better life for all’; BBC2 April 24th and online

Socialist polices needed to resolve crisis in the interests of majority

NO to Racism and Repression

Unprecedented stimulus package – a desperate gamble

Recently discovered photos of the Spanish civil war

‘No’ vote puts Labour Party on the ropes

Workers must take urgent steps to defeat capitalism and the right-wing.

"The Provisional IRA: from insurrection to parliament" by Tommy McKearney looks in detail at the IRA’s development

Socialist Party statement on the Australian political situation

The Troika’s bail-out package is an economic and social disaster for the people of Cyprus.

University of Ibadan (UI): End victimisation of student activists! – Call for protest letters and solidarity

Paul Murphy speaks out as European Parliament debates Human Rights

Lively meeting of party members and supporters elects Lagos state executive

On 13 March, seven young men were executed in Saudi Arabia by firing squad.

Appeal for protest letters and solidarity

The bombings today [15 April 2013] at the Boston Marathon are an absolute tragedy and a horror that shouldn’t happen in Boston or anywhere else in the world.

Nearly 10,000 show determined, angry and positive mood

In the first week of March share prices surged on the New York Stock Exchange followed by other major exchanges. Does this signify a revival of the global capitalist economy?

A socialist perspective on fighting women’s oppression

Millions have been waiting for this day, 8 April 2013. Margaret Thatcher will never be forgiven for the devastation that her Tory governments’ policies wrought on working class communities in the 1980s – and is […]

About 70,000 activists from around the world gathered at the WSF in Tunis, 26-30 March.

Angry, bitter and undeterred, hundreds of pensioners and activists rally in Lagos

Fifteen years without a pay rise – “We are like slaves of the company!”

Just over a month since the death of Chavez and with less than a week till the presidential elections, Venezuelans are experiencing the highest level of political polarization seen in years.

Mere sabre-rattling or real risk to lives of millions?

Thatcher’s bitter legacy

We must stop them!

Weak Israeli government will try to implement austerity budget, and would try to maintain the occupation, possibly under a new cover of "negotiations" with Palestinians. Resistance likely on all fronts.

Anti-bedroom tax protests attracted thousands of people in Glasgow and Edinburgh last weekend – reflecting the mass opposition to the hated ConDem policy.

No political voice for working class

Vic Paananen, who died on 24 March, aged 75, was a veteran socialist activist.

Three Socialist Movement Pakistan killed in sectarian violence in Quetta

Interview with a Cypriot socialist

Development of Bodu Bala Sena must be stopped

The rise of the Pirate Party is a transient expression of underlying anti-party sentiment and a protest vote against the policies and actions of the established parties

The launch of the Workers & Socialist Party was the direct outcome of the struggles of the mineworkers of South Africa throughout the course of last year.

"Time for workers to unite – from Greece to Ireland"

At annual NPC-CPPCC meetings Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang talk of ‘tough reforms’ for economy, but rule out ‘Western models’

No trust in any capitalist political factions! For mass struggle around workers’ demands!

Radical, populist policies and anti-imperialism helped transform the political situation This article was first published in Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). After a long battle with cancer, Venezuelan president […]

In his ‘tsunami’ election tour Grillo began to give voice to the deep discontent at economic crisis and austerity

No trust in capitalist government! No austerity for the Euro! Kick out the Troika! For a socialist alternative![Updated article, 25 March]

“A political party has been born in the aftermath of the Marikana mine massacre – the Workers’ and Socialist Party (Wasp)”, media report

Launch surpassed all expectations

Fight Global Warming!

Imperialism’s harvest of death and destruction

“Nothing more to give” sums up the position of public sector workers who are struggling to survive in the midst of the never-ending economic crisis.

"The crucial question now is not if or what, but how to begin immediately to build a Working class political alternative"

Mass demos demand to end the government’s link to the Troika and to refuse to follow its dictats.

Increasing support for nationalisation to save jobs

… and more action after

Alternative energy and socialist planning needed

Socialist Challenges Democratic Party Establishment

Ken Loach: "I want people to be angry"

Over 100 people packed into the Glasgow City Unison Offices on March 13th for a public meeting to build for the Anti-Bedroom Tax demonstration on March 30th. The meeting which brought together people from across […]

Women and youth face additional discrimination

Verdicts of the Bangladesh war crimes tribunal this February, which were widely seen as overdue and too lenient, sparked off a wave of protests in Dhaka’s Shahbagh Square and throughout the country.

Chinese regime’s repression responsible for Tibetan self-immolations

Over 200,000 take to the streets on the eve of Japan’s Fukushima anniversary – to demand a nuclear-free Taiwan

Yesterday, Shimon Peres, the Israeli President, was met by protests as he visited Strasbourg to address the European Parliament

Just over 300 delegates and visitors took part in a very successful Socialist Party annual congress in Clacton-on-Sea from 2 to 4 March.

Spirit of Wukan revived with demands for democratic vote over land seizures

More than ever, the struggle for socialism is necessary!

Fighting austerity

Workers’ movement must take up their cause

What is the way forward for women’s struggle for liberation?

Beware the anger of women against the bosses’ system!

“Bourgeois, make no mistake – here are a revolutionary people!”

Electricity prices trigger revolt against system

Millions of Venezuelan workers, the poor and youth will mourn the death of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez

Workers’ unity against big business shows potential for anti-sectarian, socialist alternative

What Now? — Reflections from a DC Protester

Review of The Second World War, by Antony Beevor

“Screw the Troika – the people are the best rulers”

An important community campaign is growing on Melbourne’s inner-city public housing estates.

Secret measure to end collective bargaining over health care for Illinois public employees

National Party attempts to force ordinary people to pay for crisis is met with resistance

Ty Moore accused of civil disobedience at Housing Justice rally

Big attacks on working class loom