China’s new leaders crackdown on liberal reform calls
Open letter from 70 intellectuals warns of “violent revolution” without a change of course
Open letter from 70 intellectuals warns of “violent revolution” without a change of course
A government of austerity driving austerity across Europe
’Thas’ granted asylum in Belgium
Marchers demand Chief Executive CY Leung’s resignation and one person one vote
The coming year, like 2012, will be one of intense struggles by the working class in Britain, Europe and the world.
Solidarity against homophobia – rights of LGBT community and rights of working class under threat
Construir un frente unido de las fuerzas de izquierda con un programa para poner fin a la crisis capitalista!
"This system’s mind-set perpetuates hatred against women and disregards the fundamental right of women for freedom"
Build a united front of Left forces on a programme to end capitalist crisis!
Draconian penalties and court actions will be challenged with mass solidarity to stop this tax
Capitalist class have no solution to the deep-going crisis of capitalism they face
Capitalism Has Failed the Environment
On the caste discrimination suffered by Daliths and the impact of neo-liberal reforms on the working people of India
Voters Affirm Marriage Equality in Four States
Interview with Wael Towfeek, socialist activist in Cairo
Interview with Yasha Marmer, a leading member of the Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in Israel-Palestine)
After two Memoranda, Greek society is collapsing
Capitalist establishment shaken by sustained mass movement
15% of Dutch population faces poverty conditions
CWI member, Igor Yasin, and investigative journalist, Elena Kostyuchenko, among ten arrested [Update (20/12/12): Igor, Elena and 8 others released – full report to follow]
WASP will now mobilise support for the party
Regime squeezed between workers’ opposition to austerity and ruling class
Election sees big defeat for incumbent Democratic Party
Over five activists have been arrested and are being brutalized by the Lagos State Police Command
A socialist analysis
Justice for oil workers and their families!
Factory closures in Europe’s auto industry spreading. Defend Bochum, Genk, Aulnay-sous-Bois, Southampton and Dagenham – for a united struggle to protect all jobs and factories
The revolution continues! Let’s prepare the next step in the fight back!
The government has declared war on ordinary people with a brutal onslaught of cuts to our jobs and services.
Incurable socio-political crisis requires an urgent working class alternative
Protest against despotic regime’s crack-down!
New panorama, which threatens a situation of practical "ungovernability"
In a last minute move, the UGTT cancelled the strike planned for today
Socialist revolutionary change needed!
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex (LGBTI) activists, together with human rights campaigners, protested outside the Ugandan High Commission in London on Monday 10 December against a repressive new bill currently going through the Ugandan […]
We are living through one of the most dramatic periods in history
"Working people needs to take power into their own hands to implement democratic and socialist change"
Revolution at a crossroads
First time Chavez has spoken of the possibility of not being able to continue as president
The background to the wave of miners’ strikes across South Africa and how this movement is showing the way forward for workers and the poor across the country
All pretense of a fair trial dropped – Protest Now!
Brutal attacks against opposition activists shows need for independent mass workers’ movement
Act now to stop the crackdown of the new Morsi regime
Democratic, trade union and women’s rights under attack
Following high profile cases such as those of Julian Assange and Dominique Strauss Khan, there has been much debate recently about rape and sexual assault. On the Slutwalks and other protests, anger on these issues […]
Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record. It left a trail of destruction from the Caribbean and across the Eastern seaboard of the United States all the way to Canada.
We are living through one of the most dramatic periods in history.
Over 30,000 joined Independence March on 11 November in Warsaw organised by far-right organisations
Prime minster Cameron, the Murdoch empire and the police have been part of a web of mutual support and corruption
Anti-household tax struggle sinks deep roots as signs of increased anger against austerity emerge
During the Israeli government’s eight days of brutal assault on the Gaza strip, over 163 Palestinians were killed, 1,235 wounded and the entire 1.7 million population of the strip traumatised.
Working class needs its own independent party
Victory for the Socialist Party and the Four, who have refused to be bullied and intimidated
About 50 people gathered in Bangalore to observe International Day of action for Legal Abortion in Ireland
"Lasting peace will only be achieved when there is an end to the national oppression of the Palestinian people"
Cuts in fuel subsidies provoke mass eruption from below
Stop Israeli state terror!
On 21 November, up to 30 MEPs from four political groups and many different countries held a protest in front of the European Parliament to demand abortion legislation in Ireland.
Continue with the struggle! Name the date of a 48 hour general strike!
Belgian authorities collaborate with murderous Sri Lankan regime in deportation of Muruganandam Murugathas
None can really claim a victory
Cgil reluctantly mobilize, but workers and students fill the squares
48 hours general strike needed in drive to bring down austerity government
International day of action for legal abortion
Kapitalist İsrail hükümetinin savaşına hayır!
Video footage of protests, strikes and repression across the continent on the European day of action against austerity
A glimpse of the immense power of the working class if action is built and coordinated across borders
Defeat the desperate election offensive of Netanyahu, Lieberman and Barak
Historic Opportunities to Challenge Corporate Politics
Ford plant closure would see 4,000 jobs lost
Belfast ‘Socialism 2012’ debate and discussion event a great success
A socialist alternative to rotten, bankrupt capitalism
Opening towards an all-European strike
Prepare to Fight the Bipartisan Policies of the 1%
Prepare to Fight the Bipartisan Policies of the 1%
US elections
But how can the struggle against austerity be won?
Defend every job!
11 November – Mass demonstration called in support of Ford workers
Socialists increase vote and retain Stephen Jolly’s seat
For a second time this year, Irish GUE/NGL MEP Paul Murphy has been denied a visa to travel to Kazakhstan, where he was meant to head a delegation of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left […]
But is deprived by Head of Electoral Commission!
Aftermath of Sandy further exposes corporate domination of governing institutions
Interview with miners’ leader Hoshoko Letshoba
Travesty of justice as Appeal Court revokes earlier court decision to release Vadim
Growth in support for independence as early elections loom
For a Southern European-wide general strike on 14 November!
Vienna protests publicised in Kazakhstan
If demands of working people to be realised, it is necessary to be self-organised with clear aims
Opulence for robber capitalist elite but no boom for working masses
But growing contradictions for President Dilma Rouseff, as Party of Socialism and Freedom makes gains
A workers’ alternative is urgently needed!
Preparing for a one-day general strike
Young people demand real job creation and an end to attacks on public services
Who was Malcolm X?
New phase in struggle against austerity Workers travelled from across Britain to London today to express their fury at the Con-Dem government’s vicious cuts in living standards. The Trades Union Congress (TUC), which organised this […]
Rising national tensions point to new turbulent era in East Asia
US presidential race gap closes
The struggle for social justice continues
No desperate accolades from Nobel or anywhere will stop this present decline or shore up the EU’s biggest faultline – the eurozone crisis.
The class struggle in South Africa is far sharper than in many countries. Socialist consciousness is far higher among the powerful, industrial working class.
Massive strike after 50 years against outsourcing and cheap wages
Campaign Kazakhstan banner denounces attacks against oil workers
Text of Socialismo Revolucionario leaflet
A daily occurence
International Solidarity needed
National Strike Coordinating Committee launched on 13 October
But Ivanishvili’s ‘Georgian Dream’ is a false dawn for working class and poor
Spread of committees needed to prepare for general strike
A significant feature of the thousands strong march on 29 September in Dublin to mark International Decriminalisation of Abortion Day was the number of young people, especially young women.
Step towards national coordinated strike action
‘March for a Future’ a “powerful statement”
The struggle for a new mass workers’ party with a socialist programme
For a general strike movement to bring down the government and kick out the Troika
But socialist policies needed.
Labour leader promises more ’tough settlements for public services’
Great event in London on 2 October raises the demand for freedom for Aron Atabek and imprisoned Zhanaozen strikers
A strike on 3 October prevented the daily newspaper from being published the next morning. Workers fight back against lay-offs and cuts.
Under pressure from below, a number of unions have started to adopt a program for occupations and escalation of repeated 48 hour general strikes
The “Joint Strike Coordinating Committee” of all mines on strike in Rustenburg calls for a march next Saturday to confront the government. It argues for a general strike for a national living wage of R12,500 […]
Now for an united and international mobilisation to take the struggle forward!
It is 50 years since The Beatles’ first single, Love Me Do, released on 5 October 1962, a rough sounding beat record.
Joe Higgins challenges European Parliament President Martin Schulz in the Dail
Time to strike a united blow against EU/Troika austerity! For a European-wide day of general strikes and mobilisations this autumn! Towards a 24-hour all-European general strike!
Mine workers’ strikes boosted by success at Lonmin – coordinating committee needs solidarity
Factory fire kills 300 workers, hundreds injured
Aged 95, Hobsbawm still participated in the debate about the alternative to capitalism
CWI holds enthusiastic week-end of discussion and planning
Scottish Labour leader, Johann Lamont, has thrown the party into a crisis following her recent speech that called for an end to the “something for nothing culture” in Scotland.
The Labour Party conference takes place at a crucial time. Working people are crying out for a lead in a mass movement which can force elections and topple the hated Con-Dem government.
The large Nato force has been unable to defeat a vastly poorer force of Taliban-led fighters estimated at less than 25,000.
“We are inspired to continue the fight in the mines which continue to resist our united action.”
Support for independence for Scotland, ahead of a referdum, is still based on a sizeable minority. However, it is growing and is gaining ground amongst radicalised sections of society feeling the brunt of austerity cuts.
"No sexual abuse! No excuse! No domestic abuse! No excuse!" was one of the chants on the lively and colourful Slutwalk London demonstration on Saturday 22 September.
"One of the biggest strikes and demonstrations in the recent period in Greece took place on Wednesday 26 September."
Sıkıntılı bir süreç geçiren otomobil devi Fiat’ın patronu, aynı zamanda ACEA (Avrupa Otomobil Üreticileri Birligi) Başkanı Sergio Marchionne ’’bu, fiyatlar ve kar oranları için ölümüne bir savaş” diyerek Avrupa piyasasından yakınıyordu. New York Times’ın bu […]
For a European-wide and international strategy of the trade unions to defend factories, jobs and working conditions
Belfast Outdoor Relief Strike 1932 – When workers’ united against austerity
Brutal conditions behind latest flare-up at iPhone manufacturer
Protests and strikes by thousands shake the West Bank
Prepare now for a further struggle to defend public education
ANC leadership has shown since the massacre that the gulf between it and the masses is now unbridgeable
ANC (Afrika Ulusal Kongresi) yöneticileri bu katliamladan bu yana, kendisiyle kitleler arasındaki uçurumun şimdi hiç kapatılamayacak kadar olduğunu gösterdi.
Many millions involved in country-wide bandh
For a 48-hour general strike as next step in fight to kick out government and its policies!
The problems of the eurozone, rooted in the clash of national interests and the rivalries of capitalist leaders, remain as intractable as ever.
Now name the date!
The government must fall! For a government of the workers and youth!
For class struggle campaigns to unite working people across sectarian lines
A promising mass movement was turned into a electoral contest between two corporate-controlled political parties
Massacre of South African miners and Betrayal of the ANC
Socialist fighter against the military junta and capitalism
Press reports on impact of Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI)
Mass movement develops rapidly, then its leaders call a sudden halt
Interview with Kshama Sawant in Seattle
New coalition government promises austerity politics – Workers’ will resist!
Another blow to the PP government
Paul Murphy speaks in European parliament
It’s time to build a left-wing, anti-corporate, pro-worker party for workers and youth
Banner unfurled during Kazakhstan vs Sweden qualifying match
A new sectarian front line opens
Stop the police terror
’TUC – name the date’
Contradictions of history being unravelled amid mass struggles of today
Socialist Party reneging on retirement disappoints workers
Quebec Solidaire’s breakthrough shows potential for the left
The movement transformed consciousness among the broad mass of workers and young people
The need for democratic debate
Campaign for permanent contracts continues
CWI solidarity actions continue as struggle rumbles on
Time for ’Plan S’ for socialism
Socialist policies needed to oppose austerity and to win majority support!
Release the detainees! Solidarity messages needed
Murder and attempted murder charges against miners detonates a volcano of rage
Sensational murder trial of princeling wife hides more than it reveals
Sign on-line appeal
Joshua Rubenstein’s contradictory biography
The Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) sincerely regrets that Clare Daly has decided to resign from the party.
‘Massacres caused by right-wing extremism and Islamophobia’
Interview with a student activist on the perspectives for the movement
Result of massive international campaign of solidarity
Great victory for the international solidarity campaign
Billions around the world suffer from either malnourishment or obesity.
Memorial meeting remembers the great revolutionary who died in August 1940
New phase of crisis in country which could decide the fate of Europe
Yet another ex-News of the World (NoW) journalist has been charged with having committed perjury during the 2010 trial of Scottish socialist Tommy Sheridan.
Global capitalism is mired in depression. A Keynesian tract for our times by Paul Krugman proposes a way out
Towards a new turn?
Reports of CWI-organised lobbies in Ireland, Israel, Austria
Attacks support for the failed system of big business, which will not spend its enormous cash piles.
What began 18 months ago as a popular uprising against the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad is on its way to becoming a full-blown civil war that could spread around the region.
Prosecutor demands vindictive sentence at end of farcical trial
“This is not our government”
Britain before the October 20 TUC demonstration
Kshama Sawant groundbreaking campaign
Wave of strikes and occupations as workers fight for real improvements
Australia’s Labor Government worked hand in hand with the Liberal/National opposition to pass legislation to restart the offshore processing of refugees.
Protesters in front of embassy demand end of killing and support the miners
Re-affirms need for maximum support world-wide
South African police massacres striking workers at Marikana – call for protest action
…Free education is a right, not a privilege!
Human rights lawyer still fighting uphill battle
Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong) calls on voters to “Punish CY Leung and the corrupt establishment politicians!”
Unite young and old to fight all cuts
After a month of negotiations on an Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations in New York, the discussions came to an ignominious end last Friday when, first the United States and then Russia and […]
The preliminary count shows success for Kshama Sawant, the Socialist candidate, running against Democratic incumbent Jamie Pedersen in 43rd District.
On July 1 the highly controversial carbon tax was introduced in Australia amidst overwhelming public disapproval.
Syria’s agony continues unabated.
Public support growing for punk group!
Solidarity needed to win basic rights and conditions
The latest Irish League of Credit Unions “What’s Left” income survey shows deterioration in disposable income and an increased reliance on borrowing to make ends meet.
What role has migration played in the development of capitalist society? What impact does it have in this time of savage austerity?
Non-payment campaign against household tax: Preparation needed to organise a powerful, mass response to any court cases
Take the wealth off the 1%!
Combative trade union action needed to prevent a disaster
The markets are clearly stating that the same merciless ruthlessness that was deployed against the Greek people will now be visited on the Spanish nation.
The human rights lawyer, Vadim Kuramshin, today stopped his hunger strike protest
90,000 march against government’s new national education curriculum
Withdraw the troops from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN)! Keep PHCN public under democratic control of workers and consumers
End police brutality, racial profiling, and other racist practices
Anger against growing inequality and cuts to public services
Privatisation and ‘outsourcing’ fails again – For publicly owned and run services!
Protest to Russian Embassies!
International protests to Kazak authorities urgently needed!
2,000 Burgylai company workers cease work for two hours
Teachers and other workers demand new pay scales
Huge opportunities for building new workers’ party
Who killed Nimalaruban?
100 workers arrested, over 1,200 police deployed in area
Full union support needed to win dispute
The greatest sporting, and money-making, show on earth The 2012 Olympic Games, held in London, will start with the ‘Opening Ceremony’ on Friday 27 July, watched by an estimated audience of 1 billion people around […]
“Most powerful challenge to neo-liberalism” in North America
Greece and Spain to fore in Europe’s deepening political, economic and social crisis
International solidarity from PCS union group executive
Overcapacity and rising debt burden limits government’s policy options
Urgent appeal for prisoner rights campaigner
Solidarity needed in fight to save jobs
For a 48 hour general strike to bring down Rajoy government
For nationalisation of banks and financial institutions with democratic public ownership
Conditions for mass revolt maturing
Elections will take place amid political polarization and economic uncertainty
SWAT team armed with automatic weaponry raids home
Interview with NIPSA President Padraig Mulholland (personal capacity)
Capitalist crisis and workers’ mass struggles take global dimensions
Working class faces battle against cuts
Interview with a revolutionary activist
Contrary to official propaganda, Brazil’s economy is still vulnerable
“Despite being faced with virtual decimation of the public sector unions, the union leadership shrank from wielding its most powerful weapon: the strike”
Working masses need independent policies and their own party
Editorial from The Socialist
Big business agenda defeated by mass campaigning
Minneapolis anti-foreclosure movement confronts banks, politicians, and police
“[S]truggle for a society and an economy based on the free exchange of information, knowledge, and research for the benefit of all”
Keep up mobilizations to fight for internet freedom
Why Rio+20 will cut no ice
Twice as many as last year protest lack of democracy and gross inequality in society
For a mass independent movement of the workers and peasants to bring down the fake regime
Capitalist leaders are in disarray as they strive and fail to get to grips with the eurozone crisis and its threat to the global economy
Parliamentary elections strengthens Socialist Party’s rule
International left speakers address public launch rally
International Trade Committee in the European Parliament rejects ACTA
"Students have been striking for over 110 days."
Clear socialist programme for struggle needed
Escalation in struggle for power between old regime and Muslim Brotherhood
Day 4 of Paul Murphy’s blogging from Greece
Day 3 of Paul Murphy’s blogging in Greece while campaigning for Syriza
Anyone interested in socialist ideas is invited to attend
Day 2 of MEP Paul Murphy’s blogging in Greece while campaigning for Syriza
The Left and the second-round Presidential elections
Follow his website, blog, and Twitter for daily updates
“[R]ather than achieving convergence, the euro has sharpened the differences between the national economies”
War criminal on the run!
Campaign Kazakhstan blog post
EU/IMF bank bailout only scrapes tip of iceberg
"[A]ny military intervention, regardless of how it’s dressed up…will not ease the suffering of the Syrian people"
Workers fighting back request solidarity and support
Rank-and-file union activists assemble for sixth annual National Shop Stewards Network conference
Despite denials by police department officials, racial profiling continues unabated in New York and other cities across the US
A party of the working class is needed to defend workers in Wisconsin and beyond
Massive 180,000-strong crowd turns out for yearly candle-light vigil in Hong Kong • “CY effect” evident as rising local discontent coalesces with indignation over 1989 massacre
In struggle against brutal Assad regime, working class must oppose sectarianism and imperialist intervention
In memory of Takhir Narimanovich Mukhamedzyanov
“Red-Green” government forced to retreat
A Pyrrhic victory for the establishment that will blow up in their faces
Job prospects for young people are projected to remain bleak for several years.
Strikers punished for state’s murderous attack on peaceful gathering of oil workers and families!
The government will be hoping that the Jubilee flotilla of 1,000 ships on the river Thames will serve as a useful distraction while it pushes through more swingeing cuts.
Which way for the Left Front?
Tamils are outraged that Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has been invited to the British queen’s diamond jubilee celebrations.
Continuing actions planned following 5 eviction attempts and 23 arrests in the past week
Far right ejected from protest against police repression
Tommy Sheridan conviction must be overturned
Struggle to defend children’s right and for a better society
To avoid the worst effects of climate change, decisive action needs to be taken now, but it’s not going to come from the capitalists or their politicians.
We must remove the undemocratic control of the 1% who deny to the 99% a voice in the media.
Muslim Brotherhood and pro-Mubarak candidates face second round run off
Sign the e-petition now!
The Yes Scotland pro-independence campaign was launched mainly by the Scottish National Party, backed by big business, on Friday 25th May in Edinburgh.
Annual conference of Northern Ireland’s largest trade union at the end of May: A fighting strategy is needed on all fronts
End this farcical trial of the human rights’ lawyer and drop all charges!
A ‘Yes’ result in the 31 May referendum on Europe’s austerity treaty would be used as an alibi for future cuts and tax increases
Stop big business wrecking the environment
Tales of corruption and collusion
This is a bankers’ and bondholders’ treaty
Eurozone convulsed by turbulent economic forces and political upheavals
Hundreds of thousands of students take to streets, inviting workers to participate
The capitalist classes of Europe are now cranking up the pressure on the Greek working class, trying to blackmail it
“We were convinced by Militant members to launch a paper”
Activists for democracy and justice gather to discuss burning social issues
International protests bring pressure on Moscow police authorities
For nation-wide union-led mass actions and a 48-hr general strike
“Growth will not be achieved simply by stamping the word onto an austerity treaty, because austerity kills growth”
When authoritarianism faces resistance
Mass demonstration against EU’s austerity policies
Third anniversary of slaughter of Tamil people by Sri Lankan army marked by protests all around the world
Revolution and counter-revolution
Anger from below, manoeuvres from the top
Workers’ organisations must ensure real change
Police target socialists at protest camp – urgent protests needed!
Build fighting, democratic trade unions!
Thousands attempt to occupy squares and blockade the ECB in Frankfurt, Germany. Protests are banned.
Leader of the “Leave Peoples’ Homes Alone” campaign and member of the SMK, Larissa Boyar, and others have been released from prison
For a Left government! For anti-austerity, pro-worker, socialist policies!
Republic’s president, Marzouki, afraid of ‘new revolution’
Protesters respond by setting up ‘Occupy-Abai’
"During an election dominated by career politicians who are loyal to big business, I am running as a Socialist Alternative candidate to make sure there is at least one independent left-wing, pro-worker candidate in Washington […]
Step up the Struggle for Equality
Urgency of a working class alternative proven again
Lively and political CWI contingent attracts variety of activists
Meeting discusses involvement in Afghanistan
Campaign Kazakhstan reports that newspapers in Kazakhstan said a strike by miners at KazakhMys ended on 7 May with a complete victory for the workers.
May Day should have offered opportunity for workers to pose their demands and agitation before the government
Austerity rejected in Eurozone’s second biggest economy
Left presented with big opportunities
Socialist organisations march to joint rally
The Con-Dem government suffered a crushing defeat in last Thursday’s elections for local authorities and in the mayoral contests apart from London.
As economic crisis worsens and class struggles continue in Spain, Greece, Portugal and elsewhere in Europe, the need for working class fight-back and to build the influence of Marxism grows.
Socialist Action (CWI) campaigning against the capitalist 1% and against racism
Bobby Seale as guest speaker
Solidarity needed to free Vadim!
Fotos of impressive march
For a workers’ programme that puts forward the socialist alternative
Days of action planned in Frankfurt/Main against European Central Bank and big finance
Pension cuts, job cuts, service cuts
Irish government doesn’t seem to have learned anything from the massive opposition to its Household Tax
Make the rich and the bankers pay for their crisis!
CWI supporter Zhang Shujie and other activists took to the streets when Wen Jiabao visited Stockholm and Gothenburg
International Workers’ Day and the socialist alternative to austerity and barbarism
Immediate protests and financial help needed
“Up to half of all Icelandic families are bankrupt”
Socialist MEP calls for unions to advocate ‘No’ vote on ‘austerity’ treaty
Eleven years after the ‘kettling’ (containment) of an anti-capitalist protest in central London, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment on the police tactic.
Build A Mass Movement To Fight For Jobs
Despite the enormous agricultural and mineral resources of the country, the various capitalist political elites could neither resolve the economic nor nationality problem.
Since last May Day, fierce battle between public sector workers and the capitalist ruling class of different shades and disguises have erupted.
Socialist Party members are involved in establishing a new campaign to fight against the increasing cost of living.
New, polarized situation opening up
Climate activists and socialists win court battle over police brutality at 2009 climate change summit
Committee for a Workers’ International representatives speak
Challenging times for the left in Europe
Shrieks of protest from the Spanish government, Repsol, EU leaders, Latin American Presidents and others have been unleashed
Paul Murphy MEP attacks President Barroso on the failure of the austerity policies that he has promoted across Europe.
The need for concerted strike action against Con-Dem cuts in the public sector is more urgent than ever.
The government is cutting more than five billion euros
Court hears new allegations of police planning for Zhanaozen massacre
Unify the working class and poor in a struggle against the corrupt elite and the big business
The Current Political Context
Protesters demand the release all demonstrators arrested after ‘Martyr’s Day’ and trade union demonstration
“A conscious policy to undermine the freedom of the media”
Tehran’s bus drivers’ union leader sentenced to 6 years in prison
First time to initiate proposal to legalise abortion in Ireland
Sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912, with the loss of over 1,500 lives, remains one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters
Striking anti establishment feeling in the movement against the household tax
Prison rights campaigner faces 7-15 years in jail
More ‘healthy’, ‘positive’ and ‘real’ representations of women in the fashion world and beauty advertising?
Yunanistan İşçilerin Yeni Kesintilere ve Tasarruf Paketine Kitlesel Yanıt
Repression of protest in Tunisia
"Shout out the story as loud as you can"
Paul Murphy MEP denied visa to Kazakhstan – Nazarbayev regime scared of truth getting out about December 16 massacre of oil workers and their sympathisers.
The ‘troika’ unveils its real nature
Protest in response and release of the two shows potential for united struggle
15,000 join protest against the appointment of new leader C. Y. Leung as capitalist establishment is openly split
Neo-Nazis attempt to exploit street gang violence fails
Appeal for international protests
Police detain Arman Ozhaubaev and claim his location ‘unknown’
5,000 anti-racists take to streets of Aarhus
Perspectives for Struggle in 2012
Fight every move by the ruling classes to take away the little gains made by the working people
As economic crisis worsens and class struggles continue in Spain, Greece, Portugal and elsewhere in Europe, the need for working class fight-back and to build the influence of Marxism grows.
Campaign Kazakhstan: "Stop the frame-up of the Zhanaozen strikers!"
Mass opposition to coalition government’s tax as registration deadline passes
Lessons from the working-class revolt of 2011
It shows the potential for anti-cuts election challenges
What Was Behind the Internet Censorship Controversy?
Socialist plan needed
Decisive battles ahead
"Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: the new global revolutions", by Paul Mason
The two major parties are in a state of unprecedented crisis.
Continue and intensify with 48 hour general strike
Mass struggle wins contract for dockers
Protest must continue!
A country stupendously rich in human and material resources on the world scale is virtually on the last scale of ladder of civilization and economic development.
Regressive school reform causes uproar
Turkey’s governing ’Justice and Development Party’ (AKP) is presented as a model of “successful democracy” by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In fact, it is a brutal model of repression against Kurdish and left […]
The European economies are in the throes of an austerity-induced recession, which is likely to be protracted.
The question of an independence referendum in Scotland has provoked rumblings on both sides of the sectarian divide.
If any of the trade union leaders had any doubt about the full character of the onslaught facing the working class and the trade union movement, it should be dismissed now.
Solidarity Protest in Bangalore against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant
On February 26, 17-year old Trayvon Martin was murdered in cold blood. He was unarmed. His only crime was being young, black, and wearing a hoodie.
Union federation action causes third shutdown in 18 months
Will the Left Party present itself as an anti-capitalist opposition or as a ‘moderate’ party managing capitalism?
Successful demonstrations across Kazakhstan – now protest against fines and arrests of activists!
A blow to the regime but not enough
Time to fight for socialist change
“Nazarbayev – blood on your hands!”
Government austerity, police repression…the students’ struggle is everyone’s struggle!
Volcano of class struggle ready to erupt
Outrageous anti-democratic sentence as establishment seeks to criminalise protests
International solidarity campaign forces university authorities to back-down
How to end a nightmare?
For the first time in two decades an open power struggle erupts within China’s one-party state
Heroic few weeks when working class took power
But condemnation tempered by trade interests
Amnesty international and the British Channel 4 television channel reveal new material documenting the unpunished slaughter and ongoing oppression of Tamil people
But fails to condemn Nazarbayev regime
Anniversary of Japan’s twin disasters and Fukushima meltdown sees nuclear capitalists back on the offensive
Call for solidarity and pressure upon the company to reverse this new attack
200,000 march across South Africa
Paul Murphy questions Jose Manuel Barroso on how he can keep a straight face when talking about growth while implementing vicious austerity across Europe. He grills Barroso on the Blackmail Clause in the ESM Treaty.
Struggle from below for a sustained programme of mobilisations to fight labour ‘reforms’!
Regime under pressure from international campaign
Over 100 million workers take part
Workers and youth fierce struggles ahead
Cutbacks put people’s lives at risk
Genoa traditions celebrated with film and music
On International Women’s Day, CWI activists protest against austerity package hitting women
Link-up the fight-back of workers, youth, environmentalists and oppressed minorities!
International women’s day, 8 March, has been marked this year with an upturn in struggle, much of it to keep hold of many gains won in the past. Con-Dem austerity is hitting women hardest.
Irish referendum offers choice to reject the cuts
In the Australian Labor Party (ALP) leadership crisis Prime Minister Julia Gillard was able to fend off a challenge from Kevin Rudd, her former minister for Foreign Affairs and predecessor as Prime Minister. The underlying […]
"The Life and Times of Stella Browne: feminist and free spirit" by Lesley A Hall
Mass struggle needed for genuine and fair elections and the end of tycoon rule
For more than a century, 8 March has been the day to commemorate and celebrate the fight of working class and revolutionary women for a better deal and a socialist society.
Communist Party and neo-liberal opposition fail to win mass appeal
Protest against new attack on workers’ rights
MEPs protest company’s private militia
Video of Paul Callanan, Youth Fight For Jobs campaign on national UK news programme
Brutal repression
Campaign for a democratic students’ union goes on – Send protests now!
People’s opportunity to reject austerity at ballot box
Western powers step up sanctions and military threats against Tehran
“No more fear, the power is in the hands of the people” – Tens of thousands demand the fall of the government
Police break up St. Paul’s camp, which lasted for more than 100 days
Visiting workers’ occupation
A number of key unions are poised to strike-back on 28 March – and significant private-sector struggles continue.
Workers in struggle and discussions with the Greek left
Last weekend Paul Murphy MEP (GUE/NGL, Ireland) visited striking workers from the Eleftherotypia newspaper, which was Greece’s largest selling newspaper…
The world famous Oxford Union was the setting for a debate on the proposition: "This House Believes That Capitalism has Failed the Poor".
Further support from Martin Powell-Davies, National Executive, National Union of Teachers (NUT), London, and Christoph Waelz, GEW-Berlin (teachers’ union) shop steward
With almost 3 million people participating in the process of primary elections, the coalition of right-wing parties in opposition to the Chavez government, elected a united candidate for the Presidential elections in October.
International solidarity and action to oppose state brutality and austerity
For a mass one day general strike, against the attacks on the trade unions and for the full implementation of all the objectives of the revolution!
Austerity measures have gone so far that they increasingly represent an attack on society itself
Workers’ strikes and new local rebellions use the slogan “Learn from Wukan”
Reports from February edition of Resistenze, paper of the CWI in Italy
Months of grassroots revolt shows way forward for impoverished masses
Statement from Gauche Révolutionnaire (French section of the CWI) drawing a balance sheet of its experience in the NPA
Mass protests in Germany, Austria and Europe
MEP Paul Murphy raises the need for the Egyptian masses to take political and economic power out of the hands of the ruling elite and military
For a mass movement of workers and the poor to defeat Assad’s regime and imperialism!
Full inquiries moved by Paul Murphy MEP and agreed
Cosawu union won application to represent about 700 workers
But many protesters ask: “We came – what next?”
Kurmanov and Ukteshbayev speak out
Beer with the taste of blood of workers don’t go down smoothly
Massive response by the Greek workers to new cuts and austerity
Immediate support given by Bob Crow, rail-workers’ leader in Britain, Paul Murphy, MEP, from Ireland, Swedish trade union journalist and Australian Councillor, Steve Jolly
Greek workers can defeat austerity, the troika and the vampire bondholders
Part of struggle against bureaucratisation of union
TV news report highlights the case of CWI supporter Zhang Shujie
LA School 2012 takes place against the backgound of sharp changes on the continent
Urgent protests needed!
Workers need a party with anti-cuts, socialist policies not coalitions with capitalist parties!
London is a city of enormous disparities between rich and poor, the most unequal city in the developed world – a report from the city hosting this year’s olympics
International struggle can end dictatorship of the markets
Anger spilling over against troika austerity
General strike on 7 February opposes “mediaeval labour conditions!"
No trust in Arab League and imperialist powers
A big protest rally in freezing temperatures greeted the Kazakhstan president as he attended a meeting to strengthen relations with the German government and big business.
74 killed in horrific scenes
Joe Higgins argues in Cork, 26 January, to resist the household tax: "Yes, we have a choice!"
A strike corresponding to the level of anger over austerity programme
The capitalist classes of Europe are all adopting the same policy of attempting to make the working class pay for the capitalist economic crisis.
A socialist view on recent showdown between government and people
The repression will not stop the movement!
CWI – a socialist analysis
Urgent solidarity needed
The lessons of the first waves of revolutionary movements
Worldwide solidarity campaign means the Kazakhstan regime can no longer deny 16 December massacre
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