Articles by The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales)

Once again, a United Nations-sponsored climate change conference has completely failed to address the issue of global warming.

December’s industrial action against austerity just the beginning of the fight-back!

Whole continent on the verge of major social convulsions and political shocks

The illusory appearance of a peculiar isolation from the international picture of stagnation, recession and economic crisis is fragile – a new period of turbulent class conflict lays ahead

CWI’s Zhang Shujie speaks out at hearing in Sweden’s parliament

Euro-zone crisis deepens

Masses in Cairo and other cities demand end to military rule

LSD legislator from Hong Kong to speak in support of young socialist Zhang Shujie, forced to flee China

Contradictions and new struggles define situation in region

3 year old child killed in fatal repression

Release Vadim Kuramshin and all those arrested – End harassment of opposition activists!

16 December underlined the need for the workers’ movement to link economic demands to the struggle to bring down the regime

Key Battle for the Labour and Occupy Movements

As world economy worsens, inter-imperialist relations intensify

How socialists and the local community fought back against racism and the BNP

Scottish National Party’s version of indepdendence a nightmare for workers

As economic crisis worsens, new class conflicts loom

Struggle forces Jonathan back a bit, but could have won far more with a more resolute leadership – We Condemn Repression by Police and Army

On the brink of a new downturn

Public sector union left group organises open conference to keep up the fight

Repression against left activists increasing in China

‘Liberal’ opposition block with nationalist right

Pictures of the movement taken by DSM activists

Total shut down across the country as the working class shows it owns society

Union bureaucracy and ’left’ groups attack CWI’s solidarity with strikers

Xekinima national meeting discusses balance sheet of 2011’s class struggles and prospects for workers’ fight-back in 2012

For a serious fight against President’s New Year "gift". No rotten compromise!

Nazarbayev regime cancels elections in city

Diaspora protest against fuel subsidy removal

General strike called for 30 January against austerity

For all out mass action from 9 January!

Labour should declare two-days of mass actions including general strike and mass protests

2011 – marked by an intense and deepening crisis within the economic and social structures of European capitalism and the dramatic manifestations of that crisis in Ireland

Oppose nuclear power plants

The occupy movement brought opposition to capitalism from the margins into the mainstream

Review of 2011 – A period of revolution and counterrevolution

Youth Fight for Jobs and the Jarrow march

Refuse to pay the new tax!

Working masses must unite against descent into anarchy

Picket in New York protests against the Kazakh mission to the UN

Review – “The Party: The secret world of China’s Communist rulers”, by Richard McGregor, Allen Lane, 2010, £25

"A victory for workers anywhere is a victory for the workers everywhere!"

Forty years ago, Bangladesh became an independent state, breaking away from Pakistan.

Russian press describe torture of detained oil workers & police reign of terror

New video shows riot police shooting unarmed protesters in Zhanaozen

More international solidarity and support

Campaign Kazakhstan demonstrates in Berlin and Cologne

Name the date for the next strike!

Stalinist nightmare continues

When is an agreement not an agreement? When it’s an agreement to reach an agreement in the future…

18/12 22:05 LATEST UPDATE – WORKERS BEING TORTURED!

"European union must break off talks with Kazakhstan!"

UPDATE @ 22:30 GMT – Only united and extensive workers’ action can end this dictatorial regime

Protests in Dublin, Moscow and Aachen

Government debt soars to ‘European’ levels following massive stimulus programme

LATEST UPDATE 17:54 GMT Breaking News: Peaceful protesters & supporters of striking oil workers fired upon

Protests in Berlin, London, Vienna, Brussels Update 18:15 GMT Swedish Protests

Campaign Kazakhstan press statement and demands

Hospital workers achieve minimum wage

Conservatives speak for rich, not workers

President announces 60-day state of emergency

Billions flow to ultra-rich, unsecured bond holders and speculators as workers told to pay more. Defeat the household tax!

El crecimiento del electoralismo en PSOL

General strike sets the pace

Attempt to block electoral alliances with ruling parties fails

Capitalist chaos – class struggle sharpens

100,000 protest in Moscow and 100 cities over rigged elections

Police violence follows

"Without our work, your capital isn’t worth a penny!"

Tamil Solidarity demands that Cameron reveals all his personal dealings with lobbying firm and show the concrete details of the measures he has taken in relation to war crimes in Sri Lanka

What next after the strike of November 30?

Fraudulent elections expose vulnerability of Putin’s rule

Women workers at Hi-P international in Shanghai continue their strike against layoffs for 8th day

The countdown to “save” the euro and possibly even the European Union.

"The demonstration on Friday showed a huge discontent. This is the beginning of a movement, we now need to continue."

Workers sceptical of Labour while new Mana party represents seed of an alternative

Step up student strikes!

What the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) and strikers said on 30 November 2011

"Bardo 1" gives a new expression to persistent anger

Wave of protests to Almaty prison authorities

“The working class will rise up, at some stage, change the balance of forces and create a radicalised situation”

“We are against the crisis programmes for Greece, Portugal etc”

Paul Murphy Challenges ECB President Mario Draghi

New crisis for US-Pakistan relations

A warning of things to come

Protest storm against venture capitalists and politicians

Video footage of demonstration organised by Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI Pakistan)

“We’ve had enough”

“Set a date for next strike!”

Reports, striker’s views and socialist analysis of 30 November public sector general strike

First video report on this massive display of workers’ opposition to the British government’s attacks

Solidarity needed! Demand Odisha government immediately releases Abhay Sahoo

Socialist Action (CWI) stands candidate for first time

But military-controlled elections do not signal transition to democracy

New government faces impossible task

Workers set marvellous example despite union leaders weaknesses

Antifascists have to build a mass movement and can not rely on the state.

For a real ‘second revolution’! End military rule! Fight capitalism and imperialism!

Is the revolution over?

Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan demands enquiry.

The reality of life in Gaza

"Make N30 the start of a fight to stop all cuts"

"Can there be any doubt but that we are witnessing a full frontal assault on democratic rights by European bondholders, bankers and speculators facilitated by the leadership of the European Union?"

Fragmentation of the Eurozone could trigger another deep financial crisis and global economic downturn

Protest this travesty of justice – Demand Georgii Epshtein’s immediate release!

Dozens of local councils claim to back households refusing to pay tax

Urgent support needed

United working class-led movement needed for real regime change

Joe Higgins puts the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) to the test over his coalition partner Labour’s pre-election promises

Cameron, the Murdoch empire and the police have been involved in a corrupt attempt to subvert the democratic rights of the British people

Ten thousand signatures collected on oil-workers’ petition

Densely packed refugee camp and meetings with NGOs

For the past few weeks heavy rains in many parts of Tamil Nadu have once again brought hardship to the people causing damages to roads, bridges and inundating many low lying areas claiming 44 lives […]

“Many layers of Egyptian society are protesting”

Overall PP majority, but left forces gain and new struggles on horizon

Paul Murphy finally reaches Gaza on third attempt

Almost a third of Australian workers are employed in casual jobs. If you include labour hire and short-term contract work, insecure jobs make up 40% of the workforce.

Defend the revolution! For mass struggle to overthrow army rule!

Interview with Siritunga Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan socialist leader

Monti government will face mass opposition to austerity

Fight for socialism

Government pushes “framework agreement” to tie the hands of workers

Paul Murphy MEP supports struggle for an independent students’ union

"Build actions to put millions in the streets across the US – United mass mobilizations needed to protest police crackdowns, and stop the cuts, layoffs, foreclosures, and tuition hikes"

Firm action needed to win all workers’ demands

Workers, students, pensioners – all in the firing line

20 November election approaches as situation worsens

Paul Murphy MEP gives press conference about his abduction and imprisonment by Israel

For real change through mass action of working class, youth, unemployed and poor!

Support the struggle for an independent, democratic students’ union!

Concessions to the right-wing opposition, neo-liberal policies, and attacks on the social movements convince workers of the need to build an alternative to Evo Morales´ MAS party

Violence and intimidation from management and police

Workers demand permanent and direct employment

Lie after lie from the Israeli regime

Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, interviewed on Al Jazeera

Gaza Flotilla activists abducted in international waters and illegally held for 7 days by the Israeli state

“Clarity of ideas, visionary strategy, combined with an astute tactical appreciation of the critical need to raise the mass consciousness of the working class.”

"A ’No Cannes Do’ summit"

Debt crisis hits Eurozone’s third largest economy

Government ministers "have not uttered a single word of protest in public in response to this outrage"

Activists face “harassment, humiliating body searches, being shackled”

Breaking News: 7 detainees to be "released" tomorrow, followed by Paul Murphy MEP on Friday

Hundreds sign protest condemning Nazarbayev dictatorship and demanding democratic rights

Israeli authorities delay deportation, continue imprisonment

New ’National unity’ government = ‘austerity coalition’

Rich hoard wealth – Fight for a socialist future!

And vow that the struggle goes on

Tents back up in Seattle as the Occupy Wall Street movement scores another big victory

Demand the immediate release of all the detainees now!

"Follow Oakland’s example: For mass actions to fight against cuts and foreclosures"

For a socialist, internationalist solution

Flotillas blocked and activists detained – Send protests urgently!

Ship radio communication cut

A list of opposition activists led by the LSR (CWI in Brazil) will contest the second round of elections for the leadership of the largest union of sanitation workers in Latin America.

Left Alliance joins Conservative led government – Time to build radical, left alternative!

Breaking News: New freedom flotilla enters international waters

Occupiers’ call for a “general strike” finds positive echo in labor movement

Labour had a good day in Presidential and by-election polls but it’s all down hill from here

Most vicious attack on unions in 13 years

Study finds 1% of corporations control world economy

But battles still to wage

What should the next step be for the ’Occupy’ movement

Review of “Too much luck” by Paul Cleary

New laws to repress social protest

Election ‘success story’ masks growing anger from below

Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI) Sri Lanka, has made a stinging public attack on the regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa while in Australia at the same time as the president.

Condemn brutal attack on media freedom, Solidarity needed!

ArcelorMittal wants to close ‘liquid’ steelproduction in Liège. Workers resist, unions call for nationalisation.

Let #OccupySeattle stay at Seattle Central Community College!

“Six pack” rules institutionalise austerity across the EU

Clear opening for radical ideas developing

Independent action by Libyan workers, youth and poor vital to prevent revolution’s derailment

Strike action wins concessions – but 4.2% is not enough!

Malaysian economy enters difficult period

Eurozone crisis deepens

All out occupations and strikes! Kick out the Pasok cuts government! For a revolutionary government of the workers and poor!

Brutal assault as protesters hold their ground and block city streets

Thousands take solidarity action

Stop state brutality in Kazakhstan!

Violence of a few used to try and curb growing opposition

CWI Taiwan members make media splash

Big Victory for Occupy Wall Street Movement

Anti-racist demo in Malmö

Preparing for the showdown

Build the mass resistance to austerity!

Build for 19 October ‘independent’ unions’ strike!

Austrian working class gives impressive sign of life

Strikes must be democratically controlled by rank and file

“Difficult times – yet we are defiant and determined!”

Break the power of the banks and multinationals! Fight capitalism – for a socialist alternative to the failed profit-driven system!

British Defence Secretary Fox in trouble

600 to 800 students joined student strikes

Socialist Action protests against racist march • Recent anti-migrant propaganda originates from Government House

Riot police attack students demonstrating at Presidential Palace, general strike called in response

‘A life and death struggle’

Hope, fear and the struggle for self-determination

Banners unfurled in support of workers and activists at Belgium vs Kazakhstan football match

1973: London is drab, faded by economic decline. The optimism of the post-war boom is gone. The world is split into two opposed systems, the capitalist west and the planned economies of the east, dominated […]

Paul Murphy speaks in European Parliament against repression in Kazakhstan

How can we take the struggle forward?

"Better to break the law than break the poor"

Socialist Action organized demonstration to protest mass arrests in New York and other US cities

Eurozone threatened by sovereign debt and banking crisis and compounded by near-zero growth

The working class needs a new party

Vote against government austerity

End attacks on lives and freedoms of worker activists!

Struggle continues despite police repression

Implications of so-called "six-pack of economic governance measures", voted on in the European Parliament last week, are vast

24 Hour Public Sector General Strike Now – Socialist Party placard, photo Paul Mattsson

“People First” demonstration in Glasgow on 1st October

Solidarity urgently needed

End the Dictatorship of Wall Street!

Famine – another weapon of mass destruction

UPDATE: 12 protesters released – Drop all charges and fines!

The Moscow News reports on heroic workers struggle

Manic, uncoordinated and corrupt railway development plans need to be immediately and thoroughly checked and reconstructed under public and democratic control

“I, Clare Daly, member of the Irish Parliament strongly condemn threats by the Kazakhstan authorities…” Socialist Party TDs add voices to international outcry

Indigenous movement and general strike force five ministers resignations

Wall street occupation continues and spreads

London protest against state repression and in solidarity with oil workers

Attacks first tested on Aboriginal population now implemented on all

Protesters lobby Kazakh embassy in Germany

Stock market trader exposes real views of speculators & parasites

Regime unleashes counter-revolutionary violence

The Execution of Troy Davis

New wave of strikes and student protests – But how can the cuts tsunami be halted?

Socialist Action’s (CWI Hong Kong) first election campaign

Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev to address OSCE Human Rights Conference

Hundreds of thousands displaced as flood worsens

Mass and unified resistance needs to be organised

Eight months after the overthrow of Mubarak, workers and youth still face poverty, unemployment, corruption and repression

Left-wing legislator and six others arrested and charged with ‘disorderly conduct’ after by-election protest

Why socialists must campaign for a new mass workers party

Revolution in grave danger of being seriously derailed

CWI MEP argues for mass action to liberate the Palestinian masses

Public sector-wide action announced for 30 November!

New initiative to build a fighting alternative

For a two-day general strike now! No to retrenchment of workers!

Labour Party gains less then predicted

Red-Green Alliance trebles its vote

Short movie by Ken Loach on Chile’s 9/11 1973 coup

Crisis worsens, hundreds killed, millions affected

Police threats to arrest and jail Socialist Movement Kazakhstan leaders – urgent protest action needed!

…we need a programme of action to fight back!

Millions badly affected.

While no historical period is identical with Britain now, the tumultuous events that shook the country 80 years ago – combining the great depression, a ‘grand coalition’ government wielding the axe, and a damaging currency […]

How can the national rights of Palestinians be achieved?

National Shop Stewards’ Network lobbies Trades Union Congress (TUC)

Divisions Deepen in the Democratic Party

Support the striking workers of the Charité Facility Management company (CFM) in Berlin!

Eagleton’s book can act as a ’refresher course’ and a useful introduction. It is not without its faults and limits, however.

1973 bloody coup against Popular Unity government – Lessons for today

The bloody terrorist outrages of 11 September 2001 in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington were one of the defining moments in recent history.

Police interrogate Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev for a total of 16 hours

Rebellion against neo-liberal onslaught on education

Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett ports all reportedly shut down

Paul Murphy MEP and others visit militarised zone at Maddalena

For an alternative to the rotten capitalist consensus!

Japan’s earthquake and tsunami not only ignited catastrophic explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant, it also sent shockwaves through global energy policy

Bring the campaign to trade unions and the Left!

Mass non-payment campaign can defeat new tax

Stop the revolution’s derailment – independent workers’ action needed!

Auto workers engaged in 21-day strike

The CGIL, the main trade union federation, has called an 8 hour general strike for 6 September

The 30 June strikes were a turning point in the struggle against this government, giving a huge boost of confidence.

Striker’s daughter murdered…Arrest of Socialist activists threatened – solidarity campaign needs stepping up!

Funeral reveals deep-rooted mood of working people and youth for real change

Terrorism Takes Root in Nigeria amidst Deep Social and Economic Crisis

International protest demands end of death penalty against Tamil activists

"What one change would have the biggest positive impact on society?"

“What is Telia doing in Kazakhstan?”

Defeat and climbdown by government

August’s explosive events revealed a class society in crisis

Protest against Shell’s unsafe onshore pipeline

A solidarity picket in defense of oppressed oil workers in Kazakhstan was held near the Consulate of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the headquarters of the firm ’Oil and Gas Exploration’, in Krakow on August […]

Workers must take the struggle to the next level

Daily increase in number of students, tremendous devotion from volunteer teachers

Relative “social peace” shattered

No to foreign military intervention · Libyan workers, youth and poor must act independently of imperialism

Attempts to form a new left umbrella party

Interest among people to organize has increased

Capitalist strategists are filled with gloom at the prospect of a new economic downturn.

Workers join students on stage of struggle

“I really hope more trade union organizations give support”

Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary struggle continues

Second major protest against pollution in one week

When workers shut down GM

SocialistAlternative.org interviewed a package handler, "Steven" at FedEx in Brockton, Massachusetts, who led a union drive with his co-workers.

Attempted Stalinist counter-revolution speeds up capitalist counter-revolution

Premier of New South Wales (NSW) want to "take on" public sector

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is organising a lobby of this year’s TUC (Britain’s trade union confederation) conference in London, 11 September

A protest took place in Dublin on the 12th of August in solidarity with striking oil workers in Kazakhstan who are engaged in a 3 month long strike against Kazmuniagas.

The life of half a million garment workers in Bangalore is nothing but a hellish existence.

Fight racism • United struggle needed against neo-liberalism and capitalism

Prisoners’ campaigner, Vadim Kuramshin, arrested twice in 3 days

Mass, trade union-led response needed

The business-woman, Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of the controversial former prime minister, the tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra, was chosen by Thailand’s parliament as the country’s 28th prime minister on 5 August.

Labour broker workers march to Minister of Labour for permanent jobs

Hundreds sacked and union lawyer sentenced to six years in jail. Intransigent employer refuses negotiations. Now a striker murdered!

A mass workers’ movement is needed to defeat the government

Trying to control an anarchic and blind system, none of the measures taken stem the downward spiral

"Just look at this ground shaking everywhere…"

A rally was held during the CWI summer school to mark the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of civil war in Spain and to commemorate the heroic Spanish revolution.

Fatal police shooting sparks eruption of protest and anger

The death toll is rising from the Syrian army’s brutal assault on the mass uprising in the city of Hama and other areas.

US recovery strangled and European debt crisis deepening

After months of vicious manoeuvring between Republican and Democratic factions, the US Congress and president Obama agreed on a budget deal only hours before the deadline to raise the Federal government’s borrowing limit.

Inner-party struggles as repression tightened

The CWI School, which took place in Leuven, Belgium between 24 and 29 July, was opened by Peter Taaffe of the CWI’s International Secretariat on ‘Europe in turmoil, the youth revolt and the current stage […]

Working class beginning to lose fear

The package does little or nothing to reduce the unsustainable debt mountain or stimulate economic growth

Lessons of the Movement of the ’Enraged’

The economy and inter-imperialist relations

This is not the “hope” or “change” millions of Americans voted for

Report of plenary discussion

As the sovereign debt crisis in Greece deepens, Andros Payiatsos, general secretary of Xekinima (CWI in Greece), spoke to the Socialist (paper of the Socialist Party England & Wales, 13 July) about its effects and […]

Determination to struggle grows

Big opportunities lost to build new mass party of workers

This week is the 75th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War, on 18 July 18. We mark this hugely important event in world history with an article first published on socialistworld.net in […]

Workers faced with jail and brutal repression – Solidarity urgently needed!Reprint of article from SIPTU union newsletter

Editorial of the Socialist newspaper, 20 July 2011

PSM draws parallels with crackdown on Reformasi movement

In the hearts and minds of workers particularly black workers, the poor, and youth across the world, Malcolm X remains an icon of revolutionary spirit and commitment to justice, freedom, and liberty for the most […]

Toward a new, winning strategy

Socialist Party deputy general secretary Hannah Sell, speaking at a London Socialist Party meeting, examines the way forward for the trade union movement to defeat the cuts programme of the British ’ConDem’ government

Strike wave driven by one of the world’s highest inflation rates

For Active Strike with a Series of Mass Activities

The 13 day strike of over 2000 workers in the Maruti Suzuki India’s (MSI) Manesar plant in Gurgoan (Haryana), close to the national capital Delhi, in the first weeks of June is an important sign […]

After the ULA Forum: Which way forward?

Controcorrente holds important day of discussion in Genoa

‘Murdochgate’ is Britain’s Watergate

Workers and youth say, “Save the revolution!”

Massive crackdown on opposition

The continuing struggle against caste oppression

Over 500,000 march on 30 June

Hunger strikers douse themselves with petrol and threatened to set themselves alight

Unions must break the link!

Upturn in mass protests and “unprecedented display of police strength”

We demand a full and independent inquiry, involving workers’ representatives, into the links between media moguls and the capitalist state

What next to defeat the cuts?

Movement an electric shock to political life

“Hunger strikes, imprisoned workers and tens of thousands on strike represents a virtual picket line which I have no intention of crossing,” Sting said in an online statement.

Only united working class action can prevent further attacks

Interview with Socialist Action (CWI) in Hong Kong after July 1 demonstration

‘Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China’s Extraordinary Rise’

Government steps up attacks on democratic and human rights to maintain grip on power

Further threats against strike leaders and supporters

Reports from throughout the day

Terrorist-style attack on harboured boat potentially life threatening

‘Downfall – The Tommy Sheridan Story’ by Alan McCombes

But opposition continues to grow

State forces moved in to crush anti-POSCO struggle

2,000 police mobilised in Val di Susa

They write memorandums – we write history!

As the cuts bite, millions ask this question

“I can’t say anything,” says outspoken artist; protests against state repression must continue

The historic tasks of the United Left Alliance (ULA)

“Aim of Flotilla to break siege and highlight blockade impact on Gaza population”

Largest protest movement for more than 20 years

18th annual Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE) Greek camp

Stop repression of striking oil and gas workers!

Public sector and education unions call 24 hour strike on 30 June

Workers resist Pasok’s savage cuts and privatisation programme

Strikes of oil and gas workers continue; other workers follow lead

Step up the fight for a general strike!

’Communists’ defeated in Kerala as well as West Bengal

Resistance to coalition government’s cuts

What future for the left in Portugal?

A few days before the tenth general strike in Greece, APOSTOLIS KASIMERIS, one of the leaders of the OASA bus workers’ union in Athens, spoke at the recent National Shop Stewards Network conference in London. […]

Disputes over pensions, pay and deregulation show underlying discontent

Brutal and provocative police response

Mass party needed to unite workers, youth and poor around socialist policies

MPs forced to enter Catalan parliament in helicopters

“Turn 21 June into a day of mass protests and strikes”

16th June – Day of Solidarity!

Second major defeat for beleaguered government

Militant mass action needed to stop next savage austerity package

Serious and inspiring preparation for the battles to come

"The ULA, the individual members and the groups involved, must prepare for an inevitable explosion of anger here which, when it comes, will be every bit as significant as the movements sweeping southern Europe."

Socialist Alternative (CWI in the US) debates WA State Senator Ed Murray (Democrats) about budget cuts, taxing the rich, and the role of the Democratic Party.

Strikes spread – solidarity action needs to be stepped up

The weekend of May 6/7/8 saw members of the Socialist Party from all around Australia gather at Trades Hall in Melbourne for the annual National Conference.

The significance of the student movement

Wages fall: Office for National Statistics 2010 survey of hours and earnings

Since the mass protests, much of the energy against Walker has been channeled into a series of recall campaigns.

ANC retains big majority but political authority weakened

Thousands of farmers and students join protest marches in at least six cities

After striking for the right to elect their own shop stewards the workers are attacked by both – the mine- and trade union bosses!

Movement will not be broken by brute force!

Rajapakse regime shoots peaceful workers

How Will Republicans Perform in 2012?

New ’International Socialist Resistance’ blog launched

Struggle against state repression continues under

Contribution to the ongoing debate on the Tunisian revolution and its aftermath.

The second round of Peru’s Presidential election on Sunday 7th June has resulted in a victory for the radical nationalist Ollanta Humala.

But western powers also have blood on their hands

The United Left Alliance has the potential to be at the heart of the active resistance to the fresh round of attacks coming from the government in the months ahead.

But strikers’ lawyer Natalia Sokolova remains under arrest

Tamil representatives, solidarity and human rights campaigns and individual activists converged on the European parliament on Wednesday (1 June)

What organisation, strategy and politics does the situation demand?

Hundreds detained and beaten – Natalia Sokolova still missing – Urgent solidarity needed

But more than one in three Chinese still live in poverty according to World Bank

Facing repression, gay rights activists in Russia have no time for carnivals.

FC Barcelona’s revolutionary blend of artistic flair and collective organisation in the Champions League final showed why millions worldwide love the "beautiful game". But football’s world governing body, Fifa, is imploding in an ugly display […]

Rome, Turin, Naples, Milan, Reggio Emilia, Padova, Palermo, Brescia, Trieste, Venice, Cagliari, Viareggio, Pavia, Florence, Sassari, Verona, Lecce, Bologna, Pisa – this is a rough list of the major cities where the “Italian revolution” movement […]

Since Wednesday 25 May the central squares in Athens and other Greek cities have been occupied by protesters.

Lawyer arrested, new address for solidarity messages needed

Across the Middle East and North Africa the revolutions and protests that began after Mohamed Bouazizi’s suicide in protest at poverty and oppression in Tunisia have, in many countries, reached turning points.

How to support the genuine forces in the uprising in Libya? – A Second Reply to the AWL

What started as a hunger strike by a relatively small number of oil workers in the town of Karazhanbasa in West Kazakhstan last week has now turned into a mass strike – now over fifteen […]

Heroic re-taking of Plaza de Catalunya shows movements continued vitality

Big gains for New Democratic Party (NDP) – But is it an alternative for working people?

Video of police brutally clearing square in Barcelona

Greece’s economic crisis deepens – along with Ireland, Portugal and Spain

But resistance grows – oil workers strike

Governments have no mechanism for dealing with the crisis

After FIAT, now the shipyard workers’ struggle

‘G8 Dégage (get out)’!

A massive social and political revolt is brewing in Britain, argues Peter Taaffe

Indignados are a new factor in Spanish politics

An exchange on how to support the genuine forces in the uprising in Libya

Violent inter-religious conflict exploited by regime

Elections take place amid youth revolt

Paul Murphy, MEP, writes about his visit to the country that triggered the ‘Arab Spring’

Under the cover of the crisis an unprecedented offensive against the rights and conditions of the working class is underway.

Arab revolutions inspire new generation to fight Israeli occupation

“I do not want to be a slave to this system”[to watch a live stream from Puerta del Sol go to SOL TV]

Left in Turin loses an opportunity

Tamil Solidarity exposes the arrogant way Rajapaksa answers the UN report