Articles by Peter Taaffe on Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) meeting in London

“Caretaker” government of Portugal formally askes for EU / IMF financial “assistance“

Regional protests on April 9 in New York and San Francisco are part of the process of rebuilding a anti-war voice.

When protests for workers’ rights erupted in Madison, Wisconsin, high school students from across the city took to the streets as well to show their solidarity with their teachers. They organized walkouts and marches that […]

Lessons for today’s revolution

The Commission wants to introduce legislation that would ensure that ordinary people will be forced to bailout the banks and speculators.

IT IS a tragic irony that the nuclear disaster at Fukushima occurred within weeks of the 25th anniversary of the catastrophe at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union, the world’s worst nuclear accident.

Outgoing Harper government presided over price hikes, sell-offs and foreign wars

One of China’s most prominent artists Ai Weiwei has been seized and detained by state security agents as he was about board a flight to Hong Kong at Beijing airport on Sunday 3 April.

For a 24 hour general strike!

Opposition activist released after international protest campaign

Does Eric Hobsbawm provide a revolutionary perspective?

Whichever combination of party’s form the next Scottish government, it will be a government that will attempt to carry through the deepest cuts in decades.

Masses cannot trust official opposition – Workers and youth need socialist alternative

Mass protest against nuclear energy, Green Party victory in regional elections

Lively pickets in Berlin and Stockholm

Build an independent force of workers and the poor

Clare Daly, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MP speaks against imperialist intervention

Genuine democracy needed to make real political and social change

Bloody repression fails to stop protests

Regime ‘reforms’ fail to stop growing demonstrations

The massive Trade Union Congress (TUC – trade union federation) demonstration against public spending cuts was well over half a million strong, possibly 700,000 or more.

How to fight austerity and capitalism

Picket in Central Almaty in support of Esenbek Ukteshbayev

The earthquake off Japan’s east coast and the giant tsunami wave that followed on 11 March has, at the time of writing, officially killed over 8,500 people with another 13,000 people still missing.

Long-time Socialist Party activist and organiser, Paul Murphy (27), will be replacing Joe Higgins as the Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, following Joe’s succesful election to the Dail along with Clare Daly.

Government pushed into defensive by Fukushima disaster and mass unrest

Resentment and anger need socialist expression

Build an independent movement of workers, the poor and youth

Opposition activist Esenbeck Ukteshbayev jailed – Call for protest pickets on 28 March

Obama visit marked by arrests of protesters against US role

No to national unity on the bosses’ terms

On Sunday 20 March protesters marched from Hong Kong’s Chater Garden to the city’s Japanese Consulate. “Against nuclear power,” they chanted, and “be active, not radioactive” followed by a big cordon of TV crews and […]

20,000 take to Beirut’s streets: A workers’ alternative is needed – A workers’ movement is necessary!

Now is the time to demand re-nationalisation

Trades Union Congress national ’march for the alternative: jobs, growth, justice’

We need to build a mass movement that can defeat Walker

Tragedy for workers

Arab revolutions countries, the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel

The latest rich list produced by the Forbes magazine shows that the collective wealth of the world’s 1,210 billionaires has reached a new record high of $4.5 trillion – up nearly $1 trillion on last […]

Now build the socialist alternative to capitalist crisis

2,000 Saudi Arabian troops bolster beleaguered Sunni ruling class

Victory to the Libyan revolution – Build an independent movement of workers and youth!

Step up protests over arrests and fines

Reforms do not go far enough

Lethal gas used against mass movement

One Day General Strike needed to build fightback against Walker’s Bill!

Autocratic regime invites Saudi Arabia forces to help quell protests

No honeymoon for new coalition of austerity

First drop of a coming rain storm

A country in ferment…

Thousands of police deployed on streets to stop protests

Many arrested, seven, including Esenbek Ukteshbaev, get 15 days imprisonment

‘You come back – we come back!’

Three Socialist Party members top poll for NIPSA’s General Council

Rebuilding should not serve the interests of private developers

Urgent need to step up mass opposition struggle

Capitalist system incapable of facing up to natural disasters

Ministers try to ‘hide’ truth of written agreement

A fighting alternative to Berlusconi is needed

Counter-revolution strikes – old regime has not given up

Opposition protest movements call for boycott of dictator’s fake poll

Immediately Organize a One-Day General Strike! — Republicans use illegal maneuver to bust unions

Greek government backs down

CALL A ONE DAY PUBLIC SECTOR GENERAL STRIKE NEXT WEEK!

“Democratic” government increases repression

Major conflicts within the regime

Women will be propelled to the forefront of struggles

“Biggest political crisis since 2003”

Against sectarianism and capitalism – for a workers alternative!

On 13 February, one million women (and men) marched in 230 towns and cities across Italy.

The genocidal war in the north and east of Sri Lanka, which ended in May 2009, has created more than 68,000 widows. On the other hand, there are another 30,000 widows in the southern part […]

Extraordinary stand against the brutal state and draconian powers

Conservative – Liberal Democrat government cuts devastating impact on women

Protests focus on migrants’ rights – abuse and torture of Indonesian migrants abroad

Public sector workers join growing movement

Herculean efforts to remove Gaddafi dictatorship in Libya

Mass campaign and threat of general strike sees persecuted workers’ leader released

Unprecedented cuts, North and South, hit women

‘Women’s Struggle against the Right’ organises demonstration on International Women’s Day

Economic crisis sees clawing back of reforms for women

Another mighty demonstration demands real regime change

Women, especially working class women, have many reasons to be angry with how society is run today.

Young women play key role in strikes in China’s export industry

Women worldwide resist devastating effects of economic crisis

Britain braced for massive 26 March demonstration

Founders of new activists’ party detained

A party growing in strength

“We have no jobs, electricity – nothing”

Regular protests planned for Tuesdays

Joe Higgins addressed the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) national conference via a live webcam link, just hours after the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) won two seats in the Irish elections.

Class fighter, internationalist, revolutionary

Mass anger after 20 killed by security forces

Right wing government launches attacks on living conditions and union rights

Police kill demonstrators – workers block oil port

Socialist Party wins two parliament seats

Enthusiastic response to call for a public sector general strike

Revolution and counter-revolution on the streets

Masses reject foreign intervention as towns fall to opposition

Economic, social and political situation becoming explosive

Joe Higgins and Clare Daly (Socialist Party, CWI Ireland) elected to the Dail (Irish Parliament) along with up to 3 other candidates from the United Left Alliance. Further results to follow

Public sector general strike in Wisconsin

Protests against government biggest since January 14

IN THE space of one month, the way young people are viewed by the mass media – and by themselves – was turned upside down.

General strike in Iranian-Kurdistan

Protests continue in Kurdistan

“The president wants to get rid of the people!”

Prime Minister Gillard: “Tough choices” making working people pay for the clean up

To fully succeed, revolutions need to go beyond framework of capitalism

Brutal attacks and repression fail to stop demonstrations

Build for a state-wide, one-day public sector general strike!

“Act now – protest to Greek authorities”

The Egyptian February – class conflict sharpens

Dramatic changes have affected Britain. The student protests of last year set the scene. Now the prospect of significant industrial action against savage public-sector cutbacks is on the agenda.

Hawamdiya Sugar Factory Protest

New voters’ registration for election in April: Same old organisational and political problems

Protests in Iraqi-Kurdistan and across Sunni and Shia areas

Week of escalating worker’s actions

Joe Higgins questions the EU commission on a possible ’renegotiation’ of EU/IMF austerity programme for Ireland

More than 400 bus drivers and conductors in strike action and sit-in over wages in China’s southern metropolis of Shenzhen

For an All-Out Mobilization. To stop Walker in his tracks!

Four-day strike called off. Government accepted all three demands

Socialist Party support increasing amongst working class

4,500 sacked workers reinstated

Authoritarian regimes in Middle East fear for their rotten rule

Class confrontations are challenging the regime and the whole system

Day of uprising inspired by Egypt

In Solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution

Army cannot guarantee democracy

Nest of social and political problems lie behind the country’s turmoil

No trust in the military chiefs! For a government of the representatives of workers, small farmers and the poor!

Militants struggling to build fighting, independent unions

Joe Higgins received a very warm welcome to a packed hall in Dún Laoghaire

Socialistparty.net (website of the Socialist Party – CWI Ireland)spoke to Laura Waters, a shop steward and Laura Ashley striker who has just joined the Socialist Party

The massive 27% cut in central government funding to local authorities is having devastating consequences.

Decisive action needed to block reaction and complete revolution

Jonas Brännberg Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) spoke to an exiled activist from Yemen about the situation.

Industrial action over pay, conditions and government-appointed union ‘leaders’

Regime faces intensified opposition protests

Four Socialist Party members were disciplined by Unison on trumped-up charges of racism, after producing a leaflet at the 2007 Unison conference, challenging the Standing Orders Committee (SOC) about ruling resolutions off the conference agenda.

Vital to build a mass party to realise aims of workers and small farmers

From CWI Sweden

New book on China’s environmental crisis

‘Week of Determination’ protests called

Economic crisis sees Pasok government and media scapegoat immigrants

New dimension to the resistance of the Greek masses

Kick out Mubarak and his cronies

This eyewitness account from a CWI reporter was despatched just before the big increase in the numbers of militant protesters swelling Tahrir Square, following Friday prayers.

‘Opposition to all cuts, support for industrial action by workers and mass resistance’

The mass movement must go on the offensive!

Elections an opportunity for Socialist Party and United Left Alliance, as a first step to build a mass workers’ party

Capitalist ’democracy’ will not satisfy demands

Dip reflects the fragility of British capitalism’s ‘recovery’

Eyewitness report from Cairo’s Tahrir Square[see: articles in Arabic | this article in Arabic]

Demonstrators demand Mubarak and his regime must go

Demonstrations continue despite the announcement of increased wages, subsidies and political reforms

The conflict is between two sides of the same coin!

Hundreds of thousands remain on streets defying repression – For an indefinite general strike!

Interview with Ghassen Kamarti, by CWI reporter in Tunis

Stand off continues as workers’ siege of company headquarters enters third day

Urgent Solidarity needed – Support Shawn Whatley! Stop all retaliations against Georgia prison strike activists!

Regime deploys army on streets to try to crush mass movement

Workers and youth resist UBP government’s austerity measures

Unprecedented political vendetta ends in draconian sentence

One day strike in engineering industry this Friday

Radical political force dealt a serious blow • Pro-Beijing camp jubilant

“Tunisia is the solution”

Religion, politics and the working class

For the building of a mass workers alternative against sectarianism, war and poverty

The Struggle Continues

Army ordered to block roads as police join the movement

Labour agrees to rush through draconian Finance Bill and to implement austerity measures

A united struggle of Arab and Jewish workers against ‘contract labour’ and for decent wages.

The first phase of the revolution ousted Ben Ali! It must continue!

Nearly 600 people, mostly workers with elected positions in trade union branches, trades councils, workplaces and anti-cuts alliances, met in London on 22 January for the special anti-cuts conference of the National Shop Stewards Network […]

Nationalise Foxconn under workers’ control and management – end the scourge of ‘blood factories’

National Shop Stewards Network conference 22 January

20,000 jobs under threat – protesting workers forced the authorities to retreat

Masses demand real democracy and change to social conditions

Militant workers protesting in central Athens clash with thier union leaders

Growing authoritarianism as economic crisis deepens and workers’ resistance grows

Deficit Commission’s Bitter Medicine

Follow their example of struggle

Protesting port workers of Port Qasim in Karachi walked out and effectively took over the port on 17th of January.

The Struggle for LGBT Rights Continues

Solidarity needed

Why has it taken so long for the EU governments to support the movement against the dictatorship in Tunisia, asks Radio France International

The political establishment is away behind the majority of the population in their decision to implement the diktats of the financial markets.

The attack of Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six other people is a warning to working people about the serious political danger involved in the rise of the extreme right wing.

Chinese authorities have made 96 detentions of people suspected of producing and selling melamine-tainted dairy products

Mass popular uprising forced Ben Ali to flee the country

“The people sacrificed so much – they are not ready for fake promises”

Parliament rubberstamps ‘referendum’ to postpone election until 2020

Both Parties Plan Attacks on Working People

The challenge of the United Left Alliance (ULA) to the right wing consensus in Irish politics is strengthening rapidly. As of today, a total of 17 constituencies will be contested by 18 ULA candidates in […]

‘Voice of the Republic’ newspaper staff harassed and arrested

Defend the right to demonstrate

Stop the repression, for international solidarity!

How to defeat cuts and tax rises?

A thousand protests made worldwide against jailing of trade union and social activist

Religious extremism on the rise

Solidarity with the Algerian and Tunisian masses!

Protests and creation of independent unions show potential for workers’ unity

Socialist writings on Ireland and the national question

Tax Deal Provokes Fury on the Left

Presidential Election brings the country to the brink of full scale war and worsens the crisis of capitalism

Message of solidarity from Joe Higgins MEP to Tunisian trade unionists, socialists and democracy activists

After December’s mass action, build a mass movement to end the "new Jim Crow" policy of mass incarceration!

Joe Higgins’ New Years Message

Book Review: ’James P Cannon and the origins of the American revolutionary left, 1890-1928’ by Bryan D Palmer

How to fight the far right?

2010 – The most tumultuous year for two decades

“For nearly a decade, economic collapse, worse in many countries than the depression of the thirties, with its associated crime waves, corruption and social degeneration devastated the region.”

Socialist Party calls public protest over loss of service for homes and health risks

‘Appeal’ hearing a travesty of justice

Ireland convulsed by economic crisis and savage austerity cuts – Time to reconnect with Connolly’s socialist ideas

Lack of freedom and mass unemployment stoke up revolt

“With the second centenary of national political independence being “celebrated” in various Latin American countries, the impasse for the political alternatives that have developed in the last period, like “Chavismo” and “Castroismo”, the region is […]

The crisis of capitalism and the naked role of imperialism are graphically manifested in the Middle East.

Real socialist alternative needed

“Social, economic and political crises are developing throughout Asia. They underline the vital importance of the CWI’s ideas and programme and the urgent task of developing the cadres for building future mass revolutionary parties.”

Marxism, materialism and particle physics

Capitalism from a social and economic standpoint has faced in the last three years one of its greatest crises in its history. This has opened an era of class struggles and major developments in consciousness […]

Textile Industry in India is the second largest employment generator after agriculture.

Steps forward in building the forces of the CWI

Politically-driven prosecution against Scotland’s best-known socialist

On Wednesday 20 October, the workers of the Mine Line/TAP Engineering factory in Krugersdorp, just outside Soweto, started an occupation of their workplace to stop the former owner from stripping the factory of machinery and […]

Millions involved in general strikes and demonstrations; deeply unpopular, often hated, governments – Europe is witnessing the re-entry of the working class and youth into struggle on a mighty scale.

Lifelong Militant/Socialist Party member

China’s growth shields region but economic, social and political crises loom

Strikes and protests by Bangladesh garment workers continue in the face of harsh repression by the state. Following the deaths of three strikers, shot down when police opened fire on demonstrators in Chittagong on 14 […]

WikiLeaks Pulls Back the Curtain on U.S. Empire

The ruling class in Britain is determined to make sure that it is not them, but the working class and young people, who pay for the crisis in their system.

New book on 1960/61 general strike published by CWI in Belgium

“Physical annihilation” threats against activists – Urgent protest action needed!

Mass detentions at climate summit last year were illegal

On 1 and 2 December, a major Summit of the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was held in Astana the capital city of Kazakhstan.

“General strike” call on lips of protesters

A "good Christmas present for the people of Northern Ireland" – Sammy Wilson, Finance Minister

Conservative nationalists victory follows defeat of “left” tripartite

The continuing publication of leaked US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks highlights the role US imperialism plays in every corner of the world.

Third wave of PASOK government austerity attacks provokes outrage

"Huge class conflicts ahead"

Climate Change is already destroying lives. 21,000 people died as a direct result of extreme weather conditions in the first nine months of this year, a new Oxfam report says.

On Thursday 9 December, while parliament debated the Con-Dem coalition government’s plan to treble university tuition fees, a fourth day of angry protest took place across the country.

A united movement with the working class is the way forward!

Report of discussion on Europe at the 10th world congress of the CWI

There is nothing to negotiate!

’Forced back to work at the point of a Guardia Civil’s gun.’

On the debate how to fight the cuts

Just as the student movement reaches Day X, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) has set out the agenda for its anti-cuts conference on 22 January.

Not only the Fianna Fáil and Green Party, but the two biggest parties in opposition also offer them only a menu of cuts.

Farcical election will fuel workers’ protests

Solidarity needed!

Report of discussion on World Relations at the 10th world congress of the CWI

Big increased vote for Socialist Party candidate, Stephen Jolly

THE FINANCIAL speculators and hedge funds that so spectacularly contributed to the financial crisis resulting in the ’Great Recession’ have now turned their attention to the international food market with devastating consequences.

Dundee students, from the universities, local colleges and schools took part in protests across the city on November 24 as part of the national walk outs and protests.

Workers’ militant action needed – For a 24-hour general strike!

The government’s four year plan to lower Ireland’s debt/GDP ratio is an open declaration of war on working people, the unemployed and young people.

The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns the occupation of the installations of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) by armed soldiers

Up to 130,000 school, college and university students walked out on Wednesday 24 November in the biggest education action for 25 years.

Start a campaign of industrial action with a one day general strike!

This is only the first step!

‘Plan B’ – Will it work?

Video coverage of ULA press conference on Irish national TV Broadcaster

No peace in sight for divided, militarised and unstable peninsula

Tens of thousands of school and university students rage against attacks on education

Games Ridden with Corruption

Sunday 21 November, the day the Irish government formally applied for a bailout to the EU and IMF, should be marked as the day that the Irish capitalist class were exposed as a rotten, despicable […]

50,000-strong student march an example to workers’ movement

30,000 protest against imperialism and war in the streets of Lisbon

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition launches its campaign for the 2011 local elections

Appalling ‘humanitarian’ record of the ‘international community’ continues

Millions were hoping for radical change

EU and IMF market vultures circle over Ireland

Prepare to Defend Our Pensions

Interview with 3 protesters involved in occupying Tory HQ

“The government is guilty! The government is not taking responsibility for us!”

In the "Joe Show", a US radio talk, CWI members explain that capitalism has failded and it’s time for socialism to come to rescue.

Clashes escalate crisis

Massive student demo expresses anger against cuts

Unionise fast food and other low pay sectors, launch a serious struggle for HK$33 (4.25 US-$) minimum

The newly established United Left Alliance, which will be publicly launched on 26/11, involves the Socialist Party, the People Before Profit Alliance, the South Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group and the Independent Socialist group […]

Over 1,500 anti-fascists took part in an illegal blockade to prevent Polish fascists from marching in Warsaw on 11 November.

Socialism 2010, hosted by the Socialist Party during the weekend 6-7 November, was attended by over 900 people.

The key issue is what choices are on offer? What do the different parties stand for and do any of them represent the interests of the working class, poor and those who oppose the corrupt […]

Despite huge working class anger at cuts, the Left parties fail to make real poll gains

Tamil people’s struggle for freedon and justice – beyond our borders

Massive student demo expresses anger against cuts

Assembled masses shake Con-Dem government

The panic reaction of the political establishment in Ireland and in the European Institutions, to the idea that a new Referendum might have to be held to amend the Lisbon Treaty, speaks volumes of the […]

From the age of 10 years to their ripe old age, we find women not only slaving in their homes but also working in the houses of the wealthy & the middle classes as the […]

More than 1,000 teachers marched to Government House to protest plans to close 140 secondary schools (video clip)

The Chinese police illegally arrested Zhao Dongmin, as the government-controlled puppet trade union accused Maoist activists of "disrupting social order"

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) wholeheartedly welcomes the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress to embark on a 3-day warning strike between November 10 and 12 to compel the government to […]

Tommy and Gail Sheridan’s perjury trial is now in its sixth week and is certain to be the longest case of its kind in Scottish legal history.  

Public protest Against Assault on Brother Philip Noronha

Over 30,000 students demonstrated in Dublin, in what was reported to have been the ‘largest student protest in a generation’.

Democrats Failure Shows Need for New Party

Victorians go to the polls on November 27. The Socialist Party is standing long time community campaigner and local Councillor Stephen Jolly in the seat of Richmond.

A force of 2,000 People’s Armed Police (PAP) used to suppress massive protest by villagers in China’s southwest

The garment industry in Bangalore with about 1200 registered units employing over a half a million workforce and one of the biggest sources of exports in the country, but hardly is there any mention in […]

The aftermath of the general strike on the 29 September

Struggle against brutal army oppression intensifies

Midwife to a double dip?

Moscow News reports on protests during Nazarbayev visit to Brussels

New pro-capitalist measures introduced by Raul Castro

Labour movement should begin mass mobilisation immediately

Government running scared at possibility of further EU treaty changes

But what is hidden behind the festivities?

Opposition growing against Stuttgart 21, nuclear power and cuts. Opinion poll shows – Germany is in a state of political crisis

Metal mechanics’ leaders point to political programme needed

Feudal lords and politicians’ criminal decisions led to disaster

Interview with Alex Lecoq, Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France), a student in Rouen

Appeal for solidarity

Kazakh Socialist and human rights activist, Ainur Kurmanov, addresses the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights about the dictatorship in Kazakhstan and human rights abuses there.

Ainur Kurmanov slams regime’s record in Human Rights Committee of Euro-Parliament

Largest non-sectarian demonstration since anti-war movement

The planned economy and the struggle for socialism

Solidarity needed!

Jesse Lessinger, Socialist Alternative (CWI USA)

4,000 workers from at least ten different trade unions, led by 100 striking firefighters, marched through central London on Saturday 23 October.

Millions of workers and youth want an end to the Sarkozy ’dictatorship’

Build a one-day public sector strike!

For a one-day public sector general strike

Socialist Party MEP Joe Higgins commented on the outcome of reported talks between President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel against the background of the EU Finance Ministers meetings in Luxembourg: “The capitalist establishments of France and […]

2010 Socialist Party National Conference resolution

Trade union forced to respond with action

Shi Chuan, chinaworker.info Due to infamous sweatshop working conditions, serial suicides and accidental deaths, the largest global OEM corporation (original equipment manufacturer), Foxconn, is shifting its manufacturing bases from China’s southeastern coast to inland provinces. […]

To stop cuts and bailouts Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) must take real action

£81 billion cuts announced on "axe Wednesday"

“it’s one for all and all for one”

Demands Joe Higgins MEP

9 years after invasion and occupation

Sri Lanka has once again lived up to its reputation as one of the most dangerous places for a journalist to work

Workers and youth challenge cuts through mass strikes and protests

Will Ireland go bankrupt?

Pro-big business politicians can be forced to retreat

Important tool of the working class

Workers can bring the whole economy to a halt

IMF summit fiasco

On the same day the Irish government announced a further rescue package of €35 billion for Anglo Irish Bank, finance minister, Brian Lenihan, declared that the projected budget cuts of €3 billion will have to […]

The illusions in “Lulismo” and the challenge facing the socialist left

Capitalism faces one of its greatest crises – Need for mass parties of the working class

New paper and website of CWI in Netherlands!

Step up international protests!

New stage in the fight against Sarkozy’s policies

“Organise common struggle”

Neil Kinnock’s speech to the 1985 Labour Party conference signalled the start of a purge of Marxists from the party and anticipated the creation of New Labour.

What strategy to beat the cuts?

United Socialist Party and the fight for democratic rights

Community Defense Campaign Immediately Launched

Socialist Report and Analysis

Harassment and threats will not stop struggle for prison and democratic rights

The horrific living conditions faced by many Indigenous people are a blight on Australian capitalism.

Urgent messages of protest needed!

A paper presented on September 28, 2010 by Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary, at the 21st Annual Education Conference of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria

Beggars death in Bangalore

The threat of counter revolution stronger!

The battle against ‘Stuttgart 21’ reaches new heights

Tommy and Gail Sheridan’s trial on charges of perjury has started in Glasgow.

Fight school closures!

When it comes to putting forward prescriptions for dragging their economic system out of its current mess, the breathtaking arrogance of members of the capitalist establishment never ceases to amaze.

"A tidal wave of protest is rolling towards the coalition government, roaring, foaming, darkening the sky, sucking every political argument into a lethal wall of water… delegates to the TUC, freed from decades of impotence, […]

Growing social war underway

Workers of Lisbon Municipal council face the biggest threat on jobs and services ever

It’s been 18 months since Victoria was rocked by the Black Saturday bushfires which left over 150 people dead and thousands of homes destroyed. But despite government commitments to improve firefighting facilities, serious questions remain […]

More than one hundred thousand children left homeless by Pakistan’s floods are in danger of dying because they simply do not have enough to eat, according to UNICEF.

The first step!

On the European Day of Action, 29 September, the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) distributed a leaflet in Dublin, which we re-publish here.

30,000 public sector and 10,000 private sector jobs under threat

Organised protest action shakes Kazakhstan authorities

The October 2nd “One Nation” event has been pegged as a march for jobs for all, “and an economy that works for working people; funding for education and health care, not warfare; clean, renewable energy; […]

Tea Party Candidate Upsets Republican Party Pick for Governor of New York

What next after this massive protest?

September marks the 90th anniversary of a mass movement of factory occupations in Italy which put the continuation of capitalism in question. Yet the September movement failed to overthrow the capitalists’ rule and its demise […]

The RMT union, whose general secretary Bob Crow will be speaking, is organising a “Crisis in Working Class Political Representation” conference on Saturday 2nd October in Glasgow.

PASOK government pushes ahead with draconian privatisations

Labour elects Ed Miliband as new leader

Kashmir is aflame again amid a renewed outpouring of popular, non-violent, revolt against India’s military occupation.

Earlier this year, four Unison activists, all Socialist Party members, were banned from office for up to three years. Their crime? Producing a leaflet for the union’s 2007 conference calling for greater democracy within the […]

Struggles mount in build-up to 29 September general strike

Organising to save jobs and services

The U.S. ruling class is trying to make workers and youth in the 50 states and in Puerto Rico pay for a crisis we didn’t create. Puerto Rican youth have stood up, fought back and […]

Towards a 24 hour all-European general strike!

At a CPSU consultative conference in July, delegate after delegate raised their continued opposition to the Croke Park deal.

Stop terrorising the workers movement

The newspaper’s website reports the brutal situation facing prisoners in Kazakhstan and the recent visit by Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland).

Joe Higgins speaking in the European Parliament on 21st September 2010 on the EU-China summit

Construction unions have taken a step back from the action fearing fines – dispute was initiated by the workers themselves.

CWI leaflet: Workers need to organise independently!

Complete failure for Social Democratic-Green “opposition”

Protesting trainee nurses held an all-night vigil on Saturday 18th September outside the local press club to pressurize the government to act against health and district authorities for victimisation.

Christine Thomas, author of the new book ’It doesn’t have to be like this – Women and the Struggle for Socialism’ spoke to Sarah Wrack about why such a book was necessary.

"Your campaign is terrifying the speculators and the big banks – and that is a very good thing" – Joe Higgins speaking at a demonstration in Stuttgart.

State owned shipyard company plans to close major shipyards, resulting in around 2,500 job losses (7,000 including subcontractors)

Autobiography shows aim to destroy Labour as a vehicle for working class struggle

Over the course of the last month, the breathtaking hypocrisy of the capitalist elites in Ireland and internationally has been glaringly exposed.

Desperate inmates facing brutal beatings self-mutilate and hunger strike

Indian ‘Fact-finding mission’ will not offer solution

UCD economist, Morgan Kelly, was pilloried by the establishment back in May when he said it was no longer a case of whether Ireland would go bankrupt but when.

As we reported last week, the general strike of 7 September in India was called by a wide range of trade unions. It was in protests at the rocketing prices of food and fuel while […]

The Socialist Party (CWI Australia) has preselected Stephen Jolly to stand for the seat of Richmond in the Victorian State elections on November 27.

Support Tommy and Gail Sheridan

Regime announces union ‘reforms’ – is democratisation of the state-run unions on the cards?

The recent disaffiliation from the ALP of the Victorian branch of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) is the most significant example so far of the tensions between the modern Labor Party and the more dynamic […]

Thursday 16 September saw one of the most formidable demonstrations in the capital city for some time. 2,500 uniformed firefighters marched with Fire Brigades Union (FBU) flags and placards, whistles and vuvuzelas, and even a […]

Eradication of feudalism and capitalism would free millions

The decision of the rating agency, Standard and Poor’s, to downgrade the credit rating of Ireland from AA to AA- was met with hypocritical gnashing of teeth by Irish establishment figures.

Youth Fight for Jobs protest

Media reports of Joe Higgins’ recent visit to Kazakhstan, where he called for the scrapping of an OSCE conference in the authoritarian-run country

A new report on the TURCP web-site shows the ongoing and tireless flood relief work by trade unionists in Pakistan

Every day, we’re all bombarded with images soliciting us to buy products. Companies spend millions of dollars during the Super Bowl for a 30-second ad alone.

On 8th September Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) and Tanja Niemeier, LSP – PSL (CWI Belgium), spoke at a press conference of the GUE/NGL on breaches of human rights in Kazakh Prisons.

Capitalism isn’t working. This is the conclusion being drawn by increasing numbers of workers and young people as seemingly every week a new crisis dominates the headlines.

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi

Flash floods destroy lives, soaring price inflation means poverty

Workers showed courageous determination

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‘Death of Democracy’ in Sri Lanka

Solidarity message from Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) MEP

In the past few weeks there’s been a noticeable shift in tone in the business pages and journals. Their confidence in the so-called “recovery” has faded, and has been replaced by anxiety.

Break the Tripartite Alliance – For a mass workers’ party on a socialist programme

Protests needed: "The Provisional Minimum Wage Commission does not speak for us!"

As the 2010 elections approach, millions of working people and young people who are looking to fight against the right-wing corporate agenda will be confronted with the question: Should I give my vote to the […]

Free Belarus activists!

Joe Higgins MEP explains why he voted in favour of the resolution condemning French President Nicolas Sarkozy for his racist policies of scapegoating and deporting peoples from the Roma minority in France.

"Support European Day of Action against Austerity – 29 September should be day of active struggle, protests and strikes across Europe"