Articles by Mick Barry, councillor of the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Cork

Thatcher’s brutal prisons regime

Elections loom as IMF’s austerity plans revealed

2,500 on strike demo

President Saleh refused to attend ceremony in Saudi Arabia

El gobierno de EE.UU. ha anunciado un exitoso asalto militar en una gran mansión en Abbottabad, cerca de Islamabad (capital de Pakistán), que ha dado como resultado la muerte de Osama Bin Laden.

"Workers, you prepare the bread, but you live with the crumbs!"

The US government has announced a successful military assault on a large mansion in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, which has resulted in the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Ainur Kurmanov hospitalized.

Socialists harassed by nationalist “left”

Fighting to end capitalism and its crisis, the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends warm May Day greetings to workers, youth and the oppressed around the globe.

Witness the media torrent of sickly sentimentality over the royal wedding.

New government: "Same circus, just different clowns!"

Only a united struggle of the masses can defeat regime

May Day next day of mass protests

Scientists estimate nuclear fall-out caused over 200,000 deaths

A warning for the workers’ movement

Need to build united workers’ alternative as social and political tensions grow

Blockade at world’s biggest container port • Mass arrests and police repression

Arms manufacturers are excited by the Libyan conflict as it will lead to increased sales and profits.

President Lukashenko uses outrage to attack working class

Right wing populist ‘True Finns’ third biggest party

What attitude should socialists adopt in defending women’s rights?

US overstretch and uncertainty

What is the way forward now?

Desperate economic situation exacerbated by world capitalist crisis

Libyan workers and youth must rely on their own strength

Developments in SWP confirm Socialist Party’s arguments for NSSN anti-cuts campaign

Bitter struggles erupt as EU/IMF policies devastate Greek economy

La cob debe volver a sus raices de lucha independiente y revolución socialista

Following last Sunday’s parliamentary election in Finland, talks are taking place on forming a coalition government. The results saw a big increase in support for the anti-immigrant, rightwing populist True Finns party, gaining 19.0% (39 […]

This film “cost $20,000,000,000,000 to make” – a reference to the economic losses, so far, from the global crisis

Paul Murphy questions EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht on the worsening situation in Pakistan after last year’s flooding, the role of speculation in food prices and its impact on the poor

’The worst is yet to come’

Vote against cuts in 5 May elections

About the need to nationalise the energy sector and move away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy in favour of genuine renewable, sustainable energy production

Falta de cambios provocan luchas independientes

Se necesita la acción decisiva de los trabajadores

Big student demo in Algiers defies ban on demonstrations

Unelected ‘friends of democracy’ show NATO’s hypocrisy

For a 24 hour general strike as the first step!

Thesis of the European bureau of the CWI

Porque los peruanos votaron por Ollanta Humala

Decisive workers’ action necessary

Racism and poverty – anger explodes

Nearly two thirds of Icelanders say ‘No!’ to Icesave deal

Governing Fine Gael/Labour party coalition facing bankruptcy

El resentimiento y la ira necesitan una expresión socialista

Non-Payment movement reflects explosive situation