Articles by Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, was the final platform speaker at a London aggregate to discuss the prospects of the trade union and anti-cuts movement

CWI MEP speaks in light of catastrophe in Fukushima

Rant reflects establishment concerns at rise of class struggles

“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

¡Por la construcción de una fuerza independiente de los trabajadores y los pobres

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.

Un país en ebullición

Victoria para la revolución libia – Construir un movimiento independiente de los trabajadores y la juventud!

Victoria para la revolución libia – Construir un movimiento independiente de los trabajadores y la juventud!

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