Articles by Charlie James and Shahar Ben-Khorin, Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in Israel)

Political vendetta against socialist fighter continues.

Independent workers’ organisation a necessity

"A living lesson for workers everywhere"

Trade union movement must act to defend workers’ rights

International solidarity needed for Milan workers

Urgent solidarity action needed!

Deepening divisions in ruling regime

New government comes up against militant action

Taking a stand against job cuts and bullying bosses

Urgent solidarity action needed

Nationalise to save jobs and the environment

Leader of Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan, Ainur Kurmanov, again under threat!

Appeal for messages of protest

Struggle for nationalisation of coach factory continues

Huge anger over multinational drinks company Diageo jobs massacre

Defend the right to strike and protest

30,000 workers fighting for jobs and pensions in northeast China

Appeal by Frente de Obreros de FOGADE for pension rights.

Now available in Farsi.

Defend the right to strike against attacks on pay and conditions

Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) MEP condemns “consensus of the Right”

Skirmishes in parliament further sign of growing crisis

A lost opportunity to establish genuine democratic socialism

Build a socialist alternative to capitalism and communalism

Political establishment fear workers’ struggles and mass revolt

Solidarity needed now!

Socialist MEP launches attack on capitalist representatives

The role of the CWI in fighting fascism

For new parties to oppose ‘cat and mouse’ capitalism

CWI and the fight for a socialist future

Brown shoots of recovery, green shoots of fightback!

Mass unemployment, workers’ struggles; political consciousness and building new workers’ parties

Capitalist triumphalism turns to despair at economic crisis

World Economy and Perspectives

Corrupt elites, warlords and landlords resisted by the working class and poor

10 years later, there is still a cry for justice

Need for a working class political challenge

140 killed and 800 injured in worst ethnic clashes for decades in China’s Muslim-majority region

International campaign needed to end attacks on media and opposition

Council’s historic victory over the Thatcher government

Don’t believe the lies! – Support the workers’ action

Opposition Socialist Party appeals to Dutch nationalism but fails to make polls headway

“The government privatised us, now let them nationalise us. We are going to the end!”

More than 70,000 demand ‘one person one vote’ in biggest protest since Tsang took over

Conference reflects on victories and discusses the way forward

National question remains unresolved

IMF and EU’s poisonous “medicine”

“This is a major victory!”

World and British economic crisis continues

Governing Fianna Fáil suffer devastating setback – Is Labour an alternative?

Militant action pays!

Splits in the ruling Islamist-capitalist class

Workers show their strength

Working class must decisively enter struggle

Support strikers at Lindsey oil refinery!

Anti-racist campaigner receives death threats

Struggle for decent public education continues

Only the beginning of a powerful movement against government attacks

Release the arrested activists Now!

For defence of jobs and working conditions!

New phase of struggle opens up

SAV consolidates roots in the community and defends seat

Bloody attempt to impose neo-liberal capitalism in the Amazon jungle of Peru

Renewed crisis – no alternative on offer

Workers’ solidarity forces Linamar bosses back

Beginnings of fight-back against dictatorial Rajapakse regime

Victory in fight against victimisation of trade unionists!

Little or no confidence in governments, but no genuine socialist alternative

Socialist Party MEP responds to election

Left-right balance unchanged with gains for the Socialist Party

Fighting socialist leadership needed

JTF must end the occupation now!!

“Not forgotten, not forgiven”

Socialists win seat on fighting socialist programme

Sensational victory for Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland)

Working class action to end war threat!

No alternative on offer as the system repeats itself

Retool GM to Produce Mass Transit Vehicles!

Working class finds itself between the class struggle and the union bureaucracy

Mass media talks of possibility that Joe Higgins, Socialist Party, could challenge for MEP seat

Speculation that Rosa Luxemburg’s corpse lies in Berlin hospital

Highest turnout since early 1990s shows that legacy of “6/4” (June 4th massacre) remains a powerful factor among Chinese people

Spanish capitalism in deep crisis

An example of principled unity against a background of splits and fragmentation on the left

To fight the economic crisis, we need socialist, not neoliberal, solutions

But political arguments of the right-wing defeated

Succesful unification congress between SR (former CWI section) and the CLS

Days of victory celebrations humiliating all Tamils

For an extension of genuine democracy

No MP to receive more than the average wage of a skilled worker!

IMF and EU blackmail means misery for workers

Authorities nervous in lead up to Tiananmen 1989 massacre

First ever victor for health department service workers

Workers on the streets – but union leaders face the wrong way!

Now workers’ all-European action plan for jobs needed!

Rajapakse government cannot fulfil needs of workers and poor

Western-backed elite enrich themselves as vast majority live in poverty

New ‘peace talks’ will not lead to genuine Palestinian state

Class battles brewing

One million unemployed forecast & anti-union legislation intact – Socialist solutions urgently needed!

‘Fish rot from the head first’.

Disaster worsened by profit system

As class polarisation continues, black working class voters vest their hopes in Zuma …for now!

More reports from around the world

Defend Rob Williams!

Crisis deepens – three companies go bankrupt every day

Step up the struggle – Messages of protest needed urgently!

Brutality inflicted on peaceful protest

Struggle ends in victory!

Marches and protests mark international workers’ day

Nationalisation was the only option!

Growing unrest among workers and youth

Living conditions deteriorate due to neo-liberal politics and private sector mafia

Bosses forced to the negotiation table

We will not pay for the failure of the profit system!

Reinstate Linamar car plant union convenor now – Messages of support urgently needed!

Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory

Socialists continue fight against Rajapakse dictatorship

Strikes and occupations grow – workers’ party with socialist policies needed!

“Green shoots” of economic revival?

Joe Higgins attacks Sri Lankan government in Irish Daily Mail

For a new workers’ party!

Workers and young people have no party fighting capitalism and landlordism

Power transition to save weakening UMNO/BN

Brutal class warfare against the rights and the conditions of the working class

Education sector gives an example by fighting back

Export-driven economy shrinks

Workers’ action needed to defeat cuts and attacks

Mass protests continue

Need to defend and deepen left direction is vital

Neither major party has solution for working and poor people

Corruption kills

Invest in schools and local communities!

Youth and workers need alternative to pro-market, ethnic-based parties

Indian government told to stop support of murderous Rajapakse regime

Rank and file looking for fighting, socialist response to economic crisis and right wing government

Building the forces of socialism in a new period

Workers’ struggles continue…

International protest grows

Workers’ struggles point way forward – Fight for a socialist future

One week on and still rock solid

Solidarity action at 10 oil fields – Messages of support needed!

Video of march on the G20

Statement by European Bureau meeting of the Committee for a Workers’ International

Author Arundathi Roy’s statement gets national and international coverage

Solidarity with Egyptian workers and youth – Support fight for democratic and union rights!

On Saturday March 28, 30,000 people marched through Berlin, the capital of Germany, and another 25,000 people protested in Frankfurt, Germany’s financial centre.

Mass rebellion that killed tax and toppled Tory Prime Minister

Workers in Enfield and Basildon plants follow suit

Basildon, Belfast and Enfield plants occupied after put into administration

Anger and protests manifest across the world

Under the guise of ‘fighting terrorism’ and ‘combating crime’ New Labour has introduced an avalanche of repressive legislation.

Interview with leader of property (real estate) tax collectors union

1,000 demonstrate against 300 neo-fascists

Workers’ action wins widespread support

Building our forces in a new period

‘Bloggers’ organize to fight repression

Taxpayers foot the bill for CEO bonuses

Refugees confront representatives of murderous regime

The following is a draft CWI Thesis that will be presented to a meeting of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) European Bureau taking place next week.

Nationalise and provide transport for all!

Capitalism is not working!

Community revulsion at attack on well known socialist campaigner

“No economy is falling faster than China’s at this moment”

Mass fightback against bosses and government continues

Perspectives for British capitalism in crisis, the class struggle and a workers’ alternative

Workers occupy Windsor auto-parts plant

Tamil people must have right to decide own future

“An eagle can fly as low as a barnyard hen but a barnyard hen can never reach the height of an eagle.”

Nationalize and re-tool to save jobs!

Campaign launched to demand end to war and to fight for democratic rights

In an important move, the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers’ union (RMT) has announced its support for an electoral alliance to contest the forthcoming European elections in June.

Previous right wing administration’s anti-union ‘Work Choices’ repackaged

Released from prison in Liaoning province

Labour must say: No to deregulation and privatization!

…Build for an all-out 24 hour strike on 30 March!

Behind Obama’s troop withdrawal plan

Can they stop the economic collapse?

Berlin demonstration demands action

‘No More Killings – For workers’ Unity!’

Chinese regime fearful of renewed revolt

No return to sectarian conflict

Over 50,000 gather to protest attacks on public sector.

Carribean workers give lesson in fighting back

Danger of sectarianism shows need for socialist alternative

Fighting against layoffs and harassing bosses

Workers win widespread support for defiant action

“We won’t pay for the bosses’ crisis!”

Lessons of the year-long heroic dispute

“We have to fight for our rights.”

Capitalist bailouts or socialist nationalisation?

Will government plans to avert recession work?

No solution on offer from Africa’s elite

Staggering depth of economic crisis in Ireland

Vital preparation for struggles ahead

Interview with Ronaldo Delfino, leader of the movement of the Pantanal community occupation

Why did counter-revolution triumph instead?

Scrap the ‘pension levy’ – Make the bankers, speculators and big business pay for the crisis!

The workers of Guadeloupe and Martinique are showing the way!

For united action of all workers to defeat government!

But further struggle will be needed

Masses must move on to struggle for socialism!

Solidarity demonstrations across France

Capitalist crisis, mass consciousness and a socialist programme

Report from school’s final day

Fighting trade union leadership needed

Overwhelming vote for strike action

Government of Pakistani occupation threatens to crush strike

Another unstable government guaranteed

Where are they going?

Discussions on capitalist oppression and the socialist alternative

Neglect and discrimination behind explosion of anger

Israeli residents “used as trading cards”

Building the forces of Marxism in a new period

Public and private sector unite in angry mood

Workers’ leaders victimised

New Anti-capitalist Party can grow fast with clear socialist policies

Saudi Trade Union dissident facing deportation

Militant action gets results

Take the banks into full public ownership and control

Defend Tommy and Gail Sheridan!

An example to all workers

A disaster worsened by capitalism

Workers demand control!

Marx on the cover of time magazine in Europe – Capitalism losing legitimacy

Lessons of the dispute

What will it mean for the poor masses?

New period of struggles opens up

Strikes repel attacks on jobs and conditions

Firm strike leadership gains results

Appeal for protests as pro-government thugs are used yet again to silence opposition

Don’t bailout the bankers – Nationalise Dell & Waterford Crystal!

"Snowballs are lighter than bombs!"

Arab summit sees nothing on offer for working people and poor

Spoil Sri Lankan government’s ‘Freedom Day’ celebrations!

Nationalisation a necessity!

Strike action spreads – defend rights, wages and conditions!

Demands proposed by Socialist Party supporters agreed by mass meeting

Movement already larger than in 2006 and the beginning of the general strike of 1995

Protect The Jobs: Nationalise Now!

Socialists demand action to end the nightmare

Controcorrente pushes party to break from coalition and capitalist politics

“Fighting for their survival!”

CWI speaks to left-wing students in country devastated by capitalist crisis.

Organise and struggle for socialism!

Government fails to find a way out of crisis

Support grows for victimised socialist footballers

Striking workers win support

Leave people their homes!

Economic crisis – cracks appear in bosses’ EU

A report from the streets of Washington

Financial crisis deepens

Lessons of Luxemburg’s inspirational, revolutionary legacy

Firing linked to cuts in workers’ social benefits – Solidarity action needed!

Security company G4S has answered a recent security officers’ strike by sacking 100 members of its workforce.

Russian capitalism fights for control over energy supplies

Ceasefire called but root causes of conflict remain – socialist solution vital!

Tamil Tigers in danger of defeat; Tamil people’s struggle goes on

Courageous socialist activist, campaigning journalist and human rights activist

Principled anti-fascist campaigner and advocate

Building of mass independent workers organisations urgently needed.

New socialist quarterly launched

A “spring of discontent” beckons

Jews and Arabs united against Israeli regime

Capitalism kills – concludes study of privatisation era

Socialists call for media freedom, peace, democracy and socialism.

2009 starts with big education sector protests

Is Martin Luther King’s dream fulfilled?

What change will the Democrats bring?

‘Joe Higgins Column’ from the Daily Mail (Irish Edition), 14 January 2009

Organise and develop mass democratic protests against war and capitalism in the Middle East

Capitalist regimes unable to provide peace and stability

For a socialist solution to national oppression

Socialist struggle needed for real change

Mubarak regime employs repression to prevent broad anti-Mubarak movement

Alistair Darling – “We are far from through this.”

Another victim of the system

Build the mass protests worldwide

Nationalise to save jobs at Dell and Waterford Crystal!

For workers� unity against the Israeli regime and imperialism

Much interest in arguments for a socialist solution

Broad campaign launched to stop state violence

Video report from the ’Irish News’ of Socialist Youth protest, on 9 January 2009

12,000 on Stockholm demo

Will it prevent a prolonged slump and revive growth?

Socialists condemn role of Western imperialism and Barack Obama

For a struggle against capitalism

Portrayal of principled revolutionary reflects Che’s renewed appeal

Protests and solidarity action needed.

Where is the new regime going?

The campaign to keep marxist activists outside the Left Party (DIE LINKE) in Germany (see previous reports on socialistworld.net) is being continued by people in the party leadership despite growing support for marxist ideas amongst […]

Leaflet produced by the Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales, for the demonstration in London, on 10 January 2009, in protest against ongoing Israeli military attacks on the defenceless people of Gaza.

2009 – Revolt is brewing in British society

Mass struggle needed for liberation

Tel-Aviv: Around 10,000 Jews and Arabs in a militant protest against the war

No retrenchment, built in adjustment to match inflation.

The appearance of Tommy Sheridan in Celebrity Big Brother, the television ’reality’ show, will have disappointed many people who know of his role as an uncompromising fighter for the interests of the working class over […]

Stop the War in Gaza

Mass struggle needed to defeat Israeli army attack

For mass struggle to end national oppression and capitalism

Mass Movement to Stop the Massacres

But no real alternative on offer

New opportunities open up for socialist struggle and the building of the Committee for a Workers’ International

Peaceful protest billed for January 12

A Green New Deal?

Leon Trotsky’s defence of the priceless heritage of genuine Marxism

Looting capitalist elite attempts to further attack working people

Voters’ wish for change represented only by the Socialist Party

How long can it last?

Inspirational example for workers’ fighting cutbacks

Resistance to neo-liberalism growing

Mass movement comes to the forefront

For united mass workers’ resistance for Palestinians’ national liberation

Widespread solidarity with Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at Bush

Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna’s campaign shows the way

CWI member assaulted by police and arrested

Political conflict far from over

Clear programme for future struggle needed

How can the movement move forward?

A guide for future struggles.

Struggle against discrimination, for jobs

Police murder of 15 year old boy sparks mass anger

Only working class solution can hold Nigeria together in harmony and peace

Socialism is alive and well in Yarra.

A Militant Example of the Way Forward for the Labour Movement

Oppose the Government’s savage budget.

Right wing Tory government sees off opposition parties’ no confidence vote

For a mass Palestinian workers’ resistance

Class struggle and the far right

Struggle for their re-instatement must commence now!

Build a united workers’ movement to fight for living wages

Defeat the terror of communalism and capitalism. Statement issued on 29 November 2008.

Massive vote for socialist campaigner Steve Jolly beats Labour and Greens!

14 million people came out early in the morning and went to the ballot boxes to elect governors, mayors and regional representatives

Socialism and marxism now back on the agenda.

New forces will be propelled towards our International by events.

The world economic crisis has hit Pakistan particularly hard and this has intensified the social and political crisis.

Barack Obama won a sweeping victory on 5 November.

Workers need a fighting programme to resist capitalist crisis

Interview with striking machinist

General strike on the agenda

Cgil calls a national general strike

Solidarity appeal

S-Word is Suddenly Hot Subject

Nader’s Campaign for President

The economic tsunami hits the masses hard

Millions of you and workers step forward into political activity

Participation greater than expected despite authorities’ repression

From finance crash to full-blown economic crisis

An inspiring weekend of discussion and debate

Workers to shut down oil, gas fields across the country

Build a real alternative

The real state of the Australian economy

New right wing coalition faces economic recession

Fish, pork, and chicken contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine, along with milk and eggs

Anti-war Mom Calls For New Party, Polls 17% Against Nancy Pelosi

A critique of the Socialist Workers Party, by Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales

Workers’ struggles mount

But Will He Deliver?

New struggles lie ahead

The 90th anniversary of the November 1918 German revolution comes at a particularly appropriate time.

Anniversary of the overthrow of the Kaiser and the beginning of the 1918-23 revolution

Open and democratic debates

Far right football club president moves against socialists

No longer a planned economy, but not yet a fully capitalist economy

China developments crucial importance to socialists everywhere

False representation of the right and the Concertación

A Nigerian view on the US Presidential elections

One battle won, next battle to come

Negotiations amongst regional and world leaders cannot provide solutions to the problems of the Israeli and Palestinian working and middle classes.

Five women shot, wounded and buried alive

Global economic downturn gaining momentum

Millions face being thrown out of work in Guangdong province

What will US foreign policy be after the election?

SAV members are denied membership in Left Party

Backlash against government’s attack on the elderly

Return of state intervention

Urgent need of a mass working class party

General strike needed to unite struggles against Berlusconi

After recent turmoil, can taxpayers’ £400 billion prevent a worsening crisis?

Warning to bosses and government!

Former ‘Orange Revolution’ allies in fierce power struggle

Crushing condemnation of neo-liberal agenda

Defend decent jobs and conditions

Steve Jolly fights to retain Yarra Council (Melbourne) seat

Opposition social democratic-NDP ‘fighting talk’ but no alternative

“God bless Iceland” – slogan at demonstration

Build socialist alternative

Statement by Nouriel Roubini

Re-instate Pat Lawlor!

Deepening Socialist ideas in a period when capitalism is in crisis

Is the US economy also heading for a ‘lost decade’?

Britain highly vulnerable to coming recession

Global Capitalism in Crisis

As economic crisis hits, workers’ movement needs socialist alternative

Economic storm-clouds threaten tumultuous change

Capitalist crisis shows need for bold socialist policies and campaigning

A message of support and solidarity from French Airbus workers to striking Boeing workers. Video.

Video interview with Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales

Banks should be taken into public ownership – Not have their greed underwritten

Africa’s oldest liberation movement headed for split

End workers’ misery through genuine nationalisation and democratic socialist planning

Russian stock exchange shut on three occasions – economic crisis pending

Unions must break with pro-market Labour to build a workers’ party

Economy in crisis & politics in flux

Capitalist finance system nears meltdown

Ruling Sinn Fein/Democratic Unionist Executive in stalemate

National Broadcasting Commision’s Lagos office stormed.

Textile workers win big concessions through persistent campaign

CWI gets good response

Right-wing offensive radicalizes masses and provokes land occupations

20,000 expected in Malmö

Karl Marx was right

Anti-establishment mood leave government and business leaders in state of shock

We all have a stake in this fight

Weeks of bloody protests and political deadlock within ruling elite

Where is the presidential election going?

America’s bloody imperialist war in Afghanistan spills into Pakistan

Sign of deepening economic crisis

Anti-war activist challenges Nancy Pelosi, Democratic House Speaker, for Congress

Week of police repression against peaceful protests

Scandal and corruption of elite while masses on breadline

Major capitalist powers jockey for influence at expense of peoples of the region

Struggle over pay and conditions in Balochistan province

‘Defend the Labour Code – for a one day General Strike!’

Opposition trounced but United Socialist Party still biggest left force

Workers feel their power

Government and bosses try to crush the workers’ movement

A political analysis of developments in the Caucusus, 1990 – 2004

What does the war mean for the Caucusus and beyond?