Articles by Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

South African riot police fired tear gas on hundreds of security stewards protesting against wage cuts, 90 minutes after the match between Germany and Australia in Durban.

At the Committee on Employment, Joe Higgins MEP challenges the neo-liberal assault on pension rights as well as the attempts by right-wing governments to increase the retirement age.

Text of the joint leaflet

On Saturday 12 June, the leader of the movement for self-determination (LPV), Albin Kurti, was arrested by the police, acting on behalf of the colonial-style ruling EULEX European Union authorities.

La policía antidisturbios ataca a los trabajadores en el estadio de Durban

5 days after the announcement of an austerity package by the conservative-liberal coalition in Germany 45,000 workers, unemployed and young people took to the streets of Berlin and Stuttgart to say: we won’t pay for […]

IT IS still difficult to assess the scale of the disaster that followed the explosion on the BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on 22 April, which killed eleven workers.

The Tories claim that massive cuts are necessary because of New Labour’s excessive public spending on services and welfare. This is a giant con trick, which every capitalist party – including New Labour – is […]

Big industrial and social conflicts ahead!

12 June marks the first anniversary of the mass revolt that shook the Islamic Republic of Iran; a people’s revolt against the regime.

A summer of discontent may await the ‘communist’ dictatorship as the giant of labour begins to stir

Debates about the future of the party Die LINKE

Nearly 10,000 Israeli Jews and Palestinians came out to protest in central Tel Aviv on Saturday, against the aftermath of the attack on the aid flotilla, the siege on Gaza, the occupation, and the government […]

mundosocialista.net Cerca de 10.000 Judíos Israelies y palestinos salieron a protestar en el centro de Tel Aviv el sábado, contra las secuelas del ataque a la flotilla de ayuda, el sitio de Gaza, la ocupación, […]

General strike beckons…

On 9 June, 85,000 school, university, and apprenticeship students went on strike against cuts in education, tuition fees and increasing pressure to "perform" in education.

Below we publish a statement (translated and slightly edited) by Xekinima (CWI Greece) regarding a split that took place last weekend during the Synaspismos (SYN) party congress (4-5-6 June).

The Scottish section of the Committee for a Workers’ International – the International Socialists – is changing its name to Socialist Party Scotland.

Joe Higgins MEP is interviewed by Danish TV on unemployment, workers’ struggles and the socialist solution to the crisis.

Twelve workers have committed suicide so far this year at the factory that makes Apple iPads. Four others survived, gravely injured, and 20 were stopped from killing themselves by the company. All the dead were […]

150,000 people attended the Victoria Park candlelight vigil to commemorate the 21st anniversary of 1989 Beijing massacre (video)

La revolución socialista: el arma más poderosa de los explotados

Stop Israeli state terror!

Austerity programmes across EU provoke mass struggles and general strikes

Este viernes 4 de junio un nutrido grupo de trabajadores de Mitsubishi MMC, se congregaron en la inspectoría del trabajo "Alberto Lovera" en Barcelona estado Anzoátegui, en protesta ante la continua violación a su derecho […]

"Creemos que las protestas coordinadas en la semana del 21 al 26 de junio, tendrían un gran impacto y enviarían un claro mensaje a las clases dirigentes europeas."

Movilizaciones terminan con logros importantes pero sin incremento salarial

Tiempo para la lucha de nuestras vidas

"Un acto de piratería en aguas internacionales"

Working people need own movement to overcome gangsterism, state repression and capitalism

OSCE Chair presides over torture of prisoners – Protests needed urgently!

Leaflet of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Determined struggle by public sector workers can defeat deal and weak government

Joe Higgins MEP challenges US Ambassador on IDF killings

Build a mass movement to break the sanctions on Gaza!

Joe also condemns the hypocrisy of right-wing politicans claiming to support human rights in Pakistan while supporting the brutal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Lift the siege immediately!

Irish Socialist Party MEP calls for solidarity demonstrations with activists and Gaza

The first slice of cuts under the ’Con-Dem’ coalition government makes it clear that young people face a bleak future under its stewardship.

"Strike until success – re-constructing the trade union!"

Counter-summit to meeting of European, Latin American and Caribbean leaders discusses alternatives to the current crisis.

A CONSTANT stream of Tamils flowed into Parliament Square, London, on Tuesday 18 May.

Dismissals with Sixt because of foundation of a works committee

A mass student strike has shut down university campuses for nearly two months in Puerto Rico.

LSD’s 278,931 votes to Donald Tsang’s 649 votes – who has failed to muster support?

At a Plenary Session of the European Parliament, Joe Higgins MEP condemns the brutal repression of protesters in Thailand by the military

Workers alternative needed to agenda of Europe’s bosses

Not-so-new politics