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"Why can’t Barack Obama say “Black Lives Matter”?"

As death toll rises, economies plunge into freefall

Mass intervention of working class to struggle for socialist policies is vital

"You march in Paris, yet uphold laws any religious fundamentalist would envy"

Workers need to build political alternative to major parties’ big business agenda

“Peace deal” between government and right-wing opposition

General elections on 25 January

Agreeing Not To Agree, Again

Former Australian Labour Party (ALP) prime minister

China’s economic slowdown already being felt throughout world economy

Towards a second plan of action to get rid of this government and austerity!

Solidarity messages needed with “requisitioned” airline workers

Taiwan’s ‘Sunflower Movement’ and democracy protests in Hong Kong fuel massive rejection of ruling party

Dublin City centre came to a standstill as different marches made their way to the Dáil

Right-wing alliance relied on racist party to defeat budget

Kick out the austerity government and Troika! For a Syriza government with bold socialist policies!

Acciones crueles y vengativas por parte del Estado y la élite gobernante

For a new political movement to bring the "mob" to power

Cruel and vengeful actions by the State and ruling elite

Paul Murphy and Ruth Coppinger speak in Irish parliament

Socialist Party leads successful campaign against Toll Road and for investment in public transport

From Ferguson to Staten Island

Government and Water Charges completely undermined

Xekinima (CWI) member wins key union position in Athens Municipality sector

Mass boycott will defeat water charges

Big Gains for Republicans while Voters Support Progressive Ballot Measures

Ruth Coppinger, Socialist Party TD (MP) appears on ‘Prime Time’

Tanaiste (Deputy PM) trapped by protestors; AAA TD (MP) and Socialist Party member, Paul Murphy, assaulted

Working people need socialist alternative to warring oligarchs and outside powers

Lefts, local authority workers and communities’ united can resist Troika’s policies

Shows anger against austerity

In 1994, the IRA and Loyalist paramilitaries called ceasefires. Four years later the Good Friday agreement was declared to mark the end of the ‘Troubles’…

Narrow win for Dilma sets scene for more crisis and instability

Movement of workers and youth needed against racism and fascism

How the Anti Austerity Alliance won a parliamentary seat and the way forward for the Left

Pro-choice ROSA campaigners swallow abortion pills after rail journey

A one-day strike of all workers is needed

No to military rule! Continue mass struggle – the whole rotten system must go!

Video of one of the city’s biggest protests

The right wing coalition must go, and all austerity policies!

Pro-capitalist parties teaming up for more of the same – urgent need to rebuild a political voice for the working class and youth

Catalonia; ’Podemos’, and the left

1 million refuse to register for water charges

61% support for Kshama Sawant in her electoral district…Jess Spear`s campaign against one of the most powerful corporate politicians in Washington State gaining momentum…indications of yearning for representation for working class people

Beijing’s scare propaganda doesn’t stand up to examination

Paul Murphy TD (MP) makes maiden speech in Parliament

Paul Murphy wins parliamentary seat as 100,000 march against water charges

Anti-Austerity Alliance victory shocks political establishment, reflects mass revolt against water charges and austerity

Labour Party and the Left in crisis

Seeking alliances with austerity parties

“We must all keep going…we have no other way to survive than to fight-back”

Massive social resistance is looming

A right-wing, sectarian demagogue who courted paramilitary violence

CWI success, defended four council seats

Anger against austerity growing

Space for Left alternative to win support

Warmongering governments ratchet-up national tensions in struggle for regional dominance

Spreading and organising the movement for decent wages

Only united working class action can secure lasting peace

Significant poll gains for the left coalition HDP

A fight for all workers!

As ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and a-Shams) crossed the border between Syria and Iraq, it proclaimed this to be the “annihilation of the disgrace of Sykes-Picot” and the formation of an ‘Islamic state’ […]

Text of a leaflet handed out by Socialist Alternative members in Ferguson and St. Louis

Spread the protests – unite against racism and inequality

“We’ve only just gotten started”

Signs the mammoth property bubble is finally bursting belie Beijing’s upbeat GDP data

Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis Strikes

Battle-lines hardening as masses push for democracy while government steps up repression

42 workers sacked for going on strike

Labour claim opposition to project but refuse to rip up contracts

1989 massacre apologists accuse Socialist Action (CWI) and radical legislator ‘Long Hair’ of ‘violence’

Working people fearing all-out war

Solidarity protests taking place on 13th June Friday

New stage of the class struggle

Article in British ’Observer’ newspaper

New bi-communal radical left coalition contests euro-elections

180,000 attend ‘6.4’ anniversary protest • Rival protest events show political polarisation

Join international protests at Brazilian embassies on Friday 13 june

CWI supporters elected to Volos council

Impressive Enniskillen vote a warning to main parties and drilling multinationals

“We have a world to win.”

Pastor’s “Satanic” anti-Muslim comments defended by First Minister

How Socialists Built a Winning Movement

Joe Higgins speaks in Irish parliament

Down with Erdogan and his murderous regime!

Socialist Party wins a second TD and Anti Austerity Alliance 14 councillors

Ruth Coppinger elected to the Irish parliament

"Labour bringing people back to work, for 1€ an hour on forced labour schemes"

Socialist candidates contest local council seats in Belfast and Enniskillen

Soma mine disaster deadliest in the country’s history

Azyz and Sabri must be immediately released without charge

Hundreds rally to demand their release

Case against former security czar risks dangerous splits in ruling party

Only united working class action can stop the catastrophe

Paul Murphy, standing for reelection as Socialist Party (CWI) MEP for Dublin, speaks on ’The People’s debate’ with Vincent Browne

Instability sets to grow

Unions prepare for struggle

Local government, police and company bosses coordinate crackdown

Pictures from the conference

Justice for the martyrs!

Urgent solidarity needed

40,000 workers paralyse world’s largest sports shoe maker

Four thousand attend three-day event in Athens

One year of the right wing Anastasiades government

What are the lessons of the island’s ‘sunflower movement’?

Protesters’ radical mood

Recent polls confirm a probable electoral breakthrough for the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB/PvdA).

An important step to push the struggle against neo-liberal policies further

Demonstrators call for trade pact to be withdrawn and for president to step down

A socialist strategy

Vote for SP can be the basis for a mass struggle against cuts

Optimistic Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna prepares for elections

Reflection of the government’s intrinsic weakness

Down with undemocratic Kuomintang rule – for a Taiwan-wide student strike as the next step!

Erdoğan regime provokes violence and division

Oppose the capitalist trade deal – build a mass workers’ movement

Knife attack after 8 March demonstration

Campaign brings public transport to forefront of political debate

Massive environmental destruction is the true cost of nuclear power

The world and New Zealand in crisis

The past continues to haunt the present in Northern Ireland

Shock and disbelief as 29 are hacked to death at railway station

Mass strike in education sector shakes Ouattara’s government

From the outside, it can appear there’s a certain pause in the struggle in Greece. Is this true?

Interviews with refugees fighting injustice and official high-handedness

Sporting excellence, yes…but also corruption, waste, atrocious workers’ conditions and anti-LGBT laws

“I think this is a genuine Bosnian spring. We have nothing to lose…”

Deep economic crisis, savage austerity and social upheaval have polarised Greek society.

New ‘technocratic’ government no response to workers’ demands

"We need our own political party. Independent of big business, and independent of the parties of big business"

“To achieve justice we must change the whole system!”

Growing from an initiative of the Socialist Party (CWI in Australia) the #TunnelPicket campaign has gone from strength to strength

Paul Murphy, Irish CWI MEP in the European Parliament

Who would have imagined that in a major American city, at a post election inauguration ceremony attended by 1,000 people, a new, directly elected Mayor and other members of the City Council would be completely […]

Videos of CWI comrades Tony Saunois and Bilbo Goransson addressing mass rally

European business connives at suppression of democratic rights.

On the way to a second bailout

Hundreds gather to witness socialist’s historic inauguration

Join the Fight for a $15/hour Minimum Wage!

The Troika is not going anywhere

Urgent solidarity needed

Politically explosive investigation of former security czar marks a new phase of internal power struggle

Society turned back forty years, in nine months

Informe del debate sobre Europa en la última reunión del Comité Ejectivo Internacional del CIT

Violent attack from neo-nazis gets massive reply

Fighting plans to close student facility and convert it into ‘high class teaching suites’ and corporate dining area

Report of the discussion on Europe at the recent meeting of the CWI’s International Executive Committee

Massive and evident fraud sees right-wing claim victory in Presidential elections

Abstention and polarisation reflect reality of current conjuncture

What should be the attitude of the socialist left?

In the midst of talk about Ireland’s exit from the Troika programme and recovery supposedly in sight, the mortgage crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of ordinary people is being deliberately understated.

Obama’s speech falls far short of what’s needed to tackle historic levels of inequality

Black Friday and beyond

Xi Jinping’s shift from dictatorship-by-committee to new ‘paramount leader’ is a high-risk strategy

Populist, anti-immigrant parties aim to exploit anti-EU mood in May elections

«It is already 10 past midnight»

“Earth-shattering consequences” in the US and internationally

Victory rally in Seattle sets the tone for struggles ahead and more historic opportunities for the socialist left

Democrat Richard Conlin concedes to Socialist Alternative challenger

Big success for $15/hour minimum wage campaign; breakthrough for independent working class politics

But union leaders launch attack on CWI activist

An interview with the maker of Utopia, John Pilger

Interview with Hidouri Abdessalem, member of the regional UGTT office for secondary education, Sidi Bouzid

The beginning of a wider struggle against the far-right and racism

Strongest showing by socialists in decades – Opportunities for working-class politics must be seized

Who gains from terrorism?

An important step to renew working class feminism

Joe Higgins speaks in parliament on legacy of 1913

Chinese state steps up repression against Uighurs and other national minorities

Great momentum for Socialist Alternative’s candidates sees major national lobby group and big business stepping in for opponents

Support grows in campaign for release of imprisoned workers’ representative

The Venezuelan economy faces runaway inflation, speculation and severe food shortages. At the same time, capitalist forces are increasingly emboldened by the growing divisions in the government.

Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD, speaks on Roma children and unemployed youth

Big business greed vs. community need

‘Unions of the Base’ and social movements on the streets

The people no longer believe this farce! The fight continues, tomorrow it will be even bigger!

Socialist Action calls for one-day strike by media workers

A small but important victory in the ongoing struggle for freedom of speech

Shenzhen factory workers’ representative held by police for five months

Governmental shutdown reveals again the need for a new party of the 99%

But SWP’s sectarian actions could damage Paul’s chances

For an alternative plan of massive investment in public transport system!

Free Wu Guijun! Free the Guangzhou 12!

Need for struggle against cuts and unemployment

Pavlos Fyssas’s murder – Left-wing rapper stood up against fascism and injustice until the end

Dutch people want a real alternative to austerity

New wave of arrests of activists

Racist-populist ’Progress Party’ now to be in government

Teachers show the way! Build for all-out general strike action to defeat new austerity attacks!

The Left and organised working class needs to organise a powerful anti-fascist front

56 care homes under threat

Regime risks internal earthquake, as power struggle sharpens

As austerity shock-effects wear off, workers’ opposition will grow

Break with the Democrats, Corporate America’s Other Party of War!

One or other corporate party is no ‘choice’ for working people

Obama – guilty by omission

State continues to prepare for intensification of repression as social upheavals loom

Growing prospects for a new movement

Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto public meeting on socialist alternative

“No to war!", "No to Big Brother Obama!"

New leaders facing economic and political crisis

Two rappers sentenced to prison for standing up against brutal police methods – solidarity needed

Seamus Whelan, a registered nurse and union activist, member of Socialist Alternative, is running for City Council in Boston, and this campaign is helping to build the struggles organized by working people in the city.

Popular Front’s alliance with ‘Nidaa Tounes’ provokes big turmoil on the left

An immense struggle between the workers’ movement and big-business leaders

In an unprecedented move, the 30,000 strong Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Minnesota State Council endorsed Socialist Alternative candidate Ty Moore for Minneapolis City Council.

35%, over 44,000 votes – Kshama Sawant’s stunning result in Seattle primary

Without the Israeli government being willing to grant this basic right of self-determination, the talks will remain a charade.

Rajoy and Cameron governments distract attention from domestic crisis with new flaring up of tensions over Gibraltar

Socialist campaign is gaining support and momentum over Democrat’s challengers

Trade unions need to actively combat sectarian threats and attacks, in the workplaces and in the communities

Seattle Gives Green Light to Oust Richard Conlin from City Hall

The UGTT and the Popular Front must provide a strategy to finish with capitalism – no agreement with forces of the old regime! Towards a revolutionary socialist government of the workers, the youth, the unemployed […]

Labor’s revival is as a rejection of both Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, not a welcome embrace of Kevin Rudd

For mass struggle from below, major protests, strike action, marches on checkpoints – “This is what I think is absolutely needed now.”

2013 has seen a continuation unrelenting assault on women’s rights

Anti-foreclosure group Stand Against Foreclosures and Evictions (SAFE), Seattle Socialist Alternative, City Council candidate Kshama Sawant, and other allies gathered to peacefully resist an eviction.

Interests of energy giant ENI over-ride democracy and party policies

Leaflet of CWI supporters calls for general strike to bring down the government

People in China’s cities are choking on smog. This past winter the capital Beijing, and other northern cities, suffered their worst air pollution readings on record.

Organised working class enters stage of struggle

The racist system is guilty!

Socialist Campaign Gaining Broad Support

No to a government of “national unity”! For mass action to deal final blow to rotten coalition and impose a workers’ alternative!

The revolution must continue! For a government of workers and the poor!

Rather than paying lip service to issues important to LGBT people, the Kshama Sawant campaign used the opportunity to reach thousands of people with our message of truly fighting for the far-reaching change that LGBT […]

Instability ahead regardless of election outcome

"For a united front of the left to fight for a workers’ government!"

Continue and escalate the struggle until victory! For a united front to fight for a workers’ government

Fighting poverty pay

Beijing’s sharp credit squeeze adds panic on global financial markets

Disband the NSA! Repeal the Patriot Act!

3,000 march from Enniskillen to summit perimeter fence

Tremors of the coming revolt

Leaderships of unions and Left parties fail to provide decisive leadership

Governors of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and many other cities cut transport fares but the struggle must continue.

New layer of workers, youth and poor has entered the scene with the promise: “This is just the beginning – the struggle continues”

Socialist MEP condemns police violence during Turkey/ EU trade relations session

Well over 250,000 in approximately 20 cities took to the streets

Mass demonstrations against the increase of bus fares in all major cities

MEP Paul Murphy criticises EU foreign policy representative, Catherine Ashton, over calls for ’restraint on all sides’

Unions must organise general strike action now!

Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy travelled to Istanbul to see the protests first-hand – and in his diary from the visit he tells us that the response from the country’s Prime Minister has been “brutal”.

24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors

Paul Murphy to visit heart of Turkish Protests

A group of 12 MEPs from the left wing group in the European Parliament, GUE-NGL, have signed a joint message of support to Anti-G8 protestors ahead of the summit in two weeks’ time.

Unrest grows over economic and social issues

Public sector workers take strike action against police violence – For a one day general strike as a next step to bring down the government!

Secret Services bolster police ahead of G8 Summit in N Ireland

Vital lessons for today’s democracy struggle

Sweden once had a reputation as some kind of ‘social-democratic model’ with far-reaching public services and social support. But that has been dismantled by two decades of attacks – what the Economist magazine calls a […]

Neo-liberalism and police violence have created social time-bomb

In the «most developped country for women in the Arab world», the struggle for women rights remains more relevant than ever

Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism

This year’s G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, on 17th – 18th June. This gathering brings together the heads of government of eight of the world’s largest capitalist economies to discuss […]

Increasing concerns and contradictions

Australia’s federal environment minister Tony Burke gave the go ahead to Toro’s $270 million uranium mining project in the Wiluna region of Western Australia.

Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards

We shouldn’t let either of the major parties tell us that ‘tough decisions’ or ‘hard cuts’ are required.

Bus workers take strike action over savage wage cuts and attacks on conditions

The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial power.

On 2 May the neo-fascist Golden Dawn attempted to distribute food in Syntagma square in Athens to people holding proof of Greek nationality.

New clashes on the horizon

Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8 percent – but important issues are unresolved

Those who created the crisis should be forced to pay.

‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’

CC rules budget illegal for second time, government declares war against it

Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.

Teachers at Garfield High school in Seattle, Washington, faced down possible suspension for boycotting the winter Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test, which purports to evaluate student progress in reading and maths.

NO to Racism and Repression

‘No’ vote puts Labour Party on the ropes

"The Provisional IRA: from insurrection to parliament" by Tommy McKearney looks in detail at the IRA’s development

Socialist Party statement on the Australian political situation

The bombings today [15 April 2013] at the Boston Marathon are an absolute tragedy and a horror that shouldn’t happen in Boston or anywhere else in the world.

Nearly 10,000 show determined, angry and positive mood

About 70,000 activists from around the world gathered at the WSF in Tunis, 26-30 March.

Interview with a Cypriot socialist

"Time for workers to unite – from Greece to Ireland"

At annual NPC-CPPCC meetings Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang talk of ‘tough reforms’ for economy, but rule out ‘Western models’

Fight Global Warming!

“Nothing more to give” sums up the position of public sector workers who are struggling to survive in the midst of the never-ending economic crisis.

Mass demos demand to end the government’s link to the Troika and to refuse to follow its dictats.

Increasing support for nationalisation to save jobs

Socialist Challenges Democratic Party Establishment

Women and youth face additional discrimination

Chinese regime’s repression responsible for Tibetan self-immolations

Over 200,000 take to the streets on the eve of Japan’s Fukushima anniversary – to demand a nuclear-free Taiwan

Spirit of Wukan revived with demands for democratic vote over land seizures

More than ever, the struggle for socialism is necessary!

What is the way forward for women’s struggle for liberation?

What Now? — Reflections from a DC Protester

Review of The Second World War, by Antony Beevor

“Screw the Troika – the people are the best rulers”

An important community campaign is growing on Melbourne’s inner-city public housing estates.

Secret measure to end collective bargaining over health care for Illinois public employees

National Party attempts to force ordinary people to pay for crisis is met with resistance

Ty Moore accused of civil disobedience at Housing Justice rally

Big attacks on working class loom

Down with the Ennahdha regime! Down with the system!

NIPSA union members seeking a new strategy to fight back against cuts

Four unions walk out of talks on public sector pay deal – for a new alliance of fighting unions!

What strategy to do away with rotten government and system?

Signs of growing radicalisation and struggle

Optimism and new targets at Gothenburg Congress

Stark crisis of leadership facing working class

Whip of counter-revolution must lead to renewed struggle on social and economic issues

IMF and World Bank reduce growth predictions

Fully mobilise the workers’ movement to end the assault on labour rights!

Socialist Party (CWI) MP argues for democratic socialist alternative to capitalist market chaos

UGTT union and opposition call for a general strike

Police attack strikers with teargas – International solidarity action needed!

Only the organized working class can show a way forward

Sectarian tactics of Communist Party leadership prevents united Left success

Struggle at Arcelor Mittal Liège against redundancies

What is more unpopular than cockroaches, traffic jams, and used car salesmen? According to a new poll, the U.S. Congress.

The Socialist Party (CWI) has ended its membership of the United Left Alliance (ULA)

Solidarity strikes spread – Unions must widen strike action to defeat government repression and to stop all cuts!

Huge opening for the left

Imperialist intervention will deepen crisis and instability

8,000 school bus drivers and matrons have struck for the first time in over three decades

Debates in the Red Green Alliance over budget support

Joe Higgins TD (MP) calls for solidarity and demands nationalisation and workers’ control and management

Only united working class capable of cutting across increased division and conflict

The massive social struggles around the civil war bring up important issues that are played out in the continuing battles today to end racial, class, sexual and gender exploitation under U.S. and global capitalism.

Open letter from 70 intellectuals warns of “violent revolution” without a change of course

A government of austerity driving austerity across Europe

Marchers demand Chief Executive CY Leung’s resignation and one person one vote

Solidarity against homophobia – rights of LGBT community and rights of working class under threat

Construir un frente unido de las fuerzas de izquierda con un programa para poner fin a la crisis capitalista!

Build a united front of Left forces on a programme to end capitalist crisis!

Draconian penalties and court actions will be challenged with mass solidarity to stop this tax

Capitalism Has Failed the Environment

On the caste discrimination suffered by Daliths and the impact of neo-liberal reforms on the working people of India

Voters Affirm Marriage Equality in Four States

Interview with Wael Towfeek, socialist activist in Cairo

After two Memoranda, Greek society is collapsing

Capitalist establishment shaken by sustained mass movement

15% of Dutch population faces poverty conditions

CWI member, Igor Yasin, and investigative journalist, Elena Kostyuchenko, among ten arrested [Update (20/12/12): Igor, Elena and 8 others released – full report to follow]

A socialist analysis

The revolution continues! Let’s prepare the next step in the fight back!

In a last minute move, the UGTT cancelled the strike planned for today

Revolution at a crossroads

First time Chavez has spoken of the possibility of not being able to continue as president

Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record. It left a trail of destruction from the Caribbean and across the Eastern seaboard of the United States all the way to Canada.

Over 30,000 joined Independence March on 11 November in Warsaw organised by far-right organisations

Anti-household tax struggle sinks deep roots as signs of increased anger against austerity emerge

On 21 November, up to 30 MEPs from four political groups and many different countries held a protest in front of the European Parliament to demand abortion legislation in Ireland.

Cgil reluctantly mobilize, but workers and students fill the squares

48 hours general strike needed in drive to bring down austerity government

International day of action for legal abortion

Historic Opportunities to Challenge Corporate Politics

Ford plant closure would see 4,000 jobs lost

Belfast ‘Socialism 2012’ debate and discussion event a great success

Prepare to Fight the Bipartisan Policies of the 1%

Prepare to Fight the Bipartisan Policies of the 1%

US elections

But how can the struggle against austerity be won?

11 November – Mass demonstration called in support of Ford workers

Socialists increase vote and retain Stephen Jolly’s seat

But is deprived by Head of Electoral Commission!

Aftermath of Sandy further exposes corporate domination of governing institutions

But growing contradictions for President Dilma Rouseff, as Party of Socialism and Freedom makes gains

A workers’ alternative is urgently needed!

Rising national tensions point to new turbulent era in East Asia

US presidential race gap closes

A daily occurence

But Ivanishvili’s ‘Georgian Dream’ is a false dawn for working class and poor

A significant feature of the thousands strong march on 29 September in Dublin to mark International Decriminalisation of Abortion Day was the number of young people, especially young women.

For a general strike movement to bring down the government and kick out the Troika

Under pressure from below, a number of unions have started to adopt a program for occupations and escalation of repeated 48 hour general strikes

Joe Higgins challenges European Parliament President Martin Schulz in the Dail

"One of the biggest strikes and demonstrations in the recent period in Greece took place on Wednesday 26 September."

Belfast Outdoor Relief Strike 1932 – When workers’ united against austerity

Brutal conditions behind latest flare-up at iPhone manufacturer

Prepare now for a further struggle to defend public education

The government must fall! For a government of the workers and youth!

A promising mass movement was turned into a electoral contest between two corporate-controlled political parties

Interview with Kshama Sawant in Seattle

New coalition government promises austerity politics – Workers’ will resist!

Another blow to the PP government

Paul Murphy speaks in European parliament

It’s time to build a left-wing, anti-corporate, pro-worker party for workers and youth

Socialist Party reneging on retirement disappoints workers

The movement transformed consciousness among the broad mass of workers and young people

Socialist policies needed to oppose austerity and to win majority support!

Sensational murder trial of princeling wife hides more than it reveals

The Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) sincerely regrets that Clare Daly has decided to resign from the party.

New phase of crisis in country which could decide the fate of Europe

Towards a new turn?

Kshama Sawant groundbreaking campaign

Australia’s Labor Government worked hand in hand with the Liberal/National opposition to pass legislation to restart the offshore processing of refugees.

The preliminary count shows success for Kshama Sawant, the Socialist candidate, running against Democratic incumbent Jamie Pedersen in 43rd District.

On July 1 the highly controversial carbon tax was introduced in Australia amidst overwhelming public disapproval.

Public support growing for punk group!

The latest Irish League of Credit Unions “What’s Left” income survey shows deterioration in disposable income and an increased reliance on borrowing to make ends meet.

Non-payment campaign against household tax: Preparation needed to organise a powerful, mass response to any court cases

Combative trade union action needed to prevent a disaster

The markets are clearly stating that the same merciless ruthlessness that was deployed against the Greek people will now be visited on the Spanish nation.

90,000 march against government’s new national education curriculum

End police brutality, racial profiling, and other racist practices

Anger against growing inequality and cuts to public services

Protest to Russian Embassies!

Huge opportunities for building new workers’ party

Full union support needed to win dispute

Overcapacity and rising debt burden limits government’s policy options

Solidarity needed in fight to save jobs

SWAT team armed with automatic weaponry raids home

Working class faces battle against cuts

Interview with a revolutionary activist

Contrary to official propaganda, Brazil’s economy is still vulnerable

“Despite being faced with virtual decimation of the public sector unions, the union leadership shrank from wielding its most powerful weapon: the strike”

Minneapolis anti-foreclosure movement confronts banks, politicians, and police

Keep up mobilizations to fight for internet freedom

International left speakers address public launch rally

Clear socialist programme for struggle needed

Day 4 of Paul Murphy’s blogging from Greece

Day 3 of Paul Murphy’s blogging in Greece while campaigning for Syriza

Anyone interested in socialist ideas is invited to attend

Day 2 of MEP Paul Murphy’s blogging in Greece while campaigning for Syriza

Follow his website, blog, and Twitter for daily updates

EU/IMF bank bailout only scrapes tip of iceberg

Despite denials by police department officials, racial profiling continues unabated in New York and other cities across the US

A party of the working class is needed to defend workers in Wisconsin and beyond

Massive 180,000-strong crowd turns out for yearly candle-light vigil in Hong Kong • “CY effect” evident as rising local discontent coalesces with indignation over 1989 massacre

A Pyrrhic victory for the establishment that will blow up in their faces

Continuing actions planned following 5 eviction attempts and 23 arrests in the past week

Far right ejected from protest against police repression

A ‘Yes’ result in the 31 May referendum on Europe’s austerity treaty would be used as an alibi for future cuts and tax increases