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Workers’ militant action needed – For a 24-hour general strike!

The government’s four year plan to lower Ireland’s debt/GDP ratio is an open declaration of war on working people, the unemployed and young people.

Start a campaign of industrial action with a one day general strike!

This is only the first step!

Video coverage of ULA press conference on Irish national TV Broadcaster

Sunday 21 November, the day the Irish government formally applied for a bailout to the EU and IMF, should be marked as the day that the Irish capitalist class were exposed as a rotten, despicable […]

30,000 protest against imperialism and war in the streets of Lisbon

Millions were hoping for radical change

EU and IMF market vultures circle over Ireland

Prepare to Defend Our Pensions

“The government is guilty! The government is not taking responsibility for us!”

The newly established United Left Alliance, which will be publicly launched on 26/11, involves the Socialist Party, the People Before Profit Alliance, the South Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group and the Independent Socialist group […]

Over 1,500 anti-fascists took part in an illegal blockade to prevent Polish fascists from marching in Warsaw on 11 November.

Despite huge working class anger at cuts, the Left parties fail to make real poll gains

The panic reaction of the political establishment in Ireland and in the European Institutions, to the idea that a new Referendum might have to be held to amend the Lisbon Treaty, speaks volumes of the […]

The Chinese police illegally arrested Zhao Dongmin, as the government-controlled puppet trade union accused Maoist activists of "disrupting social order"

Over 30,000 students demonstrated in Dublin, in what was reported to have been the ‘largest student protest in a generation’.

Democrats Failure Shows Need for New Party

Victorians go to the polls on November 27. The Socialist Party is standing long time community campaigner and local Councillor Stephen Jolly in the seat of Richmond.

A force of 2,000 People’s Armed Police (PAP) used to suppress massive protest by villagers in China’s southwest

Government running scared at possibility of further EU treaty changes

Jesse Lessinger, Socialist Alternative (CWI USA)

Socialist Party MEP Joe Higgins commented on the outcome of reported talks between President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel against the background of the EU Finance Ministers meetings in Luxembourg: “The capitalist establishments of France and […]

2010 Socialist Party National Conference resolution

Shi Chuan, chinaworker.info Due to infamous sweatshop working conditions, serial suicides and accidental deaths, the largest global OEM corporation (original equipment manufacturer), Foxconn, is shifting its manufacturing bases from China’s southeastern coast to inland provinces. […]

To stop cuts and bailouts Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) must take real action

Will Ireland go bankrupt?

On the same day the Irish government announced a further rescue package of €35 billion for Anglo Irish Bank, finance minister, Brian Lenihan, declared that the projected budget cuts of €3 billion will have to […]

The illusions in “Lulismo” and the challenge facing the socialist left

“Organise common struggle”

Community Defense Campaign Immediately Launched

Socialist Report and Analysis

The horrific living conditions faced by many Indigenous people are a blight on Australian capitalism.

When it comes to putting forward prescriptions for dragging their economic system out of its current mess, the breathtaking arrogance of members of the capitalist establishment never ceases to amaze.

Growing social war underway

Workers of Lisbon Municipal council face the biggest threat on jobs and services ever

It’s been 18 months since Victoria was rocked by the Black Saturday bushfires which left over 150 people dead and thousands of homes destroyed. But despite government commitments to improve firefighting facilities, serious questions remain […]

On the European Day of Action, 29 September, the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) distributed a leaflet in Dublin, which we re-publish here.

The October 2nd “One Nation” event has been pegged as a march for jobs for all, “and an economy that works for working people; funding for education and health care, not warfare; clean, renewable energy; […]

Tea Party Candidate Upsets Republican Party Pick for Governor of New York

What next after this massive protest?

PASOK government pushes ahead with draconian privatisations

The U.S. ruling class is trying to make workers and youth in the 50 states and in Puerto Rico pay for a crisis we didn’t create. Puerto Rican youth have stood up, fought back and […]

Towards a 24 hour all-European general strike!

At a CPSU consultative conference in July, delegate after delegate raised their continued opposition to the Croke Park deal.

Joe Higgins speaking in the European Parliament on 21st September 2010 on the EU-China summit

Construction unions have taken a step back from the action fearing fines – dispute was initiated by the workers themselves.

Complete failure for Social Democratic-Green “opposition”