Over the course of the last month, the breathtaking hypocrisy of the capitalist elites in Ireland and internationally has been glaringly exposed.
UCD economist, Morgan Kelly, was pilloried by the establishment back in May when he said it was no longer a case of whether Ireland would go bankrupt but when.
The Socialist Party (CWI Australia) has preselected Stephen Jolly to stand for the seat of Richmond in the Victorian State elections on November 27.
Regime announces union ‘reforms’ – is democratisation of the state-run unions on the cards?
The recent disaffiliation from the ALP of the Victorian branch of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) is the most significant example so far of the tensions between the modern Labor Party and the more dynamic […]
The decision of the rating agency, Standard and Poor’s, to downgrade the credit rating of Ireland from AA to AA- was met with hypocritical gnashing of teeth by Irish establishment figures.
Every day, we’re all bombarded with images soliciting us to buy products. Companies spend millions of dollars during the Super Bowl for a 30-second ad alone.
Capitalism isn’t working. This is the conclusion being drawn by increasing numbers of workers and young people as seemingly every week a new crisis dominates the headlines.
As the 2010 elections approach, millions of working people and young people who are looking to fight against the right-wing corporate agenda will be confronted with the question: Should I give my vote to the […]
Ten months after President Obama announced he would add 31,000 more United States troops to the war in Afghanistan, his surge is showing signs of failing.
CHP offers no alternative
Despite being the most unpopular Taoiseach in the history of the state, at the head of the most unpopular government in the history of the state, Brian Cowen has been ranked as the fifth best […]
A socialist candidate for the Brazilian presidential elections
The celebrations of the 30th anniversary of Solidarity take place against the background of attacks and an unprecedented media campaign against today’s trade unions and workers.
Struggle must continue to save environment and to win democratic rights!
On August 28, the right-wing populist Tea Party Movement, an assortment of conservative organizations, and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck will descend on Washington, D.C. for the so-called “Restoring the Honor” rally.
The Australian Federal election held on August 21 delivered a hung parliament – the first in 70 years. Neither the Labor Party led by Julia Gillard nor the Coalition led by Tony Abbott won the […]
Solidarity message from socialist brutally assaulted by thugs
Letter of protest by Joe Higgins MEP to Russian Ambassador
Stop the destruction of the Khimkinskii forest – Stop brutal attacks against socialists and environmental activists
Solidarity with Igor Yashin and the CWI comrades in Moscow! We demand an immediate end to all violence and persecution of protestors and antifascists in Russia!
Last Friday, 6 August, Komorowski (Civic Platform) was sworn in as the new president in Poland.
Against violent attack on environmentalists
According to President Obama, America has come “90 percent of the way” towards ending racism. This statement, however, is violently contradicted by the brutal police killing of Oscar Grant, a young black man, by a […]
Organise protests at Russian embassies and against the Vinci company – send copies of solidarity
Dozens have died in fires, hundreds have been arrested, thousands have drowned in the last month as the ecological crisis and the struggle against its causes find their epicenter in Moscow.
Socialist Alternative representative Ramy Khalil debated Tea Party leader Keli Carender on radio
20,000 people marched along the streets of Warsaw on 17 July on what was Eastern Europe’s largest ever gay rights demonstration.
The Fianna Fáil/ Green Party Government has just about limped to the shelter of the Dáil summer recess, battered and severely frayed at the edges.
An IPSOS/MRBI poll published in June in the Irish Times showed Labour as the most popular party in the Irish Republic with 32% support. This has never happened before in the history of elections or […]
Workers need a party of their own!
Workers from the Kennon Auto factory in Melbourne’s northern suburb of Preston went on strike in early July. After being denied a pay rise for more than 3 years these low paid workers decided to […]
Protests have broken out in Guangzhou and Hong Kong over a proposal from Guangzhou-based official Ji Kekuang that Guangdong Television stop its news coverage in Cantonese and go over to Putonghua (Mandarin), China’s official language.
Words fail to fully describe the devastation in the gulf. Eleven lives lost, ecosystems destroyed, thousands of livelihoods are ruined, and the calamity continues. This will become the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
European CWI Summer School Report
On March 30 of this year, the New York Times reported “the Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast […]
A review of the book:” Tearing Down the Gates : Confronting the Class Divide in American Education”, by Peter Sacks
According to some Greek protesters Ireland is not like Greece – one banner on a demonstration read, “This is not Ireland, we will fight”. Finance Minister, Brian Lenihan, says the same but from a different […]
Tekel işçileri: Ankara sokaklarında 78 gün direniş
Workers need a strong Left alternative, for internationalism and solidarity
Yeni bir kitle işçi partisi için! Bir işçi ve emekçi hükümeti için!
Protest against victimisation of trade unionists!
Yeni bir kitle işçi partisi inşaasına – demokratik ve mücadeleci sendikalara
Resisting mass joblessness, social cuts and the far right
Workers warn Pasok government and IMF – “We will be back in September!”
The right-wing populist, anti-government, anti-Obama Tea Party movement has kept making headlines over the past year.
Spring 2010 was a season of resurgence for the immigrant rights movement, with the largest demonstrations since the immigrant rights movement erupted in 2006.
“Anger can explode at any moment, for any reason”
Sheehan’s statements identify capitalism as the root cause of the world’s problems and democratic socialism as the alternative
In the largest nurses’ strike in U.S. history, 12,000 walked out of 14 Twin Cities (Minnesota) hospitals on June 10th, and are set to strike again.
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