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A strike corresponding to the level of anger over austerity programme

Fight Against Corporate Politics

December’s industrial action against austerity just the beginning of the fight-back!

CWI’s Zhang Shujie speaks out at hearing in Sweden’s parliament

LSD legislator from Hong Kong to speak in support of young socialist Zhang Shujie, forced to flee China

3 year old child killed in fatal repression

Key Battle for the Labour and Occupy Movements

Repression against left activists increasing in China

‘Liberal’ opposition block with nationalist right

Union bureaucracy and ’left’ groups attack CWI’s solidarity with strikers

General strike called for 30 January against austerity

2011 – marked by an intense and deepening crisis within the economic and social structures of European capitalism and the dramatic manifestations of that crisis in Ireland

The occupy movement brought opposition to capitalism from the margins into the mainstream

Refuse to pay the new tax!

Picket in New York protests against the Kazakh mission to the UN

Forty years ago, Bangladesh became an independent state, breaking away from Pakistan.

Protests in Dublin, Moscow and Aachen

Government debt soars to ‘European’ levels following massive stimulus programme

President announces 60-day state of emergency

Billions flow to ultra-rich, unsecured bond holders and speculators as workers told to pay more. Defeat the household tax!

El crecimiento del electoralismo en PSOL

Attempt to block electoral alliances with ruling parties fails

100,000 protest in Moscow and 100 cities over rigged elections

Police violence follows

"Without our work, your capital isn’t worth a penny!"

Fraudulent elections expose vulnerability of Putin’s rule

Women workers at Hi-P international in Shanghai continue their strike against layoffs for 8th day

"The demonstration on Friday showed a huge discontent. This is the beginning of a movement, we now need to continue."

Workers sceptical of Labour while new Mana party represents seed of an alternative

"Bardo 1" gives a new expression to persistent anger

“We are against the crisis programmes for Greece, Portugal etc”

New crisis for US-Pakistan relations

A warning of things to come

Protest storm against venture capitalists and politicians

New government faces impossible task

Workers set marvellous example despite union leaders weaknesses

Is the revolution over?

Dozens of local councils claim to back households refusing to pay tax

Joe Higgins puts the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) to the test over his coalition partner Labour’s pre-election promises

Densely packed refugee camp and meetings with NGOs

Paul Murphy finally reaches Gaza on third attempt

Almost a third of Australian workers are employed in casual jobs. If you include labour hire and short-term contract work, insecure jobs make up 40% of the workforce.

Interview with Siritunga Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan socialist leader

Government pushes “framework agreement” to tie the hands of workers

"Build actions to put millions in the streets across the US – United mass mobilizations needed to protest police crackdowns, and stop the cuts, layoffs, foreclosures, and tuition hikes"

20 November election approaches as situation worsens

Violence and intimidation from management and police

Lie after lie from the Israeli regime

New ’National unity’ government = ‘austerity coalition’

Tents back up in Seattle as the Occupy Wall Street movement scores another big victory

"Follow Oakland’s example: For mass actions to fight against cuts and foreclosures"

For a socialist, internationalist solution

A list of opposition activists led by the LSR (CWI in Brazil) will contest the second round of elections for the leadership of the largest union of sanitation workers in Latin America.

Breaking News: New freedom flotilla enters international waters

Occupiers’ call for a “general strike” finds positive echo in labor movement

Labour had a good day in Presidential and by-election polls but it’s all down hill from here

Most vicious attack on unions in 13 years

What should the next step be for the ’Occupy’ movement

Review of “Too much luck” by Paul Cleary

Election ‘success story’ masks growing anger from below

Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI) Sri Lanka, has made a stinging public attack on the regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa while in Australia at the same time as the president.

ArcelorMittal wants to close ‘liquid’ steelproduction in Liège. Workers resist, unions call for nationalisation.

Let #OccupySeattle stay at Seattle Central Community College!

“Six pack” rules institutionalise austerity across the EU

Clear opening for radical ideas developing

All out occupations and strikes! Kick out the Pasok cuts government! For a revolutionary government of the workers and poor!

Brutal assault as protesters hold their ground and block city streets

CWI Taiwan members make media splash

Big Victory for Occupy Wall Street Movement

Anti-racist demo in Malmö

Strikes must be democratically controlled by rank and file

600 to 800 students joined student strikes

‘A life and death struggle’

Banners unfurled in support of workers and activists at Belgium vs Kazakhstan football match

How can we take the struggle forward?

Socialist Action organized demonstration to protest mass arrests in New York and other US cities

Vote against government austerity

End attacks on lives and freedoms of worker activists!

Struggle continues despite police repression

Implications of so-called "six-pack of economic governance measures", voted on in the European Parliament last week, are vast

End the Dictatorship of Wall Street!

Famine – another weapon of mass destruction

UPDATE: 12 protesters released – Drop all charges and fines!

Manic, uncoordinated and corrupt railway development plans need to be immediately and thoroughly checked and reconstructed under public and democratic control

Wall street occupation continues and spreads

Attacks first tested on Aboriginal population now implemented on all

Regime unleashes counter-revolutionary violence

The Execution of Troy Davis

New wave of strikes and student protests – But how can the cuts tsunami be halted?

Socialist Action’s (CWI Hong Kong) first election campaign

Mass and unified resistance needs to be organised

Red-Green Alliance trebles its vote

Millions badly affected.

Divisions Deepen in the Democratic Party

Rebellion against neo-liberal onslaught on education

Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett ports all reportedly shut down

Mass non-payment campaign can defeat new tax

Striker’s daughter murdered…Arrest of Socialist activists threatened – solidarity campaign needs stepping up!

Protest against Shell’s unsafe onshore pipeline

Interest among people to organize has increased

Second major protest against pollution in one week

When workers shut down GM

SocialistAlternative.org interviewed a package handler, "Steven" at FedEx in Brockton, Massachusetts, who led a union drive with his co-workers.

Premier of New South Wales (NSW) want to "take on" public sector

A protest took place in Dublin on the 12th of August in solidarity with striking oil workers in Kazakhstan who are engaged in a 3 month long strike against Kazmuniagas.

A rally was held during the CWI summer school to mark the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of civil war in Spain and to commemorate the heroic Spanish revolution.

US recovery strangled and European debt crisis deepening

This is not the “hope” or “change” millions of Americans voted for

As the sovereign debt crisis in Greece deepens, Andros Payiatsos, general secretary of Xekinima (CWI in Greece), spoke to the Socialist (paper of the Socialist Party England & Wales, 13 July) about its effects and […]

In the hearts and minds of workers particularly black workers, the poor, and youth across the world, Malcolm X remains an icon of revolutionary spirit and commitment to justice, freedom, and liberty for the most […]

Toward a new, winning strategy

After the ULA Forum: Which way forward?

Hunger strikers douse themselves with petrol and threatened to set themselves alight

Upturn in mass protests and “unprecedented display of police strength”

Only united working class action can prevent further attacks

Further threats against strike leaders and supporters

They write memorandums – we write history!

“I can’t say anything,” says outspoken artist; protests against state repression must continue

The historic tasks of the United Left Alliance (ULA)

18th annual Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE) Greek camp

Step up the fight for a general strike!

What future for the left in Portugal?

A few days before the tenth general strike in Greece, APOSTOLIS KASIMERIS, one of the leaders of the OASA bus workers’ union in Athens, spoke at the recent National Shop Stewards Network conference in London. […]

Brutal and provocative police response

MPs forced to enter Catalan parliament in helicopters

Militant mass action needed to stop next savage austerity package

"The ULA, the individual members and the groups involved, must prepare for an inevitable explosion of anger here which, when it comes, will be every bit as significant as the movements sweeping southern Europe."

Socialist Alternative (CWI in the US) debates WA State Senator Ed Murray (Democrats) about budget cuts, taxing the rich, and the role of the Democratic Party.

The weekend of May 6/7/8 saw members of the Socialist Party from all around Australia gather at Trades Hall in Melbourne for the annual National Conference.

Since the mass protests, much of the energy against Walker has been channeled into a series of recall campaigns.

Thousands of farmers and students join protest marches in at least six cities

How Will Republicans Perform in 2012?

Contribution to the ongoing debate on the Tunisian revolution and its aftermath.

The United Left Alliance has the potential to be at the heart of the active resistance to the fresh round of attacks coming from the government in the months ahead.

What organisation, strategy and politics does the situation demand?

But more than one in three Chinese still live in poverty according to World Bank

Facing repression, gay rights activists in Russia have no time for carnivals.

Since Wednesday 25 May the central squares in Athens and other Greek cities have been occupied by protesters.

Heroic re-taking of Plaza de Catalunya shows movements continued vitality

Elections take place amid youth revolt

Paul Murphy, MEP, writes about his visit to the country that triggered the ‘Arab Spring’

“May 15 movement” holds country-wide demonstrations

Discussion on the measures necessary to prepare for the attacks that lie ahead

"With almost half a million (14%) of our workforce jobless, which would be more socially useful, another 3,000 jobs or entertaining high-profile visitors?"

Record low turnout – Class issues dominate on doorsteps

How can the left seize opportunities at this decisive moment?

For workers’ unity and socialist policies!

The desperate need for a clear lead to re-develop the movement

Working conditions at suicide-company Foxconn in China largely unchanged, says new report

Resist Illinois Senate Bill 7!

Defend the right to asylum!

CWI participates worldwide – rebuild May Day’s fighting traditions!

Is There an Alternative to Cuts?

A “silent revolution” is underway in the European Union according to Commission President Barosso. This counter-revolution of “economic governance” involves a further diminution of democracy in order to facilitate the imposition of a European “shock […]

Workers’ movement must resist austerity

Elections loom as IMF’s austerity plans revealed

President Saleh refused to attend ceremony in Saudi Arabia

"Workers, you prepare the bread, but you live with the crumbs!"

Socialists harassed by nationalist “left”

New government: "Same circus, just different clowns!"

May Day next day of mass protests

Scientists estimate nuclear fall-out caused over 200,000 deaths

Blockade at world’s biggest container port • Mass arrests and police repression

Bitter struggles erupt as EU/IMF policies devastate Greek economy

About the need to nationalise the energy sector and move away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy in favour of genuine renewable, sustainable energy production

For a 24 hour general strike as the first step!

Governing Fine Gael/Labour party coalition facing bankruptcy

Non-Payment movement reflects explosive situation

Paul Murphy MEP condemns the brutal repression of the Chinese state and calls for the release of Chinese artist, Ai WeiWei.

Protests in 20 cities

Rant reflects establishment concerns at rise of class struggles

“Caretaker” government of Portugal formally askes for EU / IMF financial “assistance“

Regional protests on April 9 in New York and San Francisco are part of the process of rebuilding a anti-war voice.

When protests for workers’ rights erupted in Madison, Wisconsin, high school students from across the city took to the streets as well to show their solidarity with their teachers. They organized walkouts and marches that […]

The Commission wants to introduce legislation that would ensure that ordinary people will be forced to bailout the banks and speculators.

One of China’s most prominent artists Ai Weiwei has been seized and detained by state security agents as he was about board a flight to Hong Kong at Beijing airport on Sunday 3 April.

Masses cannot trust official opposition – Workers and youth need socialist alternative

Lively pickets in Berlin and Stockholm

Bloody repression fails to stop protests

Long-time Socialist Party activist and organiser, Paul Murphy (27), will be replacing Joe Higgins as the Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, following Joe’s succesful election to the Dail along with Clare Daly.

Obama visit marked by arrests of protesters against US role

We need to build a mass movement that can defeat Walker

Now build the socialist alternative to capitalist crisis

Lethal gas used against mass movement

One Day General Strike needed to build fightback against Walker’s Bill!

No honeymoon for new coalition of austerity

A country in ferment…

Thousands of police deployed on streets to stop protests

Three Socialist Party members top poll for NIPSA’s General Council

Urgent need to step up mass opposition struggle

Ministers try to ‘hide’ truth of written agreement

Immediately Organize a One-Day General Strike! — Republicans use illegal maneuver to bust unions

Greek government backs down

CALL A ONE DAY PUBLIC SECTOR GENERAL STRIKE NEXT WEEK!

“Democratic” government increases repression

Major conflicts within the regime

Women will be propelled to the forefront of struggles

“Biggest political crisis since 2003”

Public sector workers join growing movement

Unprecedented cuts, North and South, hit women

‘Women’s Struggle against the Right’ organises demonstration on International Women’s Day

Young women play key role in strikes in China’s export industry

Regular protests planned for Tuesdays

Joe Higgins addressed the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) national conference via a live webcam link, just hours after the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) won two seats in the Irish elections.

Mass anger after 20 killed by security forces

Right wing government launches attacks on living conditions and union rights

Socialist Party wins two parliament seats

Revolution and counter-revolution on the streets

Economic, social and political situation becoming explosive

Joe Higgins and Clare Daly (Socialist Party, CWI Ireland) elected to the Dail (Irish Parliament) along with up to 3 other candidates from the United Left Alliance. Further results to follow

Public sector general strike in Wisconsin

Protests against government biggest since January 14

General strike in Iranian-Kurdistan

Protests continue in Kurdistan

“The president wants to get rid of the people!”

Prime Minister Gillard: “Tough choices” making working people pay for the clean up

Build for a state-wide, one-day public sector general strike!

“Act now – protest to Greek authorities”

Protests in Iraqi-Kurdistan and across Sunni and Shia areas

Joe Higgins questions the EU commission on a possible ’renegotiation’ of EU/IMF austerity programme for Ireland

More than 400 bus drivers and conductors in strike action and sit-in over wages in China’s southern metropolis of Shenzhen

For an All-Out Mobilization. To stop Walker in his tracks!

Four-day strike called off. Government accepted all three demands

Socialist Party support increasing amongst working class

4,500 sacked workers reinstated

Day of uprising inspired by Egypt

Nest of social and political problems lie behind the country’s turmoil

Joe Higgins received a very warm welcome to a packed hall in Dún Laoghaire

Socialistparty.net (website of the Socialist Party – CWI Ireland)spoke to Laura Waters, a shop steward and Laura Ashley striker who has just joined the Socialist Party

Regime faces intensified opposition protests

From CWI Sweden

New book on China’s environmental crisis

Economic crisis sees Pasok government and media scapegoat immigrants

New dimension to the resistance of the Greek masses

Elections an opportunity for Socialist Party and United Left Alliance, as a first step to build a mass workers’ party

Capitalist ’democracy’ will not satisfy demands

Interview with Ghassen Kamarti, by CWI reporter in Tunis

Stand off continues as workers’ siege of company headquarters enters third day

Urgent Solidarity needed – Support Shawn Whatley! Stop all retaliations against Georgia prison strike activists!

Workers and youth resist UBP government’s austerity measures

Radical political force dealt a serious blow • Pro-Beijing camp jubilant

Religion, politics and the working class

The Struggle Continues

Army ordered to block roads as police join the movement

Labour agrees to rush through draconian Finance Bill and to implement austerity measures

Nationalise Foxconn under workers’ control and management – end the scourge of ‘blood factories’

20,000 jobs under threat – protesting workers forced the authorities to retreat

Masses demand real democracy and change to social conditions

Militant workers protesting in central Athens clash with thier union leaders

Growing authoritarianism as economic crisis deepens and workers’ resistance grows

Deficit Commission’s Bitter Medicine

Protesting port workers of Port Qasim in Karachi walked out and effectively took over the port on 17th of January.

The Struggle for LGBT Rights Continues

Solidarity needed

The political establishment is away behind the majority of the population in their decision to implement the diktats of the financial markets.

The attack of Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six other people is a warning to working people about the serious political danger involved in the rise of the extreme right wing.

Chinese authorities have made 96 detentions of people suspected of producing and selling melamine-tainted dairy products

Mass popular uprising forced Ben Ali to flee the country

“The people sacrificed so much – they are not ready for fake promises”

Both Parties Plan Attacks on Working People

The challenge of the United Left Alliance (ULA) to the right wing consensus in Irish politics is strengthening rapidly. As of today, a total of 17 constituencies will be contested by 18 ULA candidates in […]

‘Voice of the Republic’ newspaper staff harassed and arrested

Religious extremism on the rise

Tax Deal Provokes Fury on the Left

After December’s mass action, build a mass movement to end the "new Jim Crow" policy of mass incarceration!

Joe Higgins’ New Years Message

Lack of freedom and mass unemployment stoke up revolt

WikiLeaks Pulls Back the Curtain on U.S. Empire

New book on 1960/61 general strike published by CWI in Belgium

“Physical annihilation” threats against activists – Urgent protest action needed!

On 1 and 2 December, a major Summit of the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was held in Astana the capital city of Kazakhstan.

Third wave of PASOK government austerity attacks provokes outrage

"Huge class conflicts ahead"

There is nothing to negotiate!

’Forced back to work at the point of a Guardia Civil’s gun.’

Not only the Fianna Fáil and Green Party, but the two biggest parties in opposition also offer them only a menu of cuts.

Solidarity needed!

Big increased vote for Socialist Party candidate, Stephen Jolly

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!”

Unionise fast food and other low pay sectors, launch a serious struggle for HK$33 (4.25 US-$) minimum

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?

IMF summit fiasco

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

Step up international protests!

“Organise common struggle”

Community Defense Campaign Immediately Launched

Socialist Report and Analysis

Harassment and threats will not stop struggle for prison and democratic rights

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

Urgent messages of protest needed!

Fight school closures!

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 […]

More than one hundred thousand children left homeless by Pakistan’s floods are in danger of dying because they simply do not have enough to eat, according to UNICEF.

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

Organised protest action shakes Kazakhstan authorities

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

Struggles mount in build-up to 29 September general strike

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.

Stop terrorising the workers movement

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”

Protesting trainee nurses held an all-night vigil on Saturday 18th September outside the local press club to pressurize the government to act against health and district authorities for victimisation.

State owned shipyard company plans to close major shipyards, resulting in around 2,500 job losses (7,000 including subcontractors)

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 […]

Eradication of feudalism and capitalism would free millions

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.

A new report on the TURCP web-site shows the ongoing and tireless flood relief work by trade unionists in Pakistan

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.

Flash floods destroy lives, soaring price inflation means poverty

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!

Business and media circles are agog at “the most significant development in philanthropy” for many decades.

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 […]

“Criminal negligence” of government and the super-rich

Solidarity vital

Solidarity message from socialist brutally assaulted by thugs

Workers in Europe donate

TWENTY MILLION people affected, over 1,600 dead and thousands face starvation, but the Pakistan government’s lacklustre response and incompetence has made the disaster worse.

Urgent response to solidarity appeal needed!

Eye-witness accounts from flood-devastated areas

Small farmers and peasants to suffer the most

Letter of protest by Joe Higgins MEP to Russian Ambassador

Appeal for workers’ solidarity!

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.

Kevin Rudd was dramatically ousted as Prime Minister this week. After a period of sinking popularity and public discontent, Rudd became the first Labor prime minister ousted before completing a first term.

Division at congress and non-formation of unified trade union and popular centre represents a setback for workers – learn the lessons and work for unity!

At a Plenary Session of the European Parliament, Joe Higgins MEP explains the reason why he abstained on the vote regarding Israel, Palestine and the Gaza flotilla. (17-06-10)

Working class people in Portugal are facing an unprecedented assault against wages, welfare provision and public services.

Transition to Clean Energy NOW!

For workers’ unity against pogroms and ruling elites!

Anthony Main is the Secretary of UNITE, the fighting union for fast food and retail workers, based in Australia

Union election a major blow to Obama’s “reform” agenda

Letter of solidarity

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

General strike beckons…

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).

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

Austerity programmes across EU provoke mass struggles and general strikes

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

Build a mass movement to break the sanctions on Gaza!

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

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

Dismissals with Sixt because of foundation of a works committee

Preparing for mass struggle

At a central meeting of SYRIZA in Athens last Friday, 14 May, Joe Higgins, MEP for the Socialist Party in Ireland, spoke, along with Alexis Tsipras (chair of SYRIZA’s parliamentary group), Manolis Glezos (member of […]

Obituary

The disaster caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was a human disaster but not of the workforce’s making. It is due to decisions of the oil companies and the US government.

Over 140 people discuss socialist politics

Constant stigmatisation of Muslim population

A lifelong socialist activist in Ireland