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Joe Higgins condemns company’s “cruelty” and Irish government’s inaction

In a vindictive move, Turkish multinational construction company Gama, has said it is today sacking over three hundred workers who have been on a work stoppage for the past three weeks. Gama workers have vowed […]

Student society under threat of exclusion from university for fighting racism.

Relentless campaign sponsored by university Rector to ban ALS

CWI members in Ireland and Nigeria force Irish government to bring back deported Nigerian school student

The protests by students and young people in China, and similar protests in South Korea, against Japan’s resurgent militarism, are causing growing apprehension among world political leaders, businessmen and now, it seems, the Chinese regime […]

Hundreds OF Turkish workers employed by GAMA walked off building sites in unofficial industrial action despite threats and intimidation from the company.

The planned sell-off would place the majority (51 per cent) of the company’s equity in private hands – the official definition of a “privatised” company.

Filipina women workers in the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, have been locked in battle with the China Times Weekly (CTW), one of the country’s three top circulation newspapers, over a racist and sexist article it ran […]

Talk to Joe. Officially, he isn’t in charge, but he gets things done.

Since 4 April, 350 Turkish workers at Gama Construction in Ireland have been on strike, fighting against extreme exploitation.

Unions must strike against John Howard anti-workers’ policies

Campaigning work of a Socialist Party councillor in Melbourne

A brutal police attack on an anti-pollution protest at an industrial park on the outskirts of Dongyang city, Zhejiang province, triggered huge clashes between thousands of protesters and 3,000 riot police.

A profile of Joe Higgins TD in the Sunday Business Post

Unions call for strikes against government’s industrial relations ‘reforms’

Gama workers protested outside the Irish parliament (Dáil Éireann) on Tuesday 12 April.

Gama workers protested outside the Irish parliament (Dáil Éireann) on Tuesday 12 April.

Angry anti-Japan protests erupted in several Chinese cities at the weekend, with a crowd of 6,000 mostly students and youth marching on the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, while 3,000 demonstrated outside Japan’s consulate in the […]

Dáil Éireann, Leaders’ Questions, 12th April 2005

Stop exploitation of GAMA workers! Pay them their back wages

On Saturday 2nd of April, pan-European day of action against racism, a big demonstration for immigrants’ and refugees’ rights was held in Athens.

Pope John Paul II died Saturday 2 April – the first ever Polish pope and first non-Italian since 1523.

A flurry of diplomatic initiatives and counter-initiatives from Taiwan’s sharply divided political establishment – the anti-independence pan-blue bloc and formally pro-independence pan-greens – has shifted the cross-strait issue (i.e. relations with China) into overdrive.

Just two weeks after a successful mobilisation for the Youth March and European Trade Union demonstrations of 19 March, the LSP/MAS (cwi, Belgium) held its national educational weekend – ‘Socialism 2005’ – in Brussels.

“Haninge Council gives in to Elevkampanjen and abolishes charges for school meals from Autumn 2005,” the daily Swedish paper, Dagens Nyheter reported on 21 March. The Social Democrat leadership on the council retreated from the […]

Hundreds walk-off building sites in Dublin and Galway in show of strength

Socialist Alternative joined with other community organizations to lead the largest anti-war events held in Boston since Bush’s re-election.

Walk into any big chain restaurant around the country and the scene will predictably be the same: fresh-faced workers hustling and bustling around the dining room and kitchen bussing tables, waiting on customers, and cooking […]

Thousands of past and present employees of construction giant Gama are set to reclaim millions in lost wages after previously unknown accounts were yesterday discovered in Holland.

Right-wing government proposes draconian new immigration law

Jessica Pruitt’s father served in the Vietnam War, and her brother-in-law is currently stationed in Fallujah. Justice (journal of Socialist Alternative) spoke with Jessica about how she and her friends and family are dealing with […]

A return to power by Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats at the next election "could not be ruled out", according to Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins.

Debate within the movement

I have called this conference to thank my friends and school mates in Palmerstown Community School in Dublin who have been protesting and picketing over my unjust deportation to Nigeria by Irish government on March […]

Thank you all

McDowell to allow Nigerian to return

Socialist Party TD (MP) and Nigerian cwi take up case of student

Need for unity in struggle and a political alternative

Socialist Party exposes slave labour scandal

Workers ready for militant struggle but not union leaders

Even though less than one third of voters actually turned out for Bush last November, the Democratic Party has taken his victory as a sign that America in general is moving to the right. To […]

Brazil is known as one of the countries with the greatest inequality in ownership of wealth on the face of the earth. It is one thing to read or hear this statistic. It is however […]

We won’t go back, we will fight back!

"More than 50 million [U.S.] workers don’t have a union but want one. Few workers are able to join unions and their strength is divided … into separate unions instead of building their strength in […]

It started with the killing of the American missionary Dorothy Stang on the 12th of February. She was murdered because she fought against the powerful interests that carry out illegal logging in the Amazons.

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