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Howard didn’t win it…Latham lost it!

Media highlights Joe Higgins’ opposition in parliament

Chants of "workers’ solidarity" and "Free Yao and Xiao" greeted China’s vice premier Wu Yi as she arrived at Gothenburg’s East India Docks on the final day of her Swedish visit.

A battle between warmongers

Sectarian divisions deepen

Even before the final toll from the school siege in Russia is known, it is clear that over 335 have died. Although nearly 100 of the dead have not been identified, there are nearly 200 […]

How big business runs Washington D.C.

An independent anti-war, anti-corporate party is needed

Choosing between two evils

Neo-liberal and anti-refugee policies feed reaction

Ralph Nader’s hard-hitting critique of corporate power and the two-party system is striking a chord with millions of workers and young people.

Workers need a socialist alternative

Campaigns against the occupation of Iraq and anti war demonstrations have been spearheaded by the families of military personnel. Socialist Voice spoke to one such family member currently working in Ireland, Wayne Scott Feller, whose […]

Is the Vlaams Blok trying to change itself into a more "mainstream" rightwing party?

Politicians, the media, and our education system continually tell us the U.S. is the epitome of a free and democratic nation, that we have the "greatest democracy in the world."

Defence campaign for imprisoned metalworkers in Liaoyang

Yao Fuxin and Xiao Yunliang imprisoned for defending workers’ rights

Coming soon to Washington DC

The Democrats’ dirty tricks

Bush’s brutal war in Iraq is shaping up to be the central issue in the 2004 presidential election.

The case for Nader in 2004

Big pressure has been put on politicians in a Swedish council area to reverse their retrograde policy of charging for school meals.

The Republican National Convention has invaded New York City.

Iraqi resistance grows

TV and newspaper covers campaign in Sweden

Joe spoke directly to almost 2,000 workers and shop stewards during his brief tour, plus four Socialist Party public meetings in three States, did media, met with union executives, and had an official welcome by […]

Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD (member of Irish Parliament), is currently visiting Australia at the invitation of the Socialist Party (CWI in Australia).

While the last preparations were being put in place for the corporate-sponsored, stage-managed "Democratic" Party Convention, independent left-wing presidential candidate Ralph Nader spoke in Boston about why he’s determined to challenge the two party status […]

Political vacuum on the left will not remain unfilled

Rapid economic development over 20 years led some commentators to claim China could deliver sustained global growth. But it has started to falter, and risks becoming a destabilising factor in the world. And the dramatic […]

Protest the RNC in NYC

Stop military recruitment

The European elections of 10 June gave the heaviest defeat suffered by any government since the establishment of bourgeois parliamentary democracy, 30 years ago.

As early as August, Australian troops will be deployed to Papua New Guinea (PNG). It represents the latest advance by Australia as an infant imperialist power. As foreign minister Alexander Downer said, “It is one […]

Although President Bush’s approval ratings have reached an all-time low, John Kerry has gained little, according to a CBS/New York Times poll released in late June.

Nader’s anti-war challenge

“Working-class brothers and sisters in uniform died in Iraq for profits”

Protests greet Portuguese prime minister’s appointment as head of EU Commission

Thousands march in Irish cities against Iraq occupation

Fifteen years after the massacre we remember what the workers and students were fighting for.

Labour appeals to “national unity” while waging war on workers at home and abroad

”Time for a new working class party”

The result of the Local and European Elections held on June 11th has changed the political situation in southern Ireland.

Workers at the Dessian Products factory in Apollo Road have been on strike since May 19. The strike began over the sacking of Paddy McCloskey, one of the two T&GWU shop stewards in the plant.

Four-month-old party gets three MEPs

Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (cwi Sweden) and Elevkampanjen (socialist school students) are holding their summer camp on an island near Stockholm.

In 1999 John Howard sent Australian troops to East Timor, allegedly to protect the masses from the murderous Indonesian-backed militia. This invasion was also supported by the Labor Opposition, the ACTU, the mass media and […]

Ronald Reagan, the B-movie actor who became the 40th president of the USA (1981-88) has died aged 93. Wall Street will stay closed for Reagan‘s state funeral, a salute to the godfather of today‘s stock […]