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The Moscow city authorities banned the Pride march planned for 27 May and the courts upheld this ban.

Unions need to step up strike action

Union activists picket Australian Embassy

Seven weeks after the uprising of the Greek university students which began in the first week of May, 415 out of 456 colleges throughout Greece are still occupied.

"In order to understand this struggle it is important to look at the historical background."

Prime Minister rattled but Joe Higgins won’t “go away”

‘Irish Times’ reports

As every living being in Europe will have understood, last week the world cup started in Germany.

Working class leadership needed against racism and poverty

Intolerable conditions lead to desperate actions

‘Militancy once again!’

Supreme Court ruling on sexual offences provokes government crisis

United action to stop all sectarian attacks!

One of the biggest ever university student mobilizations is in development in Greece since May 8.

"Immediately withdraw facilities for the U.S. Military" – Joe Higgins TD (MP)

A massive wave of occupations has been spreading throughout Greek universities from Crete in the South to Alexandroupolis, in North East Greece. The reason for this is a new education bill that the neo-liberal New […]

Below, we carry the text of a leaflet distributed by members of Youth Against Nationalism, and CWI members, in Cyprus, followed by an appeal for solidarity and a model protest letter.

Kholodmash factory workers letter applauds international solidarity

Mattias and Joel, Stockholm’s “Citizens of the Month”

Six years after their first military intervention, a second Australia-led military and police force has re-occupied East Timor.

The launch in Melbourne at the week-end of ’Unite’ – a new union for fast food and retail workers – has received huge publicity in Australia.

The world economy today is hooked on fossil fuels: oil, gas and coal.

Eyewitness account of how capitalism brings tragedy and violence to Brazil’s poor

A fifteen year old Catholic school student, Michael McIlveen, was brutally assaulted in a sectarian attack in Ballymena town, County Antrim, on 7 May. He made it home but then collapsed and was taken to […]

Australian government despatches troops to ’secure’ Dili airport

Government scapegoats refugees for poor welfare and lack of housing

"For the first time in my life I feel I am a human being"

Joe Higgins and independent TDs (MPs) condemn anti-union, pro-war leader

Trade Union Rights Campaign (TURCP) condemns police brutality and organises solidarity demonstration

Youth Against Nationalism in Cyprus appeals for solidarity

One thousand four hundred workers reinstated as result of struggle

Implement the agreement or face strike action!

Socialist MP denounces John Howard’s right wing government

Urgent solidarity needed!

Bosses indicate wage concessions but jobs remain precarious

No deportations to “one of the most disturbed and violent places on earth”

Urgent solidarity appeal!

“Shock therapy to end the welfare state.” New book by Swedish right-wing author finds high praise amongst capitalists.

Government aids “speculator landlords” and “profiteering developers”

Fighting, socialist policies needed to resist war, cuts and capitalism

First serious setback for government’s new anti-union laws

Millions of immigrant workers take to the streets

Activities go ahead despite intimidation of authorities

CWI members campaign for an end to attacks and for a decent minimum wages in preparation for September elections

Four students arrested

System change needed

A socialist strategy

The importance of the immigrant rights’ movement

Analysis and tasks

"The Government is giving hundreds of millions of euro in tax breaks to profit-seeking speculators, to build for-profit hospitals."

The Socialist Party in Ireland (CWI) held an extremely successful party conference at Maynooth, over Easter.

Victory celebrations – will the masses go further?

Article on www.chinaworker.org/

Explosion of mass demonstrations as immigrants protest in their millions

’Immigrants General Strike’ called for 1 May

Unions leaders finally call national protest action

Public meeting discusses how to combat capitalist crisis

“Taoiseach [prime minister] in company of sharks, not Irish people”

Neither ‘Orange’ nor ‘Grand’ coalition government solution for workers

Visit of Kazakhstan president prompts Moscow authorities’ repression

Argument for Aer Lingus privatisation doesn’t stand up

What do the WASG and LeftParty.PDS results show?

Mass struggle needed to defeat government’s cuts

Urgent protest action need!

Party making “a leap forward”

No to anti-immigrant legislation! Full rights for immigrants – papers for all!

No to boss’s backsliding – Support the Kholodmash plant workers!

Hundreds hear the socialist case at CWI meetings

On the 26th of March, there were federal state elections in Germany, and local council elections in Hessen.

3rd anniversary of Bush’s war

Support given to 2,300 sacked Habib Bank workers

What kind of a new left do we need?

“All out on the 15th” demands the main leaflet produced by Xekinima, the Greek section of the cwi, in the run-up to the calling of another general strike called by the general confederations of workers […]

On China’s highly automated assembly lines, the capitalists prefer to use female labour and even child labour.

Isolated king supported by China and the US

No way forward on a capitalist basis

Corruption at the Heart of Corporate Politics

Polls in the US, the day before yesterday, proved how pessimism about the Iraq war and dissaproval with Bush’s domestic policies have pushed approval ratings to an all-time low. Only 34% of the American public […]

The political situation in Belgium has changed a lot in the past year.

The campaign activities up to the 8 March reached top speed.

In Australia, over the last year the Socialist Party (CWI Australia) has concentrated its political activity for working women in Victoria on fighting against the Industrial Relations legislation which will impact on the living standards […]

Decides to stand independently in regional state elections – important victory for the Left

“Osanlou must be released” – Stockholm

Dáil Éireann, Leaders’ Questions, 15th February 2006

Delphi delays attacks to prevent autoworkers strike

Lively discussions on union rights, new workers’ party, Malaysia, Aboriginal rights…

"Stand against racism, unite people to fight the conditions that breed racism"

Second week of industrial action against bosses’ bullying

Trade union activists victimized

All workers’ pay and conditions under threat of attack

Warnings of the effect of a British withdrawal

Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) organised a protest demonstration in Multan, Pakistan against police brutality.

Socialist MP condemns EU Services Directive neo-liberal attack

Workers show their militancy

Workers win trade union recognition

Participants in the Venezuela Social Forum who registered with the media centre were invited to take part in a “ruta social”.

Governing social democrats in crisis

The election of Michel Bachelet as the first woman to be elected President of Chile has aroused big interest around the world

“If the world economy and world relations are dominated by the dramatic economic and social developments in China, then for Asia the pace and scale of these developments is even more significant”.

Energy ‘deal’ highlights imperialist scramble for energy resources

Sixty hours of workers’ power

The Irish Ferries dispute ended in the early hours of the 14 December.

After general strike, workers and students discuss next steps

Transit workers strike is a fight for every working family in New York

The following email and phone number can be used by CWI members and supporters to send messages of support to the striking transit workers in New York.

Urgent appeal for international support and solidarity

Support Transit Workers’ Fight for a Decent Contract!

Reforms "worse than shock therapy"

"The problem is that billions of people are affected and the people running world trade are not even elected," says Greg Bradshaw, member of the Socialist Party (cwi Australia), who is today’s ’Protest Portrait’ in […]

Australia’s largest city of Sydney has seen days of racist violence on its streets and beaches.

A number of Polish miners, including Krzysztof Łabądź, leader of the trade union "Sierpień 80" in the mine "KWK Budryk", have recently been sacked.

Model solidarity letter (see article)

The case of workers at the Hong Kong-owned battery producer Gold Peak’s three China-based factories, who are suffering from exposure to the chemical cadmium, has received international attention.

Protest outside Hong Kong company as poisoning scandal deepens.

A massive neoliberal attack by the right wing New Democracy (ND) government on the Greek working class and the failure of the economy to develop as hoped by the capitalist class are the most important […]

Mass protests against Irish Ferries bosses

The community of Dongzhou in Guangdong province is in a state of shock four days after paramilitary police opened fire on thousands of demonstrators protesting against seizure of their land to build a coal-fired power […]

700 attacks per week by insurgents

Case of childrens’ death in caravan fire raised in parliament

The massive toxic chemical spill, which left the city of Harbin without running water for a week, has drawn global attention to the downside of China’s boom.

Neo-liberal policies expose reactionary party’s ‘worker-friendly’ rhetoric

Press statement from Joe Higgins, TD, Socialist Party

ICTU must call 24hour general strike now!

Health of millions threatened

Schools, hospitals and jobs will be lost…higher rates and new water tax…

December trade meeting has “fiasco” written all over it

Republican leadership considers entering coalition government with bosses’ parties

Socialist MP attacks replacing union workers with cheap, exploited labour.

Time to step up action against anti-worker laws – For a one day general strike!

Huge rallies protest against anti-union Industrial Relations laws

An appeal for support – Connex employees plan new strike

’Socialist’ government’s policies threaten French-style explosion

Thousands leave class rooms across country

Melbourne lobby highlights role of US and Australian imperialism

Pro-capitalist and sectarian parties cannot provide solution

Lift the suspension threats – Urgent solidarity needed!

Thousands of poor occupying land in Taboão da Serra, São Paulo, under eviction threat

Resistance against government’s pension cuts far from “isolated”

For a global socialist health programme

Socialist Movement members achieve impressive votes

Party Branch promises to double the amount raised by the members

Is this the beginning of a new movement?

28 October strike poses need for new workers’ party

Strikes against Connex in Britain, France, Finland

“Build an independent party to represent working people”

Strike action needed now

Underground train drivers demand political strike

Government forced to partially retreat, but unions must still oppose cuts

Socialist Party Councillor leads opposition to government’s industrial relations

A new phase opens up

United union action needed to win

For workers’ unity across ethnic and religious divides

Lessons of the Pakistan Telecoms Company Ltd (PTCL) Union Action Committee betrayal of strike

“Their only weapon will be strikes and demonstrations”

Parliament refuses amnesty to seriously ill children of refugees

The management of transnational company Connex on Thursday sacked Per Johansson, secretary of the fighting trade union branch, Seko 119, which organises 700 underground train drivers. This signals the most serious attack so far of […]

International solidarity week with workers’ struggles

Anger at Iraqi occupation and New Orleans disaster

Anger at ‘neutral’ Irish government’s complicity in Iraq occupation

Hurricane Katrina carnage shows brutal logic of neo-liberalism

Local workers’ leader candidate causes a stir

What hurricane Katrina shows about US capitalism

The widely promoted all-European summer camp in Greece of neo-fascist parties and groups from Italy (Forza Nuova), Germany (NDP), Spain (Falang) and of course Greece (Chrysi Avgi), expected by the organizers to attract about 1.000 […]

Every day 8 rape cases are reported but for every case reported there are two that go unreported in Pakistan

Results shows workers oppose 20 years of neo-liberalism

The scenes from the streets of Belfast and other towns across Northern Ireland during the weekend have provided a stark warning that the ’peace process’ could at some point unravel and be quickly replaced by […]

Trade Union Rights Campaign statement

In May 2005, four neofascist European groups (NPD from Germany, Forza Nueva from Italy, Falanx from Spain and Chrisi Avgi from Greece) announced that they would organize their first European Youth Camp on the 16 […]

It is David versus Goliath as residents of Mayo try to halt Shell’s efforts to bring Ireland’s gas ashore. They say the oil giant’s plans are unsafe – and five protesters are now in jail.

Textiles crisis between China, the EU and the US

At least 200 members of P-Sol (Part of Socialism and Liberty), from 15 states, participated in the first international seminar of the recently formed party, in Rio de Janeiro, from 20-21st of August.

Socialist MP demands release of "people of great character and bravery"

"Poverty stricken residents were left abandoned and in desperate circumstances"

US socialists call for action programme after hurricane disaster

Hundreds of thousands are left homeless. Tens of thousands have been shipped to Texas as refugees. Buildings have collapsed. Entire communities have been reduced to rubble. The city of New Orleans, one of the centres […]

Recently, Peter Taaffe and Laurence Coates from the CWI wrote replies to Mikawasima Tookjo, who’s recent article, "Is Taiwan a nation?" raised a number of key issues on the cause of nationality and the approach […]

The ‘liberal-democratic’ political system of the Philippines is in freefall.

Nothing has changed under Musharraf

125 trade unionists and political activists pay rich tribute to the historic struggle of PTCL Workers.

The clear class “NO” vote expressed increasing anger with one of the most unpopular governments in the whole of Europe. It is likely that new struggles will unfold in the autumn

Leaving workers to crash

Can the parades issue be resolved?

Not one cent for the people!

How Can We Unionize Wal-Mart?

Medium-sized rallies are being organised on an almost daily basis in the Philippines with the aim of driving the pro-US President Arroyo from power.

Campaigners against multinational’s exploitation of natural gas jailed

‘Shoot to kill’ death of Jean Charles de Menezes – “This crime was unacceptable”

More than 120 trade union activists and leaders of different trade unions attended a meeting organised by Trade Union Rights Campaign in the Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited Colony in Islamabad on 13 July.

AFL-CIO convention

Fraud and corruption revelations forces top level resignations

What attitude should Marxists adopt to the national question in Taiwan?

Workers need a political voice

A reply to the distortions of ‘Class Struggle’

Workers show anger at Industrial Relations legislation

The resignation of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has opened up the most contentious political battle so far of Bush’s second term.

Biggest political demo ever in Scotland.

Possibly over 100,000 workers marched through Melbourne on 30 June, against the imminent attacks of the Federal Government of John Howard under the new Industrial Relations legislation.

Workers need decisive, militant leadership not rotten ‘deals’

Autistic teenager High Court case reveals under-funded services

“Wearer of the mantle of James Connolly… [using] rhetorical flourishes that brings House to laughter”

Twelve members of the Socialist Party (CWI, Ireland) picketed the Pakistani warship, PNS Tippu Sultan, which docked in Cork city, on 23 June 2005.

The last day of school in Melbourne, Friday 24 June, before the mid-year break, saw a 500-strong student strike and demonstration against the John Howard government in Melbourne.

Socialist MP, Joe Higgins, quizzes Irish Prime Minister

Union rejects ‘deal’ – Finnish SAK (TUC) must act!

Employees’ Union leaders sign deal but workers still oppose privatisation

Exploitation of migrant building workers is rampant

Berlin, Ireland, London and Stokholm. See report.

Local communities betrayed

Regime uses ‘sticks and carrots’ to try to force through privatisation

Report from Daily Times Pakistan. Appeal letter. Press release.

The dispute at GAMA Construction, the Turkish multinational company, has ended with a victory for the workers.

Government starts military crackdown as it announces unilateral date for privatisation of Pakistan Telecommunications

The stakes have been raised sharply in the battle between Pakistan’s telecommunications workers and the Musharraf government over the question of the privatisation of the industry.

Socialist Party member elected President of NIPSA

In an indication of huge anger at the government serious escalation, 4000 workers have re-occupied the PTCL headquarters.

Formal negotiations between the Privatisation Commission, management of PTCL and the Action Committee broke down yesterday, 6 June.

Non-payment ’only way’ to beat charges

Despotic Karimov regime remains a tinder box. 4,200 words.

Workers need to remain vigilant over further privatisation attempts

Ten day strike forced the Government to retreat – Pakistan Telecommunications privatisation postponed for an indefinite period

Voters ignore arrogant Establishment and punish right wing government

Pakistan telecoms workers fight privatisation

Press Statement, Friday, 27th May 2005

The Pakistani Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) Trade Union Action Committee has decided to boycott negotiations with management in a meeting which finished late during the night of 29 May.

Ten unions announce support for Telecommunications strike

The TURC-P, formed in April this year, is a fighting campaigning organisation in Pakistan.

The cwi in Brazil, active in PSOL and the unions has just set up a new website.

The strike of Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd (PTCL) workers has entered its fifth day as negotiations failed once again.

Protest messages needed urgently

‘Councillor’s Diary’ website launched

Joe Higgins calls for properly funded sports facilities in schools

Telecom workers struggle against privatisation.Letter for MP’s, Councillors, Trade Unions. PDF format.

Sixty thousand telecom workers of Pakistani Telecommunications Ltd (PTCL) have started an indefinite strike today. This decision was taken in a meeting of union’s actions committee in Islamabad yesterday, after negotiations with management failed to […]

The rallies and daily two hour strikes by Pakistan Telecom workers against privatisation continues across the country.

“Government threats will not be able break our strike”

Leaflet from the Pakistani Trade Union Rights Campaign

During the elections all the main parties were forced to refer to the issue of water charges.

Negotiations fail, while the movement picks up momentum

Joe Higgins clashes with Prime Minister

“We are prepared to strike as long as needed”

US-backed Karimov dictatorship unleashes bloodbath

The Anti Privatization Campaign launched by an alliance of nine unions in the telecom sector has received a tremendous response from workers throughout the country.

Banks and credit card companies celebrate

“We hope that the EU can acknowledge fully the negative influence on bilateral trade relations when it imposes limits on Chinese textile products.”

Offering a working class alternative to bigots and pro-market policies

Determined mass opposition needed to save health service

Students succeed in right to campaign against military recruitment

US President hears demands for an end to Iraqi occupation

Turkish Workers’ Action Group, press statement

Unions outraged by governor’s “kicking their butts” threat

Time to mobilise and fight back!

Origins of the war, big business and fascism, and lessons for the workers’ movement

 Today, 5 May, we ae planning to hold a teach-in against military recruitment in schools. However, under pressure from the JROTC at my school, my principal, Sharon Schauss, informed me yesterday that our meeting would […]

See report posted on 2 May 2005

Sri Lanka and Japan are both reeling from horrific public transport disasters, in each case resulting from the privatisation policies of their governments and the blind chase for profits.

Overview of some of the solidarity messages. Sign the online petition.

Threat regarding eviction and food lifted

Tamil and Sinhala Trotskyists march united against poverty and communalism

Members of the Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP) and the Pakistan Trade Union rights Campaign (PTURC) organised demonstrations and seminars in eighteen cities, while we participated in other Mayday activities in over twenty-one cities and towns.

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

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

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 […]

Relentless campaign sponsored by university Rector to ban ALS

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.

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

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

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

Campaigning work of a Socialist Party councillor in Melbourne

Despite all the claims of the present regime, women are still facing a horrific situation in Pakistan.

Telecommunication workers in the state-owned Telecom Company PakTel Communications Limited (PTCL) started a protest campaign after the death of one telecom worker in Rawalpindi region.

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.

Mass protests forced concessions, but no change of direction

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

Challenges and opportunities for WASG (electoral alternative- work and social justice), the new left party

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

A very successful First Congress of the Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP) – affiliated to the cwi – took place over the weekend of the 19/20 March 2005 in Lahore.

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.

Working class communities courageously speak out and protest for justice

Working class communities courageously speak out and protest for justice

Solidarity appeal forces authorities to drop ban against anti-Iraq war activists

The parties of the right wing coalition that ruled Portugal over the last two years suffered a big defeat in today’s elections.

Lynne Stewart was shocked when she was arrested. At first she thought her husband, a well known activist, was having some trouble with the police. "No," they said, "we want you."

The Orthodox Church, sexual abuse, drug dealers and spies

King Gyanendra’s coup in Nepal, on 1 February, is “likely to strengthen the Maoist insurgents and make Nepal’s civil war even more intensive”, according to the International Crisis Group, a Brussels think-tank.

Socialist Party Amendment to the Fine Gael Private Members’ Motion on Northern Ireland

Six MPs for Red-Green Alliance in otherwise flat elections

Prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra (pronounced “Chin-a-what”) and his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party are on course for a crushing parliamentary majority following the elections in Thailand on Sunday 6 February.

In a freezing and windy Stockholm, 1,500 people met up for this year’s demonstration on International Women’s Day, 8 March.

The following is a transcript of their exchange:

eyewitness report from the Pakisani province of Baluchistan

Why workers should oppose Bush’s privatization plan

Lahore. More than 50 people came to the solidarity demonstration organised by the SMP, the CWI section in Pakistan. All the main trade unions had representatives at the demonstration.

Mass action needed to stop the Bush offensive

While Aceh on the northern edge of Sumatra has registered nearly two thirds of the total death toll from the Asian tsunami, the Acehnese so far have received only 30 per cent of UN food […]

Well over 100,000 people turned out on a scorching afternoon in Porto Alegre, Brazil, to participate in a demonstration that marked the opening of the fifth World Social Forum.

Pensioners’ protests sweep the country

Many people know that we still have a long way to go to achieve workplace equality in the U.S. But what many do not realize is that the problem is getting worse, not better.

As 2005 opens, the Peace Process is once again in deep crisis.

Increase the pressure to stop the eviction of 90 Indian families.

Please act urgently to stop eviction of 90 Indian families at Cerromarangatu in the State of Matto Grosso do Sul, Municipality of Antonio Joao, Brazil

Last Friday, Teungku Malik Mahmood, was interviewed by Offensiv in its Stockholm office. He is in exile but regarded by the Aceh Freedom Movement (Gam) as the rightful prime minister of the State of Aceh. […]

Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China’s Communist Party (CCP) leader for opposing the military crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy protests, has died at the age of 85, after suffering a series of strokes.

Opposition parties divided but regime relies on US imperialism

More than 3000 workers of Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation [KESC] organised a protest rally against the proposed privatisation of this state owned corporation which supplies power to 1.3 million people in Karachi.

A recent armed clash between armed nationalist activists and the Pakistani security forces in the city of Sui once again proves that the situation in Baluchistan is far more fragile and volatile than the Pakistani […]

Debt payments far bigger than all aid pledges

A month ago the Portuguese president dissolved the Portuguese parliament and announced a general election for February 20th.

Massive response from ordinary people in Australia to the disaster puts corporate Australia and Government to shame.

The Indonesian ‘province’ of Aceh, on the island of Sumatra, is just 155 kilometres from the epicentre of last Sunday’s earthquake.

The Asian tsunami whose deadly waves have created havoc along the coasts of two continents is the single most devastating global natural disaster of our time.

Imperialism and illusions related to European Union membership

The Irish Times on Saturday, 18 December, included an amusing article by a journalist called Drapier in which he gave annual awards to members of the Irish parliament, the Dáil.

Joe Higgins, member of the Irish Parliament for the Socialist Party (cwi Ireland) denounces €53 million haul on land speculation. Transcript of the debate at Leader’s Question Time.

In the early hours of Monday 13 December, a café used by left organisations and community groups in Neos Kosmos in Athens was burnt down.

With millions of people paying much closer attention to politics during the election season, Socialist Alternative played a very active role in the Nader campaign.

Joe Higgins, socialist MP, denounces Bertie Ahern’s conversion to socialism.

Cracks in the two-party system keep appearing every year.

The Nader campaign provoked an important debate on the corporate character of the Democratic Party and the need to break from it, but it also inspired a discussion about how best to organize this break. […]

Was it worth voting for Kerry after all?

LSP/MAS organises biggest anti-fascist demonstration since the beginning of ’90.

Ahead of Taiwan’s elections on 11 December, Taiwanese socialist Huang Ding-wang who is living abroad gave the following interview to Laurence Coates of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).

On 9 November the highest court in Belgium confirmed an earlier court decision convicting three associations linked to the Vlaams Blok for racism.

The Socialist Party is proud to announce that Stephen Jolly won a seat in Langridge Ward in the Yarra City Council elections on Saturday.

The working masses need their own alternative

The rapidly changing situation in China is of vital importance to socialists internationally.

Since the collapse of the Stalinist regimes in the former USSR and Eastern Europe, we have witnessed the transformation of the former mass parties of the working class, the labour and social democratic parties, into […]

Germany is currently in the middle of a political, social and economic earthquake. Ordinary Germans are facing a neo-liberal offensive of huge and stark proportions by the German ruling class.

Since the announcement from direct-rule Ministers that water charges are to be imposed in Northern Ireland, the local political parties who shared power in the Assembly have fervently blamed each other for allowing water charges […]

In the early modern age, millions of acres of common land in Britain were seized by the aristocracy by force in what became known as "the enclosures".

"The Communist party’s aim is to be loyal to their master. We read Stalin, we study Stalin, we listen to Stalin and we are learning through Stalin. This is what communist’s confidence is in Stalin, […]

Che Guevara has become an iconic figure. His face can be seen in the slums of Argentina, and on countless t-shirts across the globe.

"Do you want the same as in Russia?" was always a standard argument from right-wingers against socialists.

More than 40 students from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam assembled on 16 November on campus to show their anger against the current spate of racist attacks and the posting of inflammatory anti-Muslim posters on campus […]

Over 180 attended the Socialist Party’s weekend of debates entitled Socialism Today in Dublin on 29 – 30 October.

Left Party’s Stalinist history used to attack socialism

As the imperialist occupation steps up its devastating attacks against Iraqi working people, and the EU leaders acquiesce to Bush’s policy, Joe Higgins remains an eloquent and principled voice for the oppressed and the working […]

New allegations of voting irregularities

Democrats’ failure shows need for new workers’ party

The struggle for socialism has to be coordinated on an international scale. That is the fundamental purpose of a revolutionary Workers’ International.

Was it worth voting for Kerry after all?

National Assembly in Pakistan passes a Bill on ’honour killings’.

"In this week’s BN-De Stem [newspaper] there was an article about a new phenomenon in Breda: the soup kitchen.

Ahead of Taiwan’s elections on 11 December, Taiwanese socialist Huang Ding-wang who is living abroad gave the following interview to Laurence Coates of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).

The final death toll may rise to over a hundred at the Daping coal mine in what is China’s worst mining disaster so far this year.

On Sunday, 17 October, thousands of workers converged on Washington DC to voice opposition to the policies of US big business. Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative (US CWI) Working people in the US have been under […]

Gives voice to the anger of the thousands of working class people he represents.

Strike needs to spread not end

Interview with a Pizza Hut worker fighting for a union

Symptoms of a sick culture

Underfunding 101

Counting the extra $87 billion Congress approved for the war in Iraq, last year’s U.S. military budget totaled over $488 billion. The government spends workers’ tax money to invade and occupy Iraq, while U.S. public […]

Can we reign in corporate power within capitalism? Or is socialism necessary?

Media highlights Joe Higgins’ opposition in parliament

Howard didn’t win it…Latham lost it!

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.

Protest against action by Cinram bosses

Anti-racists protest against Holocaust denier

Pakistani has its third Prime Minister in two months.

A battle between warmongers

Finance Ministers and central bank chiefs from the seven richest imperialist states, the G7, meet in Washington at the start of October.

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 […]

Let’s mobilise for 2 October mass demonstration!

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

The beginning of a hot autumn

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.