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Fighting poverty pay

Beijing’s sharp credit squeeze adds panic on global financial markets

Disband the NSA! Repeal the Patriot Act!

3,000 march from Enniskillen to summit perimeter fence

Tremors of the coming revolt

Leaderships of unions and Left parties fail to provide decisive leadership

Governors of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and many other cities cut transport fares but the struggle must continue.

New layer of workers, youth and poor has entered the scene with the promise: “This is just the beginning – the struggle continues”

Socialist MEP condemns police violence during Turkey/ EU trade relations session

Well over 250,000 in approximately 20 cities took to the streets

Mass demonstrations against the increase of bus fares in all major cities

MEP Paul Murphy criticises EU foreign policy representative, Catherine Ashton, over calls for ’restraint on all sides’

Unions must organise general strike action now!

Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy travelled to Istanbul to see the protests first-hand – and in his diary from the visit he tells us that the response from the country’s Prime Minister has been “brutal”.

24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors

Paul Murphy to visit heart of Turkish Protests

A group of 12 MEPs from the left wing group in the European Parliament, GUE-NGL, have signed a joint message of support to Anti-G8 protestors ahead of the summit in two weeks’ time.

Unrest grows over economic and social issues

Public sector workers take strike action against police violence – For a one day general strike as a next step to bring down the government!

Secret Services bolster police ahead of G8 Summit in N Ireland

Vital lessons for today’s democracy struggle

Sweden once had a reputation as some kind of ‘social-democratic model’ with far-reaching public services and social support. But that has been dismantled by two decades of attacks – what the Economist magazine calls a […]

Neo-liberalism and police violence have created social time-bomb

In the «most developped country for women in the Arab world», the struggle for women rights remains more relevant than ever

Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism

This year’s G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, on 17th – 18th June. This gathering brings together the heads of government of eight of the world’s largest capitalist economies to discuss […]

Australia’s federal environment minister Tony Burke gave the go ahead to Toro’s $270 million uranium mining project in the Wiluna region of Western Australia.

Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards

We shouldn’t let either of the major parties tell us that ‘tough decisions’ or ‘hard cuts’ are required.

Bus workers take strike action over savage wage cuts and attacks on conditions

On 2 May the neo-fascist Golden Dawn attempted to distribute food in Syntagma square in Athens to people holding proof of Greek nationality.

New clashes on the horizon

Those who created the crisis should be forced to pay.

‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’

CC rules budget illegal for second time, government declares war against it

Teachers at Garfield High school in Seattle, Washington, faced down possible suspension for boycotting the winter Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test, which purports to evaluate student progress in reading and maths.

NO to Racism and Repression

‘No’ vote puts Labour Party on the ropes

"The Provisional IRA: from insurrection to parliament" by Tommy McKearney looks in detail at the IRA’s development

Socialist Party statement on the Australian political situation

The bombings today [15 April 2013] at the Boston Marathon are an absolute tragedy and a horror that shouldn’t happen in Boston or anywhere else in the world.

Nearly 10,000 show determined, angry and positive mood

About 70,000 activists from around the world gathered at the WSF in Tunis, 26-30 March.

Interview with a Cypriot socialist

"Time for workers to unite – from Greece to Ireland"

At annual NPC-CPPCC meetings Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang talk of ‘tough reforms’ for economy, but rule out ‘Western models’

Fight Global Warming!

“Nothing more to give” sums up the position of public sector workers who are struggling to survive in the midst of the never-ending economic crisis.