CWI

Economic crisis deepens in Russia as Ukraine military stand-off continues

Towards a ‘Left’ government?

ROSA and Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) TD organise bus tour to defy anti-choice 8th amendement

Increased racist violence, but solidarity dominates

Discussions on perspectives for Hong Kong’s democracy struggle and the crisis in China

The fight against anti-Traveller racism

Anti-austerity struggles across southern Europe and the socialist alternative

What way forward for the Left and workers’ movement?

Trade unions’ 48 hour general strike must be first step to building mass, united movement against murderous regime of Erdoğan

A step towards independence?

Nationalism, repression and neoliberal economic ‘reform’ hallmarks of Xi’s rule

Seattle City Councillor Kshama Sawant co-signs protest letter to visiting Chinese President Xi

Video of Ruth Coppinger, Socialist Party TD, speaking in the Irish Parliament: "I’m here to give you their vote of no confidence in you and your government"

Mass socialist alternative needs to be built

30,000 join Helsinki union demonstration

Jobstown is not guilty: drop the charges against the 27!

A lesser evil?

New mass left party, uniting Catholics and Protestants, necessary to pose real alternative.

Mass revolutionary Left needed to find way out of crisis of capitalist system

Build a mass and united workers’ movement to stop the ongoing war!

New Left force launched following Tsipras’ betrayal

More than $5 trillion wiped off global stock markets in two weeks since Chinese devaluation

CWI member, Patrick Mulholland, leads Left campaign for leadership of NIPSA union

Socialist MP to be charged with false imprisonment for protesting against water charges

Report of discussion on New Workers’ Parties, Left Populism and the ideas and programme of PODEMOS, SYRIZA

Sudden reversal of Beijing’s exchange rate policy underlines seriousness of China’s economic woes

57% refuse to pay hated water charge

Seattle socialist primary election success

After Syriza capitulates, taking first steps towards building a new mass Left alternative to austerity and capitalism

Report of World Perspectives discussion at the 2015 CWI Summer School

Kshama Sawant, Seattle’s socialist councillor defending seat in primary elections on 4 August

Socialists play key role in rapidly changing situation

Kurdish and Turkish people pay price for Erdoğan’s support for ISIS

Mass non-payment campaign gets results

Paul Murphy addresses Irish parliament

No to the dictatorship of banks and big business – For a socialist Europe!

Time for a new, mass revolutionary Left to oppose all austerity!

Regime adopts panic measures as market crash threatens wider economic recession

El frenesí del mercado de valores y las cifras maquilladas del PIB no pueden ocultar la realidad de una economía en graves problemas

Referendum earthquake sees working class boldly defy Troika and Greece’s servile ruling class!

Ruth Coppinger, Socialist TD (Irish MP), supports Greek ‘NO’ vote, and calls for debt refutation and nationalisations

Billions wiped off share values in June – only the Greek stock market is more volatile

Vote ‘No’! For a mass working class campaign to oppose Troika and for socialist policies!

For a renewed mass movement against poverty and terror

On Sunday 5 July, we say “no” to the gang of the lenders!

Troika must be defied – No more cuts! Don’t pay the debt! Socialist policies would win huge backing from Greek workers

What should the SYRIZA Left do next?

CWI MP speaks in Irish parliament

"Minister Noonan lined up with Schauble, he said tighten the noose, he stabbed the Greek people in the chest and the Irish people in the back"

SYRIZA Left must vote against cave-in deal with Troika and act in interests of workers!

Plan an anti-austerity fight-back, with socialist policies!

Reinstate Marzeni now – Solidarity needed!

To end oppression we need to fight to end this system, uniting working people, fighting for equality

Bill would end the right of religiously run schools, hospitals and other workplaces to discriminate against LGBTQ workers

Secret trial of Zhou Yongkang

What future for the HDP?

A year after ISIS captured Mosul, the jihadist group controls about half of Syria and a third of Iraq – more territory than ever before

Appeal for international solidarity action on 25 June

Workers and poor cannot take more calamitous austerity

How a community defeated the East-West toll road

Break with the austerity – adopt a socialist programme!

26th anniversary of the Beijing massacre on June 4, 1989, is also a warning of revolutionary shocks ahead

Government’s electoral reform proposals meet with mass opposition

Two-party system dealt a new blow in local and regional elections

Learn from the struggle, as new opportunities open up

Growing protests against vicious treatment of local community self-defence activist

The fire that Renault workers set alight at Bursa is unlikely to extinguish soon

Growing opposition to conservative establishment

Only a socialist alternative can challenge the carbo-capitalists’ grip on Canadian politics

‘Cotton On’ clothes retailer workers defeat attempt to remove rest and meal breaks

Opportunities to build new anti-sectarian political voice for working class and youth

Left and social movements in a state of flux, as key elections loom

Referendum a product of long-waged campaign of struggle from below

The choices before the Greek working class

Workers’ common front, north and south, can find solution to island’s division

Local community direct action secures victory

Contemptuous remarks reflect government concerns over non-payment of water charges

"When bankers and bondholders’ gambles crashed, their massive burden of private debt was placed onto the shoulders of the Irish people"

Campaign needs to build independent political power

Stock market frenzy and fabricated GDP figures cannot hide the reality of an economy in deep trouble

Plan of action for a general strike needed

How to fight cuts, sectarianism and to build workers’ unity

The aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death

125 years since first May Day – Build a united workers’ movement for socialism!

LGBT and women’s rights campaigners boosted

Socialist Partty (CWI) and Anti-Austerity Alliance TD speaks at march of tens of thosuands against water charges on April 18

New class battles loom

Socialist Partty (CWI) and Anti-Austerity Alliance TD speaks in Irish Parliament

Snapshot of the movement – the fight for $15 in 7 major cities

Build a united mass movement to challenge racism, sectarianism and all forms of bigotry

Five women activists released in rare climb down by Beijing regime

Federal government preparing the ground for their second budget

Coalition of students and workers demand $15 minimum wage at University of Washington

Only ‘minority’ to blame for society’s problems is ultra-rich 1%

Stand against racism & Islamophobia!

Main parties guarantee austerity – A mass party of the Left with a socialist programme needed

A struggle against outsourcing

Has the commemoration of International Women’s Day also now been outlawed in China?

Political vacuum pushes FIOM to take initiative

Eurozone’s QE intensifies currency wars

Down with terror! Down with capitalism!

New action plan against right wing government takes off

Only independent working-class mass movement can remove the region’s authoritarian rulers

For a second day of strike action in the run-up to the May general election!

Workers determined to stop austerity

Faced with lack of water for the people, Sao Paulo water company SABESP cuts costs, sacks more than 500 workers and victimises trade union activists

Poisonous bigotry must be challenged

Struggle can force politicians back from austerity measures

Dead-end of rightwing, sectarian politics – new anti-sectarian party which fights for working class needed

The working class and social movements must enter the struggle for their rights

“None of this will intimidate us – we will struggle until we win collective bargaining”

As economic crisis deepens, social explosions loom

Disrupt them like they disrupt us!

Socialist policies needed, not deals with the Troika

Niall Mulholland interviewed NICOS ANASTASIADES, of Xekinima (CWI Greece), just as Syriza leaders agreed a four-month bail-out extension with the EU.

Popular mood shows anti-austerity, socialist policies would win huge support

International solidarity protests needed!

¡Que el pueblo griego decida!

Economic and social crisis requires independent pro-worker, socialist policies!

International solidarity protests continue

United struggle needed against right-wing policies

Dangers of “moderation” and domestication

Interview with Dali Malik, CWI supporter in Tunis

The Gardai have simultaneously targeted the community of Jobstown, the anti-water charges movement and the Anti-Austerity Alliance

Socialist Party (CWI) and AAA TD Paul Murphy speaks following five days of political arrests of anti-water

Let the Greek people decide!

8th Latin American school largest ever held by the CWI on the continent

Arrests continue

"No more arrests"

Organise international solidarity!

Biggest workers’ struggle for many years

Solidarity protests needed

Send protests against political policing and repression

Arrests of Anti Austerity Alliance elected representatives and We Won’t Pay activists is another cheap attempt to denigrate the movement against the water charges

Conflict between SYRIZA government and EU escalates

The days of Australia being cushioned from the crisis are fast coming to a close

Defend the right to strike!

“We must fight entire right-wing politics”

Right-wing ‘Pan-democrats’ float “compromise” proposals

For socialist policies to end austerity nightmare!

Left parties fail to form government – Syriza goes into coalition with populist right Independent Greeks

Economy decelerated 30 percent in five years

"Why can’t Barack Obama say “Black Lives Matter”?"

As death toll rises, economies plunge into freefall

Mass intervention of working class to struggle for socialist policies is vital

"You march in Paris, yet uphold laws any religious fundamentalist would envy"

Workers need to build political alternative to major parties’ big business agenda

“Peace deal” between government and right-wing opposition

General elections on 25 January

Agreeing Not To Agree, Again

A socialist solution to national oppression

Former Australian Labour Party (ALP) prime minister

China’s economic slowdown already being felt throughout world economy

Towards a second plan of action to get rid of this government and austerity!

Solidarity messages needed with “requisitioned” airline workers

Taiwan’s ‘Sunflower Movement’ and democracy protests in Hong Kong fuel massive rejection of ruling party

Signs of revival of class struggle signposts the future

Dublin City centre came to a standstill as different marches made their way to the Dáil

Right-wing alliance relied on racist party to defeat budget

Kick out the austerity government and Troika! For a Syriza government with bold socialist policies!

Acciones crueles y vengativas por parte del Estado y la élite gobernante

For a new political movement to bring the "mob" to power

Cruel and vengeful actions by the State and ruling elite

Paul Murphy and Ruth Coppinger speak in Irish parliament

Socialist Party leads successful campaign against Toll Road and for investment in public transport

From Ferguson to Staten Island

Signs of revival of class struggle signposts the future

Government and Water Charges completely undermined

Xekinima (CWI) member wins key union position in Athens Municipality sector

Mass boycott will defeat water charges

Big Gains for Republicans while Voters Support Progressive Ballot Measures

Ruth Coppinger, Socialist Party TD (MP) appears on ‘Prime Time’

Tanaiste (Deputy PM) trapped by protestors; AAA TD (MP) and Socialist Party member, Paul Murphy, assaulted

Working people need socialist alternative to warring oligarchs and outside powers

Lefts, local authority workers and communities’ united can resist Troika’s policies

Shows anger against austerity

In 1994, the IRA and Loyalist paramilitaries called ceasefires. Four years later the Good Friday agreement was declared to mark the end of the ‘Troubles’…

Narrow win for Dilma sets scene for more crisis and instability

Movement of workers and youth needed against racism and fascism

How the Anti Austerity Alliance won a parliamentary seat and the way forward for the Left

Pro-choice ROSA campaigners swallow abortion pills after rail journey

A one-day strike of all workers is needed

No to military rule! Continue mass struggle – the whole rotten system must go!

Video of one of the city’s biggest protests

The right wing coalition must go, and all austerity policies!

Pro-capitalist parties teaming up for more of the same – urgent need to rebuild a political voice for the working class and youth

Catalonia; ’Podemos’, and the left

1 million refuse to register for water charges

61% support for Kshama Sawant in her electoral district…Jess Spear`s campaign against one of the most powerful corporate politicians in Washington State gaining momentum…indications of yearning for representation for working class people

Beijing’s scare propaganda doesn’t stand up to examination

Paul Murphy TD (MP) makes maiden speech in Parliament

Paul Murphy wins parliamentary seat as 100,000 march against water charges

Anti-Austerity Alliance victory shocks political establishment, reflects mass revolt against water charges and austerity

Labour Party and the Left in crisis

Seeking alliances with austerity parties

“We must all keep going…we have no other way to survive than to fight-back”

Massive social resistance is looming

A right-wing, sectarian demagogue who courted paramilitary violence

CWI success, defended four council seats

Anger against austerity growing

Space for Left alternative to win support

Warmongering governments ratchet-up national tensions in struggle for regional dominance

Spreading and organising the movement for decent wages

Only united working class action can secure lasting peace

Significant poll gains for the left coalition HDP

A fight for all workers!

As ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and a-Shams) crossed the border between Syria and Iraq, it proclaimed this to be the “annihilation of the disgrace of Sykes-Picot” and the formation of an ‘Islamic state’ […]

Text of a leaflet handed out by Socialist Alternative members in Ferguson and St. Louis

Spread the protests – unite against racism and inequality

“We’ve only just gotten started”

System offers economic crisis, insecurity, poverty and wars

Signs the mammoth property bubble is finally bursting belie Beijing’s upbeat GDP data

Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis Strikes

Battle-lines hardening as masses push for democracy while government steps up repression

42 workers sacked for going on strike

Labour claim opposition to project but refuse to rip up contracts

1989 massacre apologists accuse Socialist Action (CWI) and radical legislator ‘Long Hair’ of ‘violence’

Working people fearing all-out war

Solidarity protests taking place on 13th June Friday

New stage of the class struggle

Article in British ’Observer’ newspaper

New bi-communal radical left coalition contests euro-elections

180,000 attend ‘6.4’ anniversary protest • Rival protest events show political polarisation

Join international protests at Brazilian embassies on Friday 13 june

CWI supporters elected to Volos council

Impressive Enniskillen vote a warning to main parties and drilling multinationals

“We have a world to win.”

Pastor’s “Satanic” anti-Muslim comments defended by First Minister

How Socialists Built a Winning Movement

Joe Higgins speaks in Irish parliament

Down with Erdogan and his murderous regime!

Socialist Party wins a second TD and Anti Austerity Alliance 14 councillors

Ruth Coppinger elected to the Irish parliament

"Labour bringing people back to work, for 1€ an hour on forced labour schemes"

Socialist candidates contest local council seats in Belfast and Enniskillen

Soma mine disaster deadliest in the country’s history

Azyz and Sabri must be immediately released without charge

Hundreds rally to demand their release

Case against former security czar risks dangerous splits in ruling party

Only united working class action can stop the catastrophe

Paul Murphy, standing for reelection as Socialist Party (CWI) MEP for Dublin, speaks on ’The People’s debate’ with Vincent Browne

Instability sets to grow

Unions prepare for struggle

Local government, police and company bosses coordinate crackdown

Pictures from the conference

Justice for the martyrs!

Urgent solidarity needed

40,000 workers paralyse world’s largest sports shoe maker

Four thousand attend three-day event in Athens

One year of the right wing Anastasiades government

What are the lessons of the island’s ‘sunflower movement’?

Protesters’ radical mood

Recent polls confirm a probable electoral breakthrough for the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB/PvdA).

An important step to push the struggle against neo-liberal policies further

Demonstrators call for trade pact to be withdrawn and for president to step down

A socialist strategy

Vote for SP can be the basis for a mass struggle against cuts

Optimistic Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna prepares for elections

Reflection of the government’s intrinsic weakness

Down with undemocratic Kuomintang rule – for a Taiwan-wide student strike as the next step!

Erdoğan regime provokes violence and division

Oppose the capitalist trade deal – build a mass workers’ movement

Knife attack after 8 March demonstration

Campaign brings public transport to forefront of political debate

Massive environmental destruction is the true cost of nuclear power

The world and New Zealand in crisis

The past continues to haunt the present in Northern Ireland

Shock and disbelief as 29 are hacked to death at railway station

Mass strike in education sector shakes Ouattara’s government

From the outside, it can appear there’s a certain pause in the struggle in Greece. Is this true?

Interviews with refugees fighting injustice and official high-handedness

Sporting excellence, yes…but also corruption, waste, atrocious workers’ conditions and anti-LGBT laws

“I think this is a genuine Bosnian spring. We have nothing to lose…”

Deep economic crisis, savage austerity and social upheaval have polarised Greek society.

New ‘technocratic’ government no response to workers’ demands

"We need our own political party. Independent of big business, and independent of the parties of big business"

“To achieve justice we must change the whole system!”

Growing from an initiative of the Socialist Party (CWI in Australia) the #TunnelPicket campaign has gone from strength to strength

Paul Murphy, Irish CWI MEP in the European Parliament

Who would have imagined that in a major American city, at a post election inauguration ceremony attended by 1,000 people, a new, directly elected Mayor and other members of the City Council would be completely […]

Videos of CWI comrades Tony Saunois and Bilbo Goransson addressing mass rally

European business connives at suppression of democratic rights.

On the way to a second bailout

Hundreds gather to witness socialist’s historic inauguration

Join the Fight for a $15/hour Minimum Wage!

The Troika is not going anywhere

Urgent solidarity needed

Politically explosive investigation of former security czar marks a new phase of internal power struggle

Society turned back forty years, in nine months

Informe del debate sobre Europa en la última reunión del Comité Ejectivo Internacional del CIT

Violent attack from neo-nazis gets massive reply

Fighting plans to close student facility and convert it into ‘high class teaching suites’ and corporate dining area

Report of the discussion on Europe at the recent meeting of the CWI’s International Executive Committee

Document discussed, amended and voted at the recent meeting of the International Executive Committee (IEC) of the CWI, which took place in Belgium during the first week of December

Report from the session on ’world perspectives’ which took place at the recent International Executive Committee (IEC) of the CWI

Massive and evident fraud sees right-wing claim victory in Presidential elections

Abstention and polarisation reflect reality of current conjuncture

What should be the attitude of the socialist left?

In the midst of talk about Ireland’s exit from the Troika programme and recovery supposedly in sight, the mortgage crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of ordinary people is being deliberately understated.

Obama’s speech falls far short of what’s needed to tackle historic levels of inequality

Black Friday and beyond

Xi Jinping’s shift from dictatorship-by-committee to new ‘paramount leader’ is a high-risk strategy

Populist, anti-immigrant parties aim to exploit anti-EU mood in May elections

«It is already 10 past midnight»

The world situation and the tasks for the CWI

“Earth-shattering consequences” in the US and internationally

Victory rally in Seattle sets the tone for struggles ahead and more historic opportunities for the socialist left

Democrat Richard Conlin concedes to Socialist Alternative challenger

Big success for $15/hour minimum wage campaign; breakthrough for independent working class politics

But union leaders launch attack on CWI activist

An interview with the maker of Utopia, John Pilger

Interview with Hidouri Abdessalem, member of the regional UGTT office for secondary education, Sidi Bouzid

The beginning of a wider struggle against the far-right and racism

Strongest showing by socialists in decades – Opportunities for working-class politics must be seized

Who gains from terrorism?

An important step to renew working class feminism

Joe Higgins speaks in parliament on legacy of 1913

Chinese state steps up repression against Uighurs and other national minorities

Great momentum for Socialist Alternative’s candidates sees major national lobby group and big business stepping in for opponents

Support grows in campaign for release of imprisoned workers’ representative

The Venezuelan economy faces runaway inflation, speculation and severe food shortages. At the same time, capitalist forces are increasingly emboldened by the growing divisions in the government.

Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD, speaks on Roma children and unemployed youth

Big business greed vs. community need

‘Unions of the Base’ and social movements on the streets

The people no longer believe this farce! The fight continues, tomorrow it will be even bigger!

Socialist Action calls for one-day strike by media workers

A small but important victory in the ongoing struggle for freedom of speech

Shenzhen factory workers’ representative held by police for five months

Governmental shutdown reveals again the need for a new party of the 99%

But SWP’s sectarian actions could damage Paul’s chances

For an alternative plan of massive investment in public transport system!

Free Wu Guijun! Free the Guangzhou 12!

Need for struggle against cuts and unemployment

Pavlos Fyssas’s murder – Left-wing rapper stood up against fascism and injustice until the end

Dutch people want a real alternative to austerity

New wave of arrests of activists

Racist-populist ’Progress Party’ now to be in government

Teachers show the way! Build for all-out general strike action to defeat new austerity attacks!

The Left and organised working class needs to organise a powerful anti-fascist front

56 care homes under threat

Regime risks internal earthquake, as power struggle sharpens

As austerity shock-effects wear off, workers’ opposition will grow

Break with the Democrats, Corporate America’s Other Party of War!

One or other corporate party is no ‘choice’ for working people

Obama – guilty by omission

State continues to prepare for intensification of repression as social upheavals loom

Growing prospects for a new movement

Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto public meeting on socialist alternative

“No to war!", "No to Big Brother Obama!"

New leaders facing economic and political crisis

Two rappers sentenced to prison for standing up against brutal police methods – solidarity needed

Seamus Whelan, a registered nurse and union activist, member of Socialist Alternative, is running for City Council in Boston, and this campaign is helping to build the struggles organized by working people in the city.

Popular Front’s alliance with ‘Nidaa Tounes’ provokes big turmoil on the left

An immense struggle between the workers’ movement and big-business leaders

Report from the Trade Union commission

In an unprecedented move, the 30,000 strong Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Minnesota State Council endorsed Socialist Alternative candidate Ty Moore for Minneapolis City Council.

35%, over 44,000 votes – Kshama Sawant’s stunning result in Seattle primary

Without the Israeli government being willing to grant this basic right of self-determination, the talks will remain a charade.

Rajoy and Cameron governments distract attention from domestic crisis with new flaring up of tensions over Gibraltar

Socialist campaign is gaining support and momentum over Democrat’s challengers

Trade unions need to actively combat sectarian threats and attacks, in the workplaces and in the communities

Seattle Gives Green Light to Oust Richard Conlin from City Hall

The UGTT and the Popular Front must provide a strategy to finish with capitalism – no agreement with forces of the old regime! Towards a revolutionary socialist government of the workers, the youth, the unemployed […]

Labor’s revival is as a rejection of both Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, not a welcome embrace of Kevin Rudd

For mass struggle from below, major protests, strike action, marches on checkpoints – “This is what I think is absolutely needed now.”

2013 has seen a continuation unrelenting assault on women’s rights

Anti-foreclosure group Stand Against Foreclosures and Evictions (SAFE), Seattle Socialist Alternative, City Council candidate Kshama Sawant, and other allies gathered to peacefully resist an eviction.

Interests of energy giant ENI over-ride democracy and party policies

Leaflet of CWI supporters calls for general strike to bring down the government

World capitalist crisis and the class struggle

People in China’s cities are choking on smog. This past winter the capital Beijing, and other northern cities, suffered their worst air pollution readings on record.

Organised working class enters stage of struggle

The racist system is guilty!

Socialist Campaign Gaining Broad Support

No to a government of “national unity”! For mass action to deal final blow to rotten coalition and impose a workers’ alternative!

The revolution must continue! For a government of workers and the poor!

Rather than paying lip service to issues important to LGBT people, the Kshama Sawant campaign used the opportunity to reach thousands of people with our message of truly fighting for the far-reaching change that LGBT […]

Instability ahead regardless of election outcome

"For a united front of the left to fight for a workers’ government!"

Continue and escalate the struggle until victory! For a united front to fight for a workers’ government

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 […]

Increasing concerns and contradictions

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

The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial power.

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

Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8 percent – but important issues are unresolved

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

Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.

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"