CWI

Solidarity needed

The political establishment is away behind the majority of the population in their decision to implement the diktats of the financial markets.

The attack of Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six other people is a warning to working people about the serious political danger involved in the rise of the extreme right wing.

Chinese authorities have made 96 detentions of people suspected of producing and selling melamine-tainted dairy products

Mass popular uprising forced Ben Ali to flee the country

“The people sacrificed so much – they are not ready for fake promises”

Both Parties Plan Attacks on Working People

The challenge of the United Left Alliance (ULA) to the right wing consensus in Irish politics is strengthening rapidly. As of today, a total of 17 constituencies will be contested by 18 ULA candidates in […]

Socialist writings on Ireland and the national question

Tax Deal Provokes Fury on the Left

After December’s mass action, build a mass movement to end the "new Jim Crow" policy of mass incarceration!

Joe Higgins’ New Years Message

“For nearly a decade, economic collapse, worse in many countries than the depression of the thirties, with its associated crime waves, corruption and social degeneration devastated the region.”

Lack of freedom and mass unemployment stoke up revolt

“With the second centenary of national political independence being “celebrated” in various Latin American countries, the impasse for the political alternatives that have developed in the last period, like “Chavismo” and “Castroismo”, the region is […]

The crisis of capitalism and the naked role of imperialism are graphically manifested in the Middle East.

“Social, economic and political crises are developing throughout Asia. They underline the vital importance of the CWI’s ideas and programme and the urgent task of developing the cadres for building future mass revolutionary parties.”

Capitalism from a social and economic standpoint has faced in the last three years one of its greatest crises in its history. This has opened an era of class struggles and major developments in consciousness […]

Steps forward in building the forces of the CWI

Millions involved in general strikes and demonstrations; deeply unpopular, often hated, governments – Europe is witnessing the re-entry of the working class and youth into struggle on a mighty scale.

China’s growth shields region but economic, social and political crises loom

WikiLeaks Pulls Back the Curtain on U.S. Empire

New book on 1960/61 general strike published by CWI in Belgium

Third wave of PASOK government austerity attacks provokes outrage

"Huge class conflicts ahead"

Report of discussion on Europe at the 10th world congress of the CWI

There is nothing to negotiate!

Not only the Fianna Fáil and Green Party, but the two biggest parties in opposition also offer them only a menu of cuts.

Solidarity needed!

Report of discussion on World Relations at the 10th world congress of the CWI

Big increased vote for Socialist Party candidate, Stephen Jolly

Workers’ militant action needed – For a 24-hour general strike!

The government’s four year plan to lower Ireland’s debt/GDP ratio is an open declaration of war on working people, the unemployed and young people.

Start a campaign of industrial action with a one day general strike!

This is only the first step!

Video coverage of ULA press conference on Irish national TV Broadcaster

Sunday 21 November, the day the Irish government formally applied for a bailout to the EU and IMF, should be marked as the day that the Irish capitalist class were exposed as a rotten, despicable […]

30,000 protest against imperialism and war in the streets of Lisbon

Millions were hoping for radical change

EU and IMF market vultures circle over Ireland

Prepare to Defend Our Pensions

“The government is guilty! The government is not taking responsibility for us!”

The newly established United Left Alliance, which will be publicly launched on 26/11, involves the Socialist Party, the People Before Profit Alliance, the South Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group and the Independent Socialist group […]

Over 1,500 anti-fascists took part in an illegal blockade to prevent Polish fascists from marching in Warsaw on 11 November.

Despite huge working class anger at cuts, the Left parties fail to make real poll gains

The panic reaction of the political establishment in Ireland and in the European Institutions, to the idea that a new Referendum might have to be held to amend the Lisbon Treaty, speaks volumes of the […]

The Chinese police illegally arrested Zhao Dongmin, as the government-controlled puppet trade union accused Maoist activists of "disrupting social order"

Over 30,000 students demonstrated in Dublin, in what was reported to have been the ‘largest student protest in a generation’.