On 21 November, up to 30 MEPs from four political groups and many different countries held a protest in front of the European Parliament to demand abortion legislation in Ireland.
Belgian authorities collaborate with murderous Sri Lankan regime in deportation of Muruganandam Murugathas
Cgil reluctantly mobilize, but workers and students fill the squares
48 hours general strike needed in drive to bring down austerity government
International day of action for legal abortion
Historic Opportunities to Challenge Corporate Politics
Ford plant closure would see 4,000 jobs lost
Belfast ‘Socialism 2012’ debate and discussion event a great success
Prepare to Fight the Bipartisan Policies of the 1%
Prepare to Fight the Bipartisan Policies of the 1%
US elections
But how can the struggle against austerity be won?
11 November – Mass demonstration called in support of Ford workers
Socialists increase vote and retain Stephen Jolly’s seat
But is deprived by Head of Electoral Commission!
Aftermath of Sandy further exposes corporate domination of governing institutions
But growing contradictions for President Dilma Rouseff, as Party of Socialism and Freedom makes gains
A workers’ alternative is urgently needed!
Rising national tensions point to new turbulent era in East Asia
US presidential race gap closes
A daily occurence
But Ivanishvili’s ‘Georgian Dream’ is a false dawn for working class and poor
A significant feature of the thousands strong march on 29 September in Dublin to mark International Decriminalisation of Abortion Day was the number of young people, especially young women.
For a general strike movement to bring down the government and kick out the Troika
Under pressure from below, a number of unions have started to adopt a program for occupations and escalation of repeated 48 hour general strikes
Joe Higgins challenges European Parliament President Martin Schulz in the Dail
"One of the biggest strikes and demonstrations in the recent period in Greece took place on Wednesday 26 September."
Belfast Outdoor Relief Strike 1932 – When workers’ united against austerity
Brutal conditions behind latest flare-up at iPhone manufacturer
Prepare now for a further struggle to defend public education
The government must fall! For a government of the workers and youth!
A promising mass movement was turned into a electoral contest between two corporate-controlled political parties
Interview with Kshama Sawant in Seattle
New coalition government promises austerity politics – Workers’ will resist!
Another blow to the PP government
Paul Murphy speaks in European parliament
It’s time to build a left-wing, anti-corporate, pro-worker party for workers and youth
Socialist Party reneging on retirement disappoints workers
The movement transformed consciousness among the broad mass of workers and young people
Socialist policies needed to oppose austerity and to win majority support!
Sensational murder trial of princeling wife hides more than it reveals
The Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) sincerely regrets that Clare Daly has decided to resign from the party.
New phase of crisis in country which could decide the fate of Europe
Towards a new turn?
Kshama Sawant groundbreaking campaign
Australia’s Labor Government worked hand in hand with the Liberal/National opposition to pass legislation to restart the offshore processing of refugees.
The preliminary count shows success for Kshama Sawant, the Socialist candidate, running against Democratic incumbent Jamie Pedersen in 43rd District.
On July 1 the highly controversial carbon tax was introduced in Australia amidst overwhelming public disapproval.
Public support growing for punk group!
The latest Irish League of Credit Unions “What’s Left” income survey shows deterioration in disposable income and an increased reliance on borrowing to make ends meet.
Non-payment campaign against household tax: Preparation needed to organise a powerful, mass response to any court cases
Combative trade union action needed to prevent a disaster
The markets are clearly stating that the same merciless ruthlessness that was deployed against the Greek people will now be visited on the Spanish nation.
90,000 march against government’s new national education curriculum
End police brutality, racial profiling, and other racist practices
Anger against growing inequality and cuts to public services
Protest to Russian Embassies!
Huge opportunities for building new workers’ party
Full union support needed to win dispute
Overcapacity and rising debt burden limits government’s policy options
Solidarity needed in fight to save jobs
SWAT team armed with automatic weaponry raids home
Working class faces battle against cuts
Interview with a revolutionary activist
Contrary to official propaganda, Brazil’s economy is still vulnerable
“Despite being faced with virtual decimation of the public sector unions, the union leadership shrank from wielding its most powerful weapon: the strike”
Minneapolis anti-foreclosure movement confronts banks, politicians, and police
Keep up mobilizations to fight for internet freedom
International left speakers address public launch rally
Clear socialist programme for struggle needed
Day 4 of Paul Murphy’s blogging from Greece
Day 3 of Paul Murphy’s blogging in Greece while campaigning for Syriza
Anyone interested in socialist ideas is invited to attend
Day 2 of MEP Paul Murphy’s blogging in Greece while campaigning for Syriza
Follow his website, blog, and Twitter for daily updates
EU/IMF bank bailout only scrapes tip of iceberg
Despite denials by police department officials, racial profiling continues unabated in New York and other cities across the US
A party of the working class is needed to defend workers in Wisconsin and beyond
Massive 180,000-strong crowd turns out for yearly candle-light vigil in Hong Kong • “CY effect” evident as rising local discontent coalesces with indignation over 1989 massacre
A Pyrrhic victory for the establishment that will blow up in their faces
Continuing actions planned following 5 eviction attempts and 23 arrests in the past week
Far right ejected from protest against police repression
A ‘Yes’ result in the 31 May referendum on Europe’s austerity treaty would be used as an alibi for future cuts and tax increases
This is a bankers’ and bondholders’ treaty
“We were convinced by Militant members to launch a paper”
International protests bring pressure on Moscow police authorities
“Growth will not be achieved simply by stamping the word onto an austerity treaty, because austerity kills growth”
Revolution and counter-revolution
Police target socialists at protest camp – urgent protests needed!
For a Left government! For anti-austerity, pro-worker, socialist policies!
Republic’s president, Marzouki, afraid of ‘new revolution’
Protesters respond by setting up ‘Occupy-Abai’
"During an election dominated by career politicians who are loyal to big business, I am running as a Socialist Alternative candidate to make sure there is at least one independent left-wing, pro-worker candidate in Washington […]
Step up the Struggle for Equality
Lively and political CWI contingent attracts variety of activists
Left presented with big opportunities
Bobby Seale as guest speaker
Fotos of impressive march
Irish government doesn’t seem to have learned anything from the massive opposition to its Household Tax
CWI supporter Zhang Shujie and other activists took to the streets when Wen Jiabao visited Stockholm and Gothenburg
“Up to half of all Icelandic families are bankrupt”
Socialist MEP calls for unions to advocate ‘No’ vote on ‘austerity’ treaty
Socialist Party members are involved in establishing a new campaign to fight against the increasing cost of living.
Climate activists and socialists win court battle over police brutality at 2009 climate change summit
Paul Murphy MEP attacks President Barroso on the failure of the austerity policies that he has promoted across Europe.
Unify the working class and poor in a struggle against the corrupt elite and the big business
Protesters demand the release all demonstrators arrested after ‘Martyr’s Day’ and trade union demonstration
“A conscious policy to undermine the freedom of the media”
First time to initiate proposal to legalise abortion in Ireland
Striking anti establishment feeling in the movement against the household tax
More ‘healthy’, ‘positive’ and ‘real’ representations of women in the fashion world and beauty advertising?
Yunanistan İşçilerin Yeni Kesintilere ve Tasarruf Paketine Kitlesel Yanıt
Repression of protest in Tunisia
The ‘troika’ unveils its real nature
Neo-Nazis attempt to exploit street gang violence fails
Perspectives for Struggle in 2012
Mass opposition to coalition government’s tax as registration deadline passes
Lessons from the working-class revolt of 2011
The two major parties are in a state of unprecedented crisis.
Continue and intensify with 48 hour general strike
Mass struggle wins contract for dockers
Regressive school reform causes uproar
Turkey’s governing ’Justice and Development Party’ (AKP) is presented as a model of “successful democracy” by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In fact, it is a brutal model of repression against Kurdish and left […]
The question of an independence referendum in Scotland has provoked rumblings on both sides of the sectarian divide.
On February 26, 17-year old Trayvon Martin was murdered in cold blood. He was unarmed. His only crime was being young, black, and wearing a hoodie.
Union federation action causes third shutdown in 18 months
For the first time in two decades an open power struggle erupts within China’s one-party state
Anniversary of Japan’s twin disasters and Fukushima meltdown sees nuclear capitalists back on the offensive
Call for solidarity and pressure upon the company to reverse this new attack
Struggle from below for a sustained programme of mobilisations to fight labour ‘reforms’!
Link-up the fight-back of workers, youth, environmentalists and oppressed minorities!
Irish referendum offers choice to reject the cuts
In the Australian Labor Party (ALP) leadership crisis Prime Minister Julia Gillard was able to fend off a challenge from Kevin Rudd, her former minister for Foreign Affairs and predecessor as Prime Minister. The underlying […]
Communist Party and neo-liberal opposition fail to win mass appeal
MEPs protest company’s private militia
Brutal repression
People’s opportunity to reject austerity at ballot box
“No more fear, the power is in the hands of the people” – Tens of thousands demand the fall of the government
Visiting workers’ occupation
Workers in struggle and discussions with the Greek left
Last weekend Paul Murphy MEP (GUE/NGL, Ireland) visited striking workers from the Eleftherotypia newspaper, which was Greece’s largest selling newspaper…
Further support from Martin Powell-Davies, National Executive, National Union of Teachers (NUT), London, and Christoph Waelz, GEW-Berlin (teachers’ union) shop steward
For a mass one day general strike, against the attacks on the trade unions and for the full implementation of all the objectives of the revolution!
Austerity measures have gone so far that they increasingly represent an attack on society itself
Workers’ strikes and new local rebellions use the slogan “Learn from Wukan”
Months of grassroots revolt shows way forward for impoverished masses
For a mass movement of workers and the poor to defeat Assad’s regime and imperialism!
But many protesters ask: “We came – what next?”
Beer with the taste of blood of workers don’t go down smoothly
Massive response by the Greek workers to new cuts and austerity
TV news report highlights the case of CWI supporter Zhang Shujie
Workers need a party with anti-cuts, socialist policies not coalitions with capitalist parties!
Anger spilling over against troika austerity
General strike on 7 February opposes “mediaeval labour conditions!"
A strike corresponding to the level of anger over austerity programme
Fight Against Corporate Politics
December’s industrial action against austerity just the beginning of the fight-back!
CWI’s Zhang Shujie speaks out at hearing in Sweden’s parliament
LSD legislator from Hong Kong to speak in support of young socialist Zhang Shujie, forced to flee China
3 year old child killed in fatal repression
Key Battle for the Labour and Occupy Movements
As world economy worsens, inter-imperialist relations intensify
Repression against left activists increasing in China
‘Liberal’ opposition block with nationalist right
Union bureaucracy and ’left’ groups attack CWI’s solidarity with strikers
General strike called for 30 January against austerity
2011 – marked by an intense and deepening crisis within the economic and social structures of European capitalism and the dramatic manifestations of that crisis in Ireland
The occupy movement brought opposition to capitalism from the margins into the mainstream
Refuse to pay the new tax!
Picket in New York protests against the Kazakh mission to the UN
Forty years ago, Bangladesh became an independent state, breaking away from Pakistan.
Protests in Dublin, Moscow and Aachen
Government debt soars to ‘European’ levels following massive stimulus programme
President announces 60-day state of emergency
Billions flow to ultra-rich, unsecured bond holders and speculators as workers told to pay more. Defeat the household tax!
El crecimiento del electoralismo en PSOL
Attempt to block electoral alliances with ruling parties fails
100,000 protest in Moscow and 100 cities over rigged elections
Police violence follows
"Without our work, your capital isn’t worth a penny!"
Fraudulent elections expose vulnerability of Putin’s rule
Women workers at Hi-P international in Shanghai continue their strike against layoffs for 8th day
"The demonstration on Friday showed a huge discontent. This is the beginning of a movement, we now need to continue."
Workers sceptical of Labour while new Mana party represents seed of an alternative
"Bardo 1" gives a new expression to persistent anger
“We are against the crisis programmes for Greece, Portugal etc”
New crisis for US-Pakistan relations
A warning of things to come
Protest storm against venture capitalists and politicians
New government faces impossible task
Workers set marvellous example despite union leaders weaknesses
Is the revolution over?
Dozens of local councils claim to back households refusing to pay tax
Joe Higgins puts the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) to the test over his coalition partner Labour’s pre-election promises
Densely packed refugee camp and meetings with NGOs
Paul Murphy finally reaches Gaza on third attempt
Almost a third of Australian workers are employed in casual jobs. If you include labour hire and short-term contract work, insecure jobs make up 40% of the workforce.
Interview with Siritunga Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan socialist leader
Government pushes “framework agreement” to tie the hands of workers
"Build actions to put millions in the streets across the US – United mass mobilizations needed to protest police crackdowns, and stop the cuts, layoffs, foreclosures, and tuition hikes"
20 November election approaches as situation worsens
Violence and intimidation from management and police
Lie after lie from the Israeli regime
New ’National unity’ government = ‘austerity coalition’
Tents back up in Seattle as the Occupy Wall Street movement scores another big victory
"Follow Oakland’s example: For mass actions to fight against cuts and foreclosures"
For a socialist, internationalist solution
A list of opposition activists led by the LSR (CWI in Brazil) will contest the second round of elections for the leadership of the largest union of sanitation workers in Latin America.
Breaking News: New freedom flotilla enters international waters
Occupiers’ call for a “general strike” finds positive echo in labor movement
Labour had a good day in Presidential and by-election polls but it’s all down hill from here
Most vicious attack on unions in 13 years
What should the next step be for the ’Occupy’ movement
Review of “Too much luck” by Paul Cleary
Election ‘success story’ masks growing anger from below
Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI) Sri Lanka, has made a stinging public attack on the regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa while in Australia at the same time as the president.
ArcelorMittal wants to close ‘liquid’ steelproduction in Liège. Workers resist, unions call for nationalisation.
Let #OccupySeattle stay at Seattle Central Community College!
“Six pack” rules institutionalise austerity across the EU
Clear opening for radical ideas developing
All out occupations and strikes! Kick out the Pasok cuts government! For a revolutionary government of the workers and poor!
Brutal assault as protesters hold their ground and block city streets
Thousands take solidarity action
CWI Taiwan members make media splash
Big Victory for Occupy Wall Street Movement
Anti-racist demo in Malmö
Strikes must be democratically controlled by rank and file
Break the power of the banks and multinationals! Fight capitalism – for a socialist alternative to the failed profit-driven system!
600 to 800 students joined student strikes
‘A life and death struggle’
Banners unfurled in support of workers and activists at Belgium vs Kazakhstan football match
How can we take the struggle forward?
Socialist Action organized demonstration to protest mass arrests in New York and other US cities
Vote against government austerity
End attacks on lives and freedoms of worker activists!
Struggle continues despite police repression
Implications of so-called "six-pack of economic governance measures", voted on in the European Parliament last week, are vast
End the Dictatorship of Wall Street!
Famine – another weapon of mass destruction
UPDATE: 12 protesters released – Drop all charges and fines!
Manic, uncoordinated and corrupt railway development plans need to be immediately and thoroughly checked and reconstructed under public and democratic control
Wall street occupation continues and spreads
Attacks first tested on Aboriginal population now implemented on all
Regime unleashes counter-revolutionary violence
The Execution of Troy Davis
New wave of strikes and student protests – But how can the cuts tsunami be halted?
Socialist Action’s (CWI Hong Kong) first election campaign
Mass and unified resistance needs to be organised
Red-Green Alliance trebles its vote
Millions badly affected.
Divisions Deepen in the Democratic Party
Rebellion against neo-liberal onslaught on education
Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett ports all reportedly shut down
Mass non-payment campaign can defeat new tax
Striker’s daughter murdered…Arrest of Socialist activists threatened – solidarity campaign needs stepping up!
Protest against Shell’s unsafe onshore pipeline
Interest among people to organize has increased
Second major protest against pollution in one week
When workers shut down GM
SocialistAlternative.org interviewed a package handler, "Steven" at FedEx in Brockton, Massachusetts, who led a union drive with his co-workers.
Premier of New South Wales (NSW) want to "take on" public sector
A protest took place in Dublin on the 12th of August in solidarity with striking oil workers in Kazakhstan who are engaged in a 3 month long strike against Kazmuniagas.
A rally was held during the CWI summer school to mark the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of civil war in Spain and to commemorate the heroic Spanish revolution.
US recovery strangled and European debt crisis deepening
This is not the “hope” or “change” millions of Americans voted for
As the sovereign debt crisis in Greece deepens, Andros Payiatsos, general secretary of Xekinima (CWI in Greece), spoke to the Socialist (paper of the Socialist Party England & Wales, 13 July) about its effects and […]
In the hearts and minds of workers particularly black workers, the poor, and youth across the world, Malcolm X remains an icon of revolutionary spirit and commitment to justice, freedom, and liberty for the most […]
Toward a new, winning strategy
After the ULA Forum: Which way forward?
Hunger strikers douse themselves with petrol and threatened to set themselves alight
Upturn in mass protests and “unprecedented display of police strength”
Only united working class action can prevent further attacks
Further threats against strike leaders and supporters
They write memorandums – we write history!
“I can’t say anything,” says outspoken artist; protests against state repression must continue
The historic tasks of the United Left Alliance (ULA)
18th annual Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE) Greek camp
Step up the fight for a general strike!
What future for the left in Portugal?
A few days before the tenth general strike in Greece, APOSTOLIS KASIMERIS, one of the leaders of the OASA bus workers’ union in Athens, spoke at the recent National Shop Stewards Network conference in London. […]
Brutal and provocative police response
MPs forced to enter Catalan parliament in helicopters
Militant mass action needed to stop next savage austerity package
"The ULA, the individual members and the groups involved, must prepare for an inevitable explosion of anger here which, when it comes, will be every bit as significant as the movements sweeping southern Europe."
Socialist Alternative (CWI in the US) debates WA State Senator Ed Murray (Democrats) about budget cuts, taxing the rich, and the role of the Democratic Party.
The weekend of May 6/7/8 saw members of the Socialist Party from all around Australia gather at Trades Hall in Melbourne for the annual National Conference.
Since the mass protests, much of the energy against Walker has been channeled into a series of recall campaigns.
Thousands of farmers and students join protest marches in at least six cities
How Will Republicans Perform in 2012?
Contribution to the ongoing debate on the Tunisian revolution and its aftermath.
The United Left Alliance has the potential to be at the heart of the active resistance to the fresh round of attacks coming from the government in the months ahead.
What organisation, strategy and politics does the situation demand?
But more than one in three Chinese still live in poverty according to World Bank
Facing repression, gay rights activists in Russia have no time for carnivals.
Since Wednesday 25 May the central squares in Athens and other Greek cities have been occupied by protesters.
Heroic re-taking of Plaza de Catalunya shows movements continued vitality
Elections take place amid youth revolt
Paul Murphy, MEP, writes about his visit to the country that triggered the ‘Arab Spring’
“May 15 movement” holds country-wide demonstrations
Discussion on the measures necessary to prepare for the attacks that lie ahead
"With almost half a million (14%) of our workforce jobless, which would be more socially useful, another 3,000 jobs or entertaining high-profile visitors?"
Record low turnout – Class issues dominate on doorsteps
How can the left seize opportunities at this decisive moment?
For workers’ unity and socialist policies!
The desperate need for a clear lead to re-develop the movement
Working conditions at suicide-company Foxconn in China largely unchanged, says new report
Resist Illinois Senate Bill 7!
Defend the right to asylum!
CWI participates worldwide – rebuild May Day’s fighting traditions!
Is There an Alternative to Cuts?
A “silent revolution” is underway in the European Union according to Commission President Barosso. This counter-revolution of “economic governance” involves a further diminution of democracy in order to facilitate the imposition of a European “shock […]
Workers’ movement must resist austerity
Elections loom as IMF’s austerity plans revealed
President Saleh refused to attend ceremony in Saudi Arabia
"Workers, you prepare the bread, but you live with the crumbs!"
Socialists harassed by nationalist “left”
Fighting to end capitalism and its crisis, the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends warm May Day greetings to workers, youth and the oppressed around the globe.
New government: "Same circus, just different clowns!"
May Day next day of mass protests
Scientists estimate nuclear fall-out caused over 200,000 deaths
Blockade at world’s biggest container port • Mass arrests and police repression
Bitter struggles erupt as EU/IMF policies devastate Greek economy
About the need to nationalise the energy sector and move away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy in favour of genuine renewable, sustainable energy production
For a 24 hour general strike as the first step!
Governing Fine Gael/Labour party coalition facing bankruptcy
Non-Payment movement reflects explosive situation
Paul Murphy MEP condemns the brutal repression of the Chinese state and calls for the release of Chinese artist, Ai WeiWei.
Protests in 20 cities
Rant reflects establishment concerns at rise of class struggles
“Caretaker” government of Portugal formally askes for EU / IMF financial “assistance“
Regional protests on April 9 in New York and San Francisco are part of the process of rebuilding a anti-war voice.
When protests for workers’ rights erupted in Madison, Wisconsin, high school students from across the city took to the streets as well to show their solidarity with their teachers. They organized walkouts and marches that […]
The Commission wants to introduce legislation that would ensure that ordinary people will be forced to bailout the banks and speculators.
One of China’s most prominent artists Ai Weiwei has been seized and detained by state security agents as he was about board a flight to Hong Kong at Beijing airport on Sunday 3 April.
Masses cannot trust official opposition – Workers and youth need socialist alternative
Lively pickets in Berlin and Stockholm
Bloody repression fails to stop protests
Long-time Socialist Party activist and organiser, Paul Murphy (27), will be replacing Joe Higgins as the Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, following Joe’s succesful election to the Dail along with Clare Daly.
Obama visit marked by arrests of protesters against US role
We need to build a mass movement that can defeat Walker
Now build the socialist alternative to capitalist crisis
Lethal gas used against mass movement
One Day General Strike needed to build fightback against Walker’s Bill!
No honeymoon for new coalition of austerity
A country in ferment…
Thousands of police deployed on streets to stop protests
Three Socialist Party members top poll for NIPSA’s General Council
Urgent need to step up mass opposition struggle
Ministers try to ‘hide’ truth of written agreement
Immediately Organize a One-Day General Strike! — Republicans use illegal maneuver to bust unions
Greek government backs down
CALL A ONE DAY PUBLIC SECTOR GENERAL STRIKE NEXT WEEK!
“Democratic” government increases repression
Major conflicts within the regime
Women will be propelled to the forefront of struggles
“Biggest political crisis since 2003”
Public sector workers join growing movement
Unprecedented cuts, North and South, hit women
‘Women’s Struggle against the Right’ organises demonstration on International Women’s Day
Young women play key role in strikes in China’s export industry
Regular protests planned for Tuesdays
Joe Higgins addressed the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) national conference via a live webcam link, just hours after the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) won two seats in the Irish elections.
Mass anger after 20 killed by security forces
Right wing government launches attacks on living conditions and union rights
Socialist Party wins two parliament seats
Revolution and counter-revolution on the streets
Economic, social and political situation becoming explosive
Joe Higgins and Clare Daly (Socialist Party, CWI Ireland) elected to the Dail (Irish Parliament) along with up to 3 other candidates from the United Left Alliance. Further results to follow
Public sector general strike in Wisconsin
Protests against government biggest since January 14
General strike in Iranian-Kurdistan
Protests continue in Kurdistan
“The president wants to get rid of the people!”
Prime Minister Gillard: “Tough choices” making working people pay for the clean up
Build for a state-wide, one-day public sector general strike!
“Act now – protest to Greek authorities”
Protests in Iraqi-Kurdistan and across Sunni and Shia areas
Joe Higgins questions the EU commission on a possible ’renegotiation’ of EU/IMF austerity programme for Ireland
More than 400 bus drivers and conductors in strike action and sit-in over wages in China’s southern metropolis of Shenzhen
For an All-Out Mobilization. To stop Walker in his tracks!
Four-day strike called off. Government accepted all three demands
Socialist Party support increasing amongst working class
4,500 sacked workers reinstated
Day of uprising inspired by Egypt
Nest of social and political problems lie behind the country’s turmoil
Joe Higgins received a very warm welcome to a packed hall in Dún Laoghaire
Socialistparty.net (website of the Socialist Party – CWI Ireland)spoke to Laura Waters, a shop steward and Laura Ashley striker who has just joined the Socialist Party
Regime faces intensified opposition protests
From CWI Sweden
New book on China’s environmental crisis
Economic crisis sees Pasok government and media scapegoat immigrants
New dimension to the resistance of the Greek masses
Elections an opportunity for Socialist Party and United Left Alliance, as a first step to build a mass workers’ party
Capitalist ’democracy’ will not satisfy demands
Interview with Ghassen Kamarti, by CWI reporter in Tunis
Stand off continues as workers’ siege of company headquarters enters third day
Urgent Solidarity needed – Support Shawn Whatley! Stop all retaliations against Georgia prison strike activists!
Workers and youth resist UBP government’s austerity measures
Radical political force dealt a serious blow • Pro-Beijing camp jubilant
Religion, politics and the working class
The Struggle Continues
Army ordered to block roads as police join the movement
Labour agrees to rush through draconian Finance Bill and to implement austerity measures
Nationalise Foxconn under workers’ control and management – end the scourge of ‘blood factories’
20,000 jobs under threat – protesting workers forced the authorities to retreat
Masses demand real democracy and change to social conditions
Militant workers protesting in central Athens clash with thier union leaders
Growing authoritarianism as economic crisis deepens and workers’ resistance grows
Deficit Commission’s Bitter Medicine
Protesting port workers of Port Qasim in Karachi walked out and effectively took over the port on 17th of January.
The Struggle for LGBT Rights Continues
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 […]
‘Voice of the Republic’ newspaper staff harassed and arrested
Religious extremism on the rise
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
“Physical annihilation” threats against activists – Urgent protest action needed!
On 1 and 2 December, a major Summit of the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was held in Astana the capital city of Kazakhstan.
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!
’Forced back to work at the point of a Guardia Civil’s gun.’
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!”
Unionise fast food and other low pay sectors, launch a serious struggle for HK$33 (4.25 US-$) minimum
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’.
Democrats Failure Shows Need for New Party
Victorians go to the polls on November 27. The Socialist Party is standing long time community campaigner and local Councillor Stephen Jolly in the seat of Richmond.
A force of 2,000 People’s Armed Police (PAP) used to suppress massive protest by villagers in China’s southwest
Government running scared at possibility of further EU treaty changes
Jesse Lessinger, Socialist Alternative (CWI USA)
Socialist Party MEP Joe Higgins commented on the outcome of reported talks between President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel against the background of the EU Finance Ministers meetings in Luxembourg: “The capitalist establishments of France and […]
2010 Socialist Party National Conference resolution
Shi Chuan, chinaworker.info Due to infamous sweatshop working conditions, serial suicides and accidental deaths, the largest global OEM corporation (original equipment manufacturer), Foxconn, is shifting its manufacturing bases from China’s southeastern coast to inland provinces. […]
To stop cuts and bailouts Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) must take real action
Will Ireland go bankrupt?
IMF summit fiasco
On the same day the Irish government announced a further rescue package of €35 billion for Anglo Irish Bank, finance minister, Brian Lenihan, declared that the projected budget cuts of €3 billion will have to […]
The illusions in “Lulismo” and the challenge facing the socialist left
Capitalism faces one of its greatest crises – Need for mass parties of the working class
Step up international protests!
“Organise common struggle”
Community Defense Campaign Immediately Launched
Socialist Report and Analysis
Harassment and threats will not stop struggle for prison and democratic rights
The horrific living conditions faced by many Indigenous people are a blight on Australian capitalism.
Urgent messages of protest needed!
Fight school closures!
When it comes to putting forward prescriptions for dragging their economic system out of its current mess, the breathtaking arrogance of members of the capitalist establishment never ceases to amaze.
Growing social war underway
Workers of Lisbon Municipal council face the biggest threat on jobs and services ever
It’s been 18 months since Victoria was rocked by the Black Saturday bushfires which left over 150 people dead and thousands of homes destroyed. But despite government commitments to improve firefighting facilities, serious questions remain […]
More than one hundred thousand children left homeless by Pakistan’s floods are in danger of dying because they simply do not have enough to eat, according to UNICEF.
On the European Day of Action, 29 September, the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) distributed a leaflet in Dublin, which we re-publish here.
Organised protest action shakes Kazakhstan authorities
The October 2nd “One Nation” event has been pegged as a march for jobs for all, “and an economy that works for working people; funding for education and health care, not warfare; clean, renewable energy; […]
Tea Party Candidate Upsets Republican Party Pick for Governor of New York
What next after this massive protest?
PASOK government pushes ahead with draconian privatisations
Struggles mount in build-up to 29 September general strike
The U.S. ruling class is trying to make workers and youth in the 50 states and in Puerto Rico pay for a crisis we didn’t create. Puerto Rican youth have stood up, fought back and […]
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