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A new report on the TURCP web-site shows the ongoing and tireless flood relief work by trade unionists in Pakistan

On 8th September Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) and Tanja Niemeier, LSP – PSL (CWI Belgium), spoke at a press conference of the GUE/NGL on breaches of human rights in Kazakh Prisons.

Flash floods destroy lives, soaring price inflation means poverty

Joe Higgins MEP addresses the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights on the brutal, repressive regime in Kazakhstan and its blatant breaches of human, civil and political rights.

Workers showed courageous determination

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‘Death of Democracy’ in Sri Lanka

Solidarity message from Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) MEP

Protests needed: "The Provisional Minimum Wage Commission does not speak for us!"

Police hold human rights defender, Vadim Kuramshin, for 10 days to prevent him meeting Joe Higgins MEP

Brutal Nazerbayev regime presides over ticking social time-bomb

Arrest of human rights lawyer and campaigner backfires on authorities

Lawyer attacked and arrested in run-up to Euro MP’s visit

Strike and protest action in around 4,000 factories

“Criminal negligence” of government and the super-rich

Solidarity vital

Workers in Europe donate

Employers bow down to their demands

TWENTY MILLION people affected, over 1,600 dead and thousands face starvation, but the Pakistan government’s lacklustre response and incompetence has made the disaster worse.

Urgent response to solidarity appeal needed!

Eye-witness accounts from flood-devastated areas

Small farmers and peasants to suffer the most

Appeal for workers’ solidarity!

Leaflet of New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

Thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh took to the streets of Dhaka to dismiss the recently announced increase in the minimum wage as completely inadequate.

Workers’ leaders will not be cowed by persecution

Obama’s dismissal of general reveals military crisis

What way forward after the great mass movements of April 2006 and 2009

At the Committee on International Trade, Joe Higgins MEP questions the European Commission about its proposed Free Trade Agreement with South Korea and what impact that will have on the rights of workers in Europe […]

At a Plenary Session of the European Parliament, Joe Higgins MEP highlights the revolutionary struggles of the working class and the peasants in Nepal who are striving to overthrow the brutal poverty and repression that […]

Build a real democracy movement – based on mass struggle, anti-capitalism and a working class political alternative

For workers’ unity against pogroms and ruling elites!

Twelve workers have committed suicide so far this year at the factory that makes Apple iPads. Four others survived, gravely injured, and 20 were stopped from killing themselves by the company. All the dead were […]

OSCE Chair presides over torture of prisoners – Protests needed urgently!

Joe also condemns the hypocrisy of right-wing politicans claiming to support human rights in Pakistan while supporting the brutal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A CONSTANT stream of Tamils flowed into Parliament Square, London, on Tuesday 18 May.

LSD’s 278,931 votes to Donald Tsang’s 649 votes – who has failed to muster support?

At a Plenary Session of the European Parliament, Joe Higgins MEP condemns the brutal repression of protesters in Thailand by the military

State colludes with Multinational

By the time this report was written, the tension had increased to a new level in the streets of Bangkok since the passsing of Wednesday night’s ultimatum.

Message from Ainur Kurmanov on his release from jail

Hit back against the ruling gang of unelected government and billionaire tycoons

International campaign continues!

This morning, Wednesday 5 May, the court in Almaty sentenced Esen Ukteshbaev to five days imprisonment simply for being at a peaceful May Day demonstration last week-end. URGENT ACTION NEEDED.

It is clear that a wave of arrests and repression against left and social movement activists in Kazakhstan is gathering pace.

Free Ainur Kurmanov and drop all charges against leaders of workers’ movement

Political landscape little changed since 2008 ‘tsunami’

Socialist activist starts hunger strike – Step up protests!