Joe Higgins MEP explains his vote on a report on a new agreement with Pakistan allowing EU countries to facilitate the deportation of Pakistani immigrants back to the poverty and repression of Pakistan.
Stop terrorising the workers movement
The newspaper’s website reports the brutal situation facing prisoners in Kazakhstan and the recent visit by Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland).
Protesting trainee nurses held an all-night vigil on Saturday 18th September outside the local press club to pressurize the government to act against health and district authorities for victimisation.
Desperate inmates facing brutal beatings self-mutilate and hunger strike
Indian ‘Fact-finding mission’ will not offer solution
As we reported last week, the general strike of 7 September in India was called by a wide range of trade unions. It was in protests at the rocketing prices of food and fuel while […]
Eradication of feudalism and capitalism would free millions
Media reports of Joe Higgins’ recent visit to Kazakhstan, where he called for the scrapping of an OSCE conference in the authoritarian-run country
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
Send solidarity messages!
‘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
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