Europe

For international solidarity against all oppression and racism • Tories Out! General election now• Blairites out! Mandatory reselection now

The pictures were shocking: Over five thousand rightists move through the city centre of Chemnitz, in the eastern German federal state of Saxony, last Monday, 27th August. Some of the crowd beat migrants, threw bottles […]

• Organise against the Blairites • International working class solidarity against all oppression and racism

The dispute within the left of Britain’s largest civil service union raises key issues for the whole labour movement. Above all, the need for democratic, lay-member control of fighting trade unions. HANNAH SELL and ROB […]

Capitalist thirst for profits responsible

There is no rest for the wicked. British Prime Minister Theresa May had to cut short her Italian holiday to visit the French president, Emmanuel Macron, at his Mediterranean castle retreat.

Over 500 people attended the international rally organised by Esquerra Revolucionaria (CWI in Catalonia), on 17 July, in defence of a Catalan Republic of workers and youth.

The Alternative Models of Ownership report, launched in June 2017, days after the general election, was commissioned by shadow chancellor John McDonnell. Although it is not, in itself, official Labour Party policy, many of the […]

As the Brexit white paper staggered its way through the House of Commons, the crisis in the Tory party has just deepened and deepened.

Thousands of people in Finland joined over a dozen demonstrations with multiple perspectives on the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin which took place in Helsinki on 16 July. The biggest of these was […]

A human tide swept central London on 13 July in a historic mobilisation against the racist, sexist billionaire president of the US, Donald Trump, who was visiting the UK. It is estimated that more than […]

Theresa May is clinging to power by a thread. For the first time since 1982 two cabinet ministers have resigned within 24 hours, as the Brexit civil war has ignited into a full scale conflict. […]

Saturday 30 June saw huge crowds of protesters in Vienna. The Austrian trade union federation, ÖGB, called for a demonstration against an attempt to raise the legal limit on working hours. Trade union members and other […]

Germany is seeing its politically most unstable period since unification of East and West in 1990 and also the beginning of the end of the “Merkel era”.

Bitterly divided, chaos ridden, vulnerable to potential rupture: these are all descriptions that could, in many respects, be accurately applied to both the Conservative and Labour parliamentary parties today. Recent weeks in politics have been […]

The horror of the fire at Grenfell Tower one year ago, on 14 June 2017, will be etched on the consciousness of working class people for a very long time. None more so than the […]

The Scottish National Party’s (SNP) new economic case for an independent Scotland deepens the craven support for the capitalist market under the Nicola Sturgeon leadership.

Three months after the general election of 4 March, Italy has a government again. On June 1, the yellow-green government, was officially given birth to by the lawyer Giuseppe Conte and the two vice-premiers – […]

By Friday 24 May 1968, ten million workers were on strike. The greatest general strike in history. On the same day, the president of France, General Charles de Gaulle, tried to address the nation. Nobody […]

What was a severe crisis for Italian capitalism, following the rejection in March’s general election of the establishment parties, has now developed into what can be seen as a time-bomb also threatening the European Union […]

The legacy of the French revolution of 1848, the second time France overthrew a monarchy, played an important part in the escalation of the demonstrations and street fighting in Paris.

After almost three months of tortuous negotiations and horse-trading, an Italian government finally seems to have been agreed and now just needs parliamentary approval. The reaction of the markets – a fall in the stock […]

As the deadlock at the top of the Tory Party continues, Tory MPs are reported to be telling their constituency parties to prepare for another snap general election.

Down with repression! Continue with the struggle for a workers’ and young people’s Republic!

The following is a statement on the issues of antisemitism and Jeremy Corbyn by Socialist Struggle Movement, (CWI in Israel/Palestine)

The third round of local elections since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party took place on 3 May 2018. In their wake, inevitably, capitalist politicians of every hue are attempting to use […]

See photo gallery here On 26 April the classrooms in schools and universities in Catalonia were empty, due to the general student strike called by the Sindicat d’Estudiants (Students’ Union). Again, the youth came out […]

A wave of public sector strikes has taken place in Slovenia since the beginning of the year.  Teachers, nurses, and even the police and the secret service have gone on strike in the last couple […]

A second labour law to facilitate redundancies and short term contracts, an end to railway workers’ protected status and the national public railway enterprise, selection for university entrance, huge cuts in several public services, social […]

Fight for socialism!

The tenth of April 2018 marks the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) in Belfast. This was the formal ending of the ‘Troubles’, the euphemism for decades of sectarian upheaval […]

Free the political prisoners! For a Catalan Republic of the workers and youth!

Since the election of Emmanuel Macron, the president of the rich, and after the onslaught of the government against all sectors in society especially the public services – the railways (the SNCF), pensioners, young people, […]

After the federal elections held on 24 September 2017, it took almost exactly half a year for the new government to be sworn in. This is completely unprecedented in German post-war history. On top of […]

Jeremy Corbyn is broadly right and his pro-capitalist critics both within the Tory government and their Labour fifth column in the Parliamentary Labour Party are wrong and lying in their responses to the recent use […]

Review of ‘The Struggle for Catalonia – Rebel politics in Spain’ by Raphael Minder, Hurst & co publishers, 2017

The 4th March general election has caused the biggest shake-up of the Italian political landscape in over 20 years. Not since the ‘clean hands’ corruption scandal of the early ‘90s have the establishment parties been […]

“Those who say that the European Union is a neoliberal plot are, of course, largely right” admitted financial journalist and billionaire Simon Nixon in the Times last autumn.

The Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), publishers of Socialism Today, campaigned for a Leave vote in the June 2016 EU referendum. The European Union is a bosses’ club, at bottom an institutionalisation of a series […]

On 12 February, Prime Minister Theresa May and Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar, flew to Belfast to supposedly clinch a deal between Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that would see the […]

Tesco worker and Socialist Party member Amy Murphy has been elected president of the shop workers’ union Usdaw.

With one in four of all full time workers working over 40 hours a week in the UK, the notion of a proper “work life balance” to be able to spend more time with your […]

Unjustly sacked workers of a water company in Serbia have been in a legal battle with the management for many years, and now the situation has become so desperate that they are organising a hunger […]

A few weeks before the 4 March general election, the country is still dominated by a profound economic crisis and serious social consequences. On the political plain, the centre-right coalition of the Lega and Berlusconi’s […]

Limited readmittances, tenants’ ballots, “municipal socialism”

Helsinki was at a standstill on Friday, 2 February, as a strike by the transport union, AKT, quickly escalated into national action against the so-called “Active Model” of unemployment. Under the active model, unemployed people […]

Swiss press agency staff at SDA-ATS went on indefinite strike, starting on 30 January. This is very significant strike action given that it is the first in the Swiss press agency’s history and it is […]

The abolition of ‘Clause IV Part IV’ – the socialist clause in the Labour Party’s constitution introduced in the aftermath of the Russian revolution – was carried out by Tony Blair in 1995. It symbolised […]

Outsourcing, PFI, privatisation, as in Carillion, is ‘reverse socialism’. It is nothing other than a highly efficient wealth transfusion system. We need a movement to kick out these profiteers from public services with compensation only […]

The U6 tube line in Vienna resembled Saturday shopping a couple of weeks before Christmas, with tube carriages full of people. Yet it was January 13th and shopping was the last thing on most people’s […]

Demand action to save jobs and services

Ambulances queued upoutside A&Es. Trolleys carrying people in need of care stacked end-to-end in corridors. Long-awaited operations cancelled. Sick people lying on cold, hard floors because no beds are available. The winter NHS crisis has […]

Following very successful solidarity action by the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in support of a postal workers’ strike in Serbia, we publish below a letter from the leader of the Independent Union of […]

  “Biggest fall in living standards for a generation.” “Sharp rise in child poverty as cuts bite.” “700,000 young people and pensioners join ranks of Britain’s poor in four years.” “Stoke proposes £1000 fine for […]

On Monday, 18 December, the third ‘black’ (the conservative Peoples’ Party – ÖVP), ‘blue’ (the far-right Freedom Party – FPÖ) government in Austria’s post-1945 second republic, was sworn in (for more information on the elections: […]

Around 1000 students took part in a school strike in Kassel, central Germany, on December 11, protesting against the deteriorating conditions in their schools and to fight for a better future. There were plenty of […]

Primary school teachers in the Netherlands recently took mass strike action. In 2017, there were three national strikes by teachers and 90% of the schools or more closed during each strike. On the 5th October, […]

“If this Tory parody of a government is so shambolic, so chronically divided, so utterly directionless, then why no astronomical Labour lead in the polls?” Owen Jones askedin the Guardian on 29 November. He then […]

Below we publish an interview with Zoran Pavlovic, President of the Independent Trade Union of Postal Workers. Postal workers in Serbia have been on strike since last week, over a variety of issues. The publicly-owned […]

The abrupt end to the series of exploratory talks to negotiate a ‘Jamaica coalition’ (so-named because the respective parties’ colours: CDU/CSU (conservatives), FDP (Liberals) and Greens match those of the Jamaican national flag) came as […]

The world’s super-rich own vast sums of wealth and squirrel it away in whatever ways they can find. That’s nothing new.

Symptom of a rotten system

The dramatic events that have shaken Catalonia and the Spanish state have national and international implications. The decision of the Spanish government – led by the right-wing PP government under Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy – […]

The results of the early Austrian general election seem to offer a bleak future for working class people and immigrants. The main parties of the ruling class won, including the openly racist and far right […]

Release Jordi Sánchez and Jordi Cuixart! Down the PP government! For a Catalan socialist republic! After the brutal police repression unleashed on 1 October against the people of Catalonia, the Spanish ruling class and its […]

The Tories are on the ropes: publicly humiliated at their conference, precariously holding onto power, split over Europe and split on Theresa May’s leadership. Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn continues to further his position and policies in […]

For a Catalan socialist republic – down with the PP government! The rebellion of the Catalan people on 1 October forced the Spanish capitalist regime and the right wing Partido Popular (People’s Party/PP) government onto […]

Continue the fight until we win a Catalan socialist republic! Catalonia experienced an historic day on 3 October. Millions of workers, young people and citizens paralysed companies, transport, education and administration. They took to the […]

Mick Barry, Solidarity TD (member of Irish Parliament) and a member of the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), gives an eyewitness report on yesterday’s general strike and enormous demonstration in Barcelona against police repression and for […]

The following eyewitness report from Catalonia is by Mick Barry, Solidarity TD (member of Irish Parliament) and a member of the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland). Mick was invited to monitor the referendum in Catalonia as […]

For a general strike on 3 October against repression and for the right to decide! Thousands of police and civil guards carried out savage repression in Catalonia to try to prevent the right to vote […]

Action against capitalist establishment sabotage still needed

The following eyewitness report from Barcelona is by Mick Barry TD (member of the Irish parliament) for Solidarity (and a member of the Socialist Party/CWI Ireland).

For the right to decide! No more Francoist repression!

In the end, a somewhat boring election campaign that ignored many of the issues ended in a political earthquake. For the first time in decades, a racist, right nationalist party, AfD (Alternative for Germany), entered […]

As the Labour Party goes into its third annual conference with Jeremy Corbyn as leader, are his anti-austerity policies closer to being realised? Is the party being transformed in a socialist direction?

Defeat the PP government’s ‘Francoist’ offensive against Catalonia! Every student fight to defend democratic rights! Organise meetings, strikes and demonstrations!

After another day of trade union protests across France, we carry an article on the growing mood of opposition to President Emmanuel Macron and his totally pro-business policies. Socialistworld

The Catalan people have the right to decide! After days of a police and judicial offensive, without quarter, in which democratic rights have been trampled on with fury, the Spanish Partido Popular (People’s Party/PP) government […]

Bus workers at the Slovenian company, Arriva, went on strike from 4 to 14 September for better working conditions, pay and safety standards. Arriva is owned by the German company, Deutsche Bahn, and is typical […]

Article first posted on the Socialist Party website

Birmingham’s bin workers once again have had to strike to stop job losses and pay cuts, after the Labour council reneged on a previously agreed deal. Disgracefully the council has issued 113 redundancy notices to […]

A second reply to Rob Sewell of the IMT group Rob Sewell’s second article in answer to our reply to him on the question of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union’s position on affiliation […]

The dramatic rise of the Scottish National Party (SNP) has been thrown into a sharp reverse recently. The partial collapse in the electoral support for the SNP at the June 2017 general election – a […]

Theresa May’s four-week holiday is drawing to a close. She is returning to an autumn of watching her party tear itself apart over the EU. Following her humiliating general election campaign she is really is […]

Decisive break with capitalism needed

Who controls the Labour Party remains unresolved, with the pro-capitalist right wing using the structures established under the long years of Blairism to preserve its position while plotting its next move. The left-led trade unions […]

Police intimidation could not deter mass protests of 76,000 taking to the streets of Hamburg last Saturday, July 8, loudly protesting the G20 summit held in the city. A massive and colourful demonstration thronged through […]

All who attended the Tories Out demonstration on 1st July, in London, will have been given a huge boost of confidence that the anger and determination exists to bring down the weak and wobbly Tory […]

Four months before the general election takes place in Germany, Chancellor Merkel appears to have a safe race and might be in a position of having options as to who she chooses to be her […]

The Finnish government collapsed on Monday, June 12, as the traditional right-wing parties – Keskusta and Kokomus – announced there was no further basis for cooperation with the far-right True Finns Party (PS).

As more details emerge and the death toll rises, it becomes clearer and clearer what a terrible disaster this is. The fire spread with horrifying speed and witnesses describe heart-breaking scenes as people desperately tried […]

Time to build a fighting left force

The fire at Grenfell Tower in West London spread with horrific speed and witnesses have described heart-rending scenes as residents attempted to escape. This is a terrible tragedy and there has naturally been an outpouring […]

Amid the trumpeting about a massive vote for the party of the new President, Emmanuel Macron, in the first round of France’s parliamentary election last Sunday (11th June), a deep malaise pervades in French society. […]

Organise, strike, resist, to fight for Corbyn’s policies

May Must Go! – Build mass struggle to drive out the Tories

‘Theresa Dismay’, ‘Gamble backfired’. These are the headlines today in the scurrilous Sun and Daily Mail, right-wing rags that have spent the whole election campaign raining down vicious attacks on Corbyn in the vain hope […]

Leaflet being distributed in the run-up to the first round of the parliamentary elections in France this Sunday by Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France)

The only certain outcome of the general election – two weeks away as we go to press – is that none of the contradictions besetting the political and social relations that sustain British capitalism will […]

Less than two weeks after the horrific Manchester bombing another atrocity has taken place, this time on London Bridge and in Borough Market. Seven people, out enjoying a summer Saturday night in London, were killed, […]

The closing of the opinion polls, even after the horrific Manchester bombing, has confounded all wings of the capitalist establishment. The Blairites in Labour are a key part of this coalition and they are just […]

Why a socialist approach to the EU is the only way forward

On 2 April, presidential elections in Serbia were won by the current Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić. A hard-line nationalist in the past, who miraculously converted into a pro-EU fanatic, he is the latest in a […]

Young people out enjoying themselves were instead faced with one of the worst kinds of horror imaginable when a bomb was exploded in the foyer of the 21,000-capacity Manchester Arena. Twenty two people were killed […]

An important step in the right direction – Mobilise to fight for socialist change

Lecturers in 20 colleges across Scotland have now taken four days of national strike action over the refusal of Colleges Scotland to honour a national bargaining deal on pay and conditions that was reached in […]

The results of the 4 May county council and metro mayor elections will have disappointed many supporters of Jeremy Corbyn. They must act to sound the alarm – Jeremy Corbyn can win this election but only with […]

Fight-back and socialist policies vital

When Bob Crow died in March 2014 the trade union movement in Britain lost one of its best known and most determined fighters. He was far from being only an industrial militant, however. Bob was […]

“The dividing lines in this election could not be clearer”, declared Jeremy Corbyn as he launched Labour’s general election campaign. He went on: “It is the establishment that complains I don’t play by the rules: by […]

The result of the first round of the presidential election in France has shown a massive rejection of the established parties and what they represent. It marks a watershed in France’s politics and opens up […]

In spite of Paris attack, Le Pen, Fillon and Macron could all be swept aside by a mass vote for Mélenchon

Theresa May has called a general election for one reason – not the reason she gave – but because of the government’s weakness in face of a rising tide of anger in British society. Workers […]

Fight for a socialist Brexit.Talk of Britain ‘going to war’ with Spain, European politicians telling each other not to ‘lose their cool’ – it could all seem rather surreal. But the Gibraltar tensions that have […]

Old political elite discredited.The presidential election in France is gathering pace and has become far more open. More than 40% of the electorate are said to be still undecided as to who to support and […]

Government alarmed by “poor striking back!”Next Sunday, 2 April, presidential elections take place in Serbia. There are 11 candidates, including the current prime minister, who is increasingly hated by big parts of the population and […]

The IRA campaign, the ‘peace process’ and the working class. The death of Martin McGuinness has been marked by a genuine outpouring of grief in Catholic areas. His funeral became a celebration of a life of […]

Unite against terror, racism and war. A wave of shock has followed yet another horrific terrorist attack. This time in the centre of London, yesterday’s mowing down of people using a vehicle comes after atrocities using vehicles […]

Class struggle can build real left force. After the defeat of Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, in the referendum on constitutional reform on 4 December, the crisis of the political system in Italy has accelerated. In late […]

President Lukashenko must go! Former US Secretary of State, Condalezza Rice, first dubbed Belarus the, “last dictatorship in Europe”, over ten years ago, and ever since Western powers have treated the country like a pariah. Until, […]

SNP fire the starting gun but offer no solutions to austerity. The Scottish parliament will vote next week in favour of triggering a second independence referendum. With a pro-independence majority in the parliament among MSPs the […]

Up to 250,000 march in national protest, organised from below. For hours they poured off coaches and out of Euston and other stations as over 100,000 people – some estimates were as high as 250,000 – […]

Corbyn needs to stand up to Brexit rebels. During February many council budget-setting meetings are taking place across the country, slashing millions more pounds off vital services.

TUSC council elections candidates put forward 100% anti-austerity programme. A Scottish National Party (SNP) government austerity budget passed in Scotland on 2 February with the support of the Scottish Greens.

What approach should socialists take? The idea of welfare benefits being replaced by a ‘universal basic income’ (UBI) has resurfaced in recent years – a welcome discussion because it raises the fundamental right of everyone to […]

Space opening up to left of Socialist Party. The situation in the run-up to the presidential elections in France at the end of April is extremely volatile. Over the past week-end three candidates held election […]

Build a socialist alternative to the ‘Orange’ versus ‘Green’ headcount

Novelisation of attempts to undermine and overthrow Wilson’s Labour government

Need for non-sectarian, socialist politics

During the second leadership campaign, Jeremy Corbyn spoke of his ambition to have ministers for peace and disarmament in a future Labour government…

Commiserations must not be exploited for racism

Presidential elections

Capitalist establishment in disarray

Fight for a socialist Brexit

No party in Italy has solution for long-term problems of workers and youth

Fight for an anti-austerity, socialist party – readmit expelled socialists

Resignation opens opportunity for workers and youth to fight for a better future

Struggle, internationalism and socialism, these ideas – and how powerful they can be in action, electrified the magnificent rallies and workshops of the Socialism 2016 weekend.

An electrifying and powerful weekend which put socialism back on the agenda

High Court bombshell

Interview with Ana Garcia, General Secretary of the Sindicato de Estudiantes (Spanish Students’ Union)

Tens of thousands vote to strike in Student Union pre-strike assemblies

Defend Corbyn and transform Labour into a party acting for working class

Which way forward for the Left?

Fight for a socialist, internationalist exit

Union movement must be transformed into one fit for battles we face

When London’s east end workers united and fought the fascist threat

Refound Labour as a democratic, socialist, anti-austerity party

Dortmund demonstration against neo-Nazi-violence

What economic policies can end austerity and transform workers’ lives?

Landslide victory another step to transforming Labour

Battle lines drawn: build a real mass party of the 99%

Tremendous opportunity to bring Labour back to power but on an entirely different, attractive basis

Organise mass working class resistance to austerity

Huge potential for a bold, socialist Labour party

Socialist, internationalist policies can rally both Leave and Remain voters

War, refugees and global economic disaster knocking on Germany's door

We must fight for a party for the 99%

For workers’ unity and struggle against racism, division and austerity

Lessons of indyref and need for active anti-cuts policies

#KeepCorbyn

Now let’s finish the job

The fight for a Labour Party for the working class

No security under capitalism

Reject the bosses’ EU! For a Europe of working people – a voluntary socialist federation

#Keep Corbyn

Debate exposes Labour as two parties

No to hatred, suspicion and racism : don’t let us be divided !

More piles of evidence against the blood-soaked war for oil

Court order to re-run elections sends shockwaves through establishment

No compromise possible in Labour’s civil war

Socialist MPs – Ruth Coppinger and Paul Murphy – speak in support of Jeremy Corbyn against Blairite coup in Irish parliament

Fight the Blairite coup

Defend anti-austerity struggle

Capitalist establishment shattered

Leave vote higher than average in many working class areas

Tories Out! General election now! Fight for a 24 hour general strike

Whatever the result, political turmoil is ahead

Five Star mayors elected in Rome and Turin

Whatever the result, political turmoil is ahead

Workers march as Senate debates hated labour law reform

Fight for our future, starting with a Leave vote to smash the Tories

SAV/CWI member Lucy Redler elected to national committee

Socialists say, ‘Vote Leave to get Cameron out!’

Gauche Revolutionnaire statement underlines vital need for political alternative

‘Breathing space’ offers chance to build a fighting, democratic left alternative

New road can open up for labour movement if working class relies on its own forces

Remain or Leave, workers must fight for socialist change

Hollande’s decision to over-rule parliament provokes another round of struggle

Mobilise the anti-austerity mood into a mass, democratic movement to defeat the right

New openings for a socialist left alternative emerge

When workers tasted power

Build a general strike movement!

Anti-Semitism charges a cynical campaign by right-wing to ditch Jeremy Corbyn

Against Hofer, the government and the system of the super-rich!

A final stage before indefinite action against Hollande’s government?

For decisive unions’ action to stop bosses’ plans!

The bosses’ EU is no friend of workers

Socialist Party General Secretary debates with author and journalist on revolutionary socialism today

Build a party in the interests of the millions not the millionaires

Full-scale struggle with ‘Socialist’ government erupting

Major blow against “endless austerity” Liberal/Labour government

‘They’re all in it together!’

An expression of the recent advances and growing support for the SAV

Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary, answers some common questions about the socialist case for exit.

Sold down the river by Tata

Extracts from a statement discussed at the Socialist Party’s recent congress

A serious, thoughtful, optimistic and lively national congress of the Socialist Party took place from 19-21 March.

DIE LINKE (Left Party) urgently needs to change course

Will there be a general strike against the Valls-Hollande government ?

For a socialist, working class no campaign

Cruel capitalist regimes responsible

The situation in Germany

The referendum on 23 June is not just about the EU but is also an opportunity to pass verdict on Cameron and his rotten government

Five Star Movement can gain

Left must mobilise millions to militant anti-austerity banner & building of political organisation to give it voice

A volatile mix

A volatile mix

Untold distress caused to women in relationships with undercover police officers

Potential for inclusive, anti-austerity trade union based movement with effective alliances in workplaces and communities

Implement Tory austerity or set no-cuts budgets

Edited extracts from an article by Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, that will be published in the first 2016 issue of the Socialist (7 January).

COP21 UN climate change conference in Paris underscores failure of capitalism to solve environmental crisis

Governing ‘Socialist’ Party punished

This crisis has revealed that Labour is essentially two parties in one

Fight for a party that stands against war and austerity

Ruth Coppinger speaks in Irish parliament against austerity agreement

Mass struggle and socialism will challenge capitalist austerity

For workers’ unity against war, terrorism and racism

CWI youth campaign "Resistenze Internazionali" takes the lead!

Only workers’ unity can end terrorism, division and war

We will not be intimidated !

Unions should keep independence to lead fight to defend Corbyn

Best ever ‘Socialism’ weekend of discussion & debate

’Momentum’ must mobilise for real and lasting change

Unpacking the ’rucksack’

An opportunity for socialist ideas

What the Vienna elections show

‘Normality’ is the scandal

Polarising situation, but 250,000 march against free trade agreements shows potential for mass resistance against establishment

Plenty of money in economy –just in wrong hands or lying in big business bank accounts

’No time to lose’ to organise against austerity

Jobs threatened, pay cuts, increased workloads…public sector workers need fighting, democratic union

We can end cuts, crisis and capitalism

Working class solidarity – a beacon of hope

But enthusiastic support continues

Jeremy Corbyn’s victory is a political earthquake that transforms the situation in Britain and poses stark questions for how a new mass socialist force can be built.

One year ago, the Scottish independence referendum delivered an electoral uprising against austerity and the political establishment

Now organise to fight for a socialist alternative

Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), congratulates Jeremy Corbyn and examines the difficulties he now faces

Popularity of anti-austerity ideas confirmed – Now the battle to create an anti-austerity party begins

Now build austerity fightback

Unite against austerity and struggle for a better life for all

No let-up of ’Corbynmania’ but Labour right plots

Clear 100% anti-austerity and socialist platform essential steps towards new mass workers’ party

Potential to resist if follow 80’s Liverpool Council example

Whatever the outcome of the contest, Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign has already transformed the political situation in Britain

The response to Corbyn’s campaign has parallels with the outpouring of class anger that was seen during the independence referendum

Alexis Tsipras and the Syriza leadership have pushed through parliament the third bailout – and further deep cuts – although only with the help of right-wing parties. However, the crises in Greece, the eurozone and […]

The Labour Party’s right-wing leaders have been astonished and horrified at the over-flowing rallies for Jeremy Corbyn around the UK over the last few weeks

Tories have no solutions

Large attendances at Corbyn rallies across country

Militant Tendency held up as bogeyman by Labour right and media – What’s the real history?

Ground prepared everywhere for new battles and rise of left formations

Blairites’ terror at popularity of left-wing ideas in Corbyn campaign

A socialist view on immigration crisis

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) conference

After 13 weeks of all-out strike action the 117 Dundee hospital porters have won an inspiring victory

The Fragmentation of the Social Democracy in Austria

How should socialists approach the in-or-out EU debate?

A quarter-of-a-million people protested through London and Glasgow raising the need for trade union-led struggle

Berlin industrial dispute of national importance

Ferry workers’ strike over jobs, pay, pensions and privatisation

Socialist Party says: "Organise! Strike! Resist! Build for a 24-hour general strike!"

Left candidate in Labour Party leadership contest

Myth of Prime Minister’s invincibility exposed

Workers win thirty percent wage increase over three years

Strikes in numerous sectors as workers fail to benefit from “recovery”

No to a capitalist EU, Yes to a socialist Europe!

No fundamental change to be expected from the Labour Party

The Labour leadership contest begs the question: what is the point of the Labour Party?

For massive union demonstrations, linked to a 24-hour general strike

Potential for industrial response to cuts but needs determined leadership and campaigning

Labour leader’s ’responsible capitalism’ shows its bankruptcy

SNP sweeps to victory by posing as an anti-austerity alternative

Labour’s failure puts centre stage the need for new mass anti-austerity force

Russell Brand calls on people to elect a Labour government, saying Ed Miliband will ’listen’ and wants pressure from below

From Mare Nostrum to Triton

Finns Party second biggest in parliament

The SNP, according to the polls, will win 53 of Scotland’s 59 Westminster MPs

Broadcast goes out on all 5 national terrestrial channels

Oppose the ’logic of capitalism’

300, 000 people marched on demonstrations across France on Thursday 9 April

Workers’ unity to defend pay jobs and services

Build solidarity now!

The SNP (Scottish National Party) looks set to win the majority of Scottish seats in the general election

Workers treated unfairly by council for years

Department results show need for fightback against austerity and racism

Big demo and blockade against the reopening of the Central Bank

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) standing throughout Britain in May elections

Necessary to clarify ideas upon which successful struggles of European working class will be conducted

Tommy Sheridan departs from principled socialist position with call for “lending vote" to cuts-making SNP

Its Tory-oriented anti-immigration, anti-EU rhetoric has been adapted to a right-wing populism aimed at winning voters fed up with the political establishment

Socialist MPs in Southern Ireland Parliament send message of support to strikers

For democratic reforms and end to budget cuts

Right-wing Ball events, PEGIDA, and neo-nazi Violence: A Month of Intense and Successful anti-fascism in Austria

Philip Stott Socialist Party Scotland

Mired in recession, the eurozone is haunted by the spectre of stagnation

Three decades ago he debated with Militant leaders who warned about degeneration of his party

German racist mobilizations split but danger continues

Preparing the forces to fight capitalist austerity

Paul Murphy speaks in Irish parliament

Markets and EU leaders react against Athens

An inspiration for workers and youth across Europe

A victory for all workers and an inspiration to resist the ‘race to the bottom’

Unions and Left must organise against racism and for jobs and decent living standards for all

Unity against racism and capitalism!

The shocking, cold blooded slaughter at Charlie Hebdo, and more killings in subsequent days, has been met with mass outrage

Two-hour protest against worsening working conditions

Defend freedom of speech! Don’t let us be divided!

As crisis of capitalism worsens, vital to organise and continue the struggle

As the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition gears up for its biggest ever electoral stand…

Murphy’s election means trade unions must build a new workers party

Workers digest first rounds of anti-cuts battles and prepare for next rounds

CWI meeting discusses a volatile period in global and class relations

New political voice vitally needed

Labour’s pro-austerity ‘opposition’ no alternative

Another show of strength for independence – fight for a Socialist Catalonia

Majority of ‘Yes’ voters want end to austerity – anti-cuts candidates needed!

Last week German train drivers and on-board staff went on strike for four days, shaking and polarising the country

Socialism 2014 – infused with contagious confidence

Berlin Wall brought down by mass revolutionary movement

Weekend of discussion & debate hosted by the Socialist Party – London 8-9 November

50 years of socialist ideas and workers’ struggle

Calls for local government strike action to be reinstated

End poverty, inequality and capitalism

’Political awakening’ continues after independence referendum

For a ’no-cuts budget’ and mass campaign to win back billions stolen by ConDem government!

Labour conference a carefully stage-managed affair

The referendum has turned British politics upside down – even though the No vote won

Build a working class alternative

Urgent to build new mass party for the working class

"Britain will never be the same again"

Only working class struggle can guarantee the right to decide and resist austerity

"You will not take this opportunity away from us"

Big business, politicians and media attack independence

How looting of the economy led to mass social protests

“In the past four weeks support for the union has drained away at an astonishing rate. The Yes campaign has not just invaded No territory; it has launched a blitzkrieg.”

The 2015 general election is a mere eight months away yet impossible to call. But what is clear is that none of the capitalist parties hold any real attraction for working class voters.

Over 18,000 people have attended Hope Over Fear public meetings to hear socialist Tommy Sheridan.

International tensions escalate

Hollande removes ‘lefts’ from government

September 18 will see an unprecedented mobilisation to the polls for the referendum on Scottish independence

Military conflict escalates

For an independent socialist Scotland

Working class must organise for future struggles

An Establishment cover-up?

"Cameron’s defeat was dire."

Build workers’ movement

A response to the “practical idealism” of the Common Weal

United private-public sector strike vital

Call a general election now

More pictures from solidarity protests around the world

‘Podemos’ capitalises on failures of IU bureaucratic leadership

In country after country, May’s elections to the European parliament saw governments and traditional parties defeated

National Front profits from social and economic discontent

Serbian and Bosnian governments’ inaction provokes fury

Renzi seen as last chance for way out of impasse

Now Trade Unions must lead our fightback

Gains for the far right but some successes for genuine Left

The result has lit up the idea that fighting councillors can help build support for a real alternative to austerity

Questions and answers on socialist ideas

PCS calls for co-ordinated unions’ action to stop attacks on public sector workers and austerity

TUSC beginning to build an electoral voice for the millions not the millionaires

Commemorating union leader Bob Crow and socialist Labour MP Tony Benn

No recovery for working people and poor

United workers’ action needed to prevent war

The socialist case for independence

Trade union and socialist coalition (TUSC) candidate count reaches 476 for May local election

Oppose the pro-big business EU/ US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership!

No-cuts election challenge grows

Far right gains highlight need for strong fighting left opposition

Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI MP) speaks in Irish parliament

22M: A before and after moment for the class struggle

What programme should the Left advocate?

Mourn the loss, fight for the future

His decline has already begun

Aruging a independent, working class position

Media attack Benn and Crow’s legacy and Militant

Tensions between powers worsen

Preparing for a mighty upsurge in class struggle

Steadfast in speaking out for socialism

Working people stir to end poverty, joblessness, corruption and ethnic divisions!

Why is Socialist Party Scotland supporting a Yes vote in the referendum?

Workers’ rule not oligarch rule

Bob Crow was a constant fighter for the working class and a champion of many important causes

Activists banished from Bologna on trumped up charges

Tensions deepen between Western powers and Moscow

Lessons of strike: united in decisive action the working class can win

Pro-western, right wing regime consolidates power

Serbo-Croat translation of the article ’Mass protests over poverty and corrupt government’ – Revolt pokazuje potencijal radničke klase da prevaziđe etničku podeljenost

Need to build Left Party on clear anti-capitalist basis

Revolt shows potential of working class to overcome ethnic divisions

What lies behind the Ukraine crisis?

Serbo-Croat translation of the article ’New revolt of workers and unemployed’ (first published on 10/02/14)

Main pro-Union parties step up campaign ahead of independence referendum

Could signal a real step-change in the longer war against austerity

Scottish Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation and affiliated campaigns show what can be achieved with a strong campaign

Article first published in Socialism Today

Let’s make 2014 the year of the political general strike!

More and more tensions develop in the Left Front

After weeks of violent clashes, powerful oligarchs intervene

A question of gender and class

Much of the right-wing media whipped up hostility and alarm in the run up to the 1 January end of restrictions on entry to Britain for people from Romania and Bulgaria

The case for joint coordinated industrial action

Appeal of socialist change will grow

Defend the refugees! Defend union members!

Indefinite strikes, occupations, seeds of workers’ control

MEP Paul Murphy condemns brutal State violence against peaceful protesters in Kiev

But tide begins to turn as workers startto take action

Privatisation of local transport delayed

Scottish constitutional referendum: Yes to an independent socialist Scotland, no to a continuation of capitalist austerity

Tony Benn’s latest volume of diaries continues his frank and honest appraisal of his political life. He has campaigned long and hard – but in vain – to halt the degeneration of the Labour Party.

Reflecting a thirst to resist and the search for ideas