Europe

But are there lessons for today?

We must take advantage of the divided enemy

Corruption crisis robs Rajoy government of all legitimacy

Perspectives for 2013

Plethora of parties and coalitions but none that represent workers’ need for a fight

When workers fought the bosses to a standstill

The coming year, like 2012, will be one of intense struggles by the working class in Britain, Europe and the world.

Capitalist class have no solution to the deep-going crisis of capitalism they face

The government has declared war on ordinary people with a brutal onslaught of cuts to our jobs and services.

New panorama, which threatens a situation of practical "ungovernability"

Following high profile cases such as those of Julian Assange and Dominique Strauss Khan, there has been much debate recently about rape and sexual assault. On the Slutwalks and other protests, anger on these issues […]

Prime minster Cameron, the Murdoch empire and the police have been part of a web of mutual support and corruption

Victory for the Socialist Party and the Four, who have refused to be bullied and intimidated

Continue with the struggle! Name the date of a 48 hour general strike!

A glimpse of the immense power of the working class if action is built and coordinated across borders

A socialist alternative to rotten, bankrupt capitalism

Opening towards an all-European strike

Defend every job!

Growth in support for independence as early elections loom

For a Southern European-wide general strike on 14 November!

Preparing for a one-day general strike

Young people demand real job creation and an end to attacks on public services

New phase in struggle against austerity Workers travelled from across Britain to London today to express their fury at the Con-Dem government’s vicious cuts in living standards. The Trades Union Congress (TUC), which organised this […]

No desperate accolades from Nobel or anywhere will stop this present decline or shore up the EU’s biggest faultline – the eurozone crisis.

Campaign Kazakhstan banner denounces attacks against oil workers

Text of Socialismo Revolucionario leaflet

‘March for a Future’ a “powerful statement”

Labour leader promises more ’tough settlements for public services’

Now for an united and international mobilisation to take the struggle forward!

CWI holds enthusiastic week-end of discussion and planning

Scottish Labour leader, Johann Lamont, has thrown the party into a crisis following her recent speech that called for an end to the “something for nothing culture” in Scotland.

The Labour Party conference takes place at a crucial time. Working people are crying out for a lead in a mass movement which can force elections and topple the hated Con-Dem government.

Support for independence for Scotland, ahead of a referdum, is still based on a sizeable minority. However, it is growing and is gaining ground amongst radicalised sections of society feeling the brunt of austerity cuts.

"No sexual abuse! No excuse! No domestic abuse! No excuse!" was one of the chants on the lively and colourful Slutwalk London demonstration on Saturday 22 September.

For a 48-hour general strike as next step in fight to kick out government and its policies!

Now name the date!

For class struggle campaigns to unite working people across sectarian lines

A new sectarian front line opens

’TUC – name the date’

The need for democratic debate

Time for ’Plan S’ for socialism

Release the detainees! Solidarity messages needed

‘Massacres caused by right-wing extremism and Islamophobia’

Yet another ex-News of the World (NoW) journalist has been charged with having committed perjury during the 2010 trial of Scottish socialist Tommy Sheridan.

Attacks support for the failed system of big business, which will not spend its enormous cash piles.

Britain before the October 20 TUC demonstration

Solidarity needed to win basic rights and conditions

Privatisation and ‘outsourcing’ fails again – For publicly owned and run services!

The greatest sporting, and money-making, show on earth The 2012 Olympic Games, held in London, will start with the ‘Opening Ceremony’ on Friday 27 July, watched by an estimated audience of 1 billion people around […]

Greece and Spain to fore in Europe’s deepening political, economic and social crisis

International solidarity from PCS union group executive

For a 48 hour general strike to bring down Rajoy government

For nationalisation of banks and financial institutions with democratic public ownership

Interview with NIPSA President Padraig Mulholland (personal capacity)

Editorial from The Socialist

Big business agenda defeated by mass campaigning

Parliamentary elections strengthens Socialist Party’s rule

International Trade Committee in the European Parliament rejects ACTA

“[R]ather than achieving convergence, the euro has sharpened the differences between the national economies”

Campaign Kazakhstan blog post

Rank-and-file union activists assemble for sixth annual National Shop Stewards Network conference

Stagnating economy and joblessness lead to growing working-class dissent In the second round of Serbia’s presidential elections on Sunday 20 May, Tomislav Nikolic won a majority against the incumbent, Boris Tadic. In an election dominated […]

“Red-Green” government forced to retreat

The government will be hoping that the Jubilee flotilla of 1,000 ships on the river Thames will serve as a useful distraction while it pushes through more swingeing cuts.

Which way for the Left Front?

Tommy Sheridan conviction must be overturned

We must remove the undemocratic control of the 1% who deny to the 99% a voice in the media.

The Yes Scotland pro-independence campaign was launched mainly by the Scottish National Party, backed by big business, on Friday 25th May in Edinburgh.

Annual conference of Northern Ireland’s largest trade union at the end of May: A fighting strategy is needed on all fronts

Eurozone convulsed by turbulent economic forces and political upheavals

The capitalist classes of Europe are now cranking up the pressure on the Greek working class, trying to blackmail it

Activists for democracy and justice gather to discuss burning social issues

Mass demonstration against EU’s austerity policies

Thousands attempt to occupy squares and blockade the ECB in Frankfurt, Germany. Protests are banned.

Meeting discusses involvement in Afghanistan

Austerity rejected in Eurozone’s second biggest economy

The Con-Dem government suffered a crushing defeat in last Thursday’s elections for local authorities and in the mayoral contests apart from London.

As economic crisis worsens and class struggles continue in Spain, Greece, Portugal and elsewhere in Europe, the need for working class fight-back and to build the influence of Marxism grows.

Days of action planned in Frankfurt/Main against European Central Bank and big finance

Pension cuts, job cuts, service cuts

Make the rich and the bankers pay for their crisis!

Eleven years after the ‘kettling’ (containment) of an anti-capitalist protest in central London, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment on the police tactic.

New, polarized situation opening up

The need for concerted strike action against Con-Dem cuts in the public sector is more urgent than ever.

The government is cutting more than five billion euros

5,000 anti-racists take to streets of Aarhus

As economic crisis worsens and class struggles continue in Spain, Greece, Portugal and elsewhere in Europe, the need for working class fight-back and to build the influence of Marxism grows.

It shows the potential for anti-cuts election challenges

Decisive battles ahead

If any of the trade union leaders had any doubt about the full character of the onslaught facing the working class and the trade union movement, it should be dismissed now.

Will the Left Party present itself as an anti-capitalist opposition or as a ‘moderate’ party managing capitalism?

Time to fight for socialist change

Volcano of class struggle ready to erupt

Genoa traditions celebrated with film and music

On International Women’s Day, CWI activists protest against austerity package hitting women

International women’s day, 8 March, has been marked this year with an upturn in struggle, much of it to keep hold of many gains won in the past. Con-Dem austerity is hitting women hardest.

Video of Paul Callanan, Youth Fight For Jobs campaign on national UK news programme

Police break up St. Paul’s camp, which lasted for more than 100 days

A number of key unions are poised to strike-back on 28 March – and significant private-sector struggles continue.

The world famous Oxford Union was the setting for a debate on the proposition: "This House Believes That Capitalism has Failed the Poor".

International solidarity and action to oppose state brutality and austerity

Reports from February edition of Resistenze, paper of the CWI in Italy

Statement from Gauche Révolutionnaire (French section of the CWI) drawing a balance sheet of its experience in the NPA

London is a city of enormous disparities between rich and poor, the most unequal city in the developed world – a report from the city hosting this year’s olympics

International struggle can end dictatorship of the markets

Joe Higgins argues in Cork, 26 January, to resist the household tax: "Yes, we have a choice!"

The capitalist classes of Europe are all adopting the same policy of attempting to make the working class pay for the capitalist economic crisis.

The repression will not stop the movement!

Euro-zone crisis deepens

How socialists and the local community fought back against racism and the BNP

Scottish National Party’s version of indepdendence a nightmare for workers

Public sector union left group organises open conference to keep up the fight

Xekinima national meeting discusses balance sheet of 2011’s class struggles and prospects for workers’ fight-back in 2012

Youth Fight for Jobs and the Jarrow march

Name the date for the next strike!

Protests in Berlin, London, Vienna, Brussels Update 18:15 GMT Swedish Protests

Hospital workers achieve minimum wage

Conservatives speak for rich, not workers

General strike sets the pace

What next after the strike of November 30?

The countdown to “save” the euro and possibly even the European Union.

What the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) and strikers said on 30 November 2011

Paul Murphy Challenges ECB President Mario Draghi

“We’ve had enough”

“Set a date for next strike!”

Reports, striker’s views and socialist analysis of 30 November public sector general strike

First video report on this massive display of workers’ opposition to the British government’s attacks

Antifascists have to build a mass movement and can not rely on the state.

"Make N30 the start of a fight to stop all cuts"

"Can there be any doubt but that we are witnessing a full frontal assault on democratic rights by European bondholders, bankers and speculators facilitated by the leadership of the European Union?"

Fragmentation of the Eurozone could trigger another deep financial crisis and global economic downturn

Cameron, the Murdoch empire and the police have been involved in a corrupt attempt to subvert the democratic rights of the British people

Overall PP majority, but left forces gain and new struggles on horizon

Monti government will face mass opposition to austerity

Workers, students, pensioners – all in the firing line

Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, interviewed on Al Jazeera

“Clarity of ideas, visionary strategy, combined with an astute tactical appreciation of the critical need to raise the mass consciousness of the working class.”

"A ’No Cannes Do’ summit"

Debt crisis hits Eurozone’s third largest economy

And vow that the struggle goes on

Left Alliance joins Conservative led government – Time to build radical, left alternative!

Strike action wins concessions – but 4.2% is not enough!

Eurozone crisis deepens

Stop state brutality in Kazakhstan!

Violence of a few used to try and curb growing opposition

Preparing for the showdown

Build the mass resistance to austerity!

Austrian working class gives impressive sign of life

"Better to break the law than break the poor"

The working class needs a new party

Implications of so-called "six-pack of economic governance measures", voted on in the European Parliament last week, are vast

24 Hour Public Sector General Strike Now – Socialist Party placard, photo Paul Mattsson

“People First” demonstration in Glasgow on 1st October

Solidarity urgently needed

London protest against state repression and in solidarity with oil workers

Why socialists must campaign for a new mass workers party

Public sector-wide action announced for 30 November!

New initiative to build a fighting alternative

Labour Party gains less then predicted

…we need a programme of action to fight back!

National Shop Stewards’ Network lobbies Trades Union Congress (TUC)

Support the striking workers of the Charité Facility Management company (CFM) in Berlin!

Paul Murphy MEP and others visit militarised zone at Maddalena

For an alternative to the rotten capitalist consensus!

The CGIL, the main trade union federation, has called an 8 hour general strike for 6 September

The 30 June strikes were a turning point in the struggle against this government, giving a huge boost of confidence.

"What one change would have the biggest positive impact on society?"

August’s explosive events revealed a class society in crisis

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is organising a lobby of this year’s TUC (Britain’s trade union confederation) conference in London, 11 September

Mass, trade union-led response needed

A mass workers’ movement is needed to defeat the government

Fatal police shooting sparks eruption of protest and anger

The CWI School, which took place in Leuven, Belgium between 24 and 29 July, was opened by Peter Taaffe of the CWI’s International Secretariat on ‘Europe in turmoil, the youth revolt and the current stage […]

Lessons of the Movement of the ’Enraged’

Determination to struggle grows

Big opportunities lost to build new mass party of workers

This week is the 75th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War, on 18 July 18. We mark this hugely important event in world history with an article first published on socialistworld.net in […]

Editorial of the Socialist newspaper, 20 July 2011

Socialist Party deputy general secretary Hannah Sell, speaking at a London Socialist Party meeting, examines the way forward for the trade union movement to defeat the cuts programme of the British ’ConDem’ government

Controcorrente holds important day of discussion in Genoa

‘Murdochgate’ is Britain’s Watergate

Unions must break the link!

We demand a full and independent inquiry, involving workers’ representatives, into the links between media moguls and the capitalist state

What next to defeat the cuts?

Movement an electric shock to political life

Only united working class action can prevent further attacks

Reports from throughout the day

‘Downfall – The Tommy Sheridan Story’ by Alan McCombes

2,000 police mobilised in Val di Susa

As the cuts bite, millions ask this question

Public sector and education unions call 24 hour strike on 30 June

Workers resist Pasok’s savage cuts and privatisation programme

Resistance to coalition government’s cuts

“Turn 21 June into a day of mass protests and strikes”

Second major defeat for beleaguered government

Serious and inspiring preparation for the battles to come

The significance of the student movement

Wages fall: Office for National Statistics 2010 survey of hours and earnings

Movement will not be broken by brute force!

New ’International Socialist Resistance’ blog launched

But western powers also have blood on their hands

Rome, Turin, Naples, Milan, Reggio Emilia, Padova, Palermo, Brescia, Trieste, Venice, Cagliari, Viareggio, Pavia, Florence, Sassari, Verona, Lecce, Bologna, Pisa – this is a rough list of the major cities where the “Italian revolution” movement […]

Video of police brutally clearing square in Barcelona

Greece’s economic crisis deepens – along with Ireland, Portugal and Spain

Governments have no mechanism for dealing with the crisis

After FIAT, now the shipyard workers’ struggle

‘G8 Dégage (get out)’!

A massive social and political revolt is brewing in Britain, argues Peter Taaffe

Indignados are a new factor in Spanish politics

Under the cover of the crisis an unprecedented offensive against the rights and conditions of the working class is underway.

“I do not want to be a slave to this system”[to watch a live stream from Puerta del Sol go to SOL TV]

Left in Turin loses an opportunity

The Greek bailout implemented last year has not worked. Greece, moreover, is far from being an isolated case.

The root of the government’s weakness is the continuing profound crisis of capitalism in general and British capitalism in particular

But majority government of savage cuts will meet working class resistance

Thatcher’s brutal prisons regime

2,500 on strike demo

Witness the media torrent of sickly sentimentality over the royal wedding.

President Lukashenko uses outrage to attack working class

Right wing populist ‘True Finns’ third biggest party

What attitude should socialists adopt in defending women’s rights?

Developments in SWP confirm Socialist Party’s arguments for NSSN anti-cuts campaign

Following last Sunday’s parliamentary election in Finland, talks are taking place on forming a coalition government. The results saw a big increase in support for the anti-immigrant, rightwing populist True Finns party, gaining 19.0% (39 […]

’The worst is yet to come’

Vote against cuts in 5 May elections

Thesis of the European bureau of the CWI

Nearly two thirds of Icelanders say ‘No!’ to Icesave deal

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, was the final platform speaker at a London aggregate to discuss the prospects of the trade union and anti-cuts movement

For a 24 hour general strike!

Whichever combination of party’s form the next Scottish government, it will be a government that will attempt to carry through the deepest cuts in decades.

Mass protest against nuclear energy, Green Party victory in regional elections

The massive Trade Union Congress (TUC – trade union federation) demonstration against public spending cuts was well over half a million strong, possibly 700,000 or more.

How to fight austerity and capitalism

Government pushed into defensive by Fukushima disaster and mass unrest

Trades Union Congress national ’march for the alternative: jobs, growth, justice’

A fighting alternative to Berlusconi is needed

On 13 February, one million women (and men) marched in 230 towns and cities across Italy.

Conservative – Liberal Democrat government cuts devastating impact on women

Britain braced for massive 26 March demonstration

A party growing in strength

IN THE space of one month, the way young people are viewed by the mass media – and by themselves – was turned upside down.

Dramatic changes have affected Britain. The student protests of last year set the scene. Now the prospect of significant industrial action against savage public-sector cutbacks is on the agenda.

The massive 27% cut in central government funding to local authorities is having devastating consequences.

Four Socialist Party members were disciplined by Unison on trumped-up charges of racism, after producing a leaflet at the 2007 Unison conference, challenging the Standing Orders Committee (SOC) about ruling resolutions off the conference agenda.

Kick out Mubarak and his cronies

‘Opposition to all cuts, support for industrial action by workers and mass resistance’

Dip reflects the fragility of British capitalism’s ‘recovery’

Unprecedented political vendetta ends in draconian sentence

One day strike in engineering industry this Friday

Nearly 600 people, mostly workers with elected positions in trade union branches, trades councils, workplaces and anti-cuts alliances, met in London on 22 January for the special anti-cuts conference of the National Shop Stewards Network […]

National Shop Stewards Network conference 22 January

Defend the right to demonstrate

How to defeat cuts and tax rises?

How to fight the far right?

2010 – The most tumultuous year for two decades

Socialist Party calls public protest over loss of service for homes and health risks

Politically-driven prosecution against Scotland’s best-known socialist

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.

Lifelong Militant/Socialist Party member

The ruling class in Britain is determined to make sure that it is not them, but the working class and young people, who pay for the crisis in their system.

“General strike” call on lips of protesters

A "good Christmas present for the people of Northern Ireland" – Sammy Wilson, Finance Minister

Conservative nationalists victory follows defeat of “left” tripartite

On Thursday 9 December, while parliament debated the Con-Dem coalition government’s plan to treble university tuition fees, a fourth day of angry protest took place across the country.

A united movement with the working class is the way forward!

On the debate how to fight the cuts

Just as the student movement reaches Day X, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) has set out the agenda for its anti-cuts conference on 22 January.

Dundee students, from the universities, local colleges and schools took part in protests across the city on November 24 as part of the national walk outs and protests.

Up to 130,000 school, college and university students walked out on Wednesday 24 November in the biggest education action for 25 years.

Tens of thousands of school and university students rage against attacks on education

50,000-strong student march an example to workers’ movement

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition launches its campaign for the 2011 local elections

Interview with 3 protesters involved in occupying Tory HQ

Massive student demo expresses anger against cuts

Socialism 2010, hosted by the Socialist Party during the weekend 6-7 November, was attended by over 900 people.

Massive student demo expresses anger against cuts

Assembled masses shake Con-Dem government

Tommy and Gail Sheridan’s perjury trial is now in its sixth week and is certain to be the longest case of its kind in Scottish legal history.  

The aftermath of the general strike on the 29 September

Midwife to a double dip?

Opposition growing against Stuttgart 21, nuclear power and cuts. Opinion poll shows – Germany is in a state of political crisis

Metal mechanics’ leaders point to political programme needed

Interview with Alex Lecoq, Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France), a student in Rouen

Largest non-sectarian demonstration since anti-war movement

4,000 workers from at least ten different trade unions, led by 100 striking firefighters, marched through central London on Saturday 23 October.

Millions of workers and youth want an end to the Sarkozy ’dictatorship’

Build a one-day public sector strike!

For a one-day public sector general strike

Trade union forced to respond with action

£81 billion cuts announced on "axe Wednesday"

Workers and youth challenge cuts through mass strikes and protests

Pro-big business politicians can be forced to retreat

Workers can bring the whole economy to a halt

New paper and website of CWI in Netherlands!

New stage in the fight against Sarkozy’s policies

Neil Kinnock’s speech to the 1985 Labour Party conference signalled the start of a purge of Marxists from the party and anticipated the creation of New Labour.

What strategy to beat the cuts?

The battle against ‘Stuttgart 21’ reaches new heights

Tommy and Gail Sheridan’s trial on charges of perjury has started in Glasgow.

"A tidal wave of protest is rolling towards the coalition government, roaring, foaming, darkening the sky, sucking every political argument into a lethal wall of water… delegates to the TUC, freed from decades of impotence, […]

The first step!

30,000 public sector and 10,000 private sector jobs under threat

The RMT union, whose general secretary Bob Crow will be speaking, is organising a “Crisis in Working Class Political Representation” conference on Saturday 2nd October in Glasgow.

Labour elects Ed Miliband as new leader

Earlier this year, four Unison activists, all Socialist Party members, were banned from office for up to three years. Their crime? Producing a leaflet for the union’s 2007 conference calling for greater democracy within the […]

Organising to save jobs and services

"Your campaign is terrifying the speculators and the big banks – and that is a very good thing" – Joe Higgins speaking at a demonstration in Stuttgart.

Autobiography shows aim to destroy Labour as a vehicle for working class struggle

Support Tommy and Gail Sheridan

Thursday 16 September saw one of the most formidable demonstrations in the capital city for some time. 2,500 uniformed firefighters marched with Fire Brigades Union (FBU) flags and placards, whistles and vuvuzelas, and even a […]

Youth Fight for Jobs protest

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi

Free Belarus activists!

Joe Higgins MEP explains why he voted in favour of the resolution condemning French President Nicolas Sarkozy for his racist policies of scapegoating and deporting peoples from the Roma minority in France.

"Support European Day of Action against Austerity – 29 September should be day of active struggle, protests and strikes across Europe"

Fightback! Join the day of action on 20 October

“Democracy is sometimes a little bit difficult“, said the mayor of Stuttgart, facing a mass movement against the railway project, ‘Stuttgart21’.

Thousands demonstrate across Europe

Strike will start today

The only antidote to painful public-sector cuts

Do local councillors have ‘no choice’? – Lessons from 1980s Liverpool Council struggle

SNP are putting independence on the backburner

Accordging to the Police Federation of Northern Ireland, dissident republican groups have been responsible for carrying out an average of two attacks a day since the beginning of the year.

Up to 1,000 firefighters poured into the conference room of TUC headquarters for a mass meeting of the London Fire Brigades Union (FBU) on Tuesday night (24 August).

The Hungarian parliamentary elections in April 2010 secured a landslide victory for the conservative FIDESZ party, with their leader Victor Orbán retaking the Prime Ministerial position that he had held from 1998 to 2002.

London Socialist Party members travelled to Watford (North of London) to deliver a protest letter to the Vinci regional office.

Towards a 24 hour all-European general strike!

With thousands of young people being denied a university place, facing a substandard education, forced into low paid work or left on the scrapheap of unemployment, a nationally organised fightback is essential.

…amid fears of a double-dip recession

While most of Germany is on summer holiday the southern city of Stuttgart has seen, every few days, thousands of people take to the streets in protest…

Towards a wave of struggle?

After New Labour’s axe men began the education cuts, the Con-Dem butchers seem to have been let loose with a chainsaw.

The PCS civil servants union’s national executive committee (NEC) has met to discuss how to respond to the Tory/Liberal coalition government’s cuts and privatisation programme.

After weeks of vacillation the TUC has finally agreed NOT to call a national demo against the cuts this year.

Did the organizers stop at nothing for profits? 20 people died in the horrific stampede at the July 24 Love Parade festival in the German city of Duisburg, 500 were injured and, for a time, […]

Social decay causes alienation and conditions for conflict

For trade union led mass campaign to stop destruction of Health Service!

Struggle at Pomigliano brings out need for workers’ party

The Assembly Executive is preparing an act that will criminalise the right to protest.

The eurozone is faced with a potential break up.

The next leader of Britain’s main ‘opposition’ party will be one of four New Labour clones.

It is one year since the occupation by sacked workers of the Vestas factory on the Isle of Wight.

Across Europe governments are pursuing the same policy of savage cuts.

All out on 29 September to defeat the attacks!

An urgent call for united working class action

2 million on the streets to defend pensions

Make ETUC 29 September "Day of action" decisive workers’ mobilisation

Stop budget attacks with mass action

Unison’s national delegate conference met in Bournemouth on 15-18 June. Against the background of the attacks of the Con-Dem government on public services and public sector workers, this was the most important conference to be […]

”News at 10”, one of the BBC’s most prominent news programmes on TV, reports about the growing resistance against cuts, featuring the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) decides to contest future elections – can Labour be “re-claimed”?

Role of army chiefs and Establishment in killings and cover-up remains unanswered

“This was MURDER”

A new, dramatic, phase

More than 50 people crammed in to hear speakers from Scotland, Hannah Sell from the Socialist Party England and Wales and Joe Higgins, the Socialist Party Ireland MEP.

Workers’ fight against attacks on jobs, wages and pensions

Text of the joint leaflet

On Saturday 12 June, the leader of the movement for self-determination (LPV), Albin Kurti, was arrested by the police, acting on behalf of the colonial-style ruling EULEX European Union authorities.

5 days after the announcement of an austerity package by the conservative-liberal coalition in Germany 45,000 workers, unemployed and young people took to the streets of Berlin and Stuttgart to say: we won’t pay for […]

The Tories claim that massive cuts are necessary because of New Labour’s excessive public spending on services and welfare. This is a giant con trick, which every capitalist party – including New Labour – is […]

Debates about the future of the party Die LINKE

On 9 June, 85,000 school, university, and apprenticeship students went on strike against cuts in education, tuition fees and increasing pressure to "perform" in education.

The Scottish section of the Committee for a Workers’ International – the International Socialists – is changing its name to Socialist Party Scotland.

The first slice of cuts under the ’Con-Dem’ coalition government makes it clear that young people face a bleak future under its stewardship.

Dismissals with Sixt because of foundation of a works committee

Workers alternative needed to agenda of Europe’s bosses

Not-so-new politics

Time for mass struggle to fight the cuts

Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, gave a sober but inspiring analysis of the general election outcome on a London meeting of the Socialist Party. Hear his speech here (40 min, mp3-file).

10,000 students and school students protested in Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana, on 19 May. A demonstration began on Preseren Square. Students then moved to the Slovenian parliament and smashed its facade with eggs, stones and bottles. […]

PETER HADDEN, Northern secretary of the Irish section of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI), the Socialist Party, sadly died at the age of 60, in Belfast, on 5 May after a three year […]

A week-end of discussion on perspectives for the left – in Italy and in Europe – against the background of international capitalist crisis.

Britain has been ‘Con Dem-ned’ to a future of savage attacks on public services, pay, pensions and benefits combined with tax increases for working and middle-class people.

Cabin crew turn up the pressure on BA boss

Unions respond to new austerity measures

"We feel that successful co-ordinated protests in the week of 21 to 26 June would have a major impact and send a clear message to the European establishments."

"We will not pay for your crisis!" – Members of the GUE / NGL group (United European Left /Nordic Green Left) in the European Parliament speak out in favour of European Days of Protest and […]

The Berlin area leadership of the German metal workers’ union has begun the procedure to expel left wing, combative members. Please write messages of protest!

The dictatorship of the financial markets continues apace and those currently being crushed by its dictat are the workers, the pensioners and the poor of Greece.

All capitalist parties ’losers’

TUSC stands for socialism…and prepares for the battles ahead

A lifelong socialist activist in Ireland

The countries that adopted the euro are facing the most precarious situation for their currency union since they started using the euro in 2002.

Why, fundamentally, the Green Party is not offering a way forward for working class people

Support Greek general strike on 5 May – call for international solidarity!

Victory to the Greek and all European workers! Solidarity with Greek general strike on 5 May! For an international day of action!

Publication of investigation commission report into country’s financial collapse

CWI European Bureau meeting

Why the BNP offers no way forward for working class people

An account of an epic journey from London to Moscow

The options facing the capitalists and their parties following the 6 May general election.

CWI European Bureau Resolution

No, we will not be able to control the eruption of volcanoes under socialism. But – we can make sure, that its effects will not lead to a chaotic situation such as we see now […]

The Socialist Party is part of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition presenting a socialist alternative to the main parties

300 people discuss relevancy of Marxism today

Reject the parties of cuts and privatisation

Standing against cuts and privatisation

Space opens on the left

Strikers can beat BA bosses

’Third round on the streets’ – Big gains for Socialist Party and allies, and also for far right, but new Anti-capitalist Party in disarray

Far-right English Defence League (EDL) outnumbered by anti-racist protesters in Bolton, Greater Manchester

A warning to the workers’ movement

The planned seven days of strike action in two separate walkouts on 20-22 March and 27-30 March by British Airways (BA) cabin crew opens up a new chapter in their ongoing dispute with BA management.

In substance, Britain’s general election campaign is a phoney war.

PCS members have demonstrated their anger at the attack on their Civil Service Compensation Scheme by staging a solid two-day strike that has affected courts, passport offices, jobcentres, tax offices and many other government services.

No reason to celebrate!See also the leaflet of the SLP, CWI in Austria, in German and English

The IMF is the problem: They are trying to dictate the policy of the country

Attempts by the bosses and governments across Europe to make workers pay for the economic crisis are being met by a wave of anger and protest.

Women in education, trade unions, public sector and as parents

Geert Wilders’ anti-immigrant, right wing ‘Freedom Party’ makes gains

Workers today need new party to stop bosses’ onslaught

Call for new powers – but to be used in whose class interests?

Bring the media monsters into public ownership

Union leaders deaf to demand for general strike

Joe Higgins visits NO TAV campaigners who are building a mass opposition against a high speed rail link

How 18 million people brought down Thatcher

Socialist Party puts the case for workers’ unity and socialism at Sinn Fein-hosted London conference

Court procedure reflects attempt to silence opposition to EU/UN’s colonial-style rule

Greece shakes the eurozone foundations

Messages of protest needed!

Unison union witch-hunt – employment tribunal

Tens of thousands of anti-fascists stop far right "march of grief"

For workers’ unity against the bosses and government!

DUP and Sinn Fein mired in scandals and face growing opposition

Important step towards a new workers’ party

Protests in Carinthia against ruling ex-Haider party

“Crisis confirms Marxism”

Joe Higgins MEP supports struggle of Val di Susa inhabitants

Workers fight to save 10,000 jobs