Europe

The left was the only true winner of last September’s general election.

The potential for beginning to build a new mass working-class party in England and Wales was glimpsed in outline at the RMT rail union discussion conference on the crisis of working-class political representation on 21 […]

Union-sponsored conference debates way forward for working class and youth

For genuine working-class representation

Capitalism unable to deliver an advance in living standards, peace or equality.

A year ago, twelve months after former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnaze was overthrown in the so-called ‘rose revolution’, Victor Yushenko came to power as the president of Ukraine after the ‘orange revolution’.

Delegates oppose social cuts of local Berlin government

Last Friday, 25 November, a general strike against budget cuts paralysed Italy.

CRS caught on camera beating up youths

Not the ‘endgame’ but continuation of ‘Troubles’ in a new form

Successful rally and weekend of discussion and debate hosted by the Socialist Party

’Chirac-Villepin-Sarkozy – We’ve had enough!"’

Establishment’s cultivated image of ‘equality for all’ goes up in flames

‘Sarkozy: We’ve had enough! No to repression! No to racism!’

The result speaks in very clear language: there is no majority for the neo-liberal attacks of the previous red/green government of Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer, or the even harsher ones proposed by Angela Merkel […]

Seven years in coalition government showed Greens were an establishment party

New Labour’s 2005 conference signified another, and perhaps decisive, nail in the coffin of this party as a specifically working-class party, at least at its base.

Makeshift detention centre failed safety standards

Only minor gains for Social Democrats (SPÖ), Socialist Alternative needed

More privatisations, tax cuts for the rich and attacks on workers’ rights

Left must build on election success with socialist policies

Workers reject political establishment

Why the IRA campaign failed to defeat the British state

Victors of last December’s inter-elite struggle in spectacular fall out

Helicopter-borne French commandos storm anti-privatisation protest

Tens of thousands took to the streets of London on Saturday 24 September to protest against the occupation of Iraq. The Socialist Party and International Socialist Resistance contingent marched under the banner of ’unity against […]

Red youth on 24 September demo say end imperialist occupation and capitalism

Tens of thousands took to the streets of London on Saturday 24 September to protest against the occupation of Iraq. The Socialist Party and International Socialist Resistance contingent marched under the banner of ’unity against […]

Now is the time to organise resistance!

The London bombings had a profound impact in West Yorkshire once it emerged that the alleged bombers came from Leeds and Huddersfield.

A massive defeat for the right and a big victory for the left, was the result of the early German election

Textiles crisis between China, the EU and the US

New party has potential to become third biggest party in Bundestag

How can the working class stop the bigots?

G8 fail to ‘Make Poverty History’

The fragmentation of Iraq?

The Battle for the re-instatement of the 800 sacked Gate Gourmet workers is proving to be a defining moment in the class struggle in Britain.

Bombings have left a huge imprint

After an earthquake comes an aftershock

Poland after 1945

Voters denied the right to representation

The clear class “NO” vote expressed increasing anger with one of the most unpopular governments in the whole of Europe. It is likely that new struggles will unfold in the autumn

Gate Gourmet, a catering company supplying British Airways, sacked up to 800 predominantly Asian workers at a few minutes notice at one of their sites at Heathrow on Wednesday 10 August.

A statement by the IRA on its future role, which has been in the pipeline for some time, is still eagerly awaited by the British and Irish governments and the main political parties.

Recent events have dramatically heightened the atmosphere of insecurity and tension in Britain, and particularly London.

A Yorkshire trade union rep’s viewpoint

Since the bombings, the Socialist Party has been calling for an emergency demonstration to be organised with the clear message: ‘No to terror, no to war, no to racism’.

The main reaction of working people to the horror of the London bombings has been a mood of unity against terrorism.