Europe

Balkan leaders and imperialist powers responsible for wars and division

What kind of a new left do we need?

The massive 7 March demonstrations, when at least half a million protested, marked a turning point.

CWI argues for principled, socialist policies

Membership ballot confirms decision of party conference

Available on the SP website.

Decides to stand independently in regional state elections – important victory for the Left

There is a feeling of widespread anger amongst German workers.

Stuttgart’s public sector warning strike

Last weeks Dunfermline and West Fife by-election was a major defeat for the New Labour government.

Building an alternative to the profit system

Rostock city council passes most severe cuts in city’s history

Rostock city council passes most severe cuts in city’s history

Deal finally signed after 13 months of negotiation and 60 hours’ of strike action.

Linking the industrial to the political

Successful conference of Party for Work and Justice – The Electoral Alternative (WASG) condemns cuts policy of the Left Party.PDS

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

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

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

Left must build on election success with socialist policies

Why the IRA campaign failed to defeat the British state

Workers reject political establishment

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