Europe

Corruption kills

Invest in schools and local communities!

Rank and file looking for fighting, socialist response to economic crisis and right wing government

One week on and still rock solid

Statement by European Bureau meeting of the Committee for a Workers’ International

Video of march on the G20

On Saturday March 28, 30,000 people marched through Berlin, the capital of Germany, and another 25,000 people protested in Frankfurt, Germany’s financial centre.

Mass rebellion that killed tax and toppled Tory Prime Minister

Basildon, Belfast and Enfield plants occupied after put into administration

Under the guise of ‘fighting terrorism’ and ‘combating crime’ New Labour has introduced an avalanche of repressive legislation.

Workers’ action wins widespread support

Building our forces in a new period

The following is a draft CWI Thesis that will be presented to a meeting of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) European Bureau taking place next week.

Mass fightback against bosses and government continues

Perspectives for British capitalism in crisis, the class struggle and a workers’ alternative

In an important move, the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers’ union (RMT) has announced its support for an electoral alliance to contest the forthcoming European elections in June.

Berlin demonstration demands action

Workers win widespread support for defiant action

“We have to fight for our rights.”

Fighting trade union leadership needed

Public and private sector unite in angry mood

New Anti-capitalist Party can grow fast with clear socialist policies

Saudi Trade Union dissident facing deportation

Take the banks into full public ownership and control

Defend Tommy and Gail Sheridan!

Workers demand control!

Lessons of the dispute

Strikes repel attacks on jobs and conditions

Firm strike leadership gains results

"Snowballs are lighter than bombs!"

Strike action spreads – defend rights, wages and conditions!

Demands proposed by Socialist Party supporters agreed by mass meeting

Movement already larger than in 2006 and the beginning of the general strike of 1995

Controcorrente pushes party to break from coalition and capitalist politics

Support grows for victimised socialist footballers

Government fails to find a way out of crisis

Economic crisis – cracks appear in bosses’ EU

A “spring of discontent” beckons

Alistair Darling – “We are far from through this.”

Much interest in arguments for a socialist solution

The campaign to keep marxist activists outside the Left Party (DIE LINKE) in Germany (see previous reports on socialistworld.net) is being continued by people in the party leadership despite growing support for marxist ideas amongst […]

2009 – Revolt is brewing in British society

The appearance of Tommy Sheridan in Celebrity Big Brother, the television ’reality’ show, will have disappointed many people who know of his role as an uncompromising fighter for the interests of the working class over […]

How long can it last?

Clear programme for future struggle needed

Cgil calls a national general strike

Participation greater than expected despite authorities’ repression

An inspiring weekend of discussion and debate

Far right football club president moves against socialists

One battle won, next battle to come

SAV members are denied membership in Left Party

Return of state intervention

General strike needed to unite struggles against Berlusconi

After recent turmoil, can taxpayers’ £400 billion prevent a worsening crisis?

Former ‘Orange Revolution’ allies in fierce power struggle

Crushing condemnation of neo-liberal agenda

“God bless Iceland” – slogan at demonstration

Re-instate Pat Lawlor!

Britain highly vulnerable to coming recession

As economic crisis hits, workers’ movement needs socialist alternative

A message of support and solidarity from French Airbus workers to striking Boeing workers. Video.

Capitalist crisis shows need for bold socialist policies and campaigning

Unions must break with pro-market Labour to build a workers’ party

Economy in crisis & politics in flux

CWI gets good response

Major capitalist powers jockey for influence at expense of peoples of the region

Chance to re-launch Rc as fighting workers’ party

Left party, Solidarity, receives very warm response to class policies

Workers demand living wages

New ‘Left Project’ alliance plans to contest early general elections

What prospects are there for the development of a New Anti-capitalist Party?

Being asked to choose between New Labour and Tory governments is no choice at all.

Wanted: A new mass workers’ party

Secondary education crisis politicises a new generation

Rebuilding trade union strength

How can we fight for a working class political voice?

Growing crisis & revolt across Europe

For a united struggle in the public sector & a political alternative to New Labour

Joe Higgins bring Irish message to Brussels EU Council meeting

Great potential squandered

Hessen federal state forced to promise to abolish student financial burden

Murdoch and ’friends’ attacked by array of well known labour movement figures

The long battle for justice

"Measure DIE LINKE by its actions"

8,000 school students strike and march in Berlin

Public-sector employees, teachers and fishing industry workers take industrial action

“Resolve the situation in favour of Gordon and his comrades”

Press release issued by the sacked Belfast airport workers on 19 May 2008

Urgent protests needed!

Growing fear that the Tories will win the next UK general election.

Capitalism brought to its knees

Election meltdown for New Labour

Union leaders play hardball with workers

Exception to the trend

1,500 demonstrators thwart 400 Nazis

A moment for celebration?

Refinery workers defend their wages and pensions

A victory for the right led by Silvio Berlusconi and an electoral ‘bloodbath’ for the Sinistra arcobaleno (Rainbow Left).

New Berlusconi victory will provoke mass opposition

Union gives guarantees workers’ demands will be met

None of the main candidates offer any hope.

British state repression, the IRA’s armed campaign and the Labour Movement

The first electoral defeat for Sarkozy

Assessing progress, building for the future

Re-establishing a tradition of struggle

Economic crisis and racism backdrop to polls

Fighting workers’ organisations urgently needed

Strikes, strikes and more strikes!

Watch CWI take part in cable TV debate on imperialism and the Balkans

Far-right and establishment parties stir up racist mood

‘Power sharing’ Assembly government budget introduces deep cuts

Declaration provokes EU splits and border violence

No to job losses!

Might of Establishment and Murdoch media-empire against socialists

But real political opposition against Sarkozy urgently needed

Discussion between Mark Serwoka (General Secretary PCS) and Peter Taaffe (General Secretary, Socialist Party)

Stalled EU deal… status of Kosovo…crisis grows

Mass disappointment underlines need for workers’ party with fighting programme

Workers need party that fights bosses’ system

As share values tumbled in the most dramatic falls since 9/11, the talk was not so much of whether there will be a recession, but of how deep and long it will be.

On 16 December, former Scottish Socialist Party MSP Tommy Sheridan was charged by Lothian and Borders police after the most expensive perjury investigation ever in Scotland.

“We’ve given enough!” – Public sector industrial action likely

Union leaders try to break strike

Memory of Bobby Sands invoked by SF to deflect from right wing policies

The wheels have come off the Gordon Brown bandwagon.

Germany is the economic powerhouse of Europe, accounting for just over 20% of total European Union Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Crisis will be used to argue it is impossible to build a mass force to the left of Labour.

End Murdoch’s witch-hunt

No more public money for billionaire’s campaign

Western capitalist powers unable to resolve burning national question

The train drivers’ dispute about wages and working hours in Germany is going into the next round.

Inspired by past victories – Preparing for future struggles

France experiences a new wave of strikes against the plans of Sarkozy presidency.

On the 20th November 700,000 people took to the streets all over France against right-wing president Nicolas Sarkozy’s neo-liberal attacks .

Main opposition only offers right wing policies – Build the resistance!

German train drivers follow French model

Crucial first strike under ‘power-sharing’ Assembly

A militant struggle against ‘power-sharing’ government attacks

Train drivers’ strike over wages and hours

Heading rapidly towards a split between the two main forces who founded it in 2004.

Crisis and confusion remain

Gordon Brown’s honeymoon is over

"Here comes the confrontation that could define his presidency"

Why did workers vote in favour of an agreement which attacks their pension rights?

Commitment from union to cover costs

"No alternative but to take this drastic action"

Blatant example of the opportunism that typifies all the leaders of the main political parties.

Hundreds attend ’Socialism Days’ weekend

Solid action against pay cut and attacks on working conditions

The Northern Rock banking crisis

Capitalism could drag millions of working people into an economic and social abyss.

1,000 schools affected…picket lines in every city, town and village

Sectarian parties lower taxes for big business while hiking taxes for workers

The Northern Rock crisis, the first full scale bank run in Britain for over a century

Make the bankers pay!

New journal continues struggle for a powerful socialist alternative

The successful strike actions of the Prison Officers Association (POA) and the RMT maintenance workers on London Underground have potentially changed the industrial situation in Britain to the benefit of trade unions and workers, if […]

’Committee for Democratisation of the SP’ gains support

’Agitate, educate, organise!’ – The role of the workers’ press

But struggle for justice continues

Headline of the Glasgow Evening Times reads "Pay hike joy for striking council staff."

’Committee for a Democratic SP’ founded

"The Prodi government has never been so weak"

The merger between the two left-wing parties, Left Party.PDS and WASG (Electoral Alternative for Work and Social Justice), in Germany has taken place.

A starting point for strengthening struggle

Unite against war, poverty and terrorism

Authoritarian regime plans catastrophic abolition of social benefits

Up to the end of the ‘official campaign’ (after which the publication of polls and articles in the media is forbidden), all commentators predicted a big victory for the UMP (president Nicolas Sarkozy’s party) and […]

Workers will have to resist neo-liberal agenda

Youth and workers need a socialist alternative

International experience of power-sharing governments

Historic defeat for all working people

A tale of two protests

Anti-worker programme of Blair will stay

Workers’ hopes dashed by gangster capitalism.

After one year, no enthusiasm for Prodi government

Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond has been elected as the new First Minister of the Scottish parliament.

Can the agreement last?

Delegates condemn New Labour’s pro-big business policies

Curtain falls on disastrous reign

How should socialists reply?

Construct an opposition of workers and youth against Sarkozy: Sarko your policies will not pass.

Distastrous result for New Labour

Necessity to build socialist alternative to big business parties is more urgent than ever

Workers must get organised to resist new attacks!

Response shows clear socialist ideas can win support

Elections for the Scottish Parliament and local councils are to be held on 3 May. Most opinion polls are forecasting a big fall in support for New Labour.

Conference marks final demise of once powerful Communist Party

It is sickening for the impoverished working people of the ex-Soviet Union to see the praise being heaped on Boris Yeltsin, one time president of Russia, after his death from heart failure on Monday, 23 […]

First round of the presidential elections

"Berlusconi and Prodi – two sides of the same coin"

Fight to maintain a force capable of genuine anti-capitalist struggle

Sinn Fein and Democratic Unionist Party change position to supporting water charging now elections are over.

WASG and Left Party/PDS vote for merger

Victory for non-payment campaign!

From its foundation in 1991, Rifondazione Comunista (Prc) has been a point of reference and an expression of hope for the future, not just for the Italian working class but for workers throughout Europe.

West’s attempt to impose ‘solution’ risks provoking new conflict

For democratically-organised, mass non-payment

Political force representing working class needed

Scottish banks make billions while 1 million live in poverty

Independent, working class policies needed to build on successes

‘We Won’t Pay’ leads campaign for mass non-payment

Former ‘radical’ journalist’s diatribe against anti-war movement and Left

House that hosted Lenin and Luxemburg bulldozed

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has narrowly won a confidence vote in the Italian Senate by 162 votes to 157.

Turmoil in Party of Communist Re-foundation

Riding pillion behind Bush, Blair has embroiled Britain in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Is it some historical joke that the Parti Socialiste (PS) candidate for the presidency of the French Republic is called Royal?

Left lacks coherent alternative policies

"We don’t want a militarised city; we want to decide our own future".

New right wing government formed – What way forward for Left opposition?

The fact that the Assembly [local ‘power sharing government body] election is going ahead on 7 March does not mean that an Assembly will be set up first on 26 March.

The 300-year anniversary of the Scottish parliament voting itself out of existence by agreeing a union with England in January 1707 passed with very little formal celebration – save the minting of a commemorative £2 […]

Delegates at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis in Dublin on 28 January voted by an overwhelming majority to back a leadership motion to support the police and judicial system in Northern Ireland.

On Tuesday, 16 January, five thousand people demonstrated and blocked the railway station at Vicenza in north-eastern Italy.

‘Red-Green’ government feels working people’s anger

Capitalism, both in Britain and worldwide, means increased poverty, unemployment and war for the peoples of the world. This is the unmistakeable message from the past year’s events.

The British and Irish governments ended the three days of all party negotiations in Scotland by announcing the "St Andrews Agreement".

CWI member, Lucy Redler, elected to National Committee

One and half million public and private sector workers in Italy went on strike on Friday 17 November.

"The discussion this weekend is how we can change the world".

Left course needed to build on Socialist Party’s polls breakthrough

For a bold socialist programme – No to a coalition with rightwing parties!

Six months after it narrowly defeated the right-wing government of Silvio Berlusconi, Romano Prodi’s centre-left coalition in Italy is hanging by a thread.

Respect the right to asylum of the Kurdish refugees!

Friday 10 November was the first day of protests against the possible deportation of Kurdish asylum seekers from Cyprus in many countries across the world.

November 9th saw hundreds join a demonstration against racism and fascism in Vienna initiated by the Socialist Left Party, SLP.

Recent political developments in Hungary

In its nine years in office New Labour has presided over the brutal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the privatisation of more public services than the Tories, and a bonanza of riches for the elite […]

Urgent campaigning needed in working class communities

Cypriot government intends to hand over Kurds who won struggle for refugee rights, into the hands of their Syrian torturers.

2,250 vote in Vienna against capitalism

Greatest protest for 20 years in country’s second city. Eye-witness report from the day of action

THE NEWS of the World (NoW), who suffered a sensational defeat at the hands of Tommy Sheridan in his defamation case against them in August, has unleashed a massive new offensive against him.

Ditching hated PM will not end New Labour rightwing policies

‘Unione’ government plans pension ‘reforms’ and job ‘deregulation’

A campaigner’s report

WASG Berlin wins 2.9% in Berlin parliamentary elections

Outrage over austerity measures and government arrogance

But warning in jump of neo-fascist vote

Time for a new workers’ party

Fifth CWI member elected as councillor in Germany

‘Solidarity – Scotland’s Socialist Movement’, was launched at a packed rally on Sunday 3 September, in Glasgow. Every seat was taken and every piece of wall supported a comrade. More crammed into the side entrances […]

New socialist movement must fight on bold socialist policies

On the night of 9-10 August, New Labour’s home secretary, John Reid, announced a dramatic terrorist plot

Berlin WASG possibility of getting elected to regional parliament

Working class people need a political voice

Tommy Sheridan has won his libel action against the News of the World (NoW) and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

Trade unions and politics in Northern Ireland

Letter from CWI’s councillors to ‘rebel’ Senators

‘Down with capitalism!’ opens Social Forum

Now workers and ’communist’ parliamentarians must mobilise to prevent attacks from ’centre-left’

Dutch Socialist Party must fight November elections on bold socialist policies

Unions must end class collaboration and defend interests of working class

The shift towards the left in social attitudes over the last ten years has meant that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have won important rights in Britain.

The World Cup parties could not hide the growing unpopularity of the German government or popular fears of what the future holds.

Mass protests against Bush visit to Vienna

Important headway made – poll indicates increased support

The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) has been rocked by the release of an open letter by Tommy Sheridan to SSP members which accuses "an unsavoury cabal of comrades at the core of the leadership who […]

Right-wing suffer setback

On the policies and practice of Linksruck (the German equivalent of the British Socialist Workers’ Party)

"Struggle against unemployment and not against the unemployed"

First successful national meeting of the WASG Left

Capitalist independence will not end poverty and ethnic divisions

May’s local elections exposed the deep discontent in British society.

‘Junge Welt’ debate between Lucy Redler (SAV) and Christine Buchholz (Linksruck)

Workers’ representatives will have to fight for real change

But anti-cuts Berlin WASG re-affirm standing independently

Trade union bureaucracy holds workers’struggles back

“We’re voting for Jackie – she’s the only one we trust to fight for our services. All the others have promised us everything and delivered nothing”.

The results in last Thursday’s local authority elections were a devastating blow for New Labour and could be a death blow for Blair.

Silvio Berlusconi, the tycoon prime minister of Italy for five years, has finally tendered his resignation.

Press statement from the Socialist Party

A reply to Linksruck, sister organisation of the British SWP

A dangerous move to the right

Future not capitalism

Corruption and despair – Interviews with accident victims

Anti-cuts alternative confirmed for September poll

World’s worst nuclear accident

Workers must act to block the return of the tycoon prime minister

But union leaders refuse to seize opportunity

Socialist Party councillors make a difference

Extend the action – for a general strike!

Unions need to step up action to win

Volcanic anger of working class against New Labour

Over one million local government workers across Britain and Northern Ireland are expected to strike over their pension rights, on Tuesday 28 March.

Tuesday March 28’s "day of action" saw new mass protests and strikes throughout France against the government.

But workers face petty, vindictive management

Only united working class struggle can win national rights

No party represents interests of working class

For a general strike!

Party needed for the millions, not the millionaires

After last Saturday’s million and half strong protest against both the new CPE, youth employment contact law, and the French government in general the key issue has become how the struggle will develop.

United workers and youth strike action to defeat employment laws

Opposition to Berlusconi but ‘Unione’no real alternative

Text of CWI leaflet

Balkan leaders and imperialist powers responsible for wars and division

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

What kind of a new left do we need?

CWI argues for principled, socialist policies

Available on the SP website.

Membership ballot confirms decision of party conference

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’.

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

Delegates oppose social cuts of local Berlin government

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!"’

‘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

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

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 […]

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 […]

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

Now is the time to organise resistance!

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

New party has potential to become third biggest party in Bundestag

How can the working class stop the bigots?

The fragmentation of Iraq?

G8 fail to ‘Make Poverty History’

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

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

Voters denied the right to representation

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.

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.

“Philosophers have interpreted the world the point is to change it”.

There is a huge wellspring of sympathy and solidarity – shared by the socialist – for the victims of the London tube and bus bombings. The unspeakable horrors that have been visited on the innocent […]

National congress of new left-wing party WASG in Germany prepares for general elections

International solidarity – more then a slogan!

Leading activists demand end of repression of Pakistan telecom workers

The crushing rejection of the proposed EU constitution in France and the Netherlands has had the effect of an erupting political volcano.

An analysis of the vote for the left and the way forward

The Socialist Party group on public sector union UNISON’s 70-plus ruling National Executive Council (NEC) has been increased from three to five members following the recent elections.

Public sector union conference supports non-payment campaign

Members of the CWI in Austria handed in a letter of protest to the Pakistan Embassy, in Vienna, and the CWI held a protest at the Pakistan Embassy in New York.

Voters ignore arrogant Establishment and punish right wing government

Left winger leader, Oskar Lafontaine, leaves ruling social democrats and calls for new left alliance

The European Union and the French economic, financial and political establishment plunged into crisis as France voted last night against the proposed EU constitution.

Socialists confident that chances to build class unity are increasing

Socialist Alternative members stood with others as WASG candidates

Days before the referendum in France and the Netherlands on the proposed EU constitution, the ‘No’ camp leads.

New elections called for the autumn

"They want to starve us out,"

Voter apathy rises in face of political stalemate

New Labour wins third term but with lowest percentage support in history.

US President hears demands for an end to Iraqi occupation

Election shows growing numbers have had enough of Tony Blair

The swing against New Labour across Britain was also reflected in Scotland where New Labour’s lost votes and 5 MP’s with the Lib Dems being the main beneficiaries.

The Westminster election is being held against the background of increasing sectarian division on the ground, and the breakdown of the Good Friday agreement with little hope of its resurrection and will inevitably be another […]

Such is the distaste of the majority of the population for the coming general election that the numbers watching TV news has dropped 300,000 in the four weeks of the campaign.

Education a right, not a privilege

A survey of public opinion in Scotland carried out at the start of the election campaign found that 79% of people believed that wealth should be redistributed in society.

The Socialist Party is standing a candidate in the general election to highlight the scandal of Rover’s collapse and to call for the renationalisation of the company. Louise Houldey, who has stood three times before […]

Big defeats for Forza Italia in regional elections

The ’ugly face of capitalism’

2005 has had a very uncomfortable beginning for the republican leadership.

So they’re off and running in the general election stakes. But for ordinary voters looking for a party to back there appear to be more and bigger obstacles than anything in the Grand National course.

Since the introduction of universal suffrage, the gap between the world of Westminster and the reality of people’s lives has never been greater. In mid-February, when New Labour launched its election campaign, the country was […]

Blair is preparing to declare the general election.

Four hundred meet to discuss resistance against social cuts and capitalism

Former nurse offered job as prostitute by Labour Service

If the Scottish National Party expected a "Salmond bounce" following the election of Alex Salmond to lead the SNP they have so-far been disappointed.

Threat of co-ordinated strike action by public-sector unions over pensions forces major climbdown.

This General Election, perhaps more than ever before, will be fought over by politicians who are a million miles removed from the real lives and problems facing the majority of working people.

Who gains from Brown’s plans?

“A sad and disappointing day for the right to protest.”

Lively International Socialist Resistance contingent on 100,000-strong London protest

Today, the Belgian Youth March for Work, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), and the European Social Forum are jointly protesting against growing unemployment, against insecure jobs, against the Iraq war and imperialist occupation and […]

Workers give generous solidarity for tsunami campaign

The conference discussed the momentous events taking place in Latin America, where a series of struggles has erupted against the policies of neo-liberalism.

The 2005 Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) conference was held last weekend, following Tommy Sheridan’s resignation as party leader in November 2004.

On Saturday 12 February, nearly 300 demonstrations took place in 77 regions across the whole of Russia, at the same time.

The Northern Bank robbery in Belfast, Robert McCartney’s killing and the attempt to cover it up, and then the allegations about the multi-million pound criminal empire run by the IRA have put the leadership of […]

Talks paralysed as elections loom

Socialist Party member in British public sector union, UNISON, comes second in General Secretary election campaign.

The Scottish Socialist Party conference meets this weekend in the aftermath of Tommy Sheridan’s resignation as SSP convener.

Dear collegues,

Successful picket of Israeli Embassy in London

Neusiedler/Mondi bussiness paper SCP a.s. takes legal action against workers involved in setting up a trade union.

Successful Socialist Alternative campaign against cuts

An eyewitness account

"Capitalism is the only system that works," pronounced Polly Toynbee, The Guardian columnist, as 2004 drew to a close.

Millions of public-sector workers are faced with huge cuts to their pensions – some from as early as April 2005.

Against the background of increased attacks on living standards and working conditions, important sections of the working class in Germany have drawn the conclusion that an organisational and political alternative to the neo-liberal policies of […]

On the 30th of November in Italy there was the fifth general strike against the Berlusconi government. It stopped the country.

Reply to a letter dated 22 November 2004, sent by the CEO of the company to all the employees.

The working masses need their own alternative

Right wing politicians and imperialist powers stir up ethnic tensions. A fierce power struggle between different factions of the Ukrainian ruling class – using the masses as pawns – threatens to slide the country into […]

Scottish socialist Party (SSP) members were stunned to learn of the resignation of Tommy Sheridan as national convenor of the party on Wednesday 10 November.

Germany is currently in the middle of a political, social and economic earthquake. Ordinary Germans are facing a neo-liberal offensive of huge and stark proportions by the German ruling class.

More than 40 students from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam assembled on 16 November on campus to show their anger against the current spate of racist attacks and the posting of inflammatory anti-Muslim posters on campus […]

After a 1,200-strong demonstration through central London, a packed rally heard PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka report on how successful the day’s strike action had been. He outlined the next stages of the campaign.

Socialists and school students call protest actions

The main headline story resulting from the recent Kosovan Parliamentary elections was that less than 1% of the Ethnic partition threatened 80,000 ethnic-Serbs living in Kosovo (called Kosova by ethnic Albanians) cast their votes.

Socialists call for workers and youth protests

Workers’ movement must organise against racism and cuts

The management of the Austrian based multinational Neusiedler in Ruzomberok, a town in central Slovakia, has decided to hand out redundancy notices to all workers who were involved in organising a new trade union.

"In this week’s BN-De Stem [newspaper] there was an article about a new phenomenon in Breda: the soup kitchen.

"This was a sell out!"

The new £430 million Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh was opened by the Queen in a blaze of establishment pomp and ceremony recently.