The strike wave of the last two years in Britain and in other European countries has taken levels of industrial action to a scale not seen since the 1980s. A new generation of trade union […]
The crisis-ridden saga of Thames Water in Britain continues. Recent news suggests that a promised £3 billion of further investment into the company may be withheld, threatening the possibility that it will be unable to […]
A year has passed since the Scottish National Party (SNP) was thrown into a huge crisis following the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon as party leader and first minister in the Scottish parliament. As we pointed […]
The following document was discussed and adopted by the Socialist Party Scotland congress in March 2024. International backdrop The tumultuous and increasingly overwhelming crises facing the global capitalist system is the backdrop to any […]
The horrific terror attacks on the outskirts of Moscow on 22 March shocked and repulsed Russians and people everywhere. At the time of writing, the death toll is officially 139 and rising. Over 180 people […]
Earlier this week, the Taoiseach [Irish prime minister] Leo Varadkhar, made a surprise resignation speech. He indicated various reasons behind the decision, including ‘political and personal’ factors. An important factor will have been the recent […]
The Communist Party (KPÖ) in Austria has seen a couple of successes in local and regional elections in the last two and a half years. The first was in Graz, Austria’s second largest city, where […]
It is now over two years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the start of the war between the two countries, with Ukraine receiving essential Nato backing. The battlefront has been in a relative […]
‘Coal not dole’ was the cry across Britain as 180,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in 180 pits began walking out on strike in March 1984. It became a long, bitter industrial […]
In the new world situation of deep capitalist crises and intensification of inter-imperialist conflicts, German imperialism is facing new challenges and divisions within the ruling class on the question of how the position of German […]
The following resolution was adopted by the Federal Conference of Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (Sol, CWI in Germany) on the 9 December 2023. World & Europe What the CWI formulated at the beginning of this year […]
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the heroic miners’ strike in Britain. The eventual defeat of the miners, mainly due to the role of the TUC and Labour Party leaderships, has […]
Meeting on the eve of a general election which will usher in a new period of class struggle, delegates from our many Socialist Party branches across England and Wales met in London to discuss, debate […]
There has not been such a stormy start to a new year in Germany for a very long time. And yet the events of the last few weeks are just a glimmer of what is […]
The Rochdale parliamentary by-election in northern England on 29 February could not have delivered a more emphatic rejection of the capitalist establishment and its tame politicians if it had been a scripted drama. George Galloway […]
On 8 March voters in the Republic of Ireland face two referenda to change the constitution. The ‘Family Amendment’ vote proposes to extend constitutional recognition to all families, not just those based on marriage. As […]
The shambolic end to the UK parliamentary debate on Gaza on Wednesday 21 February reflected the pressure being felt from the anti-war movement on the Tories and Labour, and the widespread anger at their refusal […]
The General Council (GC) is the Executive body of the Northern Ireland Public Services Alliance (NIPSA) which takes critical decisions on the actions and decisions of the union between conference. The election is an important […]
Economics Minister Robert Habeck, described the economic situation in Germany as “dramatically bad” after the growth forecasts for the economy were reduced from 1.2 to 0.3 per cent this year – after a year of […]
The left-wing Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has announced its support for George Galloway’s ‘insurgent campaign’ against the establishment politicians in next week’s Rochdale by-election in Britain. The TUSC national chairperson Dave Nellist, a former […]
February 12th marked the 90th anniversary of a brief civil war in Austria, when workers attempted to defeat the mounting attacks of the then ‘Austrofascist’ government on the workers’ movement and democratic rights. The text […]
Just days after news from Russia of the imprisonment of Boris Kagarlitsky (https://www.socialistworld.net/2024/02/16/veteran-socialist-academic-condemned-to-five-years-in-russian-prison/) comes the report of the death in custody of Russia’s most famous political prisoner – 47-year-old Alexei Navalny, reportedly after taking exercise […]
Boris Kagarlitsky – the Russian sociologist, political scientist, self-declared Marxist, and socialist – is in jail after a court decided to change a “too soft” sentence to fine him into a five-year prison sentence. In […]
In an election held last October in Poland, with a historically high voter turnout of more than 74 percent, the previously ruling Law and Justice (PiS) – a right wing populist and nationalist party – lost […]
Keir Starmer’s New Labour in Britain is on course to win the general election as the only available governmental alternative to prime minister Rushi Sunak’s hated Tory government. Nonetheless, millions will not be able to […]
Labour Winter Business Conference 2024, like last year’s British Labour Party conference, represented a further tightening of the ties between big business and the Labour leadership. Sponsored by HSBC and Bloomberg, £1,000 per head tickets […]
The decision by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to re-enter power-sharing arrangements at Stormont, after two years of boycott, followed claims by party leader Jeffrey Donaldson that he had secured major changes to proposed restrictions […]
What do the mass demonstrations against the AfD mean and how can the movement continue? An impressive wave of protests has developed in recent weeks against the strengthening of the AfD (see here). However, in […]
Strike action is rocking Finland, with 300,000 workers across almost all major unions taking action between 31 January and 2 February. The cause of the strike, the first explicitly political broad strike wave since 2015, […]
Well over a million people demonstrated against the far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in January. Huge demonstrations of hundreds of thousands took place in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne – so large that in […]
Hundreds of thousands of nurses, teachers, civil servants, and other public sector workers took strike action in Northern Ireland on 18 January in one of its biggest ever strikes. Below is the text of the […]
There is a large scale housing crisis in Scotland. A number of factors have coalesced, including continued local government cuts, the cost of living crisis and decisions taken by the Tories in Westminster, that mean […]
Hundreds of thousands people took to the streets of London and other towns and cities on 13 January 2024 in the first mass protests of the year against the ongoing slaughter of the Palestinians. The […]
Tragically our slogan on “No trust in Tata” has been borne out by the January 19 announcement that the two blast furnaces in Port Talbot will be shut down with potential job losses up to […]
Northern Ireland will see its biggest strike wave ever on 18 January, involving over 150,000 workers. Across the public sector, workers are demanding pay rises, as well as ensuring pay parity, where relevant, with public-sector […]
After the judgement of the German Federal Constitutional Court plunged the ‘traffic light’ government into another deep crisis, the heads of government have agreed on a draft budget for 2024. The draft is intended to […]
The Scottish National Party (SNP) – Scottish Green budget has delivered a devastating blow to public services in Scotland that were already locked into a spiralling crisis. An estimated £1.5 billion shortfall has been bridged […]
Internationally 2023 saw unimaginable horror being suffered by Palestinians in Gaza, the continuation of the grinding Ukraine war with hundreds of thousands of casualties, and a COP28 conference that failed to agree any proposals that […]
The war in Ukraine has been overlooked by much of the mainstream media during the last three months while the cruel bombardment of the Israeli state against the people of Gaza continues unabated. Nevertheless, the […]
In an unexpected turn of events, the Law Courts in Sweden ruled against Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, when he sued to make the Swedish postal workers handle the new number plates for the new Tesla […]
The third national conference of Sol – Socialist Organization Solidarity took place in Berlin from 8 to 10 December. One hundred delegates, members and guests from Germany, as well as international comrades, came together to […]
After a hard-fought campaign the results of the PCS general secretary and assistant general secretary elections have been announced. Fran Heathcote has been elected general secretary with 10,340 votes. Marion Lloyd, a Socialist Party member […]
In previous articles, we have described how the two Norwegian parties in the coalition government have lost popular mandates. The main party, the AP (Labour Party), has seen its support in Gallup polls drastically reduced. […]
Sinn Féin is consistently polling ahead in the Republic of Ireland, and in Northern Ireland it is the biggest party. When the Assembly is restored in the North, and in the aftermath of the next […]
Scottish revolutionary socialist John Maclean died a hundred years ago on 30 November 1923. As part of our occasional working-class history series, Brian McLelland of Socialist Party Scotland looks back at the events of Red […]
Socialism 2023 was a weekend attended by hundreds of people who want to change the world. Many have been involved in the strike wave. Many found out about the event on the anti-war demos – […]
After the start of the initial four-day Israeli ceasefire, aid workers who entered the Gaza Strip reported scenes of humanitarian catastrophe. Devastating injuries, overwhelmed hospitals, over 50,000 buildings destroyed or damaged, a dire shortage of […]
The ‘Partij Voor de Vrijheid’ (PVV) – known as the Freedom Party – won the biggest number of seats in the recent elections in the Netherlands. The PVV managed to win this as the other […]
Last Thursday’s knife attack against young children and a creche worker outside a Dublin city centre primary school horrified people across the country and beyond. But for the bravery of those people, who included a […]
On October 27, 1998, the first and so far only federal government consisting of the SPD and the Greens was elected. Gerhard Schröder became Chancellor, the former Bürgerschreck – or ‘terroriser of the bourgeoisie’ – […]
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