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

Victory boosts workers’ confidence to defend living standards

German train drivers follow French model

Crucial first strike under ‘power-sharing’ Assembly

OAU students discussing next steps

A militant struggle against ‘power-sharing’ government attacks

Thirty-six employees of the Coffee To Go Café in Ramat Aviv have won a strike for union recognition and against the violation of their labour rights. It was the first ever strike in an Israeli […]

Call for united action now

Train drivers’ strike over wages and hours

Official figures belie extent of killings, maimings, disappearances and arrests

Only way to counter racial and reactionary religious policies

Further reports of international solidarity picket and new plan

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

Crisis and confusion remain

Textile workers are on the move again.

Simultaneous pickets demand their release and the dropping of all charges

Saburi’s bail denied in court

Bloody fighting between Turkish troops and PKK Kurdish separatist guerrillas on the Turkey/Iraq border has enormously ratcheted-up tensions between the two countries.

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?

Worldwide embassy protests on Tuesday 23 October.Release Saburi Akande Akinola, Taiwo Hassan Soweto and Olatunde Dairo now!

Industrial action follows spate of public sector strikes

Urgent appeal: Free OAU students now!

Commitment from union to cover costs

"No alternative but to take this drastic action"

Release Taiwo Hassan, Tunde Dairo and Akinola Saburi! Now!

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

1968 article reprint, with new introduction

New introduction to Brazilian edition of Marxism in Today’s World

Hundreds attend ’Socialism Days’ weekend

Industry enriches bosses but endangers life and the environment

Solid action against pay cut and attacks on working conditions

Review of ‘China: The Fragile Superpower’ by Susan L Shirk The stream of books published on China almost equals the volume of products churned out from the country’s factories and workplaces. Many have provided invaluable […]

The Northern Rock banking crisis

Deaths and injuries, as protests spread

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

Military warns of “action” against biggest street protests for two decades

Government and opposition struggle intensifies

This is an opportune time for the publication of the Pakistani edition of this book.

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

Armed threats ends action

"Generals lie, Soldiers die"

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 […]

A first-hand report on the glaring social contradictions in modern-day China

’Committee for Democratisation of the SP’ gains support

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

Mass struggles erupt

But struggle for justice continues

"Nothing – there’s nothing to go back to…"

7,000 workers on strike for a fair contract

The Peruvian and Chilean ruling elites have whipped up a border dispute in an attempt to try and divert the attention of the working class in both countries from problems they face in their own […]

Between June 20 and June 23, 2007, Nigeria came to a complete halt as working people led the mass of the population in struggle against the latest attacks of the ruling robber elite.

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

Wesley Suthantharabal Muthiah 1930 – 2007

’Committee for a Democratic SP’ founded

Scandals abound

"The Prodi government has never been so weak"

But divided elites, social tensions and Kurdish question herald new crises

Will India and China, the new economic giants, rescue world capitalism?

The non-renewal of the RCTV license has become the subject of worldwide debate.

Withdraw the troops now

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.

Support the Gualberto Villarroel workers – send protests!

Government isolated; workers need solutions

In Bolivia, it is illegal for any employer to discriminate against a portion of its workforce by creating two-tiered labor conditions.

A starting point for strengthening struggle

Suspension of action cannot hide magnificent display of public sector workers’ power

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

Growing opposition against Ahmadinejad’s regime

Youth and workers need a socialist alternative

Regime makes partial retreat, but fundamental issues remain unresolved

International experience of power-sharing governments

Historic defeat for all working people

General strike enters third day

Friday 15 June was a day filled with violence at the campus of the university, Universidad Mayor de San Simon de Cochabamba.

Labour leaders say action will continue but action must broadened

New regime faces mass working class opposition

Gaza’s population faces further isolation

Current Supreme Court and Constitutional Court were Selected by Earlier Governments

Huge popular support for action puts ANC government under pressure

A tale of two protests

The struggle for genuine community control and worker management continues

Direct and radical action announced in case their demands are not fulfilled

Whilst the government arrogantly insisted that anything above 6% was unaffordable, a commission on remuneration recommended that the president’s salary be increased by 57% and those of ministers by between 30% and 50%!

Trade Unions issue 14 day ultimatum – but workers’ leaders must act decisively over new attacks

Anti-worker programme of Blair will stay

Workers’ hopes dashed by gangster capitalism.

After one year, no enthusiasm for Prodi government

Urgent solidarity needed

The prefecture of Manfred Reyes Villa organises thugs to intimidate opposition

Internationally, a veil of silence has fallen over the blatant rigging of April’s elections in Nigeria, whose 140 million people are a quarter of Sub-Saharan Africa’s population.

Build Action Committees in workplaces and communities. Fight for real democracy, oust the looters

The prefecture of Manfred Reyes Villa organises thugs to occupy squares and intimidate opposition

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

Open Letter to trade union and labour leaders

Curtain falls on disastrous reign

How should socialists reply?

Military threatens pro-Islamic government

Tens of thousands of student clash with police to protest at government attempts to raise tuition fees

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!

Public sector workers threaten to strike from 7 May if agreement with government not honoured

Party’s leaders called in for questioning

Dagga Tolar and other Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) members detained by State security service

Campaign against war and oppression gets a boost

The following CWI leaflet was distributed in Arabic in Beirut on Mayday

Dagga Tolar and other Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) members detained by State security service

This is an introduction to an Indian edition of the book Marxism in Today’s World

Ruling elite divided with no immediate alternative

Response shows clear socialist ideas can win support

The need for the natural gas reserves to be fully nationalised under workers’ control becomes ever more obvious.

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.

Build a mass working class alternative!

Conference marks final demise of once powerful Communist Party

Judge rejects state prosecutor’s demands

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 […]

Big losses for ruling Liberals and pro-separatist Parti Québécois

Decisive Action By Labour Needed Now!

First round of the presidential elections

A scientific evaluation of all the factors and forces involved in the just concluded as well as the forthcoming elections has clearly shown that the working masses cannot expect a fundamental improvement in their living […]

The blatant rigging and falsification of Nigeria’s April 14 State Governorship and Assembly elections has helped plunge the country, Africa’s largest, into crisis.

Movement from below opens the way to a crisis from above.

One day in February this year, Ammu, a 25-year-old textile worker, was found hanged in the most suspicious circumstances.

But trade union leadership collude with the bosses to stab workers in the back

"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.

Killings are ultimately the responsibility of the ‘Communist’ led state government.

State thugs crackdown on protests

WASG and Left Party/PDS vote for merger

Victory for non-payment campaign!

Banks make super profits while students face sub-standard education

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.

Alarm bells have been ringing, left and right. John Pilger, the radical journalist, wrote an article, Iran: The War Begins (New Statesman, 3 February), warning that a US air attack on Iran was imminent.

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

Big business sabotage industry

A review article on ‘The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century’ (by Will Hutton)

Bush and Chávez vie for influence

Brazilian military police violently attack anti-Bush protesters

Students join local protests

Corruption, gun fights and economic regression

Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) and some associates in the ’United People’s Movement’ escaped with their lives when over 300 armed thugs, led by a deputy minister, raided the […]

Mass class struggle in impoverished, repressive society

For democratically-organised, mass non-payment

Political force representing working class needed

Scottish banks make billions while 1 million live in poverty

Bodies of murder victims likely those of kidnapped Tamils

Independent, working class policies needed to build on successes

Step up class struggle and democratisation of unions!

Private developers’ thugs and police demolish local homes

Kurdish women, who are oppressed inside their community in Syria, are facing two kinds of oppression.

‘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

Ruling elite fear social explosions

The lessons of ‘Kwame Nkrumah’s rule and Pan-African ‘socialism’

Next step general strike?

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.

Majority of children malnourished and majority of population illiterate

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

Only workers’ unity and a struggle for socialism offers a way out

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

Protest carried on national TV

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

Histadrut union federation takes membership dues but ignore struggle

Medecin Sans Frontier threaten striking health workers with dismissal

Working people demand: “Let us live!”

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 situation in Sri Lanka has become even more difficult for the left forces, especially the activists fighting against the war and against the repression of the rights of the Tamil-speaking minority.

Solidarity and protest letters urgently needed

Imperialism meddles as conflict widens

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 […]

Protest letters and solidarity messages still needed

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.

The campaign against repression and war in Sri Lanka has gathered even more momentum.

London lobbies on Wednesday 31 January: Stop the killings! Put Mervyn Silva on trial! Hands off Siritunga Jaysuriya!

Union leaders hand over initiative to opposition parties

Hundreds of journalists and media workers from five Sri Lankan media organisations staged a joint protest at Colombo Fort railway station last Tuesday, 23 January, against the threats and intimidation against journalists and their frequent […]

Protest letters continue to bombard the office of the president of Sri Lanka following the brutal gangster attack on an anti-war meeting in Colombo.

Protests outside embassies and consulates.

Letters of strong protest from two of Ireland’s Socialist Party councillors:

The Trade Union Rights Campaign – Kashmir have been in the forefront of helping to organise solidarity for thousands of earthquake affected public sector workers in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir (POK).

The DSM has been invited to address the NLC’s 9th Delegate Conference which is being held in Abuja, the Federal capital, on February 15 and 16. Below is the goodwill message that the DSM sent […]

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

"The most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam" were the words Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam war veteran used to describe Bush’s latest revised Iraq strategy. Hagel, however, is not only a Vietnam […]

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

Please draw up protests on the basis of the resolution for MPs (see below)

Demands for decent compensation and living conditions

There is great interest in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, Eva Morales’ Bolivia and Fidel Castro’s Cuba among workers and young people, worldwide.

Government fails to solve the problems of the quake affected public sector workers.

Siritunga Jaysuriya of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) and a handful of associates in the ‘United People’s Movement’ escaped with their lives when over 300 armed thugs, led by a deputy minister, raided […]

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.

Frankenstein kills out of control monster

Troops were deployed throughout Bangladesh on Sunday 11 December supposedly to “maintain law and order”, according to a Presidential order.

For the second time in a year in Lagos State and for the umpteenth time in the country as a whole, another tragic fire has resulted from a burst fuel pipeline claiming the lives and […]

The 15 day long tea plantation strike – the longest in recent history – is supposed to have come to an end.

On the 10th December, at 14.15 hours, the greatest killer and thief that Chile has ever known, the former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, died.

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

Three days before the congress of the United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka) was convened in Colombo, a suicide bomb attack in the city targeted the minister of defence – the brother of the president, […]

Calderon government accused of state terrorism against the peoples of Oaxaca

Continued threat of counter-revolution

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".

Hizbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) have planned mass street demonstrations for this week in opposition to Prime Minister Siniora and his weakened, imperialist-supported, March 14th or Future movement government.

On Monday, November 27, several hundred protesters surrounded the entrance to Cochabamba’s municipal building in what turned out to be a sharp clash with right-wing thugs and provocateurs and the Cochabamba police. 

Send urgent protests to stop demolitions and evictions!

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The leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in his Heroes’ Day speech, has warned of an end to the cease-fire and of the ‘Tigers’ renewing their demand for independence.

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

Confrontations between police and demonstrators result in 48 wounded and 60 arrests

Right-wing opposition to left-leaning Bolivian president, Evo Morales, and his governing party, Movement towards Socialism (MAS), has increased dramatically in the last week as potential conflicts that have been brewing for months have recently come […]

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

Pro-western Siniora government hangs on by its fingertips

Twenty three arrested and held while devastation wrought

"Se ve, se siente, tenemos presidente"

Masses yearn for end to despotism, wars and poverty

As Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinistas, scraped home as president, thousands took to the streets of the capital, Managua, hooting car horns, sounding football klaxons and setting off fireworks to celebrate the victory.

Trade unionists and left activists under threat

Protests at the murder of prominent Tamil MP, Nadarajah Raviraj, continue to pour in to embassies around the world and directly to the office of the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapakse.

‘Monument to the Revolution’, Mexico DF – that is our rendezvous for last Saturday morning, 9 am.

Thousands march in Colombo; embassies picketed around the globe

The US economy slowed down sharply before the mid-term elections.

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.

“He doth bestride the narrow world, like a colossus; and we petty men, walk under his huge legs and peep about”. (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar) Bush, decked out as a poor imitation of a modern ‘Caesar’, […]

25 deaths, 400 disappearances as the federal state clamps down to kill APPO

Working class says no to war and neo-liberalism

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.

High profile assassination demands massive response

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

New workers’ party necessary to fight back

Danger of army intervention

Reactionary Jewish and Arab groups unite in homophobic campaign

Solidarity appeal for Venezuelan fishermen in struggle

In February of this year, crowds gathered on the streets of Manila to commemorate the ‘People Power’ revolution of twenty years.

ON February 24, a Friday, the Philippine media reported an aborted coup d’etat allegedly launched by rebel military forces against the government of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

The description of Sri Lanka as ‘tear-shaped’ has never been more apt than it is today.

cwi lobbies of Sri Lanka embassies in Stockholm and London

In less than a week the Bush and Blair administrations have been forced into humiliating public retreats over their Iraq policy.

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

Send protests against state repression!

Why is the Taliban resurgent?

2,250 vote in Vienna against capitalism

Imperialist powers hypocritical condemnation

Stop the reprisals against the leaders of the student movement, the “penguin revolution”.

This was the headline in the US Wall Street Journal in its weekend edition on 1-3 September.

Urgent international support needed!

"Life for the Tamil people of Sri Lanka has become unbearable."

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

"From this day on, there is no government anymore!"

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.

Nothing could more clearly demonstrate the toothless nature of the United Nations (UN) than its ineffectual posturing over the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Western Sudan.

Ditching hated PM will not end New Labour rightwing policies

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

A campaigner’s report

US imperialism certainly expects ‘regime change’, not just in the government of Cuba but also in its social system.

Army suppresses democratic rights

WASG Berlin wins 2.9% in Berlin parliamentary elections

A socialist analysis and a socialist alternative

Outrage over austerity measures and government arrogance

For a fighting, democratic union!

But warning in jump of neo-fascist vote

Time for a new workers’ party

Bush exploits tragedy to promote imperialism and repression

Corporation connives with local authorities in forcible evictions

Fifth CWI member elected as councillor in Germany

Only international working class can end conflicts

‘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

Protesting Bangladeshi garment workers torch factories

5 killed, 50 injured security force shootings

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

Juan Baretto threatens to seize golf greens

Berlin WASG possibility of getting elected to regional parliament

Only workers’ unity can show a way out of war and poverty. Part Two

Limits of Israeli military power exposed. Part One

Thousands join massive encampments stretching for seven miles

Courts deny Parti Sosialis Malaysia the right to register as a party

August 6 saw 4,000 people take to the streets of Chamchamal, a Kurdish city in northern Iraq, in protest against the huge increase in fuel prices and the lack of water and electric.

Working class people need a political voice

Democratic Socialist Movement, press statement, August 11, 2006

After nearly a month of carpet bombing the country, by air, sea and land, the enormous sound of the Israeli war planes is now sinking into the background with noises of people trying to go […]

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

As Israeli missiles continued to bombard Lebanon, an immediate ceasefire was demanded by an emergency demonstration of 100,000 people in London on 5 August.

Trade unions and politics in Northern Ireland

’The politicians and generals are dragging us into the quagmire’

There has been rage and revulsion worldwide at the barbaric treatment by Israeli forces of innocent families in Lebanon fleeing in terror.

Letter from CWI’s councillors to ‘rebel’ Senators

Workers ‘self-management’ and socialism

Consequences of war and poverty will lead to future protests

Workers are paying the price

Imperialism gives full support to Israel capitalism, its ally in the region

Union federation supports NLC candidate

Residents resist brutal police repression

‘Down with capitalism!’ opens Social Forum

Hatred of imperialist oppression climbs to new levels

"If there is no solution, there will be revolution"

Only chronic poverty and conflict for resources-rich “new nation”

But fight against cuts and privatisation must go on.

The Country threatens to erupt if the right steals another election

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

Dutch Socialist Party must fight November elections on bold socialist policies

Tension rises over demand for release of Palestinian prisoners

Unions must end class collaboration and defend interests of working class

Where is the ‘peace process’ heading?

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.

Neo-liberal policies have been a catastrophe for the Latin American masses.

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

In the 1950s, Lee Kuan Yew formed a political association with the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) which had been able to amass and maintain a huge following among the working class.

Mass protests against Bush visit to Vienna

The recently concluded general election on 6 May in Singapore was considered an exciting election, at least by Singaporean standards.

The United States is the strongest power the world has ever seen.

The struggle for social liberation continues

Palestinians recently interviewed in the press described their life in Gaza and the West Bank as like "living on the set of a horror film".

Early in the morning on Thursday, 15 June, two claymore mines exploded destroying a bus packed with farmers, workers and children.

More than 80 % of the population oppose continuation of President Obasanjo’s rule

Central Santiago streets a ‘battleground’

Important headway made – poll indicates increased support

Scandal of state compensation paid to mass murderer

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 […]

International workers’ solildarity, a must for workers in Kashmir

Right-wing suffer setback

400,000 on strike and occupying schools

Six years after their first military intervention, a second Australia-led military and police force has re-occupied East Timor.

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

"Struggle against unemployment and not against the unemployed"

Sri Lanka has just come to the end of a period of elections.

Mass resistance stops homes demolition

Australian government despatches troops to ’secure’ Dili airport

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

‘Communists’ garner the votes of poor but policies are increasingly pro-business

International solidarity plays role in victory

Stop the repression of Trade Union rights in the pharmaceutical company RACE

We seek the support of the international workers’ movement

But anti-cuts Berlin WASG re-affirm standing independently

“A day in Baghdad” was how many journalists and commentators in Brazil described Sunday 14 May.

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

Demonstrations recede but political crisis will continue

Future not capitalism

On Tuesday, 25 April, a suicide bomber attacked the car in which the top Sri Lankan army commander was travelling.

Corruption and despair – Interviews with accident victims

Anti-cuts alternative confirmed for September poll

King threatened with insurrection.

Alma-Ata authorities feel pressure of worldwide protests

Socialists and activists demand party’s registration

End low pay

The horrendous assassination of three people in Caracas has been used by the opposition to Hugo Chavez as an excuse to start an offensive against the government. After the brutal murder of the Faddoul brothers […]

On Friday 7 April the CWI in Venezuela held a successful public meeting about the situation in France

World’s worst nuclear accident

But political crisis persists

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

But union leaders refuse to seize opportunity

Police and bulldozers repelled by shanty town residents

Socialist Party councillors make a difference

Workers need a party of their own!

Extend the action – for a general strike!

Appeal for world-wide solidarity.

In the council and provincial elections which took place on Thursday, 30 March, the United Socialist Party (CWI in Sri Lanka) won one seat and massively improved its vote in many other areas.

Unions need to step up action to win

Volcanic anger of working class against New Labour

Activists arrested – Solidarity needed urgently!

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

‘Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are’

No party represents interests of working class

For a general strike!

Protests in Brussels and Amsterdam

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

Is Iraq really sliding into a sectarian civil war? And if so, is it a divide and rule tactic of imperialism?

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?

Biggest fuel price hike ever

Demonstrations and clashes reminiscent of apartheid era

Interview with Bishkek strike leaders

US imperialism threatens

Washington hawks aim to remove Iranian regime

CWI argues for principled, socialist policies

Workers and poor need to fight on independent socialist programme

Available on the SP website.

Bush seeks to boost business deals and allies in the region

Membership ballot confirms decision of party conference

Corruption and cronyism have driven thousands onto the streets

Forbidden to forget

President of Nigeria Labour Congress recognises role played by Democratic Socialist Movement

There is a feeling of widespread anger amongst German workers.

Sectarian militias on the streets as US imperialism’s disastrous policies are exposed

On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the ‘People Power’ mass movement of 1986, which brought down the hated Marcos dictatorship, Philippines president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, declared a State of Emergency. This was ostensibly […]

Workers and youth discuss alternative to Nazabayev regime

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

Fight-back needed in workplace and communities