"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 […]
Court reinstates sacked teachers’ union leaders
‘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.
Only a united working class can stop cuts and defeat imperialism
"We’re moving towards a socialist republic of Venezuela"
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 […]
TURCP campaigners and social rights activists condemn police inaction
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 joint struggle of the Federal Union of Journalists and the Newspaper Hawkers Union forced the newspaper bosses to retreat from reducing the newspapers holidays from 8 to 6 days annually.
Troops were deployed throughout Bangladesh on Sunday 11 December supposedly to “maintain law and order”, according to a Presidential order.
Frankenstein kills out of control monster
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".
There is again heated debate going on around the veil worn by Muslim women.
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
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.
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".
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.
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Send urgent protests to stop demolitions and evictions!
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
More than 300 Trade Unionists in attendance
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
Masses yearn for end to despotism, wars and poverty
"Se ve, se siente, tenemos presidente"
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
Trade Union Rights Campaign meeting attracts over 100 activists
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.
The US economy slowed down sharply before the mid-term elections.
Thousands march in Colombo; embassies picketed around the globe
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’, […]
Respect the right to asylum of the Kurdish refugees!
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