Around the world

‘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!

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.

Working class says no to war and neo-liberalism

Rebels to give up arms and to enter new coalition government

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

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

Embassy officials attempt to intimidate protesters

Solidarity appeal for Venezuelan fishermen in struggle

Police in civilian clothes shoot four people before moving in with armoured trucks and helicopters

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.

60% of the population think all politicians are corrupt

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

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

Reinstate 144 sacked leaders of teachers organisations

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

Around 3.5 million still ill-equipped, under- nourished and homeless

Send protests against state repression!

Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) meeting in Islamabad attracts 150 from different public sector trade unions

Quake survivors caught in limbo

Why is the Taliban resurgent?

2,250 vote in Vienna against capitalism

Imperialist powers hypocritical condemnation

Women and children suffer most

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

Urgent international support needed!

The campaign by Rupert Murdock against Tommy Sheridan, and through him against socialism, in Scotland took a new turn last week.

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

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

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

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.

Dutch Socialist Party must fight November elections on socialist policies

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

Dutch Socialist Party must fight November elections on socialist policies