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Unions must end class collaboration and defend interests of working class

Strikes and protests force back corruption and oppression

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.

The Venezuelan vice president, Vincente Rangel, is heading the governments’ intentions to redefine its policies and attitude to the private sector.

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.

"In order to understand this struggle it is important to look at the historical background."

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

Mass protests against Bush visit to Vienna

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 […]

Right-wing suffer setback

400,000 on strike and occupying schools

International workers’ solildarity, a must for workers in Kashmir

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

"Struggle against unemployment and not against the unemployed"

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

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)

Trade Union Rights Campaign (TURCP) condemns police brutality and organises solidarity demonstration

One thousand four hundred workers reinstated as result of struggle

Implement the agreement or face strike action!

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

When Bolivia’s President Evo Morales announced, on 1 May, a decree that ‘nationalised’ the oil and gas (the ‘hydrocarbons’) resources, he sent a shockwave around the world.

“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.

"The Spanish, the North Americans, the Europeans looted the tin, the silver and the natural resources. We should recognise that in 1937, under the leadership of the armed forces, petroleum was nationalised for the first […]