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Fifty million workers take action against privatisation

Helicopter-borne French commandos storm anti-privatisation protest

Sri Lanka is experiencing one of its deepest-ever crises. Since the new millennium began, there have been four major elections in this country. Many of Sri Lanka’s workers and down-trodden people are faced with a […]

International solidarity week with workers’ struggles

On 15 August 2004, a recall referendum aimed at ousting Venezuelan president Chávez was resoundingly defeated by a mobilisation of the masses – particularly in poor shantytowns, through electoral ‘battle units’ and other organisations of […]

Red youth on 24 September demo say end imperialist occupation and capitalism

Tens of thousands took to the streets of London on Saturday 24 September to protest against the occupation of Iraq. The Socialist Party and International Socialist Resistance contingent marched under the banner of ’unity against […]

Tens of thousands took to the streets of London on Saturday 24 September to protest against the occupation of Iraq. The Socialist Party and International Socialist Resistance contingent marched under the banner of ’unity against […]

Five general strikes in five years and still Nigerian workers and youth continue their struggle against fuel price rises

The London bombings had a profound impact in West Yorkshire once it emerged that the alleged bombers came from Leeds and Huddersfield.

Now is the time to organise resistance!

Socialist alternative needed to capitalist barbarism

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Lebanon’s descent into 15 years of horrific civil war.

“An inspiring event”

Every day 8 rape cases are reported but for every case reported there are two that go unreported in Pakistan

A massive defeat for the right and a big victory for the left, was the result of the early German election

The massive turn-out by Nigerians in their hundreds of thousands to a rally called by Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) against the incessant increase in the fuel price and other neo-liberal, anti-poor polices of […]

With 89% of the votes, Egypt’s first contested presidential election on September 7th could have been a crushing victory for Hosni Mubarak. But according to official figures only 23% voted.

"Socialism is alive and kicking, and it has a world to win" Clare Doyle, CWI, Malaysia, Thursday 15 September 2005 History was made in Kuala Lumpur last weekend, when over 700 people poured into the […]

The Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi has gained an unexpected overwhelming victory in the elections on Sunday 11 September.

Trade Union Rights Campaign statement

Oppressed workers and poor resist regime

The end August 30% rise in Nigerian fuel prices has provoked a renewed outburst of mass anger in Africa’s most populous country.

Textiles crisis between China, the EU and the US

New party has potential to become third biggest party in Bundestag

The tragedy of Baghdad – with almost 1000 Shia pilgrims killed in Iraq’s bloodiest day on 31 August – competes with the catastrophe of New Orleans in a kind of “league of horrors”.

The effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi could be the US’s worst natural disaster, with a projected 10,000 or more people dead and its biggest refugee crisis since the American Civil War. […]

How can the working class stop the bigots?

Marxists often state that counter-revolution invariably always act as the whiplash of revolution. This is the best way to interpret the easy manner with which some of the slogans which were raised by the DSM […]

The fragmentation of Iraq?

G8 fail to ‘Make Poverty History’

The Battle for the re-instatement of the 800 sacked Gate Gourmet workers is proving to be a defining moment in the class struggle in Britain.

Nothing has changed under Musharraf

The ‘liberal-democratic’ political system of the Philippines is in freefall.

Press statement of Lagos NCP

125 trade unionists and political activists pay rich tribute to the historic struggle of PTCL Workers.

The Israeli government has now demolished all the Jewish settlements in the Gaza strip, with four more in the West Bank to follow. This is the first time that Israel has removed settlements in Palestinian […]

Bombings have left a huge imprint

After an earthquake comes an aftershock

More than 100 Trade Union and Political Leaders attend trade union rights conference

Poland after 1945

Sri Lanka is going through an unprecedented crisis, not only because of the murder of Foreign Minister Kadirgarmar last week, but also the failure of the capitalist government to meet the present challenges.

Successful cwi intervention at the world youth festival

Voters denied the right to representation

Last week a heavy cloud of pollution engulfed parts of Malaysia.

The clear class “NO” vote expressed increasing anger with one of the most unpopular governments in the whole of Europe. It is likely that new struggles will unfold in the autumn

Gate Gourmet, a catering company supplying British Airways, sacked up to 800 predominantly Asian workers at a few minutes notice at one of their sites at Heathrow on Wednesday 10 August.

A socialist alternative is the only way out