Around the world

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”.

How can the working class stop the bigots?

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. […]

G8 fail to ‘Make Poverty History’

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?

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

Press statement of Lagos NCP

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

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 […]

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.

Poland after 1945

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

Successful cwi intervention at the world youth festival

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

Voters denied the right to representation

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

Strike action shows workers are not prepared to see wealth polarization continue

Medium-sized rallies are being organised on an almost daily basis in the Philippines with the aim of driving the pro-US President Arroyo from power.

An open memorandum to the national assembly concerning the June 30, 2005 Paris Club Deal

The newly elected president of Iran, the religious conservative and former revolutionary guard Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was elected on the 24 June tried to play down fears of Iranian workers during the election campaign that […]

A statement by the IRA on its future role, which has been in the pipeline for some time, is still eagerly awaited by the British and Irish governments and the main political parties.

Recent events have dramatically heightened the atmosphere of insecurity and tension in Britain, and particularly London.

More than 120 trade union activists and leaders of different trade unions attended a meeting organised by Trade Union Rights Campaign in the Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited Colony in Islamabad on 13 July.

A Yorkshire trade union rep’s viewpoint

Since the bombings, the Socialist Party has been calling for an emergency demonstration to be organised with the clear message: ‘No to terror, no to war, no to racism’.

Weeks of a vicious propaganda campaign against the proposal to hold a Pride Parade in Jerusalem resulted in demonstrators being stabbed by a reactionary ultra right-wing settler at the event on June 30.

The main reaction of working people to the horror of the London bombings has been a mood of unity against terrorism.

“Philosophers have interpreted the world the point is to change it”.

There is a huge wellspring of sympathy and solidarity – shared by the socialist – for the victims of the London tube and bus bombings. The unspeakable horrors that have been visited on the innocent […]

Segun Sango, general secretary of the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) has just been interviewed by Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2 on the problems of debt and poverty in Africa.

A reply to the distortions of ‘Class Struggle’

Hardliner’s victory stuns Western leaders

National congress of new left-wing party WASG in Germany prepares for general elections

Yahya Al-Faifi has had to seek refuge in Swansea because the Saudi Arabian government has deemed that he is guilty of the ‘crime’ of trying to organize his fellow workers.

International solidarity – more then a slogan!

The rich defeated but Ahmadinejad is no alternative

No-one believed US vice-president Dick Cheney when he said the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes".