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More privatisations, tax cuts for the rich and attacks on workers’ rights

The invasion and occupation of Iraq has resulted in the deaths and suffering of millions of ordinary Iraqis. Among these are the increasing attacks on women’s lives, their rights and conditions.

Private hospitals demand money before health

“An opportunity to alert Chinese workers”

Workers’ action grows with solidarity walkouts

Thousands of teachers and public sector workers oppose court rulings

The Algerian regime claimed an overwhelming (and totally unbelievable) 97% ’yes’ vote and 80% turnout in its referendum on a ’peace and reconciliation charter’, held on 29 September. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said this would draw […]

Socialist candidate’s “red three-wheeler” makes history

Photographs of USP members campaigning on ’Nomination Day’

Left must build on election success with socialist policies

Why the IRA campaign failed to defeat the British state

Workers reject political establishment

Coalition formed to fight job losses and poverty

How to advance the Venezuelan revolution

For workers’ unity across ethnic and religious divides

Victors of last December’s inter-elite struggle in spectacular fall out

Until recently China was seen as the main economic lifeline for world capitalism.

Fifty million workers take action against privatisation

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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.

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. […]

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’

Press statement of Lagos NCP

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

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.

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.

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

Successful cwi intervention at the world youth festival

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

The rich defeated but Ahmadinejad is no alternative

The people in Sri Lanka who lost everything in the tsunami disaster of 26 December are still left with nothing.

While Africa pays $15 billion yearly to service its debt to the rich nations and financial institutions, it receives less than $13 billion as aid with strings attached.

Militant action needed to stop "jobs holocaust"

Imperialism condemns millions to poverty

The mass protest movements against neo-liberal policies that swept Bolivia with strikes and demos have ousted president Carlos Mesa.

Leading activists demand end of repression of Pakistan telecom workers

Rising communalist tide – A warning to the working class

Following Zimbabwe’s 31 March general election in which the ruling Zanu-PF party won a "landslide victory," President Robert Mugabe has unleashed armed police against street traders and shanty town dwellers.

The crushing rejection of the proposed EU constitution in France and the Netherlands has had the effect of an erupting political volcano.

Following the recent military crackdown against striking telecom workers in Pakistan (see separate report on this site, ‘Strike remains solid, as one union leadership betrays struggle’), new protests were organised at Pakistan embassies and consulates, […]

An analysis of the vote for the left and the way forward

The Socialist Party group on public sector union UNISON’s 70-plus ruling National Executive Council (NEC) has been increased from three to five members following the recent elections.

On 12 May the Socialist Plantation Workers’ Union (SPWU) opened new offices in the town of Nuwara Eliya, high up in the Sri Lankan ‘hill country’.

On 12 May the Socialist Plantation Workers’ Union (SPWU) opened new offices in the town of Nuwara Eliya, high up in the Sri Lankan ‘hill country’.

Trade unionists and youth should not support either ANC leadership factions

Public sector union conference supports non-payment campaign

Members of the CWI in Austria handed in a letter of protest to the Pakistan Embassy, in Vienna, and the CWI held a protest at the Pakistan Embassy in New York.

Voters ignore arrogant Establishment and punish right wing government

Left winger leader, Oskar Lafontaine, leaves ruling social democrats and calls for new left alliance

The European Union and the French economic, financial and political establishment plunged into crisis as France voted last night against the proposed EU constitution.

Socialists confident that chances to build class unity are increasing

Socialist Alternative members stood with others as WASG candidates

Days before the referendum in France and the Netherlands on the proposed EU constitution, the ‘No’ camp leads.

New elections called for the autumn

"They want to starve us out,"

Timid reforms will not solve deep political crisis

Voter apathy rises in face of political stalemate

New Labour wins third term but with lowest percentage support in history.

President forced to flee as workers take to the streets

US President hears demands for an end to Iraqi occupation

Election shows growing numbers have had enough of Tony Blair

The swing against New Labour across Britain was also reflected in Scotland where New Labour’s lost votes and 5 MP’s with the Lib Dems being the main beneficiaries.

But government privatisations are corruption and theft on a huge scale

Three socialist activists interviewed about their lives of struggle and facing oppression

CWI members arrested for trying to go to Histadruth festival

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CWI members and supporters of the Jammu and Kashmir Trade Union Rights Campaign organised a demonstration of over 200 workers and youth in Kotli, Kashmir.

The members of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) took part in the May Day 2005 demonstrations in the ‘silicon city’ of India – Bangalore – with a two-page leaflet in the Kannada language. The theme […]

Inspiring demonstration of unions, miners, women, minorities and youth

Sri Lanka and Japan are both reeling from horrific public transport disasters, in each case resulting from the privatisation policies of their governments and the blind chase for profits.

The Westminster election is being held against the background of increasing sectarian division on the ground, and the breakdown of the Good Friday agreement with little hope of its resurrection and will inevitably be another […]

Such is the distaste of the majority of the population for the coming general election that the numbers watching TV news has dropped 300,000 in the four weeks of the campaign.

Mass action needed to stop anti-poor policy

Tamil and Sinhala Trotskyists march united against poverty and communalism

Education a right, not a privilege

Reactionary capitalist parties risk explosion of anger

A survey of public opinion in Scotland carried out at the start of the election campaign found that 79% of people believed that wealth should be redistributed in society.

Immigrant workers forced to work without being paid for months

The Socialist Party is standing a candidate in the general election to highlight the scandal of Rover’s collapse and to call for the renationalisation of the company. Louise Houldey, who has stood three times before […]

Both the Indian and Pakistani governments are celebrating the launch of a bus service on 7 April between Srinagar and Muzafarabad, the two main cities in Indian and Pakistani occupied Kashmir respectively.

Big defeats for Forza Italia in regional elections

The ’ugly face of capitalism’

2005 has had a very uncomfortable beginning for the republican leadership.

The tsunami and its terrible aftermath is the overarching issue that still dominates every aspect of Sri Lankan society.

So they’re off and running in the general election stakes. But for ordinary voters looking for a party to back there appear to be more and bigger obstacles than anything in the Grand National course.

For the third election in succession, the Robert Mugabe-led Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) has thwarted the will of the people and retained power through rigged elections. This time it obtained a ’landslide’ – […]

Workers organisations must take decisive mass action now!

Workers’ movement needs to adopt independent, class policies

Since the introduction of universal suffrage, the gap between the world of Westminster and the reality of people’s lives has never been greater. In mid-February, when New Labour launched its election campaign, the country was […]

Minor debt relief will not end poverty for millions

Blair is preparing to declare the general election.

Four hundred meet to discuss resistance against social cuts and capitalism

Former nurse offered job as prostitute by Labour Service

If the Scottish National Party expected a "Salmond bounce" following the election of Alex Salmond to lead the SNP they have so-far been disappointed.

Travelling from Malaysia to Karachi in Pakistan is to go from the ‘Second World’ to the ‘Fourth World’. Malaysia is certainly no showcase for Asian capitalism, as the apologists for the Kuala Lumpur regime argue. […]

On 23 March, 2005 the student union leaders organized “a quiet demonstration” against cuts and privatization in the higher education system.

“I’m tired of this life. I just want to live quietly and well” was the comment of one pensioner taking part in the protests in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzia (Kyrgyzstan) last week.

Threat of co-ordinated strike action by public-sector unions over pensions forces major climbdown.

This General Election, perhaps more than ever before, will be fought over by politicians who are a million miles removed from the real lives and problems facing the majority of working people.

The Sri Lankan United Socialist Party (USP) – affiliated to the Committee for a Workers International (cwi) – held its most successful ever congress on 25 – 26 March in Colombo.

“The fish starts rotting from the head. Don’t you smell the rot of our fish?” An Egyptian human rights lawyer, speaking out at a press conference on February 22nd, expressed the growing confidence of opponents […]

‘Tulip revolution’ declares government overthrown

Maavak Sozialisti members, along with other student activists, have just ended a joint election campaign in the name of the Social Student Front (SSF). This was an extremely hard campaign for us to organise. From […]

Who gains from Brown’s plans?

“A sad and disappointing day for the right to protest.”

From the ’Orange Revolution’ in Ukraine to the ’Cedar Revolution’ in Lebanon, the authoritarian regimes of the world are forced to reform in the face of US-sponsored "democratic revolts", or so says the Bush administration […]

Lively International Socialist Resistance contingent on 100,000-strong London protest

Malaysian state in tune with US aggression

Today, the Belgian Youth March for Work, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), and the European Social Forum are jointly protesting against growing unemployment, against insecure jobs, against the Iraq war and imperialist occupation and […]

Two years ago, the US regime promised a short war to ’liberate’ Iraq – ’operation shock and awe’.

Lebanon rocked by assassination and huge protests. The workers’ movement has to give a lead

From the international theme, another world is possible, social movements and civil society organizations in Africa, its regions and countries have adopted same slogan. They say: another Africa is possible; another West Africa is possible. […]

More than 200 000 people marched through the streets of Santiago on Tuesday 8 March to say farewell to Gladys Marin, who died of cancer on Sunday night.

Workers give generous solidarity for tsunami campaign

Huge 8 March demonstration marks setback for US imperialism

Members of Maavak Socialisti (cwi Israel) and other students at Jerusalem University are facing vicious repression for standing in elections to the student union leadership.

Members of Maavak Socialisti (CWI Israel) and other students at Jerusalem University are facing vicious repression for standing in elections to the student union leadership.

The conference discussed the momentous events taking place in Latin America, where a series of struggles has erupted against the policies of neo-liberalism.

Scandal of government ‘relief’ fuels social, political and national crisis

The king of Nepal, Shah Gianandra, fired his hand-picked Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, and government cabinet, on 1 February. In dissolving the government, the King cited its failure to hold elections and to maintaining […]

In contrast to claims by George Bush and Tony Blair, the most likely outcome of the Iraq elections will be to fuel opposition to the occupation and exacerbate divisions between the various ethnic and religious […]

After only a few days, the sham of the Iraqi ‘elections’ became evident as Iraq was shaken by a renewed wave of bombings and violent attacks on government officials and the occupation forces. As each […]

The 2005 Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) conference was held last weekend, following Tommy Sheridan’s resignation as party leader in November 2004.

On Saturday 12 February, nearly 300 demonstrations took place in 77 regions across the whole of Russia, at the same time.

The Northern Bank robbery in Belfast, Robert McCartney’s killing and the attempt to cover it up, and then the allegations about the multi-million pound criminal empire run by the IRA have put the leadership of […]

A struggle for basic union rights

Talks paralysed as elections loom

But Labour leaders participate in government’s sham ‘conference’

"Demonstrations are escalating. From yesterday morning until today, homeless people in the East of the Island occupied the main road from Ampara all the way up to Batticaloa.

Socialist Party member in British public sector union, UNISON, comes second in General Secretary election campaign.

The Scottish Socialist Party conference meets this weekend in the aftermath of Tommy Sheridan’s resignation as SSP convener.

Capitalist parties clash but no workers’ alternative

"More than 50 million [U.S.] workers don’t have a union but want one. Few workers are able to join unions and their strength is divided … into separate unions instead of building their strength in […]

Bush and Blair have been quick to hail the elections in Iraq as a "victory for democracy" and a vindication of their brutal occupation of Iraq, but this was largely for public consumption.

Dear collegues,

What lies behind attempts to reach a ceasefire?

Successful picket of Israeli Embassy in London

The threat of counter revolution has once again raised its head in Venezuela as the struggle between revolution and reaction seems to be entering a new phase.

While Aceh on the northern edge of Sumatra has registered nearly two thirds of the total death toll from the Asian tsunami, the Acehnese so far have received only 30 per cent of UN food […]

International appeal

Neusiedler/Mondi bussiness paper SCP a.s. takes legal action against workers involved in setting up a trade union.

"The grotesque picture of devastation is slowly emerging and haunting us. The real brunt of the tsunami was taken by the eastern part of the island. The principal town, Pottuvil, has seen the worst disaster […]

What are the prospects for Cuba today?

One month after the tsunami disaster struck the coasts of the Indian Ocean the costs are still being counted.

With the help of the thousands of donations that have been made in the last four weeks to the Campaign Sri Lanka, our comrades in the country second worst hit in the region have picked […]

Successful Socialist Alternative campaign against cuts

An eyewitness account

The bloody war in Iraq led by US imperialism worsens every day as the death toll mounts and the country plunges deeper into civil war and ethnic and religious clashes.

Last Friday, Teungku Malik Mahmood, was interviewed by Offensiv in its Stockholm office. He is in exile but regarded by the Aceh Freedom Movement (Gam) as the rightful prime minister of the State of Aceh. […]

"Socialists and the Venezuelan Revolution", by Tony Saunois, is very relevant to the struggles of the workers and peasants in the neo-colonial world as a whole, but is of special significance for Pakistan.

Like criminals with guilty consciences creeping back to the scene of their crime to apologise, capitalist governments around the world now promise to set up an Indian Ocean tsunami early warning system. Was the risk […]

A grotesque picture of devastation is slowly emerging and haunting us.

The generous response of people worldwide to the plight of the tsunami victims is a graphic example of human solidarity and internationalism.

The cwi appeal for donations to help the United Socialist Party (USP) in Sri Lanka after the tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004 has received an incredibly powerful and overwhelming response internationally.

While Aceh on the northern edge of Sumatra has registered nearly two-thirds of the total death toll by the Asian tsunami, the Acehnese so far have received only 30% of UN food deliveries. More than […]

"At my school, I collected €436.81 in donations for the Free Trade Union Centre (FTUC) in Sri Lanka in only two days," reports Gina, from Hamburg.

It is now more than two weeks since the killer tsunami crashed against the shores of the Indian Ocean.

As in every country around the world, in Sri Lanka the people have reacted far more quickly than their government. It is an excellent opportunity for the masses to work together and to realise that […]

Muhamad Mansur is a first year Israeli Palestinian medical student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Just before Christmas, 100 people were killed and injured in an attack on a US Army base dining hall in Mosul, northern Iraq. Nineteen US soldiers were amongst those killed – the most deadly attack […]

Internationally working class families have responded in their millions to appeals for donations and aid for the tsunami victims.

Following Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat’s death, a new Palestinian Authority (PA) president is to be elected on 9 January.

"Capitalism is the only system that works," pronounced Polly Toynbee, The Guardian columnist, as 2004 drew to a close.

Tsu-nah-mee means ‘harbour waves’ in Japanese. The monumental tidal wave which hit the countries on the Indian Ocean on December 26, has taken more than 150,000 lives. It has left millions who survived with their […]

Massive response from ordinary people in Australia to the disaster puts corporate Australia and Government to shame.

The devastation and escalating death toll in the Indian Ocean region can leave no one unmoved.

The Indonesian "province" of Aceh on the island of Sumatra is only 155 km from the epicentre of the earthquake.

Everyone in the region and tens of millions elsewhere in the world with access to some form of media is shocked and bewildered by what happened on the shores of the Indian Ocean on the […]

The tragic devastation wreaked by the earthquake and tidal wave in the Indian Ocean has killed tens of thousands of people. In Sri Lanka alone, the death toll has reached 13,000 and is still rising.

50 years ago saw the outbreak of the Algerian revolution against French imperialism. But the fruits of that successful revolution have been stolen by the FLN regime and denied to the country’s workers and youth. […]

Millions of public-sector workers are faced with huge cuts to their pensions – some from as early as April 2005.

"IT IS a mess in Iraq". The UN special envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, was certainly to the point. Elections, he said, would not be possible on the 30 January "if the circumstances stay as they are".

Against the background of increased attacks on living standards and working conditions, important sections of the working class in Germany have drawn the conclusion that an organisational and political alternative to the neo-liberal policies of […]

Exceeding all estimates, more than 50,000 people protested against the APEC summit and the presence of George Bush in the country on Friday 19 November in the streets of Santiago.

On the 30th of November in Italy there was the fifth general strike against the Berlusconi government. It stopped the country.

Reply to a letter dated 22 November 2004, sent by the CEO of the company to all the employees.

The working masses need their own alternative

Right wing politicians and imperialist powers stir up ethnic tensions. A fierce power struggle between different factions of the Ukrainian ruling class – using the masses as pawns – threatens to slide the country into […]

Scottish socialist Party (SSP) members were stunned to learn of the resignation of Tommy Sheridan as national convenor of the party on Wednesday 10 November.

Germany is currently in the middle of a political, social and economic earthquake. Ordinary Germans are facing a neo-liberal offensive of huge and stark proportions by the German ruling class.

There is deep disappointment in Britain and worldwide at the victory of Bush in the US elections.

More than 40 students from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam assembled on 16 November on campus to show their anger against the current spate of racist attacks and the posting of inflammatory anti-Muslim posters on campus […]

After a 1,200-strong demonstration through central London, a packed rally heard PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka report on how successful the day’s strike action had been. He outlined the next stages of the campaign.

Workers’ fury at government’s failure to reverse fuel price hike

For the sixth time since June 2000 and for third time in year 2004 alone, the working people of Nigeria have resoundingly through nationwide general strikes and protests, expressed their total objection to the pro-rich, […]

Palestinians mourn Arafat but struggle for liberation will continue

Socialists and school students call protest actions

The main headline story resulting from the recent Kosovan Parliamentary elections was that less than 1% of the Ethnic partition threatened 80,000 ethnic-Serbs living in Kosovo (called Kosova by ethnic Albanians) cast their votes.

Socialists call for workers and youth protests

Workers’ movement must organise against racism and cuts

Elections show US workers need their own political voice

When Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat fell dangerously ill, Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was worried enough about being blamed for his death to release him from the Israeli blockade in Ramallah to be flown to […]

The results of the US elections have come as a big disappointment to all those in the US and worldwide hoping for a defeat for the hated Bush regime.

The management of the Austrian based multinational Neusiedler in Ruzomberok, a town in central Slovakia, has decided to hand out redundancy notices to all workers who were involved in organising a new trade union.

What alternative to Obasanjo?

"In this week’s BN-De Stem [newspaper] there was an article about a new phenomenon in Breda: the soup kitchen.

"This was a sell out!"

The speakers at Monday’s demonstration , held in Tel Aviv, in support of withdrawal from Gaza were not radical ones – actually they gave unconditional support to Sharon’s disengagement plan.

"Qassam" rockets, terror attacks, devastation, bloodshed… Can the "Disengagement Plan" bring the end of the Israeli-Palestinian bloodbath any closer?

The new £430 million Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh was opened by the Queen in a blaze of establishment pomp and ceremony recently.

Tony Blair and George Bush, both seeking re-election, are desperately trying to put a good light on the deteriorating situation in Iraq.

Socialism is not merely an option – we face socialism or nothing.

back to article esf anti-war rally Joe Higgins and Peter Taaffe speaking at the cwi rally pictures: Molly Cooper

Top down ‘solutions’ provoke instability

Solidarity appeal

Strike needs to spread not end

The swift angry and determined answer of the workers at Opel’s Ruhr area factory in Bochum to General Motor’s announcement of 12,000 redundancies throughout Europe has seized the headlines in Germany. They immediately went on […]

Solidarity with striking Opel workers in Germany

There is justifiable revulsion, shared by the socialist, at the videoed public beheading of Ken Bigley. However, Ken Bigley’s brother, Paul, was right when he said that "Blair has blood on his hands".

Workers must fight attacks on living standards

THE ESF is an off-shoot of the World Social Forum, (WSF) which following its first event in Porto Allegre, Brazil in 2001, drew up a description of the WSF as being: "an open meeting place […]

On the night of Thursday, October 7, around 10 PM, an explosion shook the Hilton Taba hotel, located in the Sinai Peninsula, only a short distance from Egypt’s border with Israel.

Although it was pouring with rain, October 9th saw more than 500 antifascists (mainly youth) marched through Linz, an industrial city of over 200,000 people in Austria.

Five general strikes since June 2000!

Forty years fighting for socialism

Protest against action by Cinram bosses

During the recent years, while the municipal councils served as the main target of the budget cuts and massive redundancies, they were given new authority and responsibilities. Starting about a year and a half ago, […]

Again, the pump prices of the petroleum products have been increased.

Tony Blair has announced that he will go on to serve out a third term as prime minister.

US-sponsored elections regarded "a joke"

Anti-racists protest against Holocaust denier

Massive turnout of trade union movement in Amsterdam

Unite against the jobs massacre

TONY BLAIR may claim he is not the ’wobbling’ kind. But the long shadow of the Iraq occupation, the hostage crisis and Labour’s majority being reduced to less than 30 seats at a general election […]

Let’s mobilise for 2 October mass demonstration!

Socialist Alternative, the German section of the cwi, scored a great victory in Sunday’s local elections in North Rhine Westphalia, winning two more councillors after initiating and heading two left electoral lists against social cuts […]

Workers say -’we won’t pay the price’

Interview with general secretary of civil service union

Nigeria has recently seen a brutal example of the link between anti-trade union court rulings and an onslaught on living standards.

"This is far graver than Vietnam. If we leave and there’s no civil war, that’s a victory." William Odon, former head of the US national security agency, is more in touch with the reality of […]

After biggest ever public sector strike

The beginning of a hot autumn

Locked-out workers "completely win everything they had stood out for"

"Workers Unity" candidates stand for a fighting, democratic union

Unions must defend rights

Economic storms and class battles on the agenda

Protests continue

The horrific massacre of children, parents and teachers at High School No1 in Beslan, North Ossetia, reached a new level of barbarity.

THE HOSTAGE takers who seized 1,200 children, parents and teachers in Beslan reached a new level of barbarism.

Stop the execution of Ismail Mohammadi – urgent protest needed

Anger and revulsion at huge loss of life

Once again, our TV screens are filled with images of destitute African villagers, emaciated with starvation, their faces contorted with grief and terror.

The bloody end to the school hostage crisis in Beslan, North Ossetia, angered, sickened and shocked people around the world.

Putin fails to bring ‘peace and security’ to Chechens or Russians

Today 79% of east Germans and 51% of west Germans think that Socialism is a "good idea" that was "only badly implemented" in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe. That is the judgement after […]

The dreams of the US right-wing ’neo-cons’ lie in tatters on the battlefields of Iraq. One of the only certainties in the turmoil of Iraq is that imperialism’s occupation is doomed to failure.

The Venezuelan right wing went to great lengths to impose a recall referendum.

Eye witness accounts from Rostock and Leipzig

“Hot autumn” for German government starts early as tens of thousands take to the streets in yet another wave of protest against impoverishment programme Agenda 2010

Across Venezuela hundreds of thousands have celebrated the defeat of the attempt to “recall” the radical President Hugo Chávez. The overwhelming referendum result is a huge blow against US President Bush’s policies and the Venezuelan […]

The crisis gripping Darfur, in western Sudan, has been prominently in the news for weeks now.

The victory for the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) in the parliamentary elections, followed by the provincial elections, has brought more problems instead of solving the burning crisis of the country. The UPFA – a […]

How To fight and defeat Obasanjo’s anti-poor, capitalist government

The race for the leadership of the Scottish National Party took a dramatic twist recently when on the day nominations closed former SNP leader Alex Salmond announced he was standing for party convener.

Imperialism will never solve national question it created

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Haitian revolution, when the black masses abolished slavery and won national independence. Their deeds were an inspiration to the masses of the Caribbean and the working people […]

Laila: There has been one governing party in power for 25 years, the ‘National Democratic Party’, the part of President Mubarak. Elections are held but they are very corrupt. The government says it wants to […]

The Israeli government, under the influence of the capitalists, has been trying to privatize the docks for years.

40th day political commemoration of the death of comrade Rotimi Ewebiyi.

The referendum called on August 15 to try and remove Hugo Chávez from power has backfired on the rightwing reactionary forces led by the capitalist class with the support of US imperialism.

Rotterdam campaign receives far right and police attention

Only occasionally do Africa’s hidden wars make the front pages, as with the recent coverage of the refugee crisis in Darfur in western Sudan. Yet the Sudanese conflict has been raging for years with virtually […]

On Saturday 10 July, the Provincial Council elections saw a much lower turn-out than usual.

All the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) in Nigeria members who were arrested last week in Lagos have now been released.

Saddam Hussein appeared in court on 1 July and was charged with a list of crimes.

1,500 school students and apprentices take part in a city wide youth strike in Kassel, Hessen, to demonstrate against social cuts.

Today (7 July) two members of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Ojo Olajire (OJ) and Peluola Adewale (Pelad), were arrested by members of Nigerian Police Force at Oshodi bus stop, in Oshodi Isolo local government […]

Exclusive interview with Brazilian trade unionist

Key political issues discussed and debated

Does radical rhetoric of some of the trade union leaders against the government’s cuts policy mark a turning point for the struggle against Agenda 2010?

Neo-liberals victory means attacks on working people

New ’Iraqi regime’ will not end imperialist occupation

Venezuela was never as important for the Spanish empire as its other colonies. Colombia was vital for its coffee, Peru for its gold and Bolivia for its silver; they all assumed a greater importance than […]

National meeting of workers called to plan actions against cuts

Independent class position needed

Since the war on Iraq, the Kurds have stood out in stark contrast to the rest of the Middle East.

June 13 saw many elections in Germany: European elections (which are the only nationwide elections between two Federal general elections); state parliament elections in Thuringia and local elections in 6 of the 16 German federal […]

Respect – the Unity Coalition was formed by George Galloway MP and the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) at the beginning of the year. It stood for the first time on June 10.

Black South African workers’ leader and fighter for socialism

The revolutionary crisis in Venezuela has entered a new and critical phase. The left-populist regime of President Hugo Chávez appears to have taken a left turn in the face of a renewed threat from reaction.

ONE REASON for Labour getting ’a good kicking’ in the 10 June elections was opposition to Blair’s war and occupation of Iraq.

A "GOOD kicking", a "bloody nose", a "slap in the face" – all the media descriptions of New Labour’s disastrous election results had some reference to being beaten up. They managed to break several records […]

The background to this dispute is rooted in years of under investment in public services and a total disregard by the employers of the vital role nursery nurses provide in early years education.

For three days, June 9 to 11, Nigeria came to an almost complete halt in the fourth general strike in four years as workers and the poor once again moved into action.

The Party of Silvio Berlusconi, Forza Italia, took a beating in yesterday’s European and provincial elections. It went from 25.2% in the European election of 1999 to 21% yesterday. But compared to its vote in […]

Interview with dock workers´ leaders

Following a life-time fully devoted to the emancipation of the working masses as a revolutionary socialist, organiser and class fighter.

"No Bush – No war", 100,000 strong week-day protest.

In a surprise announcement, the radical left-populist Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez, has accepted the decision of the National electoral Commission, (CNE), and will face a recall referendum.

It is the US presidential election campaign which is governing US policy half a world away in Iraq.

The Committee for a Workers’ International deeply regrets to announce the death, at the age of 41, of Rotimi Ewebiyi, a leader of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) in Nigeria and a member of the […]

400 people attended the “Socialism Days 2004” organised by Socialist Alternative (SAV). It was an opportunity to discuss, debate, exchange ideas and put forward a programme for the struggle against a system that provides nothing […]

As over 120 Millon Indonesians went to the polls on April 5th they were faced with a stark choice. Of the two major parties on offer was incumbent Democratic Party of Indonesia led by President […]

The brutal israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories is continuing, with no end in sight to the cycle of bloodshed.

Kevin reveals his position when he says in his article: "Those who see politics purely in terms of capitalism or socialism have yet to make any serious attempt to explain how a controlling class can […]

Neo-liberals victory means attacks on working people

New ’Iraqi regime’ will not end imperialist occupation

After angry dockworkers threatened to strike, even without the unions, the biggest union in the Netherlands is now supporting strike action on the 7th and 11th of June. This strike will be aimed at the […]

Thursday 27 May the Socialist Student Movement at the Westville campus of the newly "merged" University of KwaZulu-Natal organised a march against the exclusion from financial aid of hundreds of students.

Workers at the Dessian factory in Belfast have gone on strike over the sacking of a shop steward. Dessian, which is a locally owned company making PVC windows, employs over 100 at it’s Belfast plant […]

Right wing plotters threat

"Not only has the country been stunned by the awesome verdict, the entire free world must learn from the courage of the poor, illiterate, the voiceless and the underprivileged of the earth’s largest democracy as […]

At the end of April, the Austrian railway workers’ union (GdE) signed a deal with management on a new labour contract that included changes in work times and sick pay.

Saddam’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison is now a US-run centre for the subjugation of the Iraqi people.

Public sector workers in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir and Pakistan went on strike as part of the second leg of their protests on 6th May.

"The photos that lost Bush the war". That was how one US commentator referred to the images of torture and sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US troops. Beamed across the globe, these appalling photos […]

Restoration of capitalism creates barbaric conditions

Over sixty people attended the very successful founding meeting of the Socialist Movement on Saturday 17 April, 2004. The aim of this meeting was to set up a new independent, socialist and revolutionary organisation to […]

Elections show that working class needs own party

Mayday was celebrated with renewed vigor in Kashmir on both sides of the dividing Line of Control between India and Pakistan, at a time when US imperialists and its allies continue to kill innocent Iraqi […]

“Just the tip of the iceberg”

Union leaders sabotage action in British Columbia

While South Africa is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the end of the Apartheid regime, students at Wits University in Johannesburg are protesting against cuts in university funding and cuts in student bursaries.

THE LATEST attempt by the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) ministers to unify the divided island of Cyprus has ended in failure, amid bitter recriminations.

On 1 May ten countries will join the European Union after months of negotiations and a series of successful referendums. ‘New Europe’, as famously described by Donald Rumsfeld, has married ‘Old Europe’, but is this […]

The jumbo circus of Indian elections with all its fanfare and trickery has come visiting once again.

AS SOON as Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, returned home from a triumphalist meeting with US President Bush, he turned his mind to the assassination of the newly appointed leader of the Islamic Palestinian organisation, […]

But lower poll indicates growing alienation

Only united working class can show way out of crisis

ANC has failed the masses – Time for a new party of the working class

“Bush’s Vietnam” conflict worsens

After a few days in Lagos I met Joseph, a socialist activist from Ghana, who, like me, had come to attend the conference of the Democratic Socialist Movement of Nigeria.

At the 2001 Labour Party conference Tony Blair set out his "moral commitment" to the world. He told the delegates that if Rwanda happened again today we would have a moral duty to act to […]

United Socialist Party achieves record result

Huge anger against Schröder’s ‘Agenda 2010’ onslaught

Prospect of new wave of workers’ struggles

THE FIRST debate on Saturday was on the SSP’s draft manifesto for the European elections in June.

New opposition to SPD government offer big opportunities.

Millions take industrial action against Berlusconi’s pension “reforms”

Ethnic tensions boiled over again in Kosovo mid-March, leading to the worst levels of violence since the UN/Nato imposed control of the country in 1999.

On March the 15th a Viennese court made a final ruling in a court case that extreme anti-abortionists have run against Claudia Sorger, the spokesperson for women’s affairs of the Socialist Left Party (SLP), the […]

TWO PREVIOUS attempts by Venezuela’s right-wing opposition to overthrow the twice elected radical national government of President Hugo Chávez have failed.

Вот уже полтора года в заключении находятся лидер Рабочего Движения Казахстана «Солидарность» Сакен Жунусов и его сын член ЦК Молодой Гвардии Казахстана Рустем Жунусов.

Last Sunday, France went to the ballot box for regional and district elections.

Working people of the region will pay the price

The brutal assassination of the spiritual leader of Palestinian Islamic organisation Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was met with outrage from Palestinians, together with people throughout the Arab world and millions internationally who are horrified at […]

“Your war – our dead”, “Aznar, your delusions of grandeur have led to this” chanted crowds on the streets of Spain last weekend, as the mass outpouring of grief and rage at the Thursday’s horrendous […]

Iraq one year on.

Today, one year on from the US imperialist led war on Iraq, anti-war demos and protests are being held throughout India, Pakistan and across the dividing Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir by various workers […]

Is it possible and what will follow?

France goes to the polls next Sunday, 21 March, for elections in the regions and districts (‘departements’ that are divided into ‘cantonments’).

March 20th marks the first anniversary of the US led imperialist war on Iraq.

“The wars are yours – the deaths are ours,” read one placard on a demonstration in Madrid in the early hours, last Sunday morning. It summed up the mood of millions throughout Spain just days […]

Having last visited Pakistan five years ago, the social, economic and political changes in the country were thrown into sharp relief. The changes, although not immediately apparent, are stark. These developments, I believe, make possibilities […]

Thousands of people across the dividing Line of Control (LoC) between Indian and Pakistani Occupied Kashmir commemorated the 20th anniversary of the execution of Maqbool Butt, a radical nationalist leader, by the Indian authorities.

Last Friday saw up to 4,000 defiant nursery nurses, parents and supporters demonstrating on the streets of Glasgow for a decent pay deal. The protest marked the fifth day of indefinite strike action by Scotland’s […]

Die Grÿnen, Les Verts, the Green Party – the German, French and UK Green Parties, along with 29 other European Green parties, are now one party standing on one platform.

After eight months of industrial action by Scotland’s nursery nurses, and with no end in sight, UNISON are preparing to ballot to increase the action to an all out indefinite strike from March.

The president of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, the former “radical slum priest”, fled the country on 29 February, under pressure from the Bush administration and the threat of armed rebels.

The US regime desperately wants to hand over the day-to-day running of Iraq, so it can pull the strings but avoid the political, military and financial costs of direct occupation.

Making Sense of the Foreshore and Seabed controversy

Neither conservatives or “reform wing” of elite win support of youth and workers

The Dutch right wing coalition government plans to soon start deporting “failed asylum-seekers”. But protests are springing up across the Netherlands, and a national demonstration is set for 10 April.

Growing support and influence for socialist alternative to New Labour

Government scapegoats asylum seekers for cuts and economic slowdown

Thousands of people across the dividing Line of Control (LoC) between Indian and Pakistani Occupied Kashmir commemorated the 20th anniversary of the execution of Maqbool Butt, a radical nationalist leader, by the Indian authorities.

The president has prepared the ground for elections through several dramatic measures during the last few months. On 4 November she conducted a ’mini-coup’, taking command of three minister’s posts from the UNP government. On […]

No way forward shown

Historic decision shows willingness by union to support socialists

ON A recent Miami television programme, a group of Venezuelan ex-military officers openly called for a US invasion to overthrow the twice-elected radical, nationalist government of President Hugo Chavez.

"AS ANY inept DIY bodger could tell you, whitewash, applied carefully and thinly will last years. Too thick and it will flake off in no time." (Letter to The Guardian, 29 January)

Government scientist sold nuclear secrets “in the knowledge of the bosses”

Armed forces in Iran opened fire on a peaceful demonstration of copper foundry workers and their families on 23 January, killing fifteen and injuring 300.

LAST SUNDAY, 25 January, the founding convention of Respect took place and agreed to launch an electoral campaign across England and Wales, headed by George Galloway MP, for the June European and Greater London Authority […]

Just one year following the Presidential election victory of Luiz Inácio da Silva (or Lula as he is popularly known), of the Workers’ Party (PT), a new movement has been launched by former PT activists, […]

Police treatment of school students was not within the law

ISR member Karl Debbaut acquitted.

IN THE RUN-UP to last year’s invasion of Iraq much was said in the media about the ‘fog of war’, the confusion spread by the combination of the incomplete knowledge of fast changing events and […]

As socialistworld.net has previously reported, Germany has witnessed a wave of protests and strikes both on the industrial and social fields, as well as series of student strikes, towards the end of last year.

Midnight, January 21, is set for the start of an unlimited general strike in Nigeria.

Socialists oppose right wing agenda

Mass protests against autocratic rule

The New Year has seen Nigeria gripped by a wave of anger following President Obasanjo’s sudden imposition of a new fuel tax.

While the right wing Raffarin government in France increases its attacks against the social gains of the past, there is a continued radicalisation amongst workers and youth.

The ultra nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) has become the biggest force in Serbian politics following the country’s general election on 28 December 2003.

Workers at the main production base in Italy of “Europe’s Enron” have no sympathy for those they call the “magnificent eight” now locked up in Milan’s notorious San Vittore prison.

Government scientist sold nuclear secrets “in the knowledge of the bosses”

Armed forces in Iran opened fire on a peaceful demonstration of copper foundry workers and their families on 23 January, killing fifteen and injuring 300.

NEW LABOUR’S National Executive Committee (NEC) has recommended that Ken Livingstone should be readmitted into the party. That’s just three years after his expulsion in 2000 for standing as an independent mayoral candidate against Labour’s […]

70,000 university students took to the streets in Frankfurt, Berlin and Leipzig on Saturday, 13 December, defending the right to decent education.