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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

Pakistani has its third Prime Minister in two months.

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

Five hundred students from colleges in and around Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal marched in support of the demand of free education on Thursday, 9 September.

Unions must defend rights

Protests continue

Economic storms and class battles on the agenda

Stop the execution of Ismail Mohammadi – urgent protest needed

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.

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.

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 […]

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

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.