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Its Tory-oriented anti-immigration, anti-EU rhetoric has been adapted to a right-wing populism aimed at winning voters fed up with the political establishment

Socialist MPs in Southern Ireland Parliament send message of support to strikers

Increasing demands for a living wage

For democratic reforms and end to budget cuts

Right-wing Ball events, PEGIDA, and neo-nazi Violence: A Month of Intense and Successful anti-fascism in Austria

Philip Stott Socialist Party Scotland

Libyan people bearing the brunt of NATO’s fiasco

Mired in recession, the eurozone is haunted by the spectre of stagnation

Three decades ago he debated with Militant leaders who warned about degeneration of his party

German racist mobilizations split but danger continues

Respect the right to freedom of speech!

Preparing the forces to fight capitalist austerity

Government conspires to quell growing opposition

Hong Kong court finds employer guilty of torture-like crimes

Result reflects growing mass discontent

Masses will regain confidence and willingness to fight

Paul Murphy speaks in Irish parliament

Will the end of Kobanê’s siege turn the tide against IS?

Markets and EU leaders react against Athens

Atrocious human rights records no concern for Western powers

An inspiration for workers and youth across Europe

Threat of capitalist restoration accelerates

A victory for all workers and an inspiration to resist the ‘race to the bottom’

Article first published in the Colombo Telegraph

Socialism or Barbarism

Boko Haram and the war in the north-east

President Sirisena aims for clean government but will face difficulties

International action needed to overturn latest conviction and to immediately release Behnam

Unions and Left must organise against racism and for jobs and decent living standards for all

Unity against racism and capitalism!

The shocking, cold blooded slaughter at Charlie Hebdo, and more killings in subsequent days, has been met with mass outrage

Two-hour protest against worsening working conditions

Period of uncertainty opens

Defend freedom of speech! Don’t let us be divided!

A fighting democratic movement must be created to continue and build upon this historic “first round”

Over 150 people participated in the ‘Socialism Conference 2014’ in Tel Aviv, organised by the Socialist Struggle Movement (SSM – CWI in Israel-Palestine)

As crisis of capitalism worsens, vital to organise and continue the struggle

As the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition gears up for its biggest ever electoral stand…

Murphy’s election means trade unions must build a new workers party

Workers digest first rounds of anti-cuts battles and prepare for next rounds

CWI meeting discusses a volatile period in global and class relations

Socialists organise protests against Taliban barbarism

The role of state intelligence

Struggle to free political prisoners continues

Document on Latin America, agreed by CWI International Executive Committee

New political voice vitally needed

Socialist candidate challenges all other forces

Dave Carr

Forced evictions, poverty wages and repression is the reality for millions

Labour’s pro-austerity ‘opposition’ no alternative

Rebuild the trade union movement on socialist principles!

Another show of strength for independence – fight for a Socialist Catalonia

New rounds of repression answered by new wave of rage and protest

Who is sabotaging who?

Mass struggle needs genuine internal democracy and fighting working class programme to defeat dictatorship

Initiative to build mass party of working class and rural poor urgently needed

Majority of ‘Yes’ voters want end to austerity – anti-cuts candidates needed!

Last week German train drivers and on-board staff went on strike for four days, shaking and polarising the country

Socialism 2014 – infused with contagious confidence

Berlin Wall brought down by mass revolutionary movement

NDP increasingly irrelevant to needs of workers, immigrants and youth

Tory government whips-up terrorist fears to boost Canada’s imperialist role

For political and class independence – Struggle, solidarity and socialism!

Weekend of discussion & debate hosted by the Socialist Party – London 8-9 November

What does US military ‘assistance’ mean for the Kurdish struggle?

Latest US-backed ‘drugs war’ horror sends shock waves throughout Mexico

The unreported Nigeria – mass struggles by the working class

Pharmaceutical industry/big corporations need to be brought into public ownership and resources used to provide urgent aid

For democratic working people’s defence and mass struggle against capitalism

50 years of socialist ideas and workers’ struggle

Inside the ‘umbrella revolution’

Calls for local government strike action to be reinstated

Workers pay the price for crony capitalism

End poverty, inequality and capitalism

’Political awakening’ continues after independence referendum

As battle for Kobane rages, IS forces make major gains in Iraq

Dire position of South African capitalism and inequality adds momentum towards creation of workers’ party

For a ’no-cuts budget’ and mass campaign to win back billions stolen by ConDem government!

No justice for Palestinians and no peace for the region – For a socialist solution!

Organise democratic defence committees to repel attacks and kick out CY Leung’s government!

Consequence of profit before health

Regional war poses new challenges for struggle for Kurdish self-determination

Stop imperialist slaughter!

Anger over police violence fuels spontaneous “umbrella revolution” and growing strike movement

Labour conference a carefully stage-managed affair

The referendum has turned British politics upside down – even though the No vote won

Build a working class alternative

Protest against Iranian government’s brutal sentences!

Urgent to build new mass party for the working class

"Britain will never be the same again"

Only working class struggle can guarantee the right to decide and resist austerity

"You will not take this opportunity away from us"

Socialist Alternative articulates political strategy to break from Democratic Party and capitalism

Big business, politicians and media attack independence

Authorities deploy heavily armed response

1973 bloody coup against Popular Unity government

United Socialist Party, Sri Lanka’s section of Committee for a Workers’ International has paid tribute to veteran trade unionist, Bala Tampoe, who passed away recently at the age of 92. Philip Balendra Tampoe became General […]

How looting of the economy led to mass social protests

Profit drive obstructs treatment and prevention

“In the past four weeks support for the union has drained away at an astonishing rate. The Yes campaign has not just invaded No territory; it has launched a blitzkrieg.”

The 2015 general election is a mere eight months away yet impossible to call. But what is clear is that none of the capitalist parties hold any real attraction for working class voters.

After NPC ruling democracy activists are perplexed by Benny Tai Yiu-ting’s comments that the strategic part of struggle “should end”

Support jailed labour activist’s demands against critical dentention conditions

Over 18,000 people have attended Hope Over Fear public meetings to hear socialist Tommy Sheridan.

International tensions escalate

Mass resistance against one-party dictatorship is the only way forward!

Hollande removes ‘lefts’ from government

Demand the release of the arrested workers!

Vigilance required from LASU students and workers to ensure that victory is permanent

Working class will bring the real revolution and change

Iraqis and Kurds must not trust imperialist ‘helpers’

Ukraine, Israel/Palestine and other countries

September 18 will see an unprecedented mobilisation to the polls for the referendum on Scottish independence

New face; same problems

Socialist councillor denounces Israeli state terror

Military conflict escalates

For an independent socialist Scotland

What is the role of imperialism in the conflict?

Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) Former MEP and parliamentary bye-election candidate speaks to thousands protesting against Israeli state terrorism

Working class must organise for future struggles

Only socialist policies can end extortion of vulture markets

Mass action needed to stop bloodshed

CWI calls for protests and financial assistance

CWI condemns attack and requests solidarity

Industrial action must take forward call for a new workers’ party

An Establishment cover-up?

USP mounts motor cycle ‘march’ to fight for united struggle against chauvinists

Mass action needed to end the slaughter and blockade!

Over 100 Gazans have been killed in one week, including 20 children

"Cameron’s defeat was dire."

Build workers’ movement

Extracts and updates from a series of articles on the website of Socialist Struggle Movement, the Israel-Palestine section of the CWI.

A response to the “practical idealism” of the Common Weal

United private-public sector strike vital

Photo report of march

Forward to a living wage – end labour broking

At least four people were killed and 100 injured in anti-Muslim attacks

Joe HIggins, Socialist Party (CWI) TD raises Vadim’s case in Irish parliament

Debt crisis is back – the class struggle and tasks for the Left

Significant step forward in the struggle for a living wage for all

Half a million people flee the area

Call a general election now

Only organised, united working class can end war and social misery

Israeli nationalist thugs cowardly attacked Socialist Struggle Movement activists after the protest

Workers need political movement to counter extremist ideology and capitalism

Why has Boko Haram insurgency grown?

Escalating sectarian conflict threatens to draw in surrounding countries

More pictures from solidarity protests around the world

‘Podemos’ capitalises on failures of IU bureaucratic leadership

In country after country, May’s elections to the European parliament saw governments and traditional parties defeated

National Front profits from social and economic discontent

Serbian and Bosnian governments’ inaction provokes fury

Renzi seen as last chance for way out of impasse

Regime calls for “national dialogue” should be rejected

Now Trade Unions must lead our fightback

Gains for the far right but some successes for genuine Left

The result has lit up the idea that fighting councillors can help build support for a real alternative to austerity

Celebrations by big business a warning to working class

Three years after January 25th revolution, workers need independent unions and a workers’ party

Questions and answers on socialist ideas

PCS calls for co-ordinated unions’ action to stop attacks on public sector workers and austerity

TUSC beginning to build an electoral voice for the millions not the millionaires

Second visit of US President in 50 years

Can a solution to the insurgency be found under capitalism?

Neither old elites nor populists have answer for workers and poor

The ANC victory, WASP and the EFF.

Photos of United Socialist Party march and meeting

Commemorating union leader Bob Crow and socialist Labour MP Tony Benn

Protest against Goods and Services Tax

CWI supporters celebrate international workers’ day

The Haymarket Martyrs and coming revolt of American workers

Urgent need for a revolutionary alternative

No recovery for working people and poor

United workers’ action needed to prevent war

Building a bridgehead to a new mass workers’ party

Protest letter from Paul Murphy and other MEP’s

The socialist case for independence

First Santiago Socialism event organised by CWI in Chile

Repression can provoke opposition

For democratic self-defence committees

WASP campaigning material available on pdf

New party expresses, but cannot solve, major discontents

Trade union and socialist coalition (TUSC) candidate count reaches 476 for May local election

Oppose the pro-big business EU/ US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership!

No-cuts election challenge grows

After bosses’ seen off – unions must defend their right to strike!

Far right gains highlight need for strong fighting left opposition

Second constituent assembly election – a shift to the right

On Saturday 29 March the Workers and Socialist Party launched its 2014 election manifesto at a rally in Katlehong, Gauteng

Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI MP) speaks in Irish parliament

22M: A before and after moment for the class struggle

What programme should the Left advocate?

Removal of hated regime not enough; crises of poverty and oppression due to grip of capitalism

Mourn the loss, fight for the future

His decline has already begun

Aruging a independent, working class position

Media attack Benn and Crow’s legacy and Militant

Sexism, discriminatory laws and poverty hit women hard in China’s richest city

Social activist imprisoned for role in community self-defence against drug cartels and corrupt state forces

Education Rights Campaign (ERC) calls for a day of mourning and mass protests

Tensions between powers worsen

International Solidarity needed!

Preparing for a mighty upsurge in class struggle

Steadfast in speaking out for socialism

Moses Mayekiso, inaugural general secretary of NUMSA heads electoral list

Working people stir to end poverty, joblessness, corruption and ethnic divisions!

Why is Socialist Party Scotland supporting a Yes vote in the referendum?

Workers’ rule not oligarch rule

Progressive Workers’ Federation and SMP (CWI) organise inspirational rally against Talibanisation

Bob Crow was a constant fighter for the working class and a champion of many important causes

Activists banished from Bologna on trumped up charges

Failure of both international and local capitalist elite’s rule

Panel debate on socialism including Workers’ and Socialist Party (WASP), and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) representatives

Commemorations in context of new crisis

Government replaced

Tensions deepen between Western powers and Moscow

Extreme weather events causing massive devastation

Lessons of strike: united in decisive action the working class can win

Pro-western, right wing regime consolidates power

Serbo-Croat translation of the article ’Mass protests over poverty and corrupt government’ – Revolt pokazuje potencijal radničke klase da prevaziđe etničku podeljenost

No end to violence in sight

Ten days after the violence that started on ’Youth Day’ a situation of high polarization and, in some parts of the country, violence continues…

Need to build Left Party on clear anti-capitalist basis

Revolt shows potential of working class to overcome ethnic divisions

What lies behind the Ukraine crisis?

On 12F, three people (two right wing supporters and one government supporter) were killed in Caracas and dozens injured and arrested in the protests and demonstrations that took place around Venezuela to commemorate the annual […]

Refugees take protests to ISS-HK head office

Government/Taliban talks begin – But where will they go?

Serbo-Croat translation of the article ’New revolt of workers and unemployed’ (first published on 10/02/14)

Time for a new socialist trade union federation

Main pro-Union parties step up campaign ahead of independence referendum

Could signal a real step-change in the longer war against austerity

Spark for another regional war in Africa?

Campaigning for WASP socialist alternative at May polls

Low wages, non-payment of salaries and increased terror attacks

Forceful collective voice needed to end poverty and abuse

Workers continue their struggle against brutal management

Scottish Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation and affiliated campaigns show what can be achieved with a strong campaign

Demand a constituent assembly

Article first published in Socialism Today

Seize the historic opportunity of the 2014 elections

Segun’s car damaged in attack

Demand the immediate and unconditional acquittal of the oil workers of Las Heras

Let’s make 2014 the year of the political general strike!

More and more tensions develop in the Left Front

After weeks of violent clashes, powerful oligarchs intervene

Working class and rural poor need party of their own

Growing discontent in society generates interest in socialist ideas

A question of gender and class

Anti-democratic legislation criminalizing asylum seekers provokes strikes and mass protests

Both sides mired in corruption and violence

More workers and youth will conclude working class must raise own independent interests

Workers from Swedish company Alfa Laval India Pvt Ltd. situated at Kasarwadi, Pune are on strike for the last three months

It is a Legalised Assault on Democratic Rights

The butcher of Sabra and Shatila has died

180 attend combative and enthusiastic event held in Sao Paolo, Brazil

Much of the right-wing media whipped up hostility and alarm in the run up to the 1 January end of restrictions on entry to Britain for people from Romania and Bulgaria

Between 20,000 and 30,000 march on New Year’s Day, but frustration and divisions are rising within the pro-democracy struggle

Vast wealth should be taken into common, democratic ownership

The case for joint coordinated industrial action

Appeal of socialist change will grow

Workers’ movements need determined opposition to Western imperialism and all Middle Eastern elites

Social and political instability to continue into next period

Report of discussion on Latin America at CWI’s International Executive Committee

Defend the refugees! Defend union members!

Indefinite strikes, occupations, seeds of workers’ control

Historic decision to cut ties with the ANC

World moving from being ‘unipolar’ to ‘bipolar’

MEP Paul Murphy condemns brutal State violence against peaceful protesters in Kiev

But tide begins to turn as workers startto take action

Privatisation of local transport delayed

Behind the Tories and UKIP, but ahead of the Lib Dems and Greens who both have the advantage of a national profile

Heroically leading ANC to power but struggle tragically into dead end

Scottish constitutional referendum: Yes to an independent socialist Scotland, no to a continuation of capitalist austerity

Tony Benn’s latest volume of diaries continues his frank and honest appraisal of his political life. He has campaigned long and hard – but in vain – to halt the degeneration of the Labour Party.

Urgent solidarity needed

Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) holds inaugural convention

With the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) taking place from 10 to 17 November all eyes are on Sri Lanka

Socialist challenges make history

Statement on the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting taking place (CHOGM) in Colombo

Workers’ action mounts

Preparing for a new Bachelet government, Marcel Claude and the building of a new force for workers and youth

Cameron to Sri Lanka – not in our name

Reflecting a thirst to resist and the search for ideas

Class hatred of an out-of-touch capitalist elite

Debate centres on question of EU following massive human chain in favour of independence on 11 September

Millions routinely spied upon by state agencies

Workers in conflict with management over unpaid wages

Unite members not offered a fighting strategy, other than to accept cuts

Unions’ decisive plan of action need to defeat this act of corporate vandalism

Time to gather forces for a real workers’ alternative is now

A fight the trade union movement cannot afford to lose

Defend pensions – General strike now to bring down the government!

A fighting, working class left remains to be built

Independent workers’ organisation and socialist programme needed

New neo-liberal parties enter fray but workers need a strong socialist alternative

“Let’s bury it for good!”

New generation can learn from experience of Malaya Communist Party leader

Letta government faces continuing economic and social crisis

Esenbek Ukteshbayev, arrested as part of last weeks housing protests, is being held in solitary confinement and denied access to even a lawyer. In response, he has gone on hunger strike

Strong unions needed to stop worker exploitation ahead of 2022 World Cup finals

Mood for action against ConDem government

New book charts economic, social and political decay of America

Solidarity with protesting workers, youth and women!

Police reinforcements called in against new protests

Trade unionists debate how organised working class can have a political voice

Building a left alternative; link fight against regime with struggle of oppressed Tamils and system change

The case for a socialist alternative

But unstable times lie ahead

Socialist Party Scotland alone calls for public ownership of major sectors of economy

A reply to Andrew Kliman

Socialist and union organizer targetted by feudal lords and corrupt state officials

Determined and unified action pay

Discussions on political representation as elemental class rage develops under the surface of society

Need to build widespread strike action over workload, pay and working conditions

A contribution to the debate ahead of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum

Main parties, few differences; DIE LINKE must support struggles of working class and fight for a socialist future

Vadim Kuramshim’s courageous campaigning recognised by lawyers’ prestigious award

TUC must name the date for a 24-hour general strike

Under the timetable of Nigeria’s current constitution, the working may have to endure the country’s rulers until the next general elections twenty months away!

In re-building a socialist movement, lessons of coup need to be learnt

But anti-war campaigning must be maintained; No to imperialist intervention!

The role and the background to police spy Peter Francis as revealed in the book Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police.

During a recent radio show, Weizmann Hamilton (DSM and WASP) outlined the perspectives on re-building a powerful workers’ movement and a new mass working class party in South Africa.

Rejoinder to ‘Daily Trust’ fabrication

Transforming energy efficiency requires ending the waste of the anarchic market system

Name the day for a 24-hour general strike!

No to imperialist intervention!

But fails to explain widespread conspiracy of silence

On August 16, the anniversary of the police massacre of striking workers at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, over 5000 mineworkers gathered on ‘the mountain’ where their comrades had been shot down one year […]

Further burden on working class and young people

Abolish the Prawer-Begin plan! Stop racist discrimination

Need to build an independent workers’ movement to confront terror, sectarianism and poverty

For a tiny few at the top Britain is really booming…

Increasing sectarianism threatens revolution’s future – Workers’ independent action urgently needed

Both capitalists and working class prepare for unforeseen turmoil

United Socialist Party makes election challenge

Fragile governments will be rocked by mass movements of workers and poor

Workers, Communities and trade unionists unify their struggle

An independent, working class leadership needed. It is two and a half years ago when the ‘Arab Spring’ began – a series of events which have radically transformed the Middle East, reported Serge Jordan introducing the […]

Ed Miliband’s decision to rush through the end of trade union bloc affiliation to the Labour Party at a special conference next spring has all the symbolism of Tony Blair’s ’Clause Four moment’ in 1995.

The socialist alternative to a continent in crisis

“A strong SAV strengthens the left in DIE LINKE”

Bloody repression can be turned against striking workers and youth

This year’s CWI Summer School, held in Belgium this week, began with an inspirational account of the recent dramatic developments of workers’ struggle in South Africa, the important participation of the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI […]

How workers won the NHS

Anti-Tamil pogroms organised by ruling class

It is a year since the opening of the London Olympics. As protests rage in Brazil against the profiteering and corruption revealed in the preparations for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics the […]

Trade unions must build a political voice for the working class

A victory for the whole working class

[UPDATED VERSION OF “Egypt: Morsi removed – No trust in the generals” ON 10 JULY]

High profile dispute puts union ties to New Labour into question

On the road to independent working class political representation

‘Down with CY Leung’ – but what are the next steps in democracy struggle?

For independent action by workers and poor

Campaign Kazakhstan British Secretary, Mick Whale, condemns David Cameron’s visit to build links with Kazakh dictator

National Shopstewards’ Network (NSSN) conference: how to defeat government’s austerity?

No to the generals’ intervention! For a workers’ government!

A threat to democratic rights

Workers demand nationalisation of KazakhMys metal foundry

An injury to one is an injury to all

Leaders of Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE) call for genuinely independent enquiry

Khamenie and Rouhani are riding a tiger

Revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have exposed US hypocrisy over cyber-spying

“We will defend our rights and continue fighting”.

Fed up with continued oppression, workers under the banner of ’Pradeep Laminators Workers’ Union’ have started a propaganda campaign against the bosses.

Urgent need for independent working class socialist organisations

An 18-year-old student activist Clement Meric was murdered in Paris in broad daylight, on 5 June, by neo-fascist skinheads. This must be answered by mass mobilisation to halt attempts by the far right to raise […]

Police repression in the belly of the beast

Over 2,000 poeple attended the anti – bedroom tax rally in Glasgow’s George Square on June 1 called by the Scottish Anti Bedroom Tax Federation.

‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS campaign

Rising support for UKIP shows both the erosion of established party loyalties and the existence of a profound vacuum of working-class political representation.

Profits from destruction

The one day protest general strike held on 21 May was a significant step forward for the working class in Sri Lanka.

The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of Europe.

MEP demands immediate release of Housing Campaigners – solidarity still needed

Statement on Woolwich killing

After Lafontaine’s proposal to get rid of the Euro – what should the left say?

Protests needed via embassies

Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year

An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass working peoples’ defence committees!

Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike

Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background of deep divisions in society and the regime.

15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies

How can a state be realised?

On 8 May the PKK has begun to withdraw from Turkey. Millions are hoping now for an end to oppression and for democratic rights.

Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters and young people

Time for a new mass workers’ party

Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots

The United Socialist Party’s May Day demonstration passed successfully through a number of populous areas of Colombo, ending at Grand Pass Junction.

’Get a job!’ is the constant refrain of privileged Tory ministers and vicious right-wing tabloids. A million unemployed young people are the subject of a relentless campaign of smears and lies.

Sosyalist hareket üyesi 3 Pakistanlı Quetta’da mezhepçi çatışmada katledildi.

The last set of DSM members still in the detention of the state security service (SSS) in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, and Ibadan Oyo state, Southwest Nigeria, as of yesterday, has been released.

It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 400 garment workers crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the […]

Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more besides…

Photos of May Day demonstration in Sindh

DSM comrades arrested and detained

Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.

Writing off of any debt accrued due to the bedroom tax, supporting the building of new social housing, opposing all cuts and austerity measures

Socialist policies needed

SSM member, Suiher Daska and other left candidates were elected to the leadership of the union on the background of the coming struggles against austerity

"Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s hidden war" by Frances Harrison

Hundreds of people protested outside London’s Houses of Parliament on 14 April to demand that caste oppression in Britain be outlawed.

A surprisingly devastating critique of the ANC’s failure to ensure ‘a better life for all’; BBC2 April 24th and online

Socialist polices needed to resolve crisis in the interests of majority

Unprecedented stimulus package – a desperate gamble

Workers must take urgent steps to defeat capitalism and the right-wing.

The Troika’s bail-out package is an economic and social disaster for the people of Cyprus.

University of Ibadan (UI): End victimisation of student activists! – Call for protest letters and solidarity

Paul Murphy speaks out as European Parliament debates Human Rights

Lively meeting of party members and supporters elects Lagos state executive

On 13 March, seven young men were executed in Saudi Arabia by firing squad.

Appeal for protest letters and solidarity

A socialist perspective on fighting women’s oppression

Millions have been waiting for this day, 8 April 2013. Margaret Thatcher will never be forgiven for the devastation that her Tory governments’ policies wrought on working class communities in the 1980s – and is […]

Angry, bitter and undeterred, hundreds of pensioners and activists rally in Lagos

Fifteen years without a pay rise – “We are like slaves of the company!”

Just over a month since the death of Chavez and with less than a week till the presidential elections, Venezuelans are experiencing the highest level of political polarization seen in years.

Mere sabre-rattling or real risk to lives of millions?

Thatcher’s bitter legacy

We must stop them!

Weak Israeli government will try to implement austerity budget, and would try to maintain the occupation, possibly under a new cover of "negotiations" with Palestinians. Resistance likely on all fronts.

Anti-bedroom tax protests attracted thousands of people in Glasgow and Edinburgh last weekend – reflecting the mass opposition to the hated ConDem policy.

No political voice for working class

Vic Paananen, who died on 24 March, aged 75, was a veteran socialist activist.

Three Socialist Movement Pakistan killed in sectarian violence in Quetta

Development of Bodu Bala Sena must be stopped

The rise of the Pirate Party is a transient expression of underlying anti-party sentiment and a protest vote against the policies and actions of the established parties

The launch of the Workers & Socialist Party was the direct outcome of the struggles of the mineworkers of South Africa throughout the course of last year.