Egypt: Big demonstrations oppose President’s attempt to seize new powers
Socialist revolutionary change needed!
Socialist revolutionary change needed!
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex (LGBTI) activists, together with human rights campaigners, protested outside the Ugandan High Commission in London on Monday 10 December against a repressive new bill currently going through the Ugandan […]
The background to the wave of miners’ strikes across South Africa and how this movement is showing the way forward for workers and the poor across the country
All pretense of a fair trial dropped – Protest Now!
Brutal attacks against opposition activists shows need for independent mass workers’ movement
Act now to stop the crackdown of the new Morsi regime
Democratic, trade union and women’s rights under attack
Following high profile cases such as those of Julian Assange and Dominique Strauss Khan, there has been much debate recently about rape and sexual assault. On the Slutwalks and other protests, anger on these issues […]
Prime minster Cameron, the Murdoch empire and the police have been part of a web of mutual support and corruption
During the Israeli government’s eight days of brutal assault on the Gaza strip, over 163 Palestinians were killed, 1,235 wounded and the entire 1.7 million population of the strip traumatised.
Working class needs its own independent party
Victory for the Socialist Party and the Four, who have refused to be bullied and intimidated
About 50 people gathered in Bangalore to observe International Day of action for Legal Abortion in Ireland
"Lasting peace will only be achieved when there is an end to the national oppression of the Palestinian people"
Cuts in fuel subsidies provoke mass eruption from below
Stop Israeli state terror!
Continue with the struggle! Name the date of a 48 hour general strike!
None can really claim a victory
Kapitalist İsrail hükümetinin savaşına hayır!
A glimpse of the immense power of the working class if action is built and coordinated across borders
Defeat the desperate election offensive of Netanyahu, Lieberman and Barak
A socialist alternative to rotten, bankrupt capitalism
Opening towards an all-European strike
Defend every job!
For a second time this year, Irish GUE/NGL MEP Paul Murphy has been denied a visa to travel to Kazakhstan, where he was meant to head a delegation of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left […]
Interview with miners’ leader Hoshoko Letshoba
Travesty of justice as Appeal Court revokes earlier court decision to release Vadim
Growth in support for independence as early elections loom
For a Southern European-wide general strike on 14 November!
Vienna protests publicised in Kazakhstan
If demands of working people to be realised, it is necessary to be self-organised with clear aims
Opulence for robber capitalist elite but no boom for working masses
Preparing for a one-day general strike
Young people demand real job creation and an end to attacks on public services
New phase in struggle against austerity Workers travelled from across Britain to London today to express their fury at the Con-Dem government’s vicious cuts in living standards. The Trades Union Congress (TUC), which organised this […]
No desperate accolades from Nobel or anywhere will stop this present decline or shore up the EU’s biggest faultline – the eurozone crisis.
The class struggle in South Africa is far sharper than in many countries. Socialist consciousness is far higher among the powerful, industrial working class.
Massive strike after 50 years against outsourcing and cheap wages
Campaign Kazakhstan banner denounces attacks against oil workers
Text of Socialismo Revolucionario leaflet
International Solidarity needed
National Strike Coordinating Committee launched on 13 October
Spread of committees needed to prepare for general strike
Step towards national coordinated strike action
‘March for a Future’ a “powerful statement”
The struggle for a new mass workers’ party with a socialist programme
But socialist policies needed.
Labour leader promises more ’tough settlements for public services’
Great event in London on 2 October raises the demand for freedom for Aron Atabek and imprisoned Zhanaozen strikers
A strike on 3 October prevented the daily newspaper from being published the next morning. Workers fight back against lay-offs and cuts.
The “Joint Strike Coordinating Committee” of all mines on strike in Rustenburg calls for a march next Saturday to confront the government. It argues for a general strike for a national living wage of R12,500 […]
Now for an united and international mobilisation to take the struggle forward!
Mine workers’ strikes boosted by success at Lonmin – coordinating committee needs solidarity
Factory fire kills 300 workers, hundreds injured
CWI holds enthusiastic week-end of discussion and planning
Scottish Labour leader, Johann Lamont, has thrown the party into a crisis following her recent speech that called for an end to the “something for nothing culture” in Scotland.
The Labour Party conference takes place at a crucial time. Working people are crying out for a lead in a mass movement which can force elections and topple the hated Con-Dem government.
The large Nato force has been unable to defeat a vastly poorer force of Taliban-led fighters estimated at less than 25,000.
“We are inspired to continue the fight in the mines which continue to resist our united action.”
Support for independence for Scotland, ahead of a referdum, is still based on a sizeable minority. However, it is growing and is gaining ground amongst radicalised sections of society feeling the brunt of austerity cuts.
"No sexual abuse! No excuse! No domestic abuse! No excuse!" was one of the chants on the lively and colourful Slutwalk London demonstration on Saturday 22 September.
Protests and strikes by thousands shake the West Bank
ANC leadership has shown since the massacre that the gulf between it and the masses is now unbridgeable
ANC (Afrika Ulusal Kongresi) yöneticileri bu katliamladan bu yana, kendisiyle kitleler arasındaki uçurumun şimdi hiç kapatılamayacak kadar olduğunu gösterdi.
Many millions involved in country-wide bandh
For a 48-hour general strike as next step in fight to kick out government and its policies!
Now name the date!
For class struggle campaigns to unite working people across sectarian lines
Massacre of South African miners and Betrayal of the ANC
Press reports on impact of Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI)
Mass movement develops rapidly, then its leaders call a sudden halt
Banner unfurled during Kazakhstan vs Sweden qualifying match
A new sectarian front line opens
Stop the police terror
’TUC – name the date’
Quebec Solidaire’s breakthrough shows potential for the left
The need for democratic debate
Campaign for permanent contracts continues
CWI solidarity actions continue as struggle rumbles on
Time for ’Plan S’ for socialism
Release the detainees! Solidarity messages needed
Murder and attempted murder charges against miners detonates a volcano of rage
Sign on-line appeal
‘Massacres caused by right-wing extremism and Islamophobia’
Interview with a student activist on the perspectives for the movement
Result of massive international campaign of solidarity
Great victory for the international solidarity campaign
Memorial meeting remembers the great revolutionary who died in August 1940
Yet another ex-News of the World (NoW) journalist has been charged with having committed perjury during the 2010 trial of Scottish socialist Tommy Sheridan.
Reports of CWI-organised lobbies in Ireland, Israel, Austria
Attacks support for the failed system of big business, which will not spend its enormous cash piles.
What began 18 months ago as a popular uprising against the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad is on its way to becoming a full-blown civil war that could spread around the region.
Prosecutor demands vindictive sentence at end of farcical trial
“This is not our government”
Britain before the October 20 TUC demonstration
Wave of strikes and occupations as workers fight for real improvements
Protesters in front of embassy demand end of killing and support the miners
Re-affirms need for maximum support world-wide
South African police massacres striking workers at Marikana – call for protest action
…Free education is a right, not a privilege!
Human rights lawyer still fighting uphill battle
Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong) calls on voters to “Punish CY Leung and the corrupt establishment politicians!”
Syria’s agony continues unabated.
Solidarity needed to win basic rights and conditions
The human rights lawyer, Vadim Kuramshin, today stopped his hunger strike protest
Withdraw the troops from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN)! Keep PHCN public under democratic control of workers and consumers
Privatisation and ‘outsourcing’ fails again – For publicly owned and run services!
International protests to Kazak authorities urgently needed!
2,000 Burgylai company workers cease work for two hours
Teachers and other workers demand new pay scales
Who killed Nimalaruban?
100 workers arrested, over 1,200 police deployed in area
The greatest sporting, and money-making, show on earth The 2012 Olympic Games, held in London, will start with the ‘Opening Ceremony’ on Friday 27 July, watched by an estimated audience of 1 billion people around […]
“Most powerful challenge to neo-liberalism” in North America
Greece and Spain to fore in Europe’s deepening political, economic and social crisis
International solidarity from PCS union group executive
Urgent appeal for prisoner rights campaigner
For a 48 hour general strike to bring down Rajoy government
For nationalisation of banks and financial institutions with democratic public ownership
Conditions for mass revolt maturing
Elections will take place amid political polarization and economic uncertainty
Interview with NIPSA President Padraig Mulholland (personal capacity)
Working masses need independent policies and their own party
Editorial from The Socialist
Big business agenda defeated by mass campaigning
Twice as many as last year protest lack of democracy and gross inequality in society
For a mass independent movement of the workers and peasants to bring down the fake regime
Parliamentary elections strengthens Socialist Party’s rule
International Trade Committee in the European Parliament rejects ACTA
"Students have been striking for over 110 days."
Escalation in struggle for power between old regime and Muslim Brotherhood
The Left and the second-round Presidential elections
“[R]ather than achieving convergence, the euro has sharpened the differences between the national economies”
War criminal on the run!
Campaign Kazakhstan blog post
Workers fighting back request solidarity and support
Rank-and-file union activists assemble for sixth annual National Shop Stewards Network conference
Stagnating economy and joblessness lead to growing working-class dissent In the second round of Serbia’s presidential elections on Sunday 20 May, Tomislav Nikolic won a majority against the incumbent, Boris Tadic. In an election dominated […]
In struggle against brutal Assad regime, working class must oppose sectarianism and imperialist intervention
In memory of Takhir Narimanovich Mukhamedzyanov
“Red-Green” government forced to retreat
Strikers punished for state’s murderous attack on peaceful gathering of oil workers and families!
The government will be hoping that the Jubilee flotilla of 1,000 ships on the river Thames will serve as a useful distraction while it pushes through more swingeing cuts.
Which way for the Left Front?
Tamils are outraged that Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has been invited to the British queen’s diamond jubilee celebrations.
Tommy Sheridan conviction must be overturned
Struggle to defend children’s right and for a better society
We must remove the undemocratic control of the 1% who deny to the 99% a voice in the media.
Muslim Brotherhood and pro-Mubarak candidates face second round run off
Sign the e-petition now!
The Yes Scotland pro-independence campaign was launched mainly by the Scottish National Party, backed by big business, on Friday 25th May in Edinburgh.
Annual conference of Northern Ireland’s largest trade union at the end of May: A fighting strategy is needed on all fronts
End this farcical trial of the human rights’ lawyer and drop all charges!
Eurozone convulsed by turbulent economic forces and political upheavals
Hundreds of thousands of students take to streets, inviting workers to participate
The capitalist classes of Europe are now cranking up the pressure on the Greek working class, trying to blackmail it
Activists for democracy and justice gather to discuss burning social issues
For nation-wide union-led mass actions and a 48-hr general strike
When authoritarianism faces resistance
Mass demonstration against EU’s austerity policies
Third anniversary of slaughter of Tamil people by Sri Lankan army marked by protests all around the world
Anger from below, manoeuvres from the top
Workers’ organisations must ensure real change
Build fighting, democratic trade unions!
Thousands attempt to occupy squares and blockade the ECB in Frankfurt, Germany. Protests are banned.
Leader of the “Leave Peoples’ Homes Alone” campaign and member of the SMK, Larissa Boyar, and others have been released from prison
Urgency of a working class alternative proven again
Meeting discusses involvement in Afghanistan
Campaign Kazakhstan reports that newspapers in Kazakhstan said a strike by miners at KazakhMys ended on 7 May with a complete victory for the workers.
May Day should have offered opportunity for workers to pose their demands and agitation before the government
Austerity rejected in Eurozone’s second biggest economy
Socialist organisations march to joint rally
The Con-Dem government suffered a crushing defeat in last Thursday’s elections for local authorities and in the mayoral contests apart from London.
As economic crisis worsens and class struggles continue in Spain, Greece, Portugal and elsewhere in Europe, the need for working class fight-back and to build the influence of Marxism grows.
Socialist Action (CWI) campaigning against the capitalist 1% and against racism
Solidarity needed to free Vadim!
For a workers’ programme that puts forward the socialist alternative
Days of action planned in Frankfurt/Main against European Central Bank and big finance
Pension cuts, job cuts, service cuts
Make the rich and the bankers pay for their crisis!
Immediate protests and financial help needed
Eleven years after the ‘kettling’ (containment) of an anti-capitalist protest in central London, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment on the police tactic.
Build A Mass Movement To Fight For Jobs
Despite the enormous agricultural and mineral resources of the country, the various capitalist political elites could neither resolve the economic nor nationality problem.
Since last May Day, fierce battle between public sector workers and the capitalist ruling class of different shades and disguises have erupted.
New, polarized situation opening up
Committee for a Workers’ International representatives speak
Shrieks of protest from the Spanish government, Repsol, EU leaders, Latin American Presidents and others have been unleashed
The need for concerted strike action against Con-Dem cuts in the public sector is more urgent than ever.
The government is cutting more than five billion euros
Court hears new allegations of police planning for Zhanaozen massacre
The Current Political Context
Tehran’s bus drivers’ union leader sentenced to 6 years in prison
Prison rights campaigner faces 7-15 years in jail
"Shout out the story as loud as you can"
Paul Murphy MEP denied visa to Kazakhstan – Nazarbayev regime scared of truth getting out about December 16 massacre of oil workers and their sympathisers.
Protest in response and release of the two shows potential for united struggle
15,000 join protest against the appointment of new leader C. Y. Leung as capitalist establishment is openly split
Appeal for international protests
Police detain Arman Ozhaubaev and claim his location ‘unknown’
5,000 anti-racists take to streets of Aarhus
Fight every move by the ruling classes to take away the little gains made by the working people
As economic crisis worsens and class struggles continue in Spain, Greece, Portugal and elsewhere in Europe, the need for working class fight-back and to build the influence of Marxism grows.
Campaign Kazakhstan: "Stop the frame-up of the Zhanaozen strikers!"
It shows the potential for anti-cuts election challenges
Decisive battles ahead
A country stupendously rich in human and material resources on the world scale is virtually on the last scale of ladder of civilization and economic development.
If any of the trade union leaders had any doubt about the full character of the onslaught facing the working class and the trade union movement, it should be dismissed now.
Solidarity Protest in Bangalore against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant
Will the Left Party present itself as an anti-capitalist opposition or as a ‘moderate’ party managing capitalism?
Successful demonstrations across Kazakhstan – now protest against fines and arrests of activists!
A blow to the regime but not enough
Time to fight for socialist change
“Nazarbayev – blood on your hands!”
Government austerity, police repression…the students’ struggle is everyone’s struggle!
Volcano of class struggle ready to erupt
Outrageous anti-democratic sentence as establishment seeks to criminalise protests
International solidarity campaign forces university authorities to back-down
How to end a nightmare?
But condemnation tempered by trade interests
Amnesty international and the British Channel 4 television channel reveal new material documenting the unpunished slaughter and ongoing oppression of Tamil people
But fails to condemn Nazarbayev regime
200,000 march across South Africa
Regime under pressure from international campaign
Over 100 million workers take part
Workers and youth fierce struggles ahead
Genoa traditions celebrated with film and music
On International Women’s Day, CWI activists protest against austerity package hitting women
International women’s day, 8 March, has been marked this year with an upturn in struggle, much of it to keep hold of many gains won in the past. Con-Dem austerity is hitting women hardest.
Mass struggle needed for genuine and fair elections and the end of tycoon rule
Protest against new attack on workers’ rights
Video of Paul Callanan, Youth Fight For Jobs campaign on national UK news programme
Campaign for a democratic students’ union goes on – Send protests now!
Western powers step up sanctions and military threats against Tehran
Police break up St. Paul’s camp, which lasted for more than 100 days
A number of key unions are poised to strike-back on 28 March – and significant private-sector struggles continue.
The world famous Oxford Union was the setting for a debate on the proposition: "This House Believes That Capitalism has Failed the Poor".
With almost 3 million people participating in the process of primary elections, the coalition of right-wing parties in opposition to the Chavez government, elected a united candidate for the Presidential elections in October.
International solidarity and action to oppose state brutality and austerity
Reports from February edition of Resistenze, paper of the CWI in Italy
Statement from Gauche Révolutionnaire (French section of the CWI) drawing a balance sheet of its experience in the NPA
MEP Paul Murphy raises the need for the Egyptian masses to take political and economic power out of the hands of the ruling elite and military
Full inquiries moved by Paul Murphy MEP and agreed
Cosawu union won application to represent about 700 workers
Kurmanov and Ukteshbayev speak out
Immediate support given by Bob Crow, rail-workers’ leader in Britain, Paul Murphy, MEP, from Ireland, Swedish trade union journalist and Australian Councillor, Steve Jolly
Part of struggle against bureaucratisation of union
LA School 2012 takes place against the backgound of sharp changes on the continent
Urgent protests needed!
London is a city of enormous disparities between rich and poor, the most unequal city in the developed world – a report from the city hosting this year’s olympics
International struggle can end dictatorship of the markets
No trust in Arab League and imperialist powers
A big protest rally in freezing temperatures greeted the Kazakhstan president as he attended a meeting to strengthen relations with the German government and big business.
74 killed in horrific scenes
Joe Higgins argues in Cork, 26 January, to resist the household tax: "Yes, we have a choice!"
The capitalist classes of Europe are all adopting the same policy of attempting to make the working class pay for the capitalist economic crisis.
A socialist view on recent showdown between government and people
The repression will not stop the movement!
Urgent solidarity needed
The lessons of the first waves of revolutionary movements
Worldwide solidarity campaign means the Kazakhstan regime can no longer deny 16 December massacre
Interview with two Tunisian socialists, one year after the fall of Ben Ali
Whole continent on the verge of major social convulsions and political shocks
The illusory appearance of a peculiar isolation from the international picture of stagnation, recession and economic crisis is fragile – a new period of turbulent class conflict lays ahead
Euro-zone crisis deepens
Masses in Cairo and other cities demand end to military rule
Contradictions and new struggles define situation in region
Release Vadim Kuramshin and all those arrested – End harassment of opposition activists!
16 December underlined the need for the workers’ movement to link economic demands to the struggle to bring down the regime
How socialists and the local community fought back against racism and the BNP
Scottish National Party’s version of indepdendence a nightmare for workers
As economic crisis worsens, new class conflicts loom
Struggle forces Jonathan back a bit, but could have won far more with a more resolute leadership – We Condemn Repression by Police and Army
Public sector union left group organises open conference to keep up the fight
Pictures of the movement taken by DSM activists
Total shut down across the country as the working class shows it owns society
Xekinima national meeting discusses balance sheet of 2011’s class struggles and prospects for workers’ fight-back in 2012
For a serious fight against President’s New Year "gift". No rotten compromise!
Nazarbayev regime cancels elections in city
Diaspora protest against fuel subsidy removal
For all out mass action from 9 January!
Labour should declare two-days of mass actions including general strike and mass protests
Oppose nuclear power plants
Youth Fight for Jobs and the Jarrow march
Working masses must unite against descent into anarchy
Review – “The Party: The secret world of China’s Communist rulers”, by Richard McGregor, Allen Lane, 2010, £25
"A victory for workers anywhere is a victory for the workers everywhere!"
Russian press describe torture of detained oil workers & police reign of terror
New video shows riot police shooting unarmed protesters in Zhanaozen
More international solidarity and support
Campaign Kazakhstan demonstrates in Berlin and Cologne
Name the date for the next strike!
Stalinist nightmare continues
18/12 22:05 LATEST UPDATE – WORKERS BEING TORTURED!
"European union must break off talks with Kazakhstan!"
UPDATE @ 22:30 GMT – Only united and extensive workers’ action can end this dictatorial regime
LATEST UPDATE 17:54 GMT Breaking News: Peaceful protesters & supporters of striking oil workers fired upon
Protests in Berlin, London, Vienna, Brussels Update 18:15 GMT Swedish Protests
Campaign Kazakhstan press statement and demands
Hospital workers achieve minimum wage
Conservatives speak for rich, not workers
General strike sets the pace
Tamil Solidarity demands that Cameron reveals all his personal dealings with lobbying firm and show the concrete details of the measures he has taken in relation to war crimes in Sri Lanka
What next after the strike of November 30?
The countdown to “save” the euro and possibly even the European Union.
Step up student strikes!
What the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) and strikers said on 30 November 2011
Wave of protests to Almaty prison authorities
“The working class will rise up, at some stage, change the balance of forces and create a radicalised situation”
Paul Murphy Challenges ECB President Mario Draghi
Video footage of demonstration organised by Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI Pakistan)
“We’ve had enough”
“Set a date for next strike!”
Reports, striker’s views and socialist analysis of 30 November public sector general strike
First video report on this massive display of workers’ opposition to the British government’s attacks
Solidarity needed! Demand Odisha government immediately releases Abhay Sahoo
Socialist Action (CWI) stands candidate for first time
But military-controlled elections do not signal transition to democracy
Antifascists have to build a mass movement and can not rely on the state.
For a real ‘second revolution’! End military rule! Fight capitalism and imperialism!
Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan demands enquiry.
The reality of life in Gaza
"Make N30 the start of a fight to stop all cuts"
"Can there be any doubt but that we are witnessing a full frontal assault on democratic rights by European bondholders, bankers and speculators facilitated by the leadership of the European Union?"
Fragmentation of the Eurozone could trigger another deep financial crisis and global economic downturn
Protest this travesty of justice – Demand Georgii Epshtein’s immediate release!
Urgent support needed
United working class-led movement needed for real regime change
Cameron, the Murdoch empire and the police have been involved in a corrupt attempt to subvert the democratic rights of the British people
Ten thousand signatures collected on oil-workers’ petition
For the past few weeks heavy rains in many parts of Tamil Nadu have once again brought hardship to the people causing damages to roads, bridges and inundating many low lying areas claiming 44 lives […]
“Many layers of Egyptian society are protesting”
Overall PP majority, but left forces gain and new struggles on horizon
Defend the revolution! For mass struggle to overthrow army rule!
Monti government will face mass opposition to austerity
Paul Murphy MEP supports struggle for an independent students’ union
Firm action needed to win all workers’ demands
Workers, students, pensioners – all in the firing line
Paul Murphy MEP gives press conference about his abduction and imprisonment by Israel
For real change through mass action of working class, youth, unemployed and poor!
Support the struggle for an independent, democratic students’ union!
Concessions to the right-wing opposition, neo-liberal policies, and attacks on the social movements convince workers of the need to build an alternative to Evo Morales´ MAS party
Workers demand permanent and direct employment
Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, interviewed on Al Jazeera
Gaza Flotilla activists abducted in international waters and illegally held for 7 days by the Israeli state
“Clarity of ideas, visionary strategy, combined with an astute tactical appreciation of the critical need to raise the mass consciousness of the working class.”
"A ’No Cannes Do’ summit"
Debt crisis hits Eurozone’s third largest economy
Government ministers "have not uttered a single word of protest in public in response to this outrage"
Activists face “harassment, humiliating body searches, being shackled”
Breaking News: 7 detainees to be "released" tomorrow, followed by Paul Murphy MEP on Friday
Hundreds sign protest condemning Nazarbayev dictatorship and demanding democratic rights
Israeli authorities delay deportation, continue imprisonment
And vow that the struggle goes on
Demand the immediate release of all the detainees now!
Flotillas blocked and activists detained – Send protests urgently!
Ship radio communication cut
Left Alliance joins Conservative led government – Time to build radical, left alternative!
But battles still to wage
New laws to repress social protest
Condemn brutal attack on media freedom, Solidarity needed!
Independent action by Libyan workers, youth and poor vital to prevent revolution’s derailment
Strike action wins concessions – but 4.2% is not enough!
Malaysian economy enters difficult period
Eurozone crisis deepens
Stop state brutality in Kazakhstan!
Violence of a few used to try and curb growing opposition
Preparing for the showdown
Build the mass resistance to austerity!
Build for 19 October ‘independent’ unions’ strike!
Austrian working class gives impressive sign of life
“Difficult times – yet we are defiant and determined!”
British Defence Secretary Fox in trouble
Socialist Action protests against racist march • Recent anti-migrant propaganda originates from Government House
Riot police attack students demonstrating at Presidential Palace, general strike called in response
Hope, fear and the struggle for self-determination
Paul Murphy speaks in European Parliament against repression in Kazakhstan
"Better to break the law than break the poor"
The working class needs a new party
Implications of so-called "six-pack of economic governance measures", voted on in the European Parliament last week, are vast
24 Hour Public Sector General Strike Now – Socialist Party placard, photo Paul Mattsson
“People First” demonstration in Glasgow on 1st October
Solidarity urgently needed
The Moscow News reports on heroic workers struggle
“I, Clare Daly, member of the Irish Parliament strongly condemn threats by the Kazakhstan authorities…” Socialist Party TDs add voices to international outcry
Indigenous movement and general strike force five ministers resignations
London protest against state repression and in solidarity with oil workers
Protesters lobby Kazakh embassy in Germany
Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev to address OSCE Human Rights Conference
Hundreds of thousands displaced as flood worsens
Eight months after the overthrow of Mubarak, workers and youth still face poverty, unemployment, corruption and repression
Left-wing legislator and six others arrested and charged with ‘disorderly conduct’ after by-election protest
Why socialists must campaign for a new mass workers party
Revolution in grave danger of being seriously derailed
CWI MEP argues for mass action to liberate the Palestinian masses
Public sector-wide action announced for 30 November!
New initiative to build a fighting alternative
For a two-day general strike now! No to retrenchment of workers!
Labour Party gains less then predicted
Crisis worsens, hundreds killed, millions affected
Police threats to arrest and jail Socialist Movement Kazakhstan leaders – urgent protest action needed!
…we need a programme of action to fight back!
How can the national rights of Palestinians be achieved?
National Shop Stewards’ Network lobbies Trades Union Congress (TUC)
Support the striking workers of the Charité Facility Management company (CFM) in Berlin!
Police interrogate Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev for a total of 16 hours
Paul Murphy MEP and others visit militarised zone at Maddalena
For an alternative to the rotten capitalist consensus!
Bring the campaign to trade unions and the Left!
Stop the revolution’s derailment – independent workers’ action needed!
Auto workers engaged in 21-day strike
The CGIL, the main trade union federation, has called an 8 hour general strike for 6 September
The 30 June strikes were a turning point in the struggle against this government, giving a huge boost of confidence.
Funeral reveals deep-rooted mood of working people and youth for real change
Terrorism Takes Root in Nigeria amidst Deep Social and Economic Crisis
International protest demands end of death penalty against Tamil activists
"What one change would have the biggest positive impact on society?"
“What is Telia doing in Kazakhstan?”
Defeat and climbdown by government
August’s explosive events revealed a class society in crisis
A solidarity picket in defense of oppressed oil workers in Kazakhstan was held near the Consulate of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the headquarters of the firm ’Oil and Gas Exploration’, in Krakow on August […]
Workers must take the struggle to the next level
Daily increase in number of students, tremendous devotion from volunteer teachers
Relative “social peace” shattered
No to foreign military intervention · Libyan workers, youth and poor must act independently of imperialism
Attempts to form a new left umbrella party
Workers join students on stage of struggle
“I really hope more trade union organizations give support”
Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary struggle continues
National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is organising a lobby of this year’s TUC (Britain’s trade union confederation) conference in London, 11 September
The life of half a million garment workers in Bangalore is nothing but a hellish existence.
Fight racism • United struggle needed against neo-liberalism and capitalism
Prisoners’ campaigner, Vadim Kuramshin, arrested twice in 3 days
Mass, trade union-led response needed
The business-woman, Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of the controversial former prime minister, the tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra, was chosen by Thailand’s parliament as the country’s 28th prime minister on 5 August.
Labour broker workers march to Minister of Labour for permanent jobs
Hundreds sacked and union lawyer sentenced to six years in jail. Intransigent employer refuses negotiations. Now a striker murdered!
A mass workers’ movement is needed to defeat the government
"Just look at this ground shaking everywhere…"
Fatal police shooting sparks eruption of protest and anger
The death toll is rising from the Syrian army’s brutal assault on the mass uprising in the city of Hama and other areas.
After months of vicious manoeuvring between Republican and Democratic factions, the US Congress and president Obama agreed on a budget deal only hours before the deadline to raise the Federal government’s borrowing limit.
Inner-party struggles as repression tightened
The CWI School, which took place in Leuven, Belgium between 24 and 29 July, was opened by Peter Taaffe of the CWI’s International Secretariat on ‘Europe in turmoil, the youth revolt and the current stage […]
Working class beginning to lose fear
Lessons of the Movement of the ’Enraged’
Report of plenary discussion
Determination to struggle grows
Big opportunities lost to build new mass party of workers
This week is the 75th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War, on 18 July 18. We mark this hugely important event in world history with an article first published on socialistworld.net in […]
Workers faced with jail and brutal repression – Solidarity urgently needed!Reprint of article from SIPTU union newsletter
Editorial of the Socialist newspaper, 20 July 2011
PSM draws parallels with crackdown on Reformasi movement
Socialist Party deputy general secretary Hannah Sell, speaking at a London Socialist Party meeting, examines the way forward for the trade union movement to defeat the cuts programme of the British ’ConDem’ government
Strike wave driven by one of the world’s highest inflation rates
For Active Strike with a Series of Mass Activities
The 13 day strike of over 2000 workers in the Maruti Suzuki India’s (MSI) Manesar plant in Gurgoan (Haryana), close to the national capital Delhi, in the first weeks of June is an important sign […]
Controcorrente holds important day of discussion in Genoa
‘Murdochgate’ is Britain’s Watergate
Workers and youth say, “Save the revolution!”
Massive crackdown on opposition
The continuing struggle against caste oppression
Over 500,000 march on 30 June
Unions must break the link!
We demand a full and independent inquiry, involving workers’ representatives, into the links between media moguls and the capitalist state
What next to defeat the cuts?
Movement an electric shock to political life
“Hunger strikes, imprisoned workers and tens of thousands on strike represents a virtual picket line which I have no intention of crossing,” Sting said in an online statement.
Only united working class action can prevent further attacks
Interview with Socialist Action (CWI) in Hong Kong after July 1 demonstration
‘Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China’s Extraordinary Rise’
Government steps up attacks on democratic and human rights to maintain grip on power
Reports from throughout the day
Terrorist-style attack on harboured boat potentially life threatening
‘Downfall – The Tommy Sheridan Story’ by Alan McCombes
But opposition continues to grow
State forces moved in to crush anti-POSCO struggle
2,000 police mobilised in Val di Susa
As the cuts bite, millions ask this question
“Aim of Flotilla to break siege and highlight blockade impact on Gaza population”
Largest protest movement for more than 20 years
Stop repression of striking oil and gas workers!
Public sector and education unions call 24 hour strike on 30 June
Workers resist Pasok’s savage cuts and privatisation programme
Strikes of oil and gas workers continue; other workers follow lead
’Communists’ defeated in Kerala as well as West Bengal
Resistance to coalition government’s cuts
Disputes over pensions, pay and deregulation show underlying discontent
Mass party needed to unite workers, youth and poor around socialist policies
“Turn 21 June into a day of mass protests and strikes”
16th June – Day of Solidarity!
Second major defeat for beleaguered government
Serious and inspiring preparation for the battles to come
Strikes spread – solidarity action needs to be stepped up
The significance of the student movement
Wages fall: Office for National Statistics 2010 survey of hours and earnings
ANC retains big majority but political authority weakened
After striking for the right to elect their own shop stewards the workers are attacked by both – the mine- and trade union bosses!
Movement will not be broken by brute force!
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