Around the world

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

Interest among people to organize has increased

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

A protest took place in Dublin on the 12th of August in solidarity with striking oil workers in Kazakhstan who are engaged in a 3 month long strike against Kazmuniagas.

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

Wanted: ‘cleansing’ of immigrants and showdown with ‘traitors’

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

How should the workers’ movement respond?

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

Mobilise all workers and communities to defeat bosses!