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Scientists estimate nuclear fall-out caused over 200,000 deaths

Need to build united workers’ alternative as social and political tensions grow

Arms manufacturers are excited by the Libyan conflict as it will lead to increased sales and profits.

President Lukashenko uses outrage to attack working class

Right wing populist ‘True Finns’ third biggest party

What attitude should socialists adopt in defending women’s rights?

US overstretch and uncertainty

What is the way forward now?

Desperate economic situation exacerbated by world capitalist crisis

Libyan workers and youth must rely on their own strength

Developments in SWP confirm Socialist Party’s arguments for NSSN anti-cuts campaign

Following last Sunday’s parliamentary election in Finland, talks are taking place on forming a coalition government. The results saw a big increase in support for the anti-immigrant, rightwing populist True Finns party, gaining 19.0% (39 […]

Paul Murphy questions EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht on the worsening situation in Pakistan after last year’s flooding, the role of speculation in food prices and its impact on the poor

’The worst is yet to come’

Vote against cuts in 5 May elections

Big student demo in Algiers defies ban on demonstrations

Unelected ‘friends of democracy’ show NATO’s hypocrisy

Thesis of the European bureau of the CWI

Decisive workers’ action necessary

Nearly two thirds of Icelanders say ‘No!’ to Icesave deal

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, was the final platform speaker at a London aggregate to discuss the prospects of the trade union and anti-cuts movement

Lessons for today’s revolution

Outgoing Harper government presided over price hikes, sell-offs and foreign wars

For a 24 hour general strike!

Opposition activist released after international protest campaign

Whichever combination of party’s form the next Scottish government, it will be a government that will attempt to carry through the deepest cuts in decades.

Mass protest against nuclear energy, Green Party victory in regional elections

Lively pickets in Berlin and Stockholm

Build an independent force of workers and the poor

Genuine democracy needed to make real political and social change

Bloody repression fails to stop protests

Regime ‘reforms’ fail to stop growing demonstrations

The massive Trade Union Congress (TUC – trade union federation) demonstration against public spending cuts was well over half a million strong, possibly 700,000 or more.

How to fight austerity and capitalism

Picket in Central Almaty in support of Esenbek Ukteshbayev

The earthquake off Japan’s east coast and the giant tsunami wave that followed on 11 March has, at the time of writing, officially killed over 8,500 people with another 13,000 people still missing.

Government pushed into defensive by Fukushima disaster and mass unrest

Build an independent movement of workers, the poor and youth

Opposition activist Esenbeck Ukteshbayev jailed – Call for protest pickets on 28 March

No to national unity on the bosses’ terms

On Sunday 20 March protesters marched from Hong Kong’s Chater Garden to the city’s Japanese Consulate. “Against nuclear power,” they chanted, and “be active, not radioactive” followed by a big cordon of TV crews and […]

20,000 take to Beirut’s streets: A workers’ alternative is needed – A workers’ movement is necessary!

Now is the time to demand re-nationalisation

Trades Union Congress national ’march for the alternative: jobs, growth, justice’

Tragedy for workers

Arab revolutions countries, the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel

2,000 Saudi Arabian troops bolster beleaguered Sunni ruling class

Victory to the Libyan revolution – Build an independent movement of workers and youth!