Egypt: Recent years of workers’ struggles the basis for today’s revolution
Militants struggling to build fighting, independent unions
Militants struggling to build fighting, independent unions
The massive 27% cut in central government funding to local authorities is having devastating consequences.
Decisive action needed to block reaction and complete revolution
Jonas Brännberg Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) spoke to an exiled activist from Yemen about the situation.
Industrial action over pay, conditions and government-appointed union ‘leaders’
Four Socialist Party members were disciplined by Unison on trumped-up charges of racism, after producing a leaflet at the 2007 Unison conference, challenging the Standing Orders Committee (SOC) about ruling resolutions off the conference agenda.
Vital to build a mass party to realise aims of workers and small farmers
‘Week of Determination’ protests called
Kick out Mubarak and his cronies
This eyewitness account from a CWI reporter was despatched just before the big increase in the numbers of militant protesters swelling Tahrir Square, following Friday prayers.
‘Opposition to all cuts, support for industrial action by workers and mass resistance’
The mass movement must go on the offensive!
Dip reflects the fragility of British capitalism’s ‘recovery’
Eyewitness report from Cairo’s Tahrir Square[see: articles in Arabic | this article in Arabic]
Demonstrators demand Mubarak and his regime must go
Demonstrations continue despite the announcement of increased wages, subsidies and political reforms
The conflict is between two sides of the same coin!
Hundreds of thousands remain on streets defying repression – For an indefinite general strike!
Stand off continues as workers’ siege of company headquarters enters third day
Regime deploys army on streets to try to crush mass movement
Unprecedented political vendetta ends in draconian sentence
One day strike in engineering industry this Friday
Radical political force dealt a serious blow • Pro-Beijing camp jubilant
“Tunisia is the solution”
Religion, politics and the working class
For the building of a mass workers alternative against sectarianism, war and poverty
A united struggle of Arab and Jewish workers against ‘contract labour’ and for decent wages.
The first phase of the revolution ousted Ben Ali! It must continue!
Nearly 600 people, mostly workers with elected positions in trade union branches, trades councils, workplaces and anti-cuts alliances, met in London on 22 January for the special anti-cuts conference of the National Shop Stewards Network […]
National Shop Stewards Network conference 22 January
20,000 jobs under threat – protesting workers forced the authorities to retreat
Follow their example of struggle
Protesting port workers of Port Qasim in Karachi walked out and effectively took over the port on 17th of January.
Protest against ’referendum’ on suspending presidential elections until 2020
Parliament rubberstamps ‘referendum’ to postpone election until 2020
‘Voice of the Republic’ newspaper staff harassed and arrested
Defend the right to demonstrate
Stop the repression, for international solidarity!
How to defeat cuts and tax rises?
A thousand protests made worldwide against jailing of trade union and social activist
Religious extremism on the rise
Solidarity with the Algerian and Tunisian masses!
Protests and creation of independent unions show potential for workers’ unity
Presidential Election brings the country to the brink of full scale war and worsens the crisis of capitalism
Message of solidarity from Joe Higgins MEP to Tunisian trade unionists, socialists and democracy activists
How to fight the far right?
2010 – The most tumultuous year for two decades
“For nearly a decade, economic collapse, worse in many countries than the depression of the thirties, with its associated crime waves, corruption and social degeneration devastated the region.”
Socialist Party calls public protest over loss of service for homes and health risks
‘Appeal’ hearing a travesty of justice
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