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More than one hundred thousand children left homeless by Pakistan’s floods are in danger of dying because they simply do not have enough to eat, according to UNICEF.

The first step!

30,000 public sector and 10,000 private sector jobs under threat

Organised protest action shakes Kazakhstan authorities

Today the beauty industry, which refers to toiletries, cosmetics, dieting products and plastic surgery, is worth billions of pounds. The negative effects that its methods and advertising have, particularly on women, in the quest for […]

The RMT union, whose general secretary Bob Crow will be speaking, is organising a “Crisis in Working Class Political Representation” conference on Saturday 2nd October in Glasgow.

Labour elects Ed Miliband as new leader

Kashmir is aflame again amid a renewed outpouring of popular, non-violent, revolt against India’s military occupation.

Earlier this year, four Unison activists, all Socialist Party members, were banned from office for up to three years. Their crime? Producing a leaflet for the union’s 2007 conference calling for greater democracy within the […]

Struggles mount in build-up to 29 September general strike

Organising to save jobs and services

Joe Higgins MEP explains his vote on a report on a new agreement with Pakistan allowing EU countries to facilitate the deportation of Pakistani immigrants back to the poverty and repression of Pakistan.

Stop terrorising the workers movement

The newspaper’s website reports the brutal situation facing prisoners in Kazakhstan and the recent visit by Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland).

CWI leaflet: Workers need to organise independently!

Protesting trainee nurses held an all-night vigil on Saturday 18th September outside the local press club to pressurize the government to act against health and district authorities for victimisation.

"Your campaign is terrifying the speculators and the big banks – and that is a very good thing" – Joe Higgins speaking at a demonstration in Stuttgart.

State owned shipyard company plans to close major shipyards, resulting in around 2,500 job losses (7,000 including subcontractors)

Autobiography shows aim to destroy Labour as a vehicle for working class struggle

Desperate inmates facing brutal beatings self-mutilate and hunger strike

Indian ‘Fact-finding mission’ will not offer solution

As we reported last week, the general strike of 7 September in India was called by a wide range of trade unions. It was in protests at the rocketing prices of food and fuel while […]

Support Tommy and Gail Sheridan

Thursday 16 September saw one of the most formidable demonstrations in the capital city for some time. 2,500 uniformed firefighters marched with Fire Brigades Union (FBU) flags and placards, whistles and vuvuzelas, and even a […]

Eradication of feudalism and capitalism would free millions

Youth Fight for Jobs protest

Media reports of Joe Higgins’ recent visit to Kazakhstan, where he called for the scrapping of an OSCE conference in the authoritarian-run country

A new report on the TURCP web-site shows the ongoing and tireless flood relief work by trade unionists in Pakistan

On 8th September Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) and Tanja Niemeier, LSP – PSL (CWI Belgium), spoke at a press conference of the GUE/NGL on breaches of human rights in Kazakh Prisons.

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi

Flash floods destroy lives, soaring price inflation means poverty

Joe Higgins MEP addresses the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights on the brutal, repressive regime in Kazakhstan and its blatant breaches of human, civil and political rights.

Workers showed courageous determination

MASSIVE ATTACKS on working people, students, young people and the unemployed are currently being made by the government, in an attempt to put the bill for the economic crisis squarely at the feet of the […]

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‘Death of Democracy’ in Sri Lanka

Solidarity message from Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) MEP

Break the Tripartite Alliance – For a mass workers’ party on a socialist programme

Protests needed: "The Provisional Minimum Wage Commission does not speak for us!"

Free Belarus activists!

Sarkozy forced to mouth concessions but fight set to escalate

Joe Higgins MEP explains why he voted in favour of the resolution condemning French President Nicolas Sarkozy for his racist policies of scapegoating and deporting peoples from the Roma minority in France.

"Support European Day of Action against Austerity – 29 September should be day of active struggle, protests and strikes across Europe"

Fightback! Join the day of action on 20 October

Police hold human rights defender, Vadim Kuramshin, for 10 days to prevent him meeting Joe Higgins MEP

Brutal Nazerbayev regime presides over ticking social time-bomb

Arrest of human rights lawyer and campaigner backfires on authorities

“Democracy is sometimes a little bit difficult“, said the mayor of Stuttgart, facing a mass movement against the railway project, ‘Stuttgart21’.