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Struggle against state repression continues under

The second round of Peru’s Presidential election on Sunday 7th June has resulted in a victory for the radical nationalist Ollanta Humala.

But western powers also have blood on their hands

But strikers’ lawyer Natalia Sokolova remains under arrest

Tamil representatives, solidarity and human rights campaigns and individual activists converged on the European parliament on Wednesday (1 June)

Hundreds detained and beaten – Natalia Sokolova still missing – Urgent solidarity needed

Rome, Turin, Naples, Milan, Reggio Emilia, Padova, Palermo, Brescia, Trieste, Venice, Cagliari, Viareggio, Pavia, Florence, Sassari, Verona, Lecce, Bologna, Pisa – this is a rough list of the major cities where the “Italian revolution” movement […]

Lawyer arrested, new address for solidarity messages needed

Across the Middle East and North Africa the revolutions and protests that began after Mohamed Bouazizi’s suicide in protest at poverty and oppression in Tunisia have, in many countries, reached turning points.

How to support the genuine forces in the uprising in Libya? – A Second Reply to the AWL

What started as a hunger strike by a relatively small number of oil workers in the town of Karazhanbasa in West Kazakhstan last week has now turned into a mass strike – now over fifteen […]

Big gains for New Democratic Party (NDP) – But is it an alternative for working people?

Video of police brutally clearing square in Barcelona

Greece’s economic crisis deepens – along with Ireland, Portugal and Spain

But resistance grows – oil workers strike

Governments have no mechanism for dealing with the crisis

After FIAT, now the shipyard workers’ struggle

‘G8 Dégage (get out)’!

A massive social and political revolt is brewing in Britain, argues Peter Taaffe

Indignados are a new factor in Spanish politics

An exchange on how to support the genuine forces in the uprising in Libya

Violent inter-religious conflict exploited by regime

Under the cover of the crisis an unprecedented offensive against the rights and conditions of the working class is underway.

Arab revolutions inspire new generation to fight Israeli occupation

“I do not want to be a slave to this system”[to watch a live stream from Puerta del Sol go to SOL TV]

Left in Turin loses an opportunity

Tamil Solidarity exposes the arrogant way Rajapaksa answers the UN report

The Greek bailout implemented last year has not worked. Greece, moreover, is far from being an isolated case.

The CWI supports the struggle of Tamil Solidarity and others for the rights of all workers and oppressed people in Sri Lanka.

The vicious regime in Bahrain has arrested and detained doctors and medical staff for treating injured protesters during recent clashes with security forces.

Growing threat of counter-revolution as roots of the old regime still remain

International solidarity needed

The 10 day pilot strike that has rocked the troubled national carrier – Air India has ended with a partial victory of sorts for the pilots

‘Kazakhstan 2012’ becomes ‘Socialist Movement Kazakhstan’

Two months after the beginning of the Fukushima disaster, the anger in Japan is growing

The root of the government’s weakness is the continuing profound crisis of capitalism in general and British capitalism in particular

Liberal vote collapses – social democratic NDP jumps to become official opposition

But majority government of savage cuts will meet working class resistance

On three different dates, April 9, April 16 and April 26, Nigeria held the general elections to elect politicians that would control power at central and state levels for the next four years.

Thatcher’s brutal prisons regime

2,500 on strike demo

The US government has announced a successful military assault on a large mansion in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, which has resulted in the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Ainur Kurmanov hospitalized.

Witness the media torrent of sickly sentimentality over the royal wedding.

Only a united struggle of the masses can defeat regime

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 […]

’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

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!

Step up protests over arrests and fines

Reforms do not go far enough

Autocratic regime invites Saudi Arabia forces to help quell protests

First drop of a coming rain storm

Thousands of police deployed on streets to stop protests

Many arrested, seven, including Esenbek Ukteshbaev, get 15 days imprisonment

‘You come back – we come back!’

Rebuilding should not serve the interests of private developers

Capitalist system incapable of facing up to natural disasters

A fighting alternative to Berlusconi is needed

Counter-revolution strikes – old regime has not given up

Opposition protest movements call for boycott of dictator’s fake poll

Against sectarianism and capitalism – for a workers alternative!

On 13 February, one million women (and men) marched in 230 towns and cities across Italy.

The genocidal war in the north and east of Sri Lanka, which ended in May 2009, has created more than 68,000 widows. On the other hand, there are another 30,000 widows in the southern part […]

Extraordinary stand against the brutal state and draconian powers

Conservative – Liberal Democrat government cuts devastating impact on women

Protests focus on migrants’ rights – abuse and torture of Indonesian migrants abroad

Herculean efforts to remove Gaddafi dictatorship in Libya

Mass campaign and threat of general strike sees persecuted workers’ leader released

Economic crisis sees clawing back of reforms for women

Another mighty demonstration demands real regime change

Women, especially working class women, have many reasons to be angry with how society is run today.

Britain braced for massive 26 March demonstration

Founders of new activists’ party detained

A party growing in strength

“We have no jobs, electricity – nothing”

Police kill demonstrators – workers block oil port

Enthusiastic response to call for a public sector general strike

Masses reject foreign intervention as towns fall to opposition

IN THE space of one month, the way young people are viewed by the mass media – and by themselves – was turned upside down.

To fully succeed, revolutions need to go beyond framework of capitalism

Brutal attacks and repression fail to stop demonstrations

The Egyptian February – class conflict sharpens

Dramatic changes have affected Britain. The student protests of last year set the scene. Now the prospect of significant industrial action against savage public-sector cutbacks is on the agenda.

Hawamdiya Sugar Factory Protest

New voters’ registration for election in April: Same old organisational and political problems

Week of escalating worker’s actions

Authoritarian regimes in Middle East fear for their rotten rule

Class confrontations are challenging the regime and the whole system

In Solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution

Army cannot guarantee democracy

No trust in the military chiefs! For a government of the representatives of workers, small farmers and the poor!

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!

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

“Tunisia is the solution”

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

Follow their example of struggle

Parliament rubberstamps ‘referendum’ to postpone election until 2020

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

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

“With the second centenary of national political independence being “celebrated” in various Latin American countries, the impasse for the political alternatives that have developed in the last period, like “Chavismo” and “Castroismo”, the region is […]

The crisis of capitalism and the naked role of imperialism are graphically manifested in the Middle East.

Real socialist alternative needed

“Social, economic and political crises are developing throughout Asia. They underline the vital importance of the CWI’s ideas and programme and the urgent task of developing the cadres for building future mass revolutionary parties.”

Textile Industry in India is the second largest employment generator after agriculture.

Politically-driven prosecution against Scotland’s best-known socialist

On Wednesday 20 October, the workers of the Mine Line/TAP Engineering factory in Krugersdorp, just outside Soweto, started an occupation of their workplace to stop the former owner from stripping the factory of machinery and […]

Millions involved in general strikes and demonstrations; deeply unpopular, often hated, governments – Europe is witnessing the re-entry of the working class and youth into struggle on a mighty scale.

Lifelong Militant/Socialist Party member

China’s growth shields region but economic, social and political crises loom

Strikes and protests by Bangladesh garment workers continue in the face of harsh repression by the state. Following the deaths of three strikers, shot down when police opened fire on demonstrators in Chittagong on 14 […]

The ruling class in Britain is determined to make sure that it is not them, but the working class and young people, who pay for the crisis in their system.

“General strike” call on lips of protesters

A "good Christmas present for the people of Northern Ireland" – Sammy Wilson, Finance Minister

Conservative nationalists victory follows defeat of “left” tripartite

On Thursday 9 December, while parliament debated the Con-Dem coalition government’s plan to treble university tuition fees, a fourth day of angry protest took place across the country.

A united movement with the working class is the way forward!

On the debate how to fight the cuts

Just as the student movement reaches Day X, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) has set out the agenda for its anti-cuts conference on 22 January.

Farcical election will fuel workers’ protests

Dundee students, from the universities, local colleges and schools took part in protests across the city on November 24 as part of the national walk outs and protests.

The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns the occupation of the installations of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) by armed soldiers

Up to 130,000 school, college and university students walked out on Wednesday 24 November in the biggest education action for 25 years.

No peace in sight for divided, militarised and unstable peninsula

Tens of thousands of school and university students rage against attacks on education

Games Ridden with Corruption

50,000-strong student march an example to workers’ movement

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition launches its campaign for the 2011 local elections

Appalling ‘humanitarian’ record of the ‘international community’ continues

Interview with 3 protesters involved in occupying Tory HQ

Massive student demo expresses anger against cuts

Socialism 2010, hosted by the Socialist Party during the weekend 6-7 November, was attended by over 900 people.

The key issue is what choices are on offer? What do the different parties stand for and do any of them represent the interests of the working class, poor and those who oppose the corrupt […]

Tamil people’s struggle for freedon and justice – beyond our borders

Massive student demo expresses anger against cuts

Assembled masses shake Con-Dem government

From the age of 10 years to their ripe old age, we find women not only slaving in their homes but also working in the houses of the wealthy & the middle classes as the […]

More than 1,000 teachers marched to Government House to protest plans to close 140 secondary schools (video clip)

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) wholeheartedly welcomes the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress to embark on a 3-day warning strike between November 10 and 12 to compel the government to […]

Tommy and Gail Sheridan’s perjury trial is now in its sixth week and is certain to be the longest case of its kind in Scottish legal history.  

Public protest Against Assault on Brother Philip Noronha

The garment industry in Bangalore with about 1200 registered units employing over a half a million workforce and one of the biggest sources of exports in the country, but hardly is there any mention in […]

The aftermath of the general strike on the 29 September

Struggle against brutal army oppression intensifies

Midwife to a double dip?

Moscow News reports on protests during Nazarbayev visit to Brussels

New pro-capitalist measures introduced by Raul Castro

Labour movement should begin mass mobilisation immediately

But what is hidden behind the festivities?

Opposition growing against Stuttgart 21, nuclear power and cuts. Opinion poll shows – Germany is in a state of political crisis

Metal mechanics’ leaders point to political programme needed

Feudal lords and politicians’ criminal decisions led to disaster

Interview with Alex Lecoq, Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France), a student in Rouen

Appeal for solidarity

Kazakh Socialist and human rights activist, Ainur Kurmanov, addresses the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights about the dictatorship in Kazakhstan and human rights abuses there.

Ainur Kurmanov slams regime’s record in Human Rights Committee of Euro-Parliament

Largest non-sectarian demonstration since anti-war movement

Solidarity needed!

4,000 workers from at least ten different trade unions, led by 100 striking firefighters, marched through central London on Saturday 23 October.

Millions of workers and youth want an end to the Sarkozy ’dictatorship’

Build a one-day public sector strike!

For a one-day public sector general strike

Trade union forced to respond with action

£81 billion cuts announced on "axe Wednesday"

“it’s one for all and all for one”

Demands Joe Higgins MEP

9 years after invasion and occupation

Sri Lanka has once again lived up to its reputation as one of the most dangerous places for a journalist to work

Workers and youth challenge cuts through mass strikes and protests

Pro-big business politicians can be forced to retreat

Workers can bring the whole economy to a halt

New paper and website of CWI in Netherlands!

New stage in the fight against Sarkozy’s policies

Neil Kinnock’s speech to the 1985 Labour Party conference signalled the start of a purge of Marxists from the party and anticipated the creation of New Labour.

What strategy to beat the cuts?

United Socialist Party and the fight for democratic rights

A paper presented on September 28, 2010 by Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary, at the 21st Annual Education Conference of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria

Beggars death in Bangalore

The threat of counter revolution stronger!

The battle against ‘Stuttgart 21’ reaches new heights

Tommy and Gail Sheridan’s trial on charges of perjury has started in Glasgow.

"A tidal wave of protest is rolling towards the coalition government, roaring, foaming, darkening the sky, sucking every political argument into a lethal wall of water… delegates to the TUC, freed from decades of impotence, […]

The first step!

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

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 […]

Organising to save jobs and services

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!

"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.

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 […]

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

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

Workers showed courageous determination

Send solidarity messages!

‘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!

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’.

Thousands demonstrate across Europe

Strike will start today

The only antidote to painful public-sector cuts

Repression and criminalisation of struggle is not socialism!

Can Nigeria experience positive development and improved living conditions?

Say no to job cuts and poverty wages!

Do local councillors have ‘no choice’? – Lessons from 1980s Liverpool Council struggle

SNP are putting independence on the backburner

Lawyer attacked and arrested in run-up to Euro MP’s visit

Strike and protest action in around 4,000 factories

Accordging to the Police Federation of Northern Ireland, dissident republican groups have been responsible for carrying out an average of two attacks a day since the beginning of the year.

Up to 1,000 firefighters poured into the conference room of TUC headquarters for a mass meeting of the London Fire Brigades Union (FBU) on Tuesday night (24 August).

The Hungarian parliamentary elections in April 2010 secured a landslide victory for the conservative FIDESZ party, with their leader Victor Orbán retaking the Prime Ministerial position that he had held from 1998 to 2002.

The government hid information to the families for hours

London Socialist Party members travelled to Watford (North of London) to deliver a protest letter to the Vinci regional office.

DSM demands: General Strike to support public sector workers

Towards a 24 hour all-European general strike!

With thousands of young people being denied a university place, facing a substandard education, forced into low paid work or left on the scrapheap of unemployment, a nationally organised fightback is essential.

Employers bow down to their demands

…amid fears of a double-dip recession

While most of Germany is on summer holiday the southern city of Stuttgart has seen, every few days, thousands of people take to the streets in protest…

More protests needed!

Towards a wave of struggle?

Longer strike may follow after negotiations on Thursday

Trade Unions must condemn the outrageous nomination fees, and actively build and fund the Party

The concerted might of the strongest and largest military force in the world, that of the US, is failing to defeat the disparate and crudely equipped Taliban militias in one of the poorest countries of […]

Leaflet of New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

After New Labour’s axe men began the education cuts, the Con-Dem butchers seem to have been let loose with a chainsaw.

Thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh took to the streets of Dhaka to dismiss the recently announced increase in the minimum wage as completely inadequate.

For international solidarity and struggle for socialism!

The PCS civil servants union’s national executive committee (NEC) has met to discuss how to respond to the Tory/Liberal coalition government’s cuts and privatisation programme.

After weeks of vacillation the TUC has finally agreed NOT to call a national demo against the cuts this year.

Did the organizers stop at nothing for profits? 20 people died in the horrific stampede at the July 24 Love Parade festival in the German city of Duisburg, 500 were injured and, for a time, […]

Social decay causes alienation and conditions for conflict

For trade union led mass campaign to stop destruction of Health Service!

Struggle at Pomigliano brings out need for workers’ party

Attackers and backers must be brought to justice – For an open, democratic investigation!

The Assembly Executive is preparing an act that will criminalise the right to protest.

The eurozone is faced with a potential break up.

RELEASE SOCIALIST STUDENTS – STOP ATTACK ON DSM – SOLIDARITY NEEDED!

The next leader of Britain’s main ‘opposition’ party will be one of four New Labour clones.

It is one year since the occupation by sacked workers of the Vestas factory on the Isle of Wight.

Kürdistan’a kendi kaderini tayin hakkı!

More than 41,000 police have been mobilised to deal with World Cup security.

Spring wave of strikes and protests

Across Europe governments are pursuing the same policy of savage cuts.

Workers’ leaders will not be cowed by persecution

Advance to socialism or the Bolivian struggle will fail

All out on 29 September to defeat the attacks!

An urgent call for united working class action

2 million on the streets to defend pensions

Obama’s dismissal of general reveals military crisis

Make ETUC 29 September "Day of action" decisive workers’ mobilisation

5,000 sacked miners on strike

What way forward after the great mass movements of April 2006 and 2009

Say No to Racism and Sectarianism! For Unity among Lebanese and Palestinian Workers!

Stop budget attacks with mass action

Unison’s national delegate conference met in Bournemouth on 15-18 June. Against the background of the attacks of the Con-Dem government on public services and public sector workers, this was the most important conference to be […]

At the Committee on International Trade, Joe Higgins MEP questions the European Commission about its proposed Free Trade Agreement with South Korea and what impact that will have on the rights of workers in Europe […]

Nationalise the banks under the democratic control of the working population

Build a real democracy movement – based on mass struggle, anti-capitalism and a working class political alternative

Nationalise the plant under democratic workers’ control

Cape Town is having its biggest moment ever, or at least since the afternoon Nelson Mandela spoke to the masses from the balcony of City Hall hours after being released from 27 years in jail.

Report from People’s Alternative Summit

”News at 10”, one of the BBC’s most prominent news programmes on TV, reports about the growing resistance against cuts, featuring the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) decides to contest future elections – can Labour be “re-claimed”?

Role of army chiefs and Establishment in killings and cover-up remains unanswered

Nationalise Mitsubishi under workers’ control!

“This was MURDER”

A new, dramatic, phase

More than 50 people crammed in to hear speakers from Scotland, Hannah Sell from the Socialist Party England and Wales and Joe Higgins, the Socialist Party Ireland MEP.

Workers’ fight against attacks on jobs, wages and pensions

South African riot police fired tear gas on hundreds of security stewards protesting against wage cuts, 90 minutes after the match between Germany and Australia in Durban.

Text of the joint leaflet

On Saturday 12 June, the leader of the movement for self-determination (LPV), Albin Kurti, was arrested by the police, acting on behalf of the colonial-style ruling EULEX European Union authorities.

5 days after the announcement of an austerity package by the conservative-liberal coalition in Germany 45,000 workers, unemployed and young people took to the streets of Berlin and Stuttgart to say: we won’t pay for […]

The Tories claim that massive cuts are necessary because of New Labour’s excessive public spending on services and welfare. This is a giant con trick, which every capitalist party – including New Labour – is […]

Debates about the future of the party Die LINKE

Nearly 10,000 Israeli Jews and Palestinians came out to protest in central Tel Aviv on Saturday, against the aftermath of the attack on the aid flotilla, the siege on Gaza, the occupation, and the government […]

On 9 June, 85,000 school, university, and apprenticeship students went on strike against cuts in education, tuition fees and increasing pressure to "perform" in education.

The Scottish section of the Committee for a Workers’ International – the International Socialists – is changing its name to Socialist Party Scotland.

Twelve workers have committed suicide so far this year at the factory that makes Apple iPads. Four others survived, gravely injured, and 20 were stopped from killing themselves by the company. All the dead were […]

Stop Israeli state terror!

Working people need own movement to overcome gangsterism, state repression and capitalism

OSCE Chair presides over torture of prisoners – Protests needed urgently!

Leaflet of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Joe Higgins MEP challenges US Ambassador on IDF killings

Joe also condemns the hypocrisy of right-wing politicans claiming to support human rights in Pakistan while supporting the brutal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Lift the siege immediately!

The first slice of cuts under the ’Con-Dem’ coalition government makes it clear that young people face a bleak future under its stewardship.

A CONSTANT stream of Tamils flowed into Parliament Square, London, on Tuesday 18 May.

Dismissals with Sixt because of foundation of a works committee

LSD’s 278,931 votes to Donald Tsang’s 649 votes – who has failed to muster support?

At a Plenary Session of the European Parliament, Joe Higgins MEP condemns the brutal repression of protesters in Thailand by the military

Workers alternative needed to agenda of Europe’s bosses

Not-so-new politics

Time for mass struggle to fight the cuts

Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, gave a sober but inspiring analysis of the general election outcome on a London meeting of the Socialist Party. Hear his speech here (40 min, mp3-file).

State colludes with Multinational

10,000 students and school students protested in Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana, on 19 May. A demonstration began on Preseren Square. Students then moved to the Slovenian parliament and smashed its facade with eggs, stones and bottles. […]

The Conference of the Democratic Left (CDL) is an initiative to bring together left organisations, social movements and activists to confront the disastrous social, economic and political crisis in South Africa.

PETER HADDEN, Northern secretary of the Irish section of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI), the Socialist Party, sadly died at the age of 60, in Belfast, on 5 May after a three year […]

By the time this report was written, the tension had increased to a new level in the streets of Bangkok since the passsing of Wednesday night’s ultimatum.

A week-end of discussion on perspectives for the left – in Italy and in Europe – against the background of international capitalist crisis.

Tinkering or transformation?

Let them eat cake – the ugly backdrop to the beautiful game

Britain has been ‘Con Dem-ned’ to a future of savage attacks on public services, pay, pensions and benefits combined with tax increases for working and middle-class people.

Cabin crew turn up the pressure on BA boss

Unions respond to new austerity measures

Message from Ainur Kurmanov on his release from jail

"We feel that successful co-ordinated protests in the week of 21 to 26 June would have a major impact and send a clear message to the European establishments."

"We will not pay for your crisis!" – Members of the GUE / NGL group (United European Left /Nordic Green Left) in the European Parliament speak out in favour of European Days of Protest and […]

Hit back against the ruling gang of unelected government and billionaire tycoons

The Berlin area leadership of the German metal workers’ union has begun the procedure to expel left wing, combative members. Please write messages of protest!

International campaign continues!

The dictatorship of the financial markets continues apace and those currently being crushed by its dictat are the workers, the pensioners and the poor of Greece.

All capitalist parties ’losers’

TUSC stands for socialism…and prepares for the battles ahead

A lifelong socialist activist in Ireland

CWI leaflet

The countries that adopted the euro are facing the most precarious situation for their currency union since they started using the euro in 2002.

This morning, Wednesday 5 May, the court in Almaty sentenced Esen Ukteshbaev to five days imprisonment simply for being at a peaceful May Day demonstration last week-end. URGENT ACTION NEEDED.

It is clear that a wave of arrests and repression against left and social movement activists in Kazakhstan is gathering pace.

Free Ainur Kurmanov and drop all charges against leaders of workers’ movement

Political landscape little changed since 2008 ‘tsunami’

Why, fundamentally, the Green Party is not offering a way forward for working class people

Support Greek general strike on 5 May – call for international solidarity!

Victory to the Greek and all European workers! Solidarity with Greek general strike on 5 May! For an international day of action!

Socialist activist starts hunger strike – Step up protests!

Joe Higgins MEP protests over jailing of socialist activist Ainur Kurmanov

Publication of investigation commission report into country’s financial collapse

CWI European Bureau meeting

Why the BNP offers no way forward for working class people

An account of an epic journey from London to Moscow

The options facing the capitalists and their parties following the 6 May general election.

Consolidation of chauvinism – mass opposition needed

More than 100 refugees, who have been held in a tiny boat near Merak port in Indonesia for over seven months, have been moved to the Tanjung Pinang detention centre.