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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’.

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

Massive turn-out on ninth day of strike

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

“Criminal negligence” of government and the super-rich

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.

Solidarity vital

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.

Workers in Europe donate

Employers bow down to their demands

TWENTY MILLION people affected, over 1,600 dead and thousands face starvation, but the Pakistan government’s lacklustre response and incompetence has made the disaster worse.

Urgent response to solidarity appeal needed!

…amid fears of a double-dip recession

Eye-witness accounts from flood-devastated areas

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!

Small farmers and peasants to suffer the most