Around the world

Conflict part of a wider power struggle

But real political opposition against Sarkozy urgently needed

Discussion between Mark Serwoka (General Secretary PCS) and Peter Taaffe (General Secretary, Socialist Party)

Stalled EU deal… status of Kosovo…crisis grows

Big business deal will ruin African markets; paupurising millions

Masses revolt against starvation conditions

Mass disappointment underlines need for workers’ party with fighting programme

“One of the 20th century’s biggest killers and greatest thieves”

On 2 December 2007, Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, unfortunately suffered his first electoral defeat since winning power in 1998. Hugo Chávez’s defeat in December’s referendum marks a key point in Venezuela’s revolution. The high […]

State and society in crisis

Sixty arrested and held in police cells

Workers need party that fights bosses’ system

As share values tumbled in the most dramatic falls since 9/11, the talk was not so much of whether there will be a recession, but of how deep and long it will be.

On 16 December, former Scottish Socialist Party MSP Tommy Sheridan was charged by Lothian and Borders police after the most expensive perjury investigation ever in Scotland.

“We’ve given enough!” – Public sector industrial action likely

Violent confrontation could erupt

Workers need a political alternative to pro-capitalist parties and ethnic conflict

Hindu Rights Action Force campaign underlines need for socialist solution

Union leaders try to break strike

Memory of Bobby Sands invoked by SF to deflect from right wing policies

Society polarised

The wheels have come off the Gordon Brown bandwagon.

Full-scale war to follow assassination and bombings

Germany is the economic powerhouse of Europe, accounting for just over 20% of total European Union Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Pakistan People’s Party leadership ’bequeathed’ and no change in policy indicated

Crisis will be used to argue it is impossible to build a mass force to the left of Labour.

Pakistan People’s Party leader killed in suicide attack; political crisis and chaos deepen further

The number reported being held has now increased to 43.

End Murdoch’s witch-hunt

Repression against workers, students and women activists increases

Government, rocked by mass demonstrations, takes revenge

Nearly 300 trade unionists and workers participated in the first TURC-K national convention held in Kotli (Pakistani Occupied Kashmir, POK) on December 8.

No more public money for billionaire’s campaign

How will the Games benefit the mass of the Chinese people?

Students organize walkouts in 8 cities

Does Zuma’s triumph mean victory for the working class?

The most significant strike since the ANC came to power.

Brazil is vast, a continent within a continent, with a land mass equal to the USA. It is a country of stunning contrasts. The sheer beauty of the Amazon exists alongside the grim poverty which […]

Need for a socialist alternative

An historical awakening

But the fight must go on!

Western capitalist powers unable to resolve burning national question

The train drivers’ dispute about wages and working hours in Germany is going into the next round.

Biggest demonstration since ‘Reformasi’ movement of ten years ago

France experiences a new wave of strikes against the plans of Sarkozy presidency.

Inspired by past victories – Preparing for future struggles

Mass meeting of OAU students decides action

On the 20th November 700,000 people took to the streets all over France against right-wing president Nicolas Sarkozy’s neo-liberal attacks .