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Public sector workers threaten to strike from 7 May if agreement with government not honoured

Dagga Tolar and other Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) members detained by State security service

Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) organised and participated in activities across Pakistan in more than 40 towns and cities.

The following CWI leaflet was distributed in Arabic in Beirut on Mayday

Campaign against war and oppression gets a boost

This is an introduction to an Indian edition of the book Marxism in Today’s World

Dagga Tolar and other Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) members detained by State security service

Ruling elite divided with no immediate alternative

Response shows clear socialist ideas can win support

The need for the natural gas reserves to be fully nationalised under workers’ control becomes ever more obvious.

Elections for the Scottish Parliament and local councils are to be held on 3 May. Most opinion polls are forecasting a big fall in support for New Labour.

Conference marks final demise of once powerful Communist Party

Build a mass working class alternative!

It is sickening for the impoverished working people of the ex-Soviet Union to see the praise being heaped on Boris Yeltsin, one time president of Russia, after his death from heart failure on Monday, 23 […]

Judge rejects state prosecutor’s demands

But neither offers anything to French workers except more cuts and attacks on living standards

Big losses for ruling Liberals and pro-separatist Parti Québécois

Decisive Action By Labour Needed Now!

Urgent messages of protest needed!

First round of the presidential elections

A scientific evaluation of all the factors and forces involved in the just concluded as well as the forthcoming elections has clearly shown that the working masses cannot expect a fundamental improvement in their living […]

The blatant rigging and falsification of Nigeria’s April 14 State Governorship and Assembly elections has helped plunge the country, Africa’s largest, into crisis.

Movement from below opens the way to a crisis from above.

One day in February this year, Ammu, a 25-year-old textile worker, was found hanged in the most suspicious circumstances.

Chávez issues ultimatum for joining the United Socialist Party of Venezuela(PSUV)

But trade union leadership collude with the bosses to stab workers in the back

"Berlusconi and Prodi – two sides of the same coin"

New government, but is it a "new Nepal"?

Once more, Orange and Blue political blocs clash

Fight to maintain a force capable of genuine anti-capitalist struggle

Killings are ultimately the responsibility of the ‘Communist’ led state government.

Sinn Fein and Democratic Unionist Party change position to supporting water charging now elections are over.

Workers movement must fight for genuine accountability and socialist democracy

State thugs crackdown on protests

Second successful national congress held in Lahore

WASG and Left Party/PDS vote for merger

Victory for non-payment campaign!

Banks make super profits while students face sub-standard education

“I tried to rip up my ballot paper” –Leung Kwok-hung known as ‘Long Hair’, an independent socialist legislator in the Hong Kong Assembly

Alarm bells have been ringing, left and right. John Pilger, the radical journalist, wrote an article, Iran: The War Begins (New Statesman, 3 February), warning that a US air attack on Iran was imminent.

From its foundation in 1991, Rifondazione Comunista (Prc) has been a point of reference and an expression of hope for the future, not just for the Italian working class but for workers throughout Europe.

West’s attempt to impose ‘solution’ risks provoking new conflict

Big business sabotage industry

At a summit in Berlin on 25 March, the European Union will celebrate its 50th birthday.

A review article on ‘The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century’ (by Will Hutton)

Bush and Chávez vie for influence

Brazilian military police violently attack anti-Bush protesters

Students join local protests