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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"?

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

Once more, Orange and Blue political blocs clash

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

WASG and Left Party/PDS vote for merger

Second successful national congress held in Lahore

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

Corruption, gun fights and economic regression

Mass class struggle in impoverished, repressive society

Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) and some associates in the ’United People’s Movement’ escaped with their lives when over 300 armed thugs, led by a deputy minister, raided the […]

Smaller coalition parties say no to joining the United Socialist Party of Venezuela

For democratically-organised, mass non-payment

Political force representing working class needed

Scottish banks make billions while 1 million live in poverty

Bodies of murder victims likely those of kidnapped Tamils

Independent, working class policies needed to build on successes

Step up class struggle and democratisation of unions!

Private developers’ thugs and police demolish local homes

Kurdish women, who are oppressed inside their community in Syria, are facing two kinds of oppression.

‘We Won’t Pay’ leads campaign for mass non-payment

Former ‘radical’ journalist’s diatribe against anti-war movement and Left

House that hosted Lenin and Luxemburg bulldozed

Ruling elite fear social explosions

The lessons of ‘Kwame Nkrumah’s rule and Pan-African ‘socialism’

Next step general strike?

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has narrowly won a confidence vote in the Italian Senate by 162 votes to 157.

Turmoil in Party of Communist Re-foundation

Riding pillion behind Bush, Blair has embroiled Britain in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.