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Mass class struggle in impoverished, repressive society

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

Independent, working class policies needed to build on successes

Bodies of murder victims likely those of kidnapped Tamils

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

Step up class struggle and democratisation of unions!

Private developers’ thugs and police demolish local homes

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

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

Ruling elite fear social explosions

House that hosted Lenin and Luxemburg bulldozed

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.

Majority of children malnourished and majority of population illiterate

Is it some historical joke that the Parti Socialiste (PS) candidate for the presidency of the French Republic is called Royal?

Left lacks coherent alternative policies

Only workers’ unity and a struggle for socialism offers a way out

"We don’t want a militarised city; we want to decide our own future".

Protest carried on national TV

New right wing government formed – What way forward for Left opposition?

Histadrut union federation takes membership dues but ignore struggle

Working people demand: “Let us live!”

Another US retreat?

Medecin Sans Frontier threaten striking health workers with dismissal

The fact that the Assembly [local ‘power sharing government body] election is going ahead on 7 March does not mean that an Assembly will be set up first on 26 March.

The situation in Sri Lanka has become even more difficult for the left forces, especially the activists fighting against the war and against the repression of the rights of the Tamil-speaking minority.

Imperialism meddles as conflict widens

Solidarity and protest letters urgently needed

The 300-year anniversary of the Scottish parliament voting itself out of existence by agreeing a union with England in January 1707 passed with very little formal celebration – save the minting of a commemorative £2 […]

Protest letters and solidarity messages still needed

Delegates at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis in Dublin on 28 January voted by an overwhelming majority to back a leadership motion to support the police and judicial system in Northern Ireland.

The campaign against repression and war in Sri Lanka has gathered even more momentum.

London lobbies on Wednesday 31 January: Stop the killings! Put Mervyn Silva on trial! Hands off Siritunga Jaysuriya!

Union leaders hand over initiative to opposition parties

Hundreds of journalists and media workers from five Sri Lankan media organisations staged a joint protest at Colombo Fort railway station last Tuesday, 23 January, against the threats and intimidation against journalists and their frequent […]

Protest letters continue to bombard the office of the president of Sri Lanka following the brutal gangster attack on an anti-war meeting in Colombo.

The Trade Union Rights Campaign – Kashmir have been in the forefront of helping to organise solidarity for thousands of earthquake affected public sector workers in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir (POK).

Protests outside embassies and consulates.

Letters of strong protest from two of Ireland’s Socialist Party councillors:

The DSM has been invited to address the NLC’s 9th Delegate Conference which is being held in Abuja, the Federal capital, on February 15 and 16. Below is the goodwill message that the DSM sent […]

Two weeks of intense mobilisations, protests, and street blockades calling for the resignation of right-wing departmental Prefect (elected head of the regional administration), Manfred Reyes Villa, culminated in a popular assembly on January 16th in […]

On Tuesday, 16 January, five thousand people demonstrated and blocked the railway station at Vicenza in north-eastern Italy.