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Paul Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP speaks in European parliament on EU’s ’Youth Guarantee’ scheme

"Working people needs to take power into their own hands to implement democratic and socialist change"

Video footage of protests, strikes and repression across the continent on the European day of action against austerity

“[S]truggle for a society and an economy based on the free exchange of information, knowledge, and research for the benefit of all”

"[A]ny military intervention, regardless of how it’s dressed up…will not ease the suffering of the Syrian people"

"Growth will not be achieved simply by stamping the word onto an austerity treaty, because austerity kills growth"

Paul Murphy MEP attacks President Barroso on the failure of the austerity policies that he has promoted across Europe.

Protest must continue!

Paul Murphy questions Jose Manuel Barroso on how he can keep a straight face when talking about growth while implementing vicious austerity across Europe. He grills Barroso on the Blackmail Clause in the ESM Treaty.

Speach on the revolutionary developments in Egypt and the Middle east, the struggles in Greece and the rest of Europe, developments in China and elsewhere

Greek workers can defeat austerity, the troika and the vampire bondholders

Review of 2011 – A period of revolution and counterrevolution

"Stability union" is "eurocratic newspeak" for suspending democracy and enshrining austerity

Paul Murphy attacks the dictatorship of the markets and the technocrats

Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, interviewed on Al Jazeera

"Six pack" rules institutionalise austerity across the EU

Stock market trader exposes real views of speculators & parasites

Short movie by Ken Loach on Chile’s 9/11 1973 coup

Paul Murphy argues for organised resistance on and around 15 June against the anti-worker austerity packages all over Europe

European Union wants to increase its military might

About the need to nationalise the energy sector and move away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy in favour of genuine renewable, sustainable energy production

CWI MEP speaks in light of catastrophe in Fukushima

Clare Daly, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MP speaks against imperialist intervention

Joe Higgins MEP speaks in defence of the rights of the LGBT community in Lithuania

At a Plenary Session of the European Parliament, Joe Higgins shows his opposition to the vicious attempts to stoke up homophobia in Uganda

Joe Higgins MEP explains why he abstained during the vote on the new financial regulatory authorities in the European Parliament, 22/09/2010

See below the video shown at the opening of the first plenary discussion of the CWI 2010 Summer School, on "World Capitalist Crisis and the Class Struggle in Europe." The video features some of the […]

At the Committee on International Trade, Joe Higgins MEP questions the Spanish Secretary for Trade on the role of human rights in neo-liberal trade agreements, particularly during Spain’s Presidency of the European Union.

At the Committee on Employment, Joe Higgins MEP challenges the neo-liberal assault on pension rights as well as the attempts by right-wing governments to increase the retirement age.

Joe Higgins MEP is interviewed by Danish TV on unemployment, workers’ struggles and the socialist solution to the crisis.

At a Plenary session of the European Parliament, Joe Higgins MEP criticises the neo-liberal policies of the Europe 2020 Strategy and argues in favour of a democratic, socialist society.

Joe Higgins MEP explains his vote on a resolution concerning the impact that the financial crisis has had on the "developing world".

Joe Higgins, Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) condemns use of preferential trade agreements to dominate developing countries

Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) general secretary, Peter Taaffe replies to historian, Robert Service

Commission “united in their belief that working people should pay the price for the economic crisis”

Joe Higgins MEP questions Karel de Gucht, the European Union’s Commissioner-Designate for International Trade on the European Union’s international trade policies. Joe raises important questions in relation to the detrimental effect that neo-liberal EU trade […]

Joe Higgins MEP (17/12/2009) lambasts the hypocrisy shown by capitalist rulers when they criticise human rights abuses abroad while ignoring human rights abuses at home. Few criticisms have been made of the Danish state, which […]

Socialist MEP speaks in European parliament

Video interview with Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today (www.SocialismToday.org) and member of the International Secretariat of the CWI (Committee for a Workers’ International)