The tragic devastation wreaked by the earthquake and tidal wave in the Indian Ocean has killed tens of thousands of people. In Sri Lanka alone, the death toll has reached 13,000 and is still rising.
The situation in France is dominated by the offensive of the bosses and the lack of a real workers’ party.
There is an ongoing impasse in the peace process.
After achieving our target of membership for 2003 we set a target for 2004 which we are well on the way to reaching.
Imperialism and illusions related to European Union membership
50 years ago saw the outbreak of the Algerian revolution against French imperialism. But the fruits of that successful revolution have been stolen by the FLN regime and denied to the country’s workers and youth. […]
The Irish Times on Saturday, 18 December, included an amusing article by a journalist called Drapier in which he gave annual awards to members of the Irish parliament, the Dáil.
Since the last IEC our main national campaign was around the European and regional elections that were held simultaneously in June.
Joe Higgins, member of the Irish Parliament for the Socialist Party (cwi Ireland) denounces €53 million haul on land speculation. Transcript of the debate at Leader’s Question Time.
Compared with the high tide of open class struggle in 2003, 2004 has seen more limited strike actions, protests or, at most, rallies.
Chile
When most of the world’s mass media is firmly "embedded" into the thinking of governments and the big business interests that lie behind them, the publication of a collection of some of the greatest pieces […]
Millions of public-sector workers are faced with huge cuts to their pensions – some from as early as April 2005.
Contradictory factors have determined the way in which the CWI in the CIS (ex-Soviet Union) has developed over the last year.
In the early hours of Monday 13 December, a café used by left organisations and community groups in Neos Kosmos in Athens was burnt down.
"IT IS a mess in Iraq". The UN special envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, was certainly to the point. Elections, he said, would not be possible on the 30 January "if the circumstances stay as they are".
Report from the Socialist Alternative , the cwi in the USA, presented to the 2004 meeting of the International Executive Committee (IEC) of the cwi, held in Belgium 14 – 20 November.
Against the background of increased attacks on living standards and working conditions, important sections of the working class in Germany have drawn the conclusion that an organisational and political alternative to the neo-liberal policies of […]
With millions of people paying much closer attention to politics during the election season, Socialist Alternative played a very active role in the Nader campaign.
Exceeding all estimates, more than 50,000 people protested against the APEC summit and the presence of George Bush in the country on Friday 19 November in the streets of Santiago.
Lo acontecido hoy, 30 Noviembre, es importante porque demuestra, una vez más, la voluntad de luchar de los trabajadores italianos contra los ataques a nuestras condiciones de vida que continúa llevando adelante el gobierno Berlusconi. […]
El siguiente material fue escrito para la discusión de la reunión del Comité Ejecutivo Internacional del CIT en noviembre con el fin de destacar la agitación social y laboral en China. Otros materiales que formaron […]
The work of our Democratic Socialist Movement has taken place against the background of significant changes in political consciousness produced by a rapid class polarisation.
Frustrated leaders want to step up privatisation and deregulation
cwi international conference.
Joe Higgins, socialist MP, denounces Bertie Ahern’s conversion to socialism.
After the debacle of the last government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and National Democratic Alliance (NDA), politics is centred on the antics of the ‘communist’ parties (CPs) which are supporting the central government […]
On the 30th of November in Italy there was the fifth general strike against the Berlusconi government. It stopped the country.
Reply to a letter dated 22 November 2004, sent by the CEO of the company to all the employees.
Cracks in the two-party system keep appearing every year.
The Socialist Party is affiliated to the cwi which organises in 36 countries across the globe. Today, when just 500 giant multinationals dominate the globe – employing 46 million people and controlling 45% of world […]
El Partido Socialista está orgulloso de anunciar Stephen Jolly ganó un asiento en el distrito electoral de Langridge en las elecciones de la municipalidad de Yarra City el Sábado.
The Nader campaign provoked an important debate on the corporate character of the Democratic Party and the need to break from it, but it also inspired a discussion about how best to organize this break. […]
Was it worth voting for Kerry after all?
LSP/MAS organises biggest anti-fascist demonstration since the beginning of ’90.
Ahead of Taiwan’s elections on 11 December, Taiwanese socialist Huang Ding-wang who is living abroad gave the following interview to Laurence Coates of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).
On 9 November the highest court in Belgium confirmed an earlier court decision convicting three associations linked to the Vlaams Blok for racism.
The Socialist Party is proud to announce that Stephen Jolly won a seat in Langridge Ward in the Yarra City Council elections on Saturday.
¡Contra los políticos corrompidos, por una Costa de Marfil controlada por los trabajadores, los jóvenes y los campesinos!
The working masses need their own alternative
Che Guevara se ha convertido en un icono. Su cara se puede ver en las villas miseria de la Argentina, y en incontables camisetas en todo el mundo.
The rapidly changing situation in China is of vital importance to socialists internationally.
Este artículo fue escrito el 29 de octubre de 2004. socialistworld.net
Superando todos los pronósticos, mas de 50.000 personas protestaron contra la Cumbre de la APEC y la presencia de George Bush en el país este viernes 19 de Noviembre en las calles de Santiago.
Right wing politicians and imperialist powers stir up ethnic tensions. A fierce power struggle between different factions of the Ukrainian ruling class – using the masses as pawns – threatens to slide the country into […]
Los Palestinos están de duelo por Arafat pero la lucha por la liberación continuará
Scottish socialist Party (SSP) members were stunned to learn of the resignation of Tommy Sheridan as national convenor of the party on Wednesday 10 November.
Since the collapse of the Stalinist regimes in the former USSR and Eastern Europe, we have witnessed the transformation of the former mass parties of the working class, the labour and social democratic parties, into […]
Germany is currently in the middle of a political, social and economic earthquake. Ordinary Germans are facing a neo-liberal offensive of huge and stark proportions by the German ruling class.
Since the announcement from direct-rule Ministers that water charges are to be imposed in Northern Ireland, the local political parties who shared power in the Assembly have fervently blamed each other for allowing water charges […]
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