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23 June 2009 Are you sick of low pay and long hours? 10 June 2009 ON 21 May, a general strike took place in the Basque country and nearby Spanish province of Navarra. Organised by Basque trade unions, the day was a resounding success, writes Danny Byrne from Spain. 20 May 2009 ON 15 APRIL 1989 Hu Yaobang, the former general secretary of the Communist Party of China, died of a heart attack. This became the start signal for one of the biggest mass movements in modern history, a movement that soon grew beyond the wildest expectations of its initiators and came close to toppling the dictatorial regime of the so-called 'communist' party, writes Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info. May Day demonstration 2009, photo Paul Mattsson 6 May 2009 CWI May Day statement: THE COMMITTEE for a Workers' International (CWI - the socialist international organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated) sent May Day greetings to workers, youth and the oppressed everywhere... The Committee for a Workers International protesting at the G8 summit 2005, photo Paul Mattsson 29 April 2009 Today, with world capitalism in its gravest crisis since the 1930s, there is a crying need for a mass political alternative of the working class. The task of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) is to help to create the conditions for the formation of such an international. 24 April 2009 In this year’s European elections working-class people have a positive alternative to vote for. A new electoral alliance, No2EU-Yes to Democracy, has been launched to oppose the EU’s big-business agenda. It will also mount a challenge to the divisive, anti-working class, far-right BNP which has, in the past, benefitted from the protest votes in Euro-elections. HANNAH SELL reports on this important initiative. Workers occupied Visteon Enfield, photo Paul Mattsson 22 April 2009 Big business parties attack our services: Whether a Labour or a Tory government is elected at the next general election, either will try to make extensive public spending cuts, writes Judy Beishon. Electric cars, but ... (photo Chris Moore) 22 April 2009 DESPERATE TO arrest his precipitous decline in the opinion polls, Gordon Brown has announced an incentive scheme to give people up to £5,000 towards the cost of trading in their old car for an electric one, writes Ken Douglas. Mad Axe Woman Thatcher. Cartoon by Alan Hardman 17 April 2009 As the 30th anniversary of the coming to power of Margaret Thatcher – the most hated figure in Britain post-1945 – in May 1979 approaches, her record has been put under the media microscope, writes Peter Taaffe, in the forthcoming Socialism Today. Bosses appeal for more hand outs from the working class, photo by Senan 15 April 2009 For workers' MPs on a worker's wage: EVERY DAY the press and TV carry stories of cabinet ministers 'on the make' and of MPs mimicking their political superiors' dubious ethics. And, they tell us, it is all perfectly legal, writes Roger Shrives. 1 - 10 of 278 | Next > | |||||||||||||||
