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Xekinhma, Greek section of CWI, on massive general strike in Greece on 15 June 2011, photo Stephan Kimmerle
28 September 2011
As debt crisis deepens... Greek workers and youth in revolt
Greece has recently experienced a barrage of strikes by different sections of the working class - involving transport workers, teachers, some council workers, taxi drivers, mental health workers and others - against the Pasok government's latest austerity measures...
22 September 2011
Axe-man Swinney does Con-Dems' dirty work
New article on Socialist Party Scotland website on yesterday's budget cuts by the Scottish National Party (SNP)
14 September 2011
Youth must join pensions struggle
The government and their friends in the media will always try, as they did in June, to spread division between workers and service users during strike action...
13 September 2011
Support striking hospital workers in Berlin
Charité Facility Management (CFM) workers in Germany's capital Berlin started a strike on Monday 12th September. Their main demand is to win a collective bargaining agreement...
Unison Social care workers on strike in Scotland, photo Duncan Brown
7 September 2011
Scotland - Unison calls for pensions strike
The mood among Unison members for strike action on being forced to pay more for a worse pension was driven home at the Scottish local government Unison conference on 2 September, writes a Glasgow Unison member.
7 September 2011
Edinburgh University is the third university in Scotland to announce how much it will charge students from outside Scotland (Scottish students will continue to not pay fees) and has made itself the most expensive place in the UK to get a degree...
31 August 2011
New phase in the great recession
Capitalist strategists are filled with gloom at the prospect of a new economic downturn. Fear of recession in the US, its credit rating downgrade and political dysfunction, not to mention the ongoing eurozone. Lynn Walsh reports.
18 August 2011
Nothing Left about the Scottish National Party
Working class communities in Scotland will pay the price of the SNP's savage austerity measures - while SNP ministers are taking huge cash windfalls
17 August 2011
World economy: Capitalists unable to stop the turmoil
Capitalists unable to stop the turmoil: As their system continues to slide further into its worst crisis since the 1930s, the frantic efforts of world capitalist leaders to reverse the process are farcical, contradictory and ineffective, writes Clare Doyle
3 August 2011
Norway: right wing terrorist killings
United working class struggle needed: The terrible mass killings carried out by far right activist Anders Breivik have horrified the world
Xekinhma, Greek section of CWI
3 August 2011
Eurozone and USA - Debt crisis
The price of capitalist failure: Governments in Europe and the US are making working class people pay for the crisis caused by the bankers and the capitalist system.
The Greek bailout, welcomed by the European ruling classes, will do nothing for the Greek masses
3 August 2011
Spain:"Throwing a shoe at the system"
"The indignados don't take holidays", commented one newspaper. "Instead they came in their tens of thousands from all over Spain to turn the heat up on an already sweltering capital.
27 July 2011
Norway massacre and the English Defence League
Massive demonstrations of defiance and mourning in Norway show that Anders Breivik's terrorist atrocities have had the opposite effect to that he intended...
25 July 2011
Norway: Right-wing terrorist kills 76 at youth camp
How should the labour movement respond?
Right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik's horrific massacre at the camping island of Utøya outside on Friday is unique in its cruelty, with 76 dead and many wounded, and several more still missing.
What is behind the right-wing terrorism? How should the labour movement and socialists respond? Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden), writes.
13 July 2011
Greece's debt crisis: No way out for workers under capitalism
As the sovereign debt crisis in Greece deepens, Andros Payiatos from Xekinima (CWI in Greece), speaks about its effects and the way out for workers and the majority in society
6 July 2011
East Belfast riots: Only united working class action can prevent further attacks
The rioting in the Catholic enclave in the predominantly Protestant east Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 20 and 21 June - the worst in recent years - did not appear from a blue sky
Xekinhma, Greek section of CWI, on massive general strike in Greece on 15 June 2011, photo Stephan Kimmerle
29 June 2011
Greece, Spain, Britain... We won't pay for their crisis
"Liars and thieves!" That's the accusation that Greek workers and youth are hurling at those in the Greek parliament voting for further cuts, writes Sean Figg.
27 June 2011
Italy - brutal dawn attack on peaceful protest camp
At 5am this morning, 2,000 police stormed the protest camps in Val di Susa, northern Italy, to try to allow work to start on a High Velocity Railway (TAV)...
Xekinhma, Greek section of CWI, photo Stephan Kimmerle
22 June 2011
Greece's debt crisis threatens worldwide banking system
Workers resist Pasok's savage cuts and privatisation programme: Greece's deepening sovereign debt crisis is threatening to destroy the eurozone and trigger a worldwide banking collapse, according to the International Monetary Fund...
Apostolis Kasimeris of the Union of Public Transport Workers in Attica, Greece, speaking at National Shop Stewards Network Conference June 2011, photo Socialist Party
15 June 2011
On the eve of a tenth general strike in Greece, APOSTOLIS KASIMERIS, one of the leaders of the OASA bus workers' union in Athens, spoke at the recent National Shop Stewards Network conference in London...
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