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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...
18 May 2011
A Socialist Party 2011 Congress document: This document was first drafted in mid-January 2011 by the Socialist Party executive committee; subsequently some amendments were incorporated during a discussion at the party's congress on 26-28 February 2011...
Karl Marx
4 May 2011
Paris commune 1871: When workers "stormed heaven".
The mass struggles against dictatorships and poverty sweeping North Africa and the Middle East encourage workers and young people in the region and internationally to seek to learn from previous revolutionary movements, writes Niall Mulholland
20 April 2011
Sarkozy instigates ban on veil to boost his political ratings
What attitude should socialists adopt in defending women's rights?: On 11 April 2011 the French government brought into force a ban on wearing full-face veils in any public place in France. The right wing UMP government framed this law on the pretext of 'security'.
5 April 2011
French Unions' Protests How The Movement Was Built From Below
A teacher-activist speaks to the socialist: EARLIER THIS year a mass movement involving millions of French workers took place against pension reform...
Demonstrations in France against attacks on pension rights, photo Judy Beishon
15 December 2010
Europe: Working class enters the struggle
The tenth world congress of the socialist international to which the Socialist Party is affiliated, the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), took place in Belgium between 1 and 9 December...
Thousands of trade unionists march in London against cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
27 October 2010
Mass action urgent against programme for poverty
So brutal, so vicious are the £81 billion cuts announced by George Osborne on 'Axe Wednesday' that nothing short of action of mass dimensions by the organised might of the labour movement is acceptable, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
Demonstrations in France against attacks on pension rights, photo Judy Beishon
25 October 2010
A major trial of strength between the classes
Millions of workers and youth want an end to the Sarkozy 'dictatorship'.
Analysis and report from Clare Doyle (CWI Secretariat) recently in Paris and Rouen, discussing with members of Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI France)
French workers demonstrate in Brussels for the European day of action, 29 September 2010, photo by Paul Mattsson
20 October 2010
Protest, strike, fightback! French workers and youth challenge cuts
The mobilisation of the French working class has now reached a crucial stage. Strikes and mass demonstrations on 19 October, according to the CGT trade union confederation, again brought a staggering 3.5...
15 September 2010
IN AN enthusiastic response to the call by the major French trade union organisations, three million workers took to the streets of France on 7 September for a day of massive strikes and demonstrations in protest against the Sarkozy government's attack on the country's pension system...
15 September 2010
IN AN enthusiastic response to the call by the major French trade union organisations, three million workers took to the streets of France on 7 September for a day of massive strikes and demonstrations in protest against the Sarkozy government's attack on the country's pension system...
6 September 2010
Protest in London against Sarkozy's racist policies
Thousands demonstrate across Europe: Numerous protests have taken place this weekend in France and many other European cities, against the French government's witch-hunt against Roma people and other anti-immigrant measures...
6 September 2010
Protest in London against Sarkozy's racist policies
Thousands demonstrate across Europe: Numerous protests have taken place this weekend in France and many other European cities, against the French government's witch-hunt against Roma people and other anti-immigrant measures.
30 June 2010
France, Italy: Workers struggle against savage austerity cuts
Build for a Europe-wide 24-hour general strike on 29 September: WHILE THE Greek working class has engaged in its sixth general strike this year, the French and Italian labour movements have now also stepped into the battle against capitalist cuts in a decisive way, as Cédric Gérôme reports...
Workers and youth protest in Paris, France in May 2003, photo Paul Mattsson
24 March 2010
Massive rejection of Sarkozy's policies presages a 'third round on the streets'
France: Regional elections: LITTLE MORE than 24 hours after the second round of regional elections in France, strike action began on the railways, ushering in a day of action and protests in 80 cities across the country, writes Clare Doyle, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
25 November 2009
Guadeloupe - End the profiteering and exploitation
THE SOCIAL situation in the "French West Indies", and particularly in Guadeloupe, is boiling over once again, writes Virginie Prégny, Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France).
11 November 2009
Internationally young people fight for their rights
Austria: United action: The last months of raging capitalist crisis have seen devastating attacks begin on the living standards of workers and youth around the world, writes Laura Rafetseder, Socialist Left Party (SLP, CWI in Austria).
16 September 2009
Review: NIALL MULHOLLAND reviews A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine by Trevor Griffiths, at Shakespeare's Globe, South Bank, London until 9 October...
Joe Higgins MEP, Socialist Party Ireland, speaking at the European CWI school, photo Bob Severn
29 July 2009
Building support for world socialism
Committee for a Workers' International: The annual summer school of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) took place in Belgium during the week 12 to 17 July. Over 350 CWI members - many of them young people - came together from CWI sections worldwide to discuss the world economic crisis, the political situation in many countries, and workers' struggles across the globe.
The Masses Arise by Peter Taaffe. Cover design by Dennis Rudd
10 June 2009
The Masses Arise: The French revolution and today's struggles
The Masses Arise, by Peter Taaffe, which was first published in 1989 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the start of the French revolution, is now back in print, writes Kevin Parslow.
In a new introduction, the author recounts the events of the revolution, bringing out the heroic role of the sans-culottes - who have been vilified by right-wing historians - and the relevance of these events to what is likely to develop in the coming period in France, Europe and throughout the world. "This book is more relevant today than when it was first published in 1989," writes Peter Taaffe.
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