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9 November 2011
Failed G20 summit takes eurozone nearer to the abyss
The G20 meeting of the world's most powerful government leaders on 3 and 4 November was a 'No Cannes Do' summit. The discussions were hijacked by the Greek crisis...
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...
Wages fall
8 June 2011
Economic crisis in 'them and us' Britain
Editorial of the Socialist: For a few at the top, Britain is still booming. In 2010, while the majority suffered the biggest squeeze on their incomes since 1977, the earnings of FTSE 100 chief executives rose by 32%...
13 April 2011
Portugal:'We won't pay their debt!'
End the dictatorship of the capitalist markets: The latest eurozone country to face a default on its sovereign debt is Portugal, whose minority government of prime minister Jose Socrates collapsed on 23 March...
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...
Terry Kelleher, CPSU Executive, Ireland, condemns the cuts at the National Shop Stewards Network conference 2010, photo Socialist Party
23 November 2010
The Irish government, the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are preparing to turn Ireland into a wasteland, writes Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party Ireland.
20 October 2010
World economy heading for 'double-dip' recession
THE WORLD economy grew by only 2.8% in 2008 and shrank, for the first time for over 65 years, by 0.6% in 2009, while the economies of the advanced capitalist countries shrank by 3.2% on average, writes Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden).
30 June 2010
From stimulus to austerity at dizzying speed
What we think: The G20 meeting in Toronto of the leaders of the main capitalist governments of the world demonstrated a complete incapacity to solve the huge problems that confront us, particularly those hardest-hit - the poor and the working class - by the economic crisis...
2 June 2010
Jamaican armed forces surround and storm poor neighbourhood
TIVOLI GARDENS in Kingston, Jamaica's first public housing estate, resembled a war zone after armed police, backed by the army, fought their way into the neighbourhood to arrest alleged drug boss Christopher "Dudus" Coke and to suppress the "Shower Posse" - his loyal armed supporters who had er, writes Dave Carr.
26 May 2010
Romania: Mass protests against EU/IMF deal
ON 19 May, tens of thousands of workers and pensioners demonstrated in Romania's capital, Bucharest, against the slaughter of wages, jobs and public services demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union, as a condition for further loans to the Romanian government, writes Per Olsson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI, Sweden).
The dramatic events of Greece in the days before the election, with workers in an immense general strike besieging the Greek parliament, must also have exercised a powerful effect on the outlook of many British workers., photo BBC video screen shot
12 May 2010
Greece: the struggle must continue and intensify
ON THURSDAY 5 May, workers across Greece took part in a huge general strike in angry opposition to a new austerity cuts package. Press statement issued by Xekinima (the Socialist Party's counterpart in Greece)...
17 March 2010
Iceland: 93% reject bankers' bailout
Interview with Skúli Jón Kristinsson, CWI Iceland We have seen recently some angry protests and demonstrations on the streets of Reykjavik. What is this "parliament of the street"?...
27 May 2009
Latvia: 'A capitalist inferno'
THE BALTIC state of Latvia's Gross National Product (GNP, ie national wealth) fell by 18% in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same quarter the previous year, writes Per Olsson, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI, Sweden).
No2EU banner on protest against the G20, photo by Paul Mattsson
7 April 2009
No solution at London G20 summit
"THEY ARE not talking about us. They don't care about people like us." This is the verdict on the London capitalist G20 summit of a worker occupying, together with others, the Visteon car parts firm...
19 November 2008
G20 conference: Summit for nothing
LAST WEEKEND, the world's political leaders gathered at the G20 summit in Washington - hosted by the soon to depart US president George Bush - in a bid to rescue the world economy from financial instability and deepening recession, writes Dave Carr.
25 March 2008
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On the 15 March 2008 anti-war demonstration, photo Paul Mattsson |
19 March 2005
'Third World Debt' - who gains from Brown's plans?
GORDON BROWN urged activists at Labour's Scottish conference to join the July demonstration demanding global justice at the Edinburgh G8 summit...
7 September 2001
Argentina: No Light At The End Of The Tunnel
ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL crisis is threatening an economic meltdown which could also sink the economies of South and Central America and have a catastrophic impact on the world economy...
13 July 2001
Solidarity with Turkish political prisoners
THE CURRENT economic crisis in Turkey adds to the horrific repression already suffered by the Turkish and Kurdish people, writes Keith Pattenden.
4 May 2001
Class struggle makes a comeback
What we think: TEN YEARS ago, after the Berlin Wall fell and Stalinist "Communism' collapsed the capitalist system's highly-paid commentators proclaimed the "end of history": the capitalist system was triumphant and class struggle was over...
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