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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...
100,000 demonstrate in Brussels against European governments’ savage cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
14 October 2010
The general strike: Important tool of the working class
All across Europe workers and young people face the austerity axe. And all across Europe there is a fight to defend jobs and services against governments who are determined to do the bidding of big business...
National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference 2010, photo Paul Mattsson
6 October 2010
The Tory and Lib-Dem coalition government has struck at the very heart of the welfare state. The Conservatives' conference has issued a battle cry that will send shivers down the spines of working class working class people.
Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party, writes.
Ten million took part in a general strike in Spain 29 September 2010 that shook Spanish capitalism , photo Sarah Wrack
6 October 2010
Spain: workers demonstrate their strength
On 29 September the general strike marked the entrance of the Spanish working class onto the stage of struggle with all its weight and power...
Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, on a visit to Britain, photo Paul Mattsson
6 October 2010
Chávez wins majority but right-wing gains ground
ON 26 September Venezuela elected a new National Assembly (parliament). The elections, which coincided with elections to the Latin American parliament, took place in a deeply polarised political environment...
24 September 2010
Ultimately, even more important than the organisational measures that are required, is the programme around which the struggle should be organised...
24 September 2010
Thatcher made another major error in the poll tax movement: she confused the hesitant attitude of the leadership of the workers' movement for the attitude of the working class as a whole...
24 September 2010
To be fully effective, anti-cuts candidates will need to put forward socialist ideas. Socialists do not accept that cuts are necessary. Capitalism has created enormous wealth, science and technique. We...
Public sector workers march in Madrid
22 September 2010
For a 24-hour all-Europe general strike
Strikes and protests spread across Europe: This is an extract from a statement of the Committee for a Workers International, in preparation for a European day of action on 29 September...
Leon Trotsky
18 August 2010
Leon Trotsky, a revolutionary leader of the Russian revolution, was murdered on 20 August 1940 by an agent of Stalin. His role in the 1917 revolution, the greatest single event in human history, alone makes his writings worthy of study.
The ideas and methods of the Socialist Party and the socialist international to which it is affiliated, the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), are based on Trotsky's, alongside those of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin.
70 years after his death Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, assesses the contribution of Trotsky's ideas to the struggle for socialism in the 21st century.
18 August 2010
Cameron sticks the boot into our council housing
THE CON-DEM government is determined to use the excuse of a financial crisis to justify its aim to finish what Thatcher started - and Blair and Brown, in effect, continued - the comprehensive dismantling of the welfare state, writes Louise Cuffaro.
18 August 2010
Bradford must organise against the EDL
The racist English Defence League (EDL) plans to march through Bradford on Saturday 28 August. In a deeply provocative move the EDL has specifically targeted Bradford because of its large Asian and Muslim...
National Shop Stewards Network conference 2010
29 July 2010
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Video: Nancy Taaffe, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate for Walthamstow
29 July 2010
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate in general election 2010
22 July 2010
Building new workers' parties and the tasks of socialists
For many sections of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), the call for the building of new mass workers' parties has been a vital part of their political programme for almost 20 years. Paul Murphy, Socialist Party Ireland, reports on the discussion at the school.
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...
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...
30 June 2010
Only one choice... Fight back!
Government's swingeing cuts: Millionaire Tory leaders George Osborne and David Cameron are going to write to every public sector worker in the country to ask where the billions of pounds of public spending cuts should be made, writes Nancy Taaffe, Library worker.
Youth Fight for Jobs marched against the G20 last year
28 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...
16 June 2010
Greece: A test bed for 'austerity' and resistance
Feature On a visit to Greece at the start of June, Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, attended a meeting of the central committee of Xekinima, the Greek section of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI)...
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