Class struggles on the rise
Over 400 people attended the annual World School organised by the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in Belgium between July 11 & 16. Kirk Leonard and Jacinta Chavulak attended from Australia. They joined delegations from across Europe, Russia, Central Asia, India, the US, Quebec and the Middle East.
The 2010 [...]

Peter Hadden died peacefully at his home in Belfast on 5 May 2010 and was cremated at Roselawn Cemetery on 10 May. Peter, who died of cancer which he had fought every inch of the way over the previous three years, was 60 years of age.
This obituary will not do justice to Peter Hadden, no [...]

The fightback has just begun!
For fighting unions and mass workers’ parties! For international solidarity and socialism! No to war and occupation! Support the Greek general strike against capitalism’s austerity! For a European-wide day of action on 5 May!
This is a “situation of war” – said Greek Prime Minister, Papandreou, in presenting the case for cuts, [...]

New website of the USP now online!
In late December the United Socialist Party (USP) in Sri Lanka launched its presidential election campaign by distributing their election manifesto in the North, East, and Central Provinces. This incorporated most major cities in these provinces including Jaffna.
As part of the campaign USP leader and presidential candidate Siritunga Jayasuriya [...]

Savage social cuts, workers’ resistance and growth of socialist ideas
The Socialist Party extends warm New Year greetings to all of our members and supporters and to all of our sister sections and groups worldwide. We thank all those who have given assistance – large and small – to our party over the past year.
We [...]

Statement by the IEC of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI)

The following CWI Statement was adopted by the CWI’s International Executive Committee (IEC) at its recent meeting in Belgium, 2-9 December 2009. This very successful meeting brought together over 70 representatives from Europe and Russia, Asia, Central Asia, Latin and North America and Africa. [...]

Workers start the fight-back
Representatives of sections of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) from Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa are meeting in Belgium, this week, to discuss the world situation in a period of deep capitalist crisis and when working people are facing intense attacks against their living standards.
Report from Committee for a [...]

The United Socialist Party (USP), the Sri Lankan section of the Committee for a Workers’ International, held its eleventh national congress from 31 October to 1 November 2009 in Colombo.
By Siritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party, Sri Lanka

Journalist held for two hours at border and banned from country
Laurence Coates, a Sweden-based journalist and socialist activist, was turned back at the Chinese border in Shenzhen and refused entry as a “potential threat to national security”.
From chinaworker.info

Urgent action needed to protect the environment!
The above headline may read like the title of a dodgy 1980’s pop song, but the reality is much worse. The Kyoto Protocol was the ‘green’ buzz-word of the 1990’s, an agreement among the world’s capitalist leaders which was supposed to solve the global warming crisis.
By Ger Hughes, Socialist [...]