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 [...]

60 years on – The lessons for today
The 1949 coal miners strike saw 23,000 workers withdraw their labour between June 27 and August 15 of that year. The dispute dominated Australian politics at the time and saw elements of revolution and counter-revolution which has been a rarity on Australian soil. It also marked a [...]

UPDATED: Big gains for the Socialist Party - Big blow to the government!
“Well done Mr. Higgins, not bad for a “failed person” as per “Loo Lah Bertie”. I think we all know who is the “failed person”. This is just one of the many comments that have come into the Socialist Party office [...]

World Capitalism In Crisis - For international solidarity and socialism!
The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends warm May Day greetings to workers, youth and the oppressed everywhere. Socialists, trade unionists and other activists celebrate May Day against the background of the worst crisis of capitalism since the 1930s.