World News and Analysis

It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 650 garment workers crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Many are still missing and a further 1,000 workers were injured. By [...]

If the minimum wage in the U.S. today had the same buying power as the minimum wage in 1968, then it would be $10.55 an hour. Yet one in four workers in the U.S. are paid less than $10 an hour, and most have no benefits or job security. The [...]

Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards Several recent events have elevated the issue of racism in New Zealand. In one case a nationalist MP belonging to the Danish People’s Party made headlines when she made racist comments about a traditional Maori welcome. By Jared Phillips, New [...]

This past week in Boston has been almost surreal—a horrific attack occurred on Marathon Monday that shouldn’t be seen in this city or anywhere in the world. Countless acts of solidarity occurred starting with people running towards the explosion to help the hundreds caught in the path of devastation. Marathon [...]

Teachers in New Zealand are facing a perfect storm. For the time being they have faced down government attempts to increase class sizes but have also had to contend with school closures and mergers in Christchurch and a move to introduce charter schools. By Rachel Broad, Hamilton, New Zealand At [...]

On the day of her death, we republish this article by Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party in England & Wales. It was written on the 30th anniversary of her coming to power and graphically illustrates the primitive, brutal, class warfare against the rights and conditions of the [...]

The annual list of billionaires produced by Forbes Magazine has again seen records smashed by the world’s hyper-rich. There are now 1,426 billionaires in the world, 210 more than 2012, with a collective wealth of $5.4 trillion, up nearly a trillion dollars from last year. By Matt Gordon, Socialist Party [...]

After months of ‘calm’ the capitalist debt crisis has resurfaced over the banking meltdown in Cyprus, sending financial markets into a spin. EU ministers and the newly elected right-wing Greek Cypriot president have demanded that small savers, ie Cypriot workers, pay billions of Euros for a banking bailout. But angry [...]

Socialist solutions desperately needed Workers in New Zealand are applying in large numbers for scarce jobs, large-scale redundancies are becoming more frequent, record numbers of people are leaving the country, and the government is putting tougher tests on welfare recipients. In a nutshell there are not enough jobs to go [...]

In an era when the gap between establishment politicians, who defend big business and the super-rich, and the masses seems to widen inexorably Chavez stood out. In fact in the age of austerity the measures he took to alleviate poverty stood out like a beacon. The workers and youth in [...]