Splits in ruling Islamist-capitalist class deepened
The mobilisations of more than one million people on the streets of Tehran alongside open splits in the ruling Islamist-capitalist class marks a revolutionary crisis in Iran. People have lost their fear.
By Per-Åke Westerlund, CWI Sweden

SP Newsletter No.267
June 17 saw over 250,000 people take to the streets in more than 80 cities across Germany. They were protesting for a better education system and their main demands were for smaller classes, 100,000 more teachers and the abolishment of tuition fees.

New phase of struggle opens up
Mass protests and demonstration have erupted in Iran in protest at the apparent rigging of the Presidential elections by the Mahmoud Ahmedinejad regime. According to reports, the largest anti-government demonstration of over one million people took place in the capital Tehran.
By Tony Saunois, CWI

The current economic crisis has fuelled waves of anger around the world. Prime targets are the top bankers and stock market dealers who epitomise the rampant, ultra-free market policies of the last 20 years. Backed by their political accomplices, they gorged themselves while workers’ conditions worsened, and finance capital drove down living standards in the [...]

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 [...]

A new report from the Global Humanitarian Forum warns that we are in the middle of a “silent crisis” as climate change is killing 300,000 a year. Climate change and its effects are already impacting on the world. The report states that more than 300 million people are already seriously affected by climate change and [...]

The headlines have been blaring with news that pop star Chris Brown (19) beat his girlfriend and fellow pop star, Rihanna (21) during a violent quarrel.
By Margaret Collins, Socialist Alternative (CWI – United States)

The outbreak of Influenza A H1N1, know as the Swine Flu, has in the last few months resulted in frenzied panic the world over.
By Denise Dudley, Socialist Party

The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) has received a copy of a vile communication put out by Sinhala chauvinist hate-mongers in the wake of the defeat of the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam. Amongst the portraits of those they want killed are NGO activists, Indian politicians and five Sri Lankan politicians including Siritunga Jayasuriya, [...]

SP Newsletter No.263
The document describes in detail the correct way to waterboard a prisoner: the interrogator lays him down at a 15 degree angle, smothers his face with a wet cloth, and pours water continually onto the cloth, making it impossible to breathe.