Socialist Party member, Dave Nellist, has re-won his council seat in Coventry with an increased majority. Dave’s result was an exception to the general trend across the country where Labour suffered big losses.
By Hannah Sell, Deputy Secretary Socialist Party England & Wales (more…)

Reporters from our sister website chinaworker.info spoke to member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, ‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung. Today the Olympic torch will be paraded through Hong Kong accompanied by 3,000 police, according to Chief superintendent David Ng Ka-sing. (more…)

For a socialist alternative to capitalist crisis.
The Socialist Party (SP) and the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends warm socialist greetings to workers and youth across the world on May Day, International Workers’ Day, 2008. (more…)

Around the world, strikes, demonstrations and protests have erupted as millions upon millions of workers, peasants and poor face the horror of rapidly rising food prices. Haiti, Cameroon, Egypt, Indonesia are just some of the countries that have seen angry mass protests.
By Robert Bechert, CWI (more…)

The Maoists won a spectacular victory in the Nepalese elections. In a shock for regional and global powers, the Prime Minister as well as ministers of Finance, Defence and the Interior, will now belong to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) who received over a third of the votes.
By Per-Ake Westerlund, CWI (more…)

With South Africa’s ANC (African National Congress) government split over its attitude towards the Mugabe regime in neighbouring Zimbabwe, South African trade unionists used their strength decisively to act against the regime.
By Keith Dickinson, Socialist Party (more…)

Are the ideas of Keynesianism back on the agenda? Below Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party in England & Wales, reviews the latest book by economist and commentator Paul Krugman, ‘Conscience of a Liberal’.
As the pace of the intractable crisis of world capitalism speeds up and deepens, so the frantic rush to find solutions gathers pace. (more…)

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was killed on April 4, 1968 while supporting striking Memphis sanitation workers. Unfortunately, the official commemorations of King often provide us with a sanitized version of his life and legacy and the history of the civil rights movement.
By Will Soto, CWI United States (more…)

Hunger and malnutrition are getting far worse due to rising food prices. Even those fortresses of global capitalism, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, are worried about food prices rising around the world. Wheat prices went up by 130% in the past year, while rice prices rose by three-quarters.
By Jon Dale and Jan Rybak, Socialist Party (more…)

To mark the 40th anniversary of the revolutionary events of 1968 the Socialist Party will be publishing a series of articles in the next few weeks. This article written by Peter Taaffe from the Socialist Party in England and Wales analyses the tumultuous year when the floodtide of mass revolt swept over the narrow confines of capitalism and threatened the very foundations of the system. (more…)