Was the Russian Revolution of 1917 justified, especially in the context of the subsequent rise of Stalinism? Leon Trotsky’s answers this question in his brilliant speech to students in Copenhagen in 1932. (more…)

The hidden struggle of the Iraqi working class

Links to three articles on www.uslaboragainstwar.org

Compiled by Hugh Caffrey, England and Wales Socialist Party (more…)

Rapid economic development over 20 years led some commentators to claim China could deliver sustained global growth. But it has started to falter, and risks becoming a destabilising factor in the world. And the dramatic growth has created vast inequalities within this vast country.

LAURENCE COATES examines the state of the Chinese economy. (more…)

The ISO in Australia are linked to the SWP in Britain, who have moved away from the Socialist Alliance towards the new ‘Respect’ organisation. This excellent analysis of Respect and specifically its programme, its opportunism towards right-wing Muslim organisations, as well as their results in last weeks Euro and Council elections in Britain is well worth looking at… (more…)

In the run-up to Irish SP MP Joe Higgins’ August tour of Australia, here is an analysis of the excellent SP results in the recent local and Euro elections in the Irish Republic…The disastrous slump in the Fianna Fáil vote and the gains for Sinn Féin in the Local and Euro Elections has led to very important gains for the Socialist Party being overlooked. (more…)

ONE REASON for Labour in Britain getting ‘a good kicking’ in the 10 June elections was opposition to Blair’s war and occupation of Iraq. (more…)

SAV (CWI in Germany) wins first Councillor in Rostock. Christine Lehnert will be the first directly elected Trotskyist Councillor in Germany for decades.
And in Belgium Linkse Socialistiche Partij(LSP)/Mouvement pour une Alternative Socialiste(MAS), the Belgian affiliate of the CWI, for the first time ever stood nationally in elections and won at least 19,841 votes. (more…)

Last Thursday millions of European voters went to the polls in Euro and Council elections. In Ireland the Socialist Party has doubled our number of Councillors and in Britain two SP Councillors have been re-elected and a third just missed out despite getting a higher vote than last time.

Read latest reports on the Socialist Party results from Ireland and Britain… (more…)

Labour appeals to the spirit of “national unity” while waging war on workers at home and abroad. These days Don Brash isn’t the only politician wrapping himself in the New Zealand flag in order to try and gain support for his unpopular economic agenda among the general public.
By Tim Bowron, CWI NZ. (more…)

By Andrew Calleja, Socialist Party Melbourne
During the euphoria that swept the Victorian Greens in the aftermath of the 2002 Yarra City council elections, incumbent Green councilors were at pains to explain that their party was progressive but with a capitalist ideology. It seemed that the Greens had become the party of many disaffected ALP voters. (more…)