The Socialist Party condemns utterly the criminal and cowardly attacks on working class Londoners on July 7 and subsequently. All such acts of terrorism are reactionary, criminal and divisive.

By Gary Duffy, Socialist Party Sydney (more…)

Solidarity message from P-SOL (Party of Socialism and Liberty), Brazil

“Shoot to kill? death of Jean Charles de Menezes - ?This crime was unacceptable” (more…)

In the 72 hours following the London bombs, there were 17 bombings in Iraq and up to that point 40 suicide attacks in July alone including the horrific attack in Musayyib, south of Baghdad, where more than 100 people were killed and 130 injured when a suicide bomber blew up a fuel tanker near a crowded marketplace in front of a Shi’ite mosque.

By Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) (more…)

In May 1991, the then governing National Party in New Zealand introduced a new industrial relations law called the Employment Contracts Act (ECA). The changes that accompanied that act went hand in hand with the neo-liberal policies of privatization and deregulation programs that big business had been pushing for since the mid 1980’s.

By Anthony Main, AMWU Metals Division Shop Steward. (more…)

Lenin by Christopher Read, Reviewed by Peter Taaffe

Vladimir Lenin led the Russian revolution alongside Leon Trotsky in 1917. Their political understanding and party-building methods ensured the overthrow of capitalism and landlordism. Still today, they are the two historical figures most hated and feared by the capitalist ruling class, which tried to use the collapse of Stalinism in the late 1980s to bury socialist ideas. But socialism is now more relevant than ever before. Peter Taaffe reviews the latest biography of Lenin. (more…)

Dear members and supporters of the Socialist Party (CWI Australia),

We are thankful to all the trade unionists, activists, union branches, left and socialist activists and individuals, who sent protest and solidarity messages to support the 65000 telecom workers, during the 3 week long strike and 7 week long struggle against the privatisation of state owned telecom company. (more…)

More than 120 trade union activists and leaders of a variety of different unions attended a meeting organised by Trade Union Rights Campaign in the Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited Colony in Islamabad on 13 July.
By Azam Janjuah and Shahid Zaheer, TURCP Islamabad (more…)

WE HAVE suffered two heavy losses at once which merge into one enormous bereavement. There have been struck down from our ranks two leaders whose names will be for ever entered in the great book of the proletarian revolution: Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. They have perished. They have been killed. They are no longer with us!

Written By Leon Trotsky, 1919. (more…)

Submitted and published by The Encyclopedia Britannica. Appearing on pages 911-914, Volume 13 (of 24) , Fourteenth Edition 1939. Taken from the Trotsky Internet Archive. (more…)

The Iraqi Interior Ministry said this week that 8,175 Iraqis had been killed in the insurgency in the ten months between August 2004 and May 2005. At over 800 deaths a month this grisly figure exceeds the average monthly death toll of 500 since start of the occupation in May 2003.

Dave Carr Reports. (more…)