Australian workers and youth are about to head into some of the biggest class battles this country has seen for many years. Further attacks on workers rights, student unions and welfare will all be on the cards in the next few months. The Socialist Party has a proud record of involving itself in struggle and we have pledged to continue this tradition in the next period. (more…)

The US labor movement faces an historic crisis. Real wages are falling for most workers. Jobs, skilled or unskilled, are insecure. Millions are losing their health insurance, and corporations are hacking away at pensions. Only 7.9% of private-sector workers are in unions, the lowest level since 1901. In total, 12.5% of all workers are unionized, down from an historical high of 33% in 1954.

By Philip Locker, Socialist Alternative (CWI-US) (more…)

The CWI replies to the distortions of the ‘Class Struggle’ group in Pakistan.
Readers of this website will be familiar with the recent telecommunications dispute that occurred in Pakistan. Below we publish a reply by members of the Socialist Movement (CWI in Pakistan) to material produced by some on the left in Pakistan on the question of the recent PTCL strike in the country.
By Azad Qadri and Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (more…)

One of the reasons why socialists are opposed to terrorism is that it opens the way for capitalist leaders to use these attacks to try and justify the introduction of further repressive legislation and attacks on democratic rights.

Blair will most likely use the London bombings to try and force through the introduction of national identity cards (ID cards) and a national register which currently do not exist in Britain.

From ‘The Socialist’ Paper of the Socialist Party in England and Wales. (more…)

The heads of the world’s richest countries met in Gleneagles, Scotland this week. They were not there to tackle world poverty, however, despite some of the hopes raised by their hypocritical rhetoric. They were there, of course, to tighten their stranglehold on the world economic system.

Manny Thain, Socialist Party, Edinburgh
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Four bombs, three at tube stations or on trains and one on a bus, shook London during the morning ?rush hour? of Thursday 7 July. The Socialist Party and the CWI condemn these bombings and those who carried them out.
For mass united working class action against imperialism and capitalism. CWI statement on the London bombings. (more…)

Many SP members and supporters have been shocked by the recent terrorist atrocities in London. SP meetings around the country this week will be discussing the events in detail. In the mean time below we have provided links to two articles written by Leon Trotsky putting the socialist case against terrorism which are of great relevance today. (more…)

Trade union bosses see themselves as the mediators between bosses and workers within the capitalist system.

By Gary Duffy, Socialist Party Sydney (more…)

The Socialist Party condemns the bombings that took place in London yesterday morning. Such activities, no matter who was responsible do nothing to take the working class forward. We are currently preparing a detailed statement that will be available on this site tomorrow. From what we know so far, it seems that no comrades or family or friends have been hurt.

THE COMMITTEE for a Workers’ International (CWI) is an international socialist organisation fighting for the interests of working class people and youth across the globe. We believe that it is the nature of the system that we live under - capitalism - which is based on profits and exploitation that leads to poverty, war and environmental destruction. (more…)