The workers of Dadu and Thatha sugar mills are continuing to protest against the non payment of their wages. They organised a peaceful demonstration on 13 May and tried to march towards the Chief Minister?s residence in Karachi. Riot police attacked the peaceful demonstrators and arrested at least 45 workers.
By Babu Ladhu, Organiser TURCP, Karachi

Socialist Party TD (MP) Joe Higgins has said he will boycott the address to the Dáil (Irish Parliament) by Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
Press statement from the Socialist Party

Thousands of power loom (textile) workers recently marched through the main streets of Faisalabad (the third largest city of Pakistan and center of textile industry). The protesting workers were demanding the implementation of an agreement on salaries signed between the power loom owners and workers last year. The power loom owners are not implementing the [...]

A reply to the Socialist Workers Party, sister organisation of the Australian International Socialist Organisation (ISO)
The Socialist, the weekly paper of the Socialist Party in England and Wales recently carried an article in issue 439 by Judy Beishon on Respect?s election results. Some, particularly the Socialist Workers? Party (SWP), the backbone of Respect, objected [...]

In the Dáil (Irish Parliament) yesterday, May 18th, the Socialist Party member for Dublin West Joe Higgins forced a debate on the Irish Government’s invitation to Australian Prime Minister John Howard to address the Dáil.
Press statement from the Socialist Party

The rise in oil prices to over $75 a barrel at the end of April and the threat of peak oil has re-ignited the discussion about nuclear energy as a possible source of cheap ?environmentally friendly? energy.
By Matt Waine, Socialist Party Ireland

By SP Cllr Stephen Jolly
Last nights council meeting was bursting to the seams with Alphington residents. The residents were there to support a motion to seek a compulsory purchase of land backing onto the Yarra river belonging to a couple of residents who made a selfish decision to attempt to erect a fence to stop [...]

In recent months a debate has been raging in the labour movement over the use of section 457 visas and what attitude the unions should take. There have been many points of view put forward. The following is the text from a leaflet written by trade union members in the Socialist Party and distributed at [...]

Ramy Khalil, socialist and anti war activist from the US answers some important questions facing the anti war movement today.
As the cycle of violence between Shi?as and Sunnis worsens, isn?t it necessary for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq to stop the civil war?

James Connolly was a marxist, a revolutionary socialist and an internationalist. His whole life was one of unremitting struggle to advance the interests of the working class and overthrow the existing social order. In 1910 he concluded his pamphlet, ?Labour, Nationality and Religion? in the simplest and most straightforward terms: ?The day has passed for [...]