Defend expelled Nigerian students
Friday, May 13 @ 18:17:39 CDT

The authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, have decided to expel seven students from university.
Send letters of protest to the university authorities.

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SP Yarra Council report, May 2005
Thursday, May 12 @ 01:22:04 CDT

Monthly report from SP Cllr Stephen Jolly
Comrades,
Last Tuesday's Council meeting saw up to 100 local residents attend in another example of the growing grassroots democracy coming back to Richmond Town Hall after years of Kennettism and the aftereffects of Kennettism.

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SP Cllr Stephen Jolly responds to attack from ASU leaders
Thursday, May 05 @ 19:47:03 CDT

At the April 2005 Yarra City Council meeting, I asked a ‘Question without Notice’ of the Acting Director of Planning, Jane Homewood, as to why a two year extension had been given to Ashlyn Enterprises for their Cheese Grater development in Fitzroy.

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The Great Betrayal
Wednesday, May 04 @ 22:04:56 CDT

Reprinted from a back issue of 'Militant' 1992
Written By Stephen Jolly

What went wrong in Russia and why?
The bosses attempt to link the ideas of genuine socialism with the dictatorship, bureaucracy and mismanagement of Stalinism.
So the answers to How and Why Stalinism arose in Russia in the 1920's must be found.

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When the Russian workers took power
Wednesday, May 04 @ 21:46:27 CDT

Reprinted from a back issue of 'Militant' 1992
Written By Stephen Jolly

Every worker serious about real change in society should study the events of the Russian Revolution. It's not just a question of celebrating what has been called "the greatest event in world history", when working people took power for the first time they changed the world forever.

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The Question of the Party
Wednesday, May 04 @ 21:29:26 CDT

An article by Peter Taaffe written in 1999
A valuble read today as we ask ourselves what sort of party is needed in order to take us forward to socialism

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Israeli CWI members jailed on May Day
Wednesday, May 04 @ 20:39:58 CDT

Police attack CWI and other left activists at Tel Aviv May Day rally
CWI members were arrested for trying to go to Histadruth festival
By Daniel Dukarevich and Rotem Michaeli, Maavak Sotzialisti (CWI in Israel)

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Is Venezuela Heading Towards Socialism?
Wednesday, May 04 @ 20:14:38 CDT

With nationalisations and land distribution by Chavez
Is Venezuela heading towards socialism?
By Greg Bradshaw, SP Melbourne

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SP Councillor in Yarra
Wednesday, May 04 @ 01:58:52 CDT

Making Socialism Relevant
Regular column of Australia's first Socialist Party Councillor, Stephen Jolly
City of Yarra, Melbourne
Taken from the May edition of 'The Socialist'

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Asia: Privatisation's gruesome death toll
Wednesday, May 04 @ 01:49:06 CDT

Sri Lanka and Japan are both reeling from horrific public transport disasters, in each case resulting from the privatisation policies of their governments and the blind chase for profits.

Laurence Coates, CWI, Colombo.

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Upheavals in China
Wednesday, May 04 @ 01:42:06 CDT

Following the upsurge in workers' protests in China and the sharp rise in tension between it and Japan, Peter Taaffe (CWI) has written this major article outlining the main developments in the potential regional colossus and relations between the powers in Asia.

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May Day in La Paz
Tuesday, May 03 @ 03:34:40 CDT

Currently SP member Denise Dudley is in Bolivia as part of a tour of Latin America.
Denise had the pleasure of celebrating May Day in La Paz. Read Denise's report on the protests over corporations’ exploitation of natural resources.

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Howard's attacks on Medicare
Tuesday, May 03 @ 02:36:09 CDT

This article offers a socialist explanation as to why the Howard government is gunning for Medicare - and what should be done to save it.
By Kylie McGregor, SP Melbourne

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We need the spirit of May Day to defeat Howard
Saturday, April 30 @ 02:46:30 CDT

The modern May Day has its origins in Australia where workers in 1856 organised a day of complete stoppage together with meetings and entertainment as a demonstration in favour of the eight-hour day.
John Gowland, SP Perth

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May Day greetings from the Socialist Party
Saturday, April 30 @ 02:21:14 CDT

The Socialist Party sends May Day greetings to our comrades in the CWI and workers and youth across the world.

May Day has historically been celebrated as a day of international working-class solidarity and struggle. It has added significance this year as workers and young people confront a globalised capitalist system attacking our working conditions, polluting our environment and killing thousands of men, women and children each year through war, starvation and preventable diseases.

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Are Australians over-taxed or under taxed?
Friday, April 29 @ 01:51:29 CDT

Editorial from the May edition of 'The Socialist'
Paper of the Socialist Party (CWI Australia)
A socialist explanation of our tax system.

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Scotland: What's the alternative to the establishment parties?
Thursday, April 28 @ 20:37:46 CDT

The Scottish Socialist Party is standing in 58 of the 59 Scottish Westminster seats as part of the British general election on May 5th.

CWI members who work within the SSP will be standing in 6 of those seats.

Read this report from Philip Stott, Dundee, International Socialists about the election campaign so far.

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Belgium: Active Left Students (ALS) under attack by university authorities
Thursday, April 28 @ 20:11:40 CDT

Relentless campaign sponsored by university Rector to ban ALS.
Our student society in Belgium is under threat of exclusion from the University of Ghent for fighting racism.
Please take moment to sign the online petition to support Active Left Students.

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2005 CWI May Day Statement
Wednesday, April 27 @ 01:56:08 CDT

Make capitalism history - Fight for socialism!
On May Day, workers and socialists honour and celebrate past struggles and recommit ourselves to international solidarity, struggle and socialism.

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China: Beijing tries to cool anti-Japan protests
Monday, April 25 @ 05:12:02 CDT

The protests by students and young people in China, and similar protests in South Korea, against Japan’s resurgent militarism, are causing growing apprehension among world political leaders, businessmen and now, it seems, the Chinese regime itself.

Laurence Coates, Taipei

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World Economy: Speculative activity surges in the global economy
Monday, April 25 @ 05:00:09 CDT

Intensified speculation a symptom of approaching crisis in the world capitalist economy.

Lynn Walsh, Senior Editor Socialism Today

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How Red are the Greens?
Saturday, April 23 @ 18:06:28 CDT

Last week the Green Party in the UK launched their election manifesto.
They put forward many policies that socialists also support - on the environment, against nuclear power and against the war in Iraq.
The Greens in Australia have many similar policies, but if they were implemented would they actually work?
Jon Dale (Socialist Party England and Wales) takes a closer look.

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World economy: Profits soar while wages fall
Saturday, April 23 @ 01:26:57 CDT

Against the backdrop of the general election campaign in Britain.
Peter Taaffe General Secretary of the Socialist Party (England and Wales) has written this article on the current state of the world economy.

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Ireland: Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MP fights for "real people"
Thursday, April 21 @ 16:29:47 CDT

Reproduced below is an article from the Irish Independent from Wednesday 13 April outlining the excellent role played by Joe Higgins in the Daíl (Parliament) as a representative of working class people fighting for their rights.
Following this is the latest press release of the Turkish Workers Action Group which explains that Gama Construction has been forced to start sending bank statements of the concealed bank accounts in the Netherlands held in the name of Gama employees to these workers.

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Taiwan: Two reports from Taiwan by Laurence Coates, CWI
Thursday, April 21 @ 06:19:16 CDT

In the first he speaks to two women leaders of a Filipino workers’ protest group.
The second is a report of a meeting addressed by Laurence at Taipei University.

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China: Brutal police attack on anti-pollution protesters
Monday, April 18 @ 19:41:54 CDT

A brutal police attack on an anti-pollution protest at an industrial park on the outskirts of Dongyang city, Zhejiang province, triggered huge clashes between thousands of protesters and 3,000 riot police.
By Laurence Coates in Taipei

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Ireland: Socialist Party MP profiled in mainstream media
Monday, April 18 @ 03:29:53 CDT

All that's left?
A profile of Joe Higgins TD (MP) and the Socialist Party in the Sunday Business Post (Ireland) 17 April 2005 By Alison O'Connor
When Joe Higgins rises to his feet in Dáil Eireann, there is usually an air of expectancy. The majority of his 165 colleagues would probably claim that the Socialist Party TD's politics are off the wall, but would surely also recognise him as the best parliamentary performer in their ranks.

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Three months after tsunami, government inaction fuels the flame of protest
Saturday, April 16 @ 05:31:19 CDT

Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party (England and Wales) and member of the CWI International Secretariat, recently returned to London from Sri Lanka. He visited some of the areas most devastated by the tsunami and spoke to many whose agony has turned to anger.

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Northern Ireland: Republicanism in crisis
Friday, April 15 @ 19:11:51 CDT

Since this article was written, the leadership of Sinn Fein, showing the continued pressure they are under, especially since the local and general election campaign in Northern Ireland had been set, called a press conference on 6 April where Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams made the unprecedented call for the IRA to give up the strategy of armed struggle and instead build “political support for republican and democratic objectives”.
By Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Northern Ireland

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China: Anti-Japan protests erupt in China
Friday, April 15 @ 19:05:27 CDT

Angry anti-Japan protests erupted in several Chinese cities at the weekend, with a crowd of 6,000 mostly students and youth marching on the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, while 3,000 demonstrated outside Japan’s consulate in the southern city of Guangzhou.
By Laurence Coates in Taipei

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