International
Ireland: Byelection triumph marks turning point in anti-austerity struggle
Paul Murphy wins parliamentary seat as 100,000 march against water charges
Eddie McCabe, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland)
12 October 2014 will be a day that’s remembered for years to come in Ireland. An estimated 100,000 marched in Dublin again...
International
Britain: 100,000 attend TUC’s pay rise demo
Calls for local government strike action to be reinstated
Socialist Party Reporters, London
Trade union contingents from all the major unions - and smaller ones - lined up along the Embankment, in central London, to march as part of the TUC’s 1...
Hong Kong
Is the US promoting a “colour revolution” in Hong Kong?
Beijing’s scare propaganda doesn’t stand up to examination
Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
The CCP-run media claims Hong Kong’s mass democracy protests are in fact a plan masterminded by Western powers to split China and prevent its...
China
Majority of Chinese expect a war with Japan
Warmongering governments are ratcheting up national tensions in a struggle for regional dominance
Dikang, chinaworker.info
53 percent of Chinese respondents and 29 percent of Japanese believe their countries will fight a war in the years ahead....
International
Ebola virus: Victims of a failed capitalist system
Infectious bodies rotting in the streets... health care facilities overwhelmed... health workers dying in shocking numbers…
Jon Dale, Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales)
Infectious bodies rotting in the streets... health care facilities ...
International
Scottish referendum: Ten days that can shake British capitalism to its foundations
Opinion polls show independence vote is balancing on a knife edge
Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI in Scotland)
“In the past four weeks support for the union has drained away at an astonishing rate. The Yes campaign has not just in...
International
USA: Ferguson erupts in rage after police kill Michael Brown
Police crackdown turns Missouri community into “war zone” with mass arrests and rioting
Eljeer Hawkins, Socialist Alternative, USA
“YOU took my son away from me. YOU know how hard it was for me to get him to stay in school and graduate?! YOU kn...
International
Indonesian election: New face but same old problems
Yet again the numbers refusing to vote exceed votes for the winning party
Conor Flynn, Socialist Party
On July 9, for only the third time since the collapse of the totalitarian Suharto regime in 1998, Indonesians went to the polls to elect a ne...
International
Gaza: World outraged by Israeli state terror
Mass action needed to end the slaughter and blockade!
Judy Beishon
The trapped, blockaded 1.8 million people in the Gaza strip have been viciously bombarded from air, sea and land. The ferocity of the war on this densely populated coastal encla...
International
End the siege of Gaza
Mass struggle to end Israeli state terror
Niall Mulholland, CWI
A hail of death has roared down on Gaza for weeks. Working class people worldwide are shocked and angered at images of a Palestinian father carrying his dead children’s body parts ...
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Sunflower movement transformed Taiwan’s political map
Important lessons from the mass struggle against the Ma government of March-April 2014
Vincent Kolo
Ten years ago, a mass movement erupted in Taiwan...
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