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Alistair Tice, Socialist Party regional secretary, Yorkshire "I would suggest as a memorial to Mrs Thatcher that instead of the usual headstone or statue, a dance floor should be erected over her grave". This was proposed by a writer to the Observ...

Launch surpassed all expectations CWI reporters, South Africa This report from our sister organisation in South Africa (Democratic Socialist Movement) was first published on socialistworld.net on 21 March 2013.  Over 500 Tshwane workers, min...

Public housing residents in Melbourne, Australia, have won a big victory against the Liberal State Government.  Chris Dite, an activist of the Socialist Party (CWI Australia) and a candidate in last year's elections to Yarra City Council in Melbou...

Millions of Venezuelan workers, the poor and youth will mourn the death of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary In an era when the gap between establishment politicians, who defend big business and the super-rich, and t...

The process by which British imperialism exited Hong Kong, its last major colony, came again into focus following the recent death of former British leader Margaret Thatcher Dave Hundorf, chinaworker.info Thatcher, revered as a heroine by capit...

Regime causes untold civilian suffering and death… rebels’ carry out sectarian massacres - No to imperialist intervention Arne Johansson, from Offensiv (weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, CWI in Sweden) The United States and EU powe...

But Park Geun-hye’s right-wing agenda will face mounting mass resistance CWI reporters in South Korea On 25 February, Park Geun-hye of the right-wing Saenuri (New Frontier) party, and daughter of assassinated military dictator Park Chung-hee, w...

For a mass struggle of workers and poor to defeat imperialism and fundamentalist reaction Leila Messaoudi, Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France) The sudden decision for a direct French military intervention in Northern Mali has not come from n...

Following high profile cases such as those of Julian Assange and Dominique Strauss Kahn, there has been much debate recently about rape and sexual assault.  Sarah Wrack, first published in "Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI Eng...

South African press announces founding of Workers’ and Socialist Party socialistworld.net Having already reported here on the important launch of the Workers’ and Socialist Party, a new party for the mass of South African workers, initiated by ...