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...
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...
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 ...
Taiwan’s ‘sunflower movement’ gave a glimpse of mass movement needed to defeat neo-liberal attacks and militarism
James Langdon, CWI Taiwan
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is still being negotiated, will be one of the largest trade d...
Only organised, united working class can end war and social misery
Niall Mulholland, CWI
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) continues to make territorial gains, controlling much of western Iraq along the border with Syria. The Sunni ...
How Socialists Built a Winning Movement
Socialist Alternative
Seattle is the first major city to pass a $15/hr minimum wage. 100,000 workers will be lifted out of poverty, and millions will be inspired all over the country and around the world....
Against corruption, wasteful spending and police brutality
Dave Hundorf, chinaworker.info
On Friday 13 June supporters of Socialist Action (CWI) in Hong Kong protested at the city’s Brazilian consulate. The protest was one of many around the wo...
Gains for the far right but some successes for genuine Left
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales)
The long-predicted ’earthquake’ - the electoral "triumph" of the far right and their allies - took pla...
Socialist Party wins a second TD and Anti Austerity Alliance 14 councillors
Danny Byrne, CWI
Ireland was no exception to the general rejection of pro-austerity governments in the European elections. Three sets of elections took place on 23 May:...
Neither old elites nor populists have answer for workers and poor
Iyan, CWI Malaysia
Indonesia had legislative elections on April 9th. Final results on May 9th showed that the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), which is lead by Meg...
