Threat of water charges will be met with mass boycott

No democratic mandate for water charges

We Won't Pay Campaign, Press Release 1 July 09

The anti-water charges We Won’t Pay Campaign has responded to speculation that water charges may be introduced next year by warning the Northern Ireland Executive that they “will be met with mass civil disobedience if water charges are imposed on people.” Read on...

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A rotten system!
World and British economic crisis continues

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (England and Wales) 30 June 09

Politics in Britain has been dragged through the gutter with MPs caught ripping off thousands of pounds worth in expenses. As working-class people face job and wage cuts, the whole rotten system has been exposed. As a result, New Labour was hammered in euro and local elections, while the far-right British National Party (BNP) made gains. With a general election due within a year, now more than ever, a new workers’ party is needed. Read on...

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Jobs & Homes for all, Not Racism 23 June 09 Read on...

Shut down BNP "call centre" 23 June 09 Read on...

Sleazy politicians fill their pockets 23 June 09 Read on...

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After the European elections – what way forward for the working class in Northern Ireland?

23 June 2009

As far as the media was concerned the story of the Northern Ireland Euro election was the 66,000 votes for Jim Allister and his Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV). Read on...

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Where now for the Iranian revolution?
Working class must decisively enter struggle

Tony Saunois, CWI 22 June 2009

Thirty years after the 1979 revolution Iran has again erupted in revolutionary convulsions as millions have taken to the streets to protest against the undoubted rigging of the Presidential election. Within a few hours of polls closing, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his cohorts in the theocratic dictatorship claimed a sweeping victory of 64% of the votes cast based on an 85% turn-out. Read on...

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Support strikers at Lindsey oil refinery! Socialist Party reporters (England & Wales) 19 June 2009 Yesterday the solidarity action spread in support of the over Shaw workers (sub-contractor at Lindsey) that had been laid off at Lindsey Oil Refinery in Britain. Now Total, who run Lindsey, have gone on the offensive sacking 900 workers. Read on...

Organiser of residents anti-racist protest receives death threat Read on... Learning from History How Hitler came to power Read on... The Holocaust - Who was to blame? Read on... Leon Trotsky - What is National Socialism? Read on... Leon Trotsky on Fascism Read on... How to stop racists attacks Read on...

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Stop privatisation of our postal service

13th June 2009

The New Labour Government are planning to privatise major parts of our postal service to private companies. This represents the first steps towards the outright privatisation the postal service, which will lead to higher prices, more closures of local offices, cuts to services and job losses. This has been the result in those countries where the postal service has been privatised. Read on...

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Britain: New Labour melt-down

Fighting socialist leadership needed

Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party England and Wales, 9 June, 2009

The outcome of the county council elections, followed by the ‘meltdown’ in the euro elections, represents a devastating defeat for New Labour and the Gordon Brown dominated government. Read on...

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Joe Higgins wins Dublin European seat
A sensational victory for workers everywhere

At 5:30 am today the 8th of June, Joe Higgins was elected as the first Socialist Party MEP. This is a tremendous achievement, that a campaign which relied almost completely on volunteers and small donners could defeat Fianna Fail. Joe Higgins would like to thank all those who supported his campaign and voted for him.

 This victory comes as the result of tireless campaigning on the part of  supporters as well as members of the Socialist Party. It reflects the seething anger at the government and political establishment in Ireland. Read on...

Joe's acceptance speech can be heard HERE

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A new report from the Global Humanitarian Forum warns that we are in the middle of a “silent crisis” as climate change is killing 300,000 a year. Climate change and its effects are already impacting on the world. 

The report states that more than 300 million people are already seriously affected by climate change and that this is set to double in the next 20 years.

Stephen Boyd, Editor The Socialist, 3rd June 09
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Who are the Euro-Greens? Hugh Caffrey, Socialism Today May 2009 Read on...