Turmoil reveals limits of European integration

Eurozone hit by debt crises

The countries that adopted the euro are facing the most precarious situation for their currency union since they started using the euro in 2002.

[REPORTS FROM THE GREEK GENERAL STRIKE WILL FOLLOW SOON]

May Day Greetings from the Socialist Party

WE WON'T PAY FOR THE BOSSES CRISIS

Trade unionists and other working class people face a future of rising unemployment and deepening poverty. Both the Westminster government and the Assembly Executive are implementing pay cuts, job cuts and attacks on living standards. As the elections comes to a conclusion we can say, with certainty, that whichever party wins, further major attacks on the working class and major industrial battles lie ahead.

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Britain - Heading for a coalition government?

Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, discusses the options facing the capitalists and their parties following the 6 May general election.

The general election - which could lead to a form of coalition government after 6 May - is in terms of ideas and policy probably amongst the worst in history, certainly since the winning of universal suffrage, the right to vote.

Quinn Group workers must organise independently to save jobs

Workers need bailed out, not the bankers – Nationalise the Quinn Group

The Socialist Party has reacted to today’s announcement of job losses in the Quinn Group by calling for “workers to immediately organise independently of the Quinn millionaires to fight to save much needed jobs.”

Tax cuts for the rich – water charges for ordinary people

Assembly parties attacked for planning to impose water charges

The parties in Stormont were today accused by anti-water charges campaigners of attempting to widen the gap between rich and poor for “planning to introduce household water charges while seeking to cut taxes for big business”.

Stop these savage cuts

Support the socialist alternative

"What I say to people on the doorstep is we will only cut your throat slowly, the others will cut your head off" was a comment of New Labour MP for Blyth Valley in the North East, Ronnie Campbell, in a local paper. This message has been mirrored by New Labour chancellor Alistair Darling, when he admitted that public sector cuts will be 'deeper and tougher' than under the hated Tory regime of Margaret Thatcher.

Eurozone crisis, capitalist conflicts and class struggles

The European Bureau of the CWI, 13 to 15 April 2010, discussed the potential for explosions, given the curent economic, social and political instability and the tasks facing socialists and the working class.

Below, we publish a resolution arising from a very successful meeting in which representatives from Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czeck Republic, England and Wales, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland (North and South), Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, and from outside Europe - Pakistan and Israel - participated.