“Venezuela is going to the polls again on December 3. Hugo Chavez continues to represent a decisive factor for the triumph of the revolutionary process. A big victory for Chávez and the Venezuelan people will act as a call to struggle across the Latin American continent.”
Defend Polish women’s abortion rights!
31 October 2006A measure before the Polish parliament would ban virtually all abortions, following Nicaragua in making a devastating attack on women’s reproductive rights.
Call for Anti-G8 mobilisation in Rostok
27 September 2006, byThe next G8 summit will take place in June 2007 in the Baltic coastal resort of Heiligendamm, near Rostock, after summits in Edinburgh and St Petersburg. Poverty, debt, environmental destruction, war, social cuts and attacks on our democratic rights - this is the catastrophic balance-sheet of the neo-liberal policies of the leaders of the eight most powerful countries that meet up every year.
Time to Deliver!
5 September 2006, byThe 16th International AIDS Conference Time to Deliver held in Toronto Canada from August 13-18 has ended only to raise more questions, more political demands, and a whole new sense of urgency for those living and dying from AIDS on a global level.
Gorja - a great victory for textile workers
27 August 2006, byThe 39 days strike by some 15,000 textile workers at Gojra ended in a stunning victory for the workers. This did not come without sacrifices by the workers involved in the strike.
SSP is split by Sheridan
27 August 2006, byThe Scottish Socialist Party is facing a split as a result of the "Sheridan affair". Socialist Resistance in England and Wales put out the following statement, opposing a split and backing those who fight for party unity.
Socialists of the World Support Heloisa Helena
7 August 2006Socialists around the world are signing up to endorse Heloisa Helena who has become the presidential candidate of the new Party of Socialism and Liberty (PSOL). While Lula’s government followed a typical social-liberal course Heloisa Helena and her comrades remained faithful to the original anti-imperialist and socialist programme of the PT.
ISG statement on the crisis in the SSP
4 July 2006, byThe British section of the Fourth International responds to the latest stage in the crisis of the Scottish Socialist Party.
Socialist Resistance hosts Latin socialists
30 June 2006, byThe Socialist Resistance day-school on Latin America held on 24 June was the biggest and most successful event independently organised by SR in its four years of existence. Over a hundred people, many of them new to SR, attended the morning plenary addressed by Celia Hart, Michael Lowy and Edouard Diago.
New Platform in the Scottish Socialist Party
19 June 2006The text of the founding statement of the SSP-United Left platform in the Scottish Socialist Party. The platform includes most of the former members of the International Socialist Movement.
