The 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.
Mega March replies to police violence
17 June 2006Hundreds of thousands marched into Oaxaca, Friday 16 June, to support striking teachers whose encampment was brutally attacked by police on Wednesday. Marchers included a contingent from San Salvador Atenco, brutalised by a paramilitary police attack in May.
"Teachers killed" in Oaxaca police attack, says union
15 June 2006Several people were killed, acccording to local union leaders. when thousands of state and federal police attacked the encampment (plantón) of striking schoolteachers in the central square of the Mexican city Oaxaca on 14 June.
A new generation to build a new Europe!
30 May 2006The 23rd youth camp of the Fourth International will take place near Perugia in Italy from 29th July to 5th August. More than 500 people from all over Europe are expected to attend.
