Cheryl Crisp is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Australia. She was a founding member of the Socialist Labour League, the forerunner of the SEP, in 1972, and has played a leading role in the Trostkyist movement in Australia for more than four decades. She was elected Assistant National Secretary at the Third National Congress of the SEP in 2016.
The pandemic is being used as the pretext for the destruction of workers’ pay levels and working conditions—something that governments have been unable to achieve for 20 years.
The Australian government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a four-year commemoration of the centenary of World War One.
Behind the police-state measures being enacted in Spain lie economic, political and social tensions that are also now finding expression in a growing movement of the working class.
The Socialist Party has only managed to survive in many regional and municipal governments through pacts with Podemos
The Telefónica-Movistar workers’ struggle has received widespread support, but the bankrupt perspective of the unions is endangering the strike.
The combined vote of the PSOE and PP has fallen to less than 40 percent, compared to 80 percent in 2009.
The training of army units in crowd control is based on the assumption that insurrectionary struggles are inevitable in Spain.
Four days before his death on September 10, Emilio Botín invited Spanish journalists to a dinner at which he revealed his fears about the “radicalisation” of Spain.
Although VOX’s manifesto contains some populist calls, the real message is reminiscent of Franco’s motto, “Spain One Great and Free.”
Two hundred plaintiffs and their lawyers have been forced to fly to Argentina to give evidence in a lawsuit seeking an investigation of torture, executions and abductions.
The 11.6 kilometre razor-wire fence separating Spain’s port of Melilla from the rest of Morocco was originally removed in 2007, after scores of people suffered horrific injuries trying to climb over it.
The Spanish trade unions and opposition Socialist Party are collaborating with the Popular Party government in the destruction of the pension rights of millions of workers.
With 6.2 million out of work, the trade unions are appealing for unity with the right wing Popular Party government.
The Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and the two main trade unions, Workers Commissions (CCOO) and General Workers Union (UGT), are embroiled in a fraud scandal.
Sacked Delphi workers in Cadiz clashed with trade union officials during an official celebration called by the Socialist Party-Communist Party regional government.
The Urdangarin scandal has raised questions over the future of the monarchy in Spain.
Mariano Rajoy’s Popular Party government is preparing to impose €90 billion in budget cuts over the next two years.
Seven Spanish miners who faced charges of public disorder and “attacks on authority” after the 2010 strike saw their sentences suspended in exchange for a two-year probationary period.
The collapse in support for the governing Socialist Workers Party benefited separatist parties in regional elections in the Basque Country and Galicia.
The ex-General Secretary of the Stalinist Communist Party of Spain, Santiago Carrillo, died on Tuesday September 18 at the age of 97.
Award-winning actor and playwright Jack Shepherd was born in Yorkshire in October 1940. As well as acting, writing, producing and directing, he also plays the saxophone and jazz piano.
Valley of the Shadow concerns itself with life in small village in Yorkshire at the time of the First World War.
