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US: Bernie Sanders and the road to a mass workers’ party

Bernie Sanders’ 2016 bid for the presidency shook up US politics. Attracting hundreds of thousands of people around a radical programme, it showed the potential for a working-class-based alternative to the two main parties. Tony [...]
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Spanish general election anticipates new upheavals and need for revolutionary socialist alternative

The general election which took place on 28 April in the Spanish state, like elections throughout Europe, at this time, was marked by a deep polarization. The election came on the heel of the revolutionary [...]
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Sri Lanka: No to terrorist bombing,United workers’ struggle can cut off growth of racism and division

The United Socialist Party in Sri Lanka, the Tamil Solidarity campaign and the Socialist Party in England and Wales strongly condemn the atrocious attacks that took place in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday (21-04-2019).
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Sudan: No to rule of the generals!

After 30 years of dictatorship in Sudan, historic mass protests have achieved the fall of President Omar Al-Bashir in a forced ‘palace coup’ by the generals. Following this, a ‘transitional military council’ was established, with [...]
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The striking relevance of Leon Trotsky’s ‘Theory of Permanent Revolution’

The revolutionary movements shaking Sudan and Algeria, and mass upheavals in other parts of the neo-colonial world, underlines the relevance of Leon Trotsky’s ‘Theory of Permanent Revolution’. This is particularly the case for the [...]

Holiday Notice

socialistworld.net holiday notice

2nd August 2019
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Holiday notice: Over the August holiday month, socialistworld.net will publish less regularly. We will resume normal publishing on 1 September. Editors, socialistworld.net
Britain

Britain: Socialist Party conference overwhelmingly supports refounding CWI

2nd August 2019
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary, from The Socialist

On Sunday 21 July over 200 delegates at a special conference of the Socialist Party in England and Wales voted overwhelmingly, 83.2% to 16.8%, (173 – 35 with 0 abstentions), to sponsor an international conference [...]
Ireland North

“Enough is enough”: 20,000 Northern Ireland civil servants strike against pay restraint

1st August 2019
Carmel Gates, Nipsa deputy general secretary (personal capacity), from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party, CWI England & Wales)

Up to 20,000 civil servants across Northern Ireland took strike action on 26 July.
Puerto Rico

Mass movement topples governor of Puerto Rico

31st July 2019
Christine Thomas, CWI

Two weeks of almost continuous mass protests have forced the resignation of the governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello’. Monday 22 July culminated in a general strike and the largest protests in the history of [...]
Britain

Boris, Brexit and British capitalism: unpredictable, volatile and unstable

31st July 2019
Editorial of the Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party, CWI England & Wales)

Boris Johnson’s victory in this summer’s Tory party leadership election will probably turn out to be the most predictable political event of 2019.
Ireland North

Harland and Wolff workers occupy Belfast shipyard demanding re-nationalisation

30th July 2019
CWI Reporter, N Ireland

Harland and Wolff is the sole remaining shipbuilding business in the Belfast shipyard. The shipbuilding industry in Belfast has a four hundred year history and was most famously associated with the construction of the ill-fated [...]
Britain

NSSN conference 2019: at the heart of trade union struggle

29th July 2019
Dave Gorton, Unite the Union LE/372 branch officer (personal capacity)

The hall was again packed for the 2019 annual conference of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN), the rank-and-file trade union organisation set up initially by the RMT transport union and its late, and missed, [...]

What lies behind the US-China trade war?

24th May 2019

Last week, US President Donald Trump announced that under the rarely invoked International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei and seventy of its affiliated companies are set to be added to the […]

China – US: Can the trade war be halted?

23rd April 2019

In July 2018, tariffs were imposed on Chinese imports by President Trump’s government and there was immediate tit-for-tat retaliation by China. This has amounted to the biggest trade war since the 1930s and is increasingly […]

New recession fear stalks the world economy

26th February 2019

2018 marked ten years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers bank which plunged the world economy into the deepest economic recession since the 1930s. The financial virus spread quickly, causing production and trade to seize […]