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Chile

After mass protests, the Chilean government calls plebiscite to try to put breaks on demands for real change

January 20, 2020 Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Chile) Statement

In relation to the plebiscite that has been called for the 26 April 2020, it is necessary to make clear some issues before marking a [...]
India

India: General strike success, and missed opportunity

January 20, 2020 Jagadish Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

This year’s planned general strike on January 8th was massive. It broke all previous records in the numbers involved in a united class action in [...]
Austria

Austria: Greens enter government in coalition with Conservatives

January 18, 2020 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Offensive (CWI Austria)

[The] new government means “combination of fiscal restraint and tax cuts with environmental schemes and hard-line immigration policies” (Financial Times) Early January in Austria saw [...]
France

16 January – another day of mass strikes and workers’ demonstrations across France

January 17, 2020 Gauche Révolutionnaire Reporters photo gallery

Another day of mass demonstrations of strikers all over France on 17 January 2020. The determined battle to stop Macron’s pension attacks goes on! The [...]
Britain

British Labour Party leadership contest – What policies are needed?

January 16, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist, Weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The process to elect a new leader of the Labour Party is underway and poses an essential question. What will happen to the potential, opened [...]
Iran

Anger and renewed protests shake Iran: mass opposition can end the regime

January 15, 2020 Robert Bechert, CWI

Build a socialist movement that can offer an alternative to the rich elite, poverty and capitalism! A wave of anger at what is seen as [...]

World Economy: Germany’s new ‘Chicago Boys’

September 23, 2019

The deep crises in the world economy and political establishments are not only reflected in attempts to resurrect Keynesian-style policies. Other capitalist economists are proposing that an even harsher neoliberal model should be applied – […]

World Perspectives: Marxist analysis of tumultuous events and key tasks for the workers’ movement

August 29, 2019

The following world perspectives document was discussed, amended and passed by delegates and visitors at an international conference, held in London from July 22-25 2019, to reconstitute the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI). Global […]

What lies behind the US-China trade war?

May 24, 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 […]