World Economy
Global Economy: ‘Meltdown Monday’ confirms capitalist anarchy
End workers’ misery through genuine nationalisation and democratic socialist planning
Month: September 2008
ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019
Russia: Beware falling BRICs
Russian stock exchange shut on three occasions – economic crisis pending
Britain
Britain: New Labour: Losing its hold on power
Unions must break with pro-market Labour to build a workers’ party
Britain
Britain: New Labour: Losing its hold on power
Economy in crisis & politics in flux
World Economy
World Economy: The great implosion
Capitalist finance system nears meltdown
ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in Northern Ireland until 2019
Northern Ireland: Back to the Future?
Ruling Sinn Fein/Democratic Unionist Executive in stalemate
Nigeria
Nigeria: Socialists and civil rights activists protest against Channels TV closure
National Broadcasting Commision’s Lagos office stormed.
Malaysia
Malaysia: Multinational Hualon taken into receivership
Textile workers win big concessions through persistent campaign
Europe
European Social Forum: Union rights at forefront
CWI gets good response
Bolivia
Bolivia: Revolution and counter-revolution
Right-wing offensive radicalizes masses and provokes land occupations
ARCHIVE | Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna was the CWI section in Sweden until 2019
European Social Forum: March against racism and capitalism
20,000 expected in Malmö
World Economy
World economy: Capitalist crisis
Karl Marx was right
ARCHIVE | ChinaWorker.info was the CWI section in China, Honk Kong and Taiwan until 2019
Hong Kong: A sharp shift to the left
Anti-establishment mood leave government and business leaders in state of shock
ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019
USA: Support the machinists’ strike against Boeing!
We all have a stake in this fight
Thailand
Thailand: Courts rule Prime Minister, Samak Sundaravej, must resign…ruling party re-nominates Samak
Weeks of bloody protests and political deadlock within ruling elite
ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019
US: A tale of two Conventions
Where is the presidential election going?
ARCHIVE | Pakistan
Pakistan: Massacres of the Pashtoon peoples
America’s bloody imperialist war in Afghanistan spills into Pakistan
USA
US: ‘Fannie Mae’ and ‘Freddie Mac’ mortgage banks nationalisation
Sign of deepening economic crisis
USA
US: “Some kind of populist uprising needs to happen”
Anti-war activist challenges Nancy Pelosi, Democratic House Speaker, for Congress
ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019
US: Defying police threats, students walk out against the Republican National Convention
Week of police repression against peaceful protests
Egypt
Egypt: Fire at parliament’s upper house exposes Mubarak’s regime
Scandal and corruption of elite while masses on breadline
Georgia
Russia/Georgia: War exposes limits of West
Major capitalist powers jockey for influence at expense of peoples of the region
ARCHIVE | Pakistan
Pakistan: Water and sanitation workers’ protest
Struggle over pay and conditions in Balochistan province
ARCHIVE | Poland
Poland: 50,000 on largest workers’ demonstration since 1990s
‘Defend the Labour Code – for a one day General Strike!’