October 2015 | Committee for a Workers International

A new book offers important insights into the role played by Middle Eastern states in the rise of brutal reactionary forces such as Islamic State. What’s missing, however, is an assessment of the potential of […]

South Africa: Students rise up against class apartheid

10/24/2015 Weizmann Hamilton, Workers and Socialist Party

ANC leadership shaken by electrifying ten days

Quebec: Fight for 15 campaign comes to Quebec

10/23/2015 M. H., Alternative Socialiste (CWI in Quebec)

Struggle for a decent minimum wage reaches over border from US

South Africa: Student uprising

10/22/2015 Statement of the Socialist Youth Movement, South Africa

Struggle for free education now!

World Economy: ‘Biggest danger to capitalism is capitalism’

10/22/2015 Robin Clapp

Steel plant to close after a century of production, raw material prices collapsing, China’s economy slowing, the ongoing euro crisis…

Britain: Socialists and the Corbyn campaign

10/21/2015 Interview with Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

An opportunity for socialist ideas

CWI’s 2nd congress for China and Hong Kong a big success

10/21/2015 Dikang, chinaworker.info

Discussions on perspectives for Hong Kong’s democracy struggle and the crisis in China

Ireland South:Travellers fire deaths

10/20/2015 Manus Lenihan, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.net/">Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)</a>

The fight against anti-Traveller racism

CIT/CWI Iberian School a great success

10/19/2015 CWI Reporters, Spain

Anti-austerity struggles across southern Europe and the socialist alternative

Austria: Did ‘Red Vienna’ really stay red?

10/17/2015 Sonja Grusch

What the Vienna elections show

South Africa: Mining and steel industries in crisis

10/16/2015 Shaun Arendse, from <i>Izwi Labasebenzi</i> <i>(</i>newspaper of the Workers and Socialist Party)

‘Deals protect profits not jobs’ – for nationalisation under workers control

Volkswagen: It’s not just VW exhaust fumes that stink

10/16/2015 Georg Kümmel, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI Germany)

‘Normality’ is the scandal

Syria: Western governments’ interventionist strategy in tatters

10/15/2015 Editorial

Still no end in sight after four and a half years of civil war

Germany: Merkel and refugees

10/14/2015 Sascha Staničić

Polarising situation, but 250,000 march against free trade agreements shows potential for mass resistance against establishment

Portugal: Left vote grows as right coalition fails to win majority

10/13/2015 Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Portugal) Reporters

What way forward for the Left and workers’ movement?

Turkey: Double bombing at Ankara peace demonstration massacres over 100

10/12/2015 Sosyalist Alternatif (CWI in Turkey)

Trade unions’ 48 hour general strike must be first step to building mass, united movement against murderous regime of Erdoğan

Quebec: Government attacks spark workers’ protests

10/09/2015 Alternative Socialiste (CWI in Quebec) Reporters

Step up industrial action to defeat government plans

Burkina Faso: Mass revolt foils coup

10/09/2015 Abbey Trotsky

Independent working class political solution urgently needed

Scotland: Glasgow’s trade unions demand a ‘No Cuts’ budget

10/08/2015 Glasgow union’s statement republished on Socialist Party Scotland (CWI) website

Plenty of money in economy –just in wrong hands or lying in big business bank accounts

Britain: Right wing step up campaign against Corbyn

10/07/2015 Editorial

’No time to lose’ to organise against austerity

Canada: Tories face election after nearly decade in power

10/07/2015 Bill Hopwood, Socialist Alternative, Vancouver

The NDP represent as a left alternative?

Catalonia: Pro-independence parties win “plebiscite” elections

10/06/2015 Danny Byrne, CWI

A step towards independence?

Ireland North: Socialist runs for leader of biggest union

10/05/2015 Interview with Patrick Mulholland, Broad Left candidate for NIPSA General Secretary

Jobs threatened, pay cuts, increased workloads…public sector workers need fighting, democratic union

Kazakhstan: Workers’ representative demands to see KazMinerals boss in London

10/01/2015 See article and video on <a href="http://www.campaignkazakhstan.org">www.campaignkazakhstan.org</a>

Copper giant denies suffering of its workers and victimisation of their representatives