Month: June 2018

With Argentina rocked by a general strike on 24 June, we publish below an article written before the strike had developed, by Tony Saunois for the forthcoming (issue 220) os Socialism Today, magazine of the […]

President Donald Trump met North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in Singapore on 12 June. The summit was hailed as historic. Trump, true to form, also seems to have gone further than his own government and military […]

Los trabajadores tienen que plantar batalla Tres meses después de la celebración de las elecciones, y tras arduas negociaciones, el Movimiento 5 Estrellas (M5S) y la Liga llegaron a un acuerdo para la formación de […]

Una huelga general y unas manifestaciones enormes de una magnitud sin precedentes han sacudido el reino jordano en un contexto de aumento exorbitante del coste de la vida y de la corrupción gubernamental. La lucha […]

Germany is seeing its politically most unstable period since unification of East and West in 1990 and also the beginning of the end of the “Merkel era”.

Bitterly divided, chaos ridden, vulnerable to potential rupture: these are all descriptions that could, in many respects, be accurately applied to both the Conservative and Labour parliamentary parties today. Recent weeks in politics have been […]

Only days after passing a tax on Amazon and big business in Seattle, corporate politicians repealed the ordinance. Socialists always emphasise that while we must fight to tax the rich, this will always be fiercely […]

General elections in Turkey, originally scheduled for November 2019, are taking place on June 24. These will consist of both parliamentary and presidential contests, held together.