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Month: October 2018

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América

Brasil: ¡La resistencia comienza ya!

October 31, 2018 Declaración de la LSR • Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CIT en Brasil)

La victoria de Jair Bolsonaro en la segunda vuelta de las elecciones brasileñas representa un enorme retroceso político para el país y para el pueblo brasileño. No nos corresponde a nosotros compartir el cinismo de […]

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ARCHIVE | Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução was the CWI section in Brazil until 2019

Brazil: The resistance begins now!

October 31, 2018 LIBERDADE, SOCIALISMO E REVOLUÇÃO (LSR - CWI in Brazil)

Against Bolsonaro, defend democratic rights and smash the pension reform!

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shootings – Unite to fight anti-Semitism and far-right

October 31, 2018 Pittsburgh Socialist Alternative

On Saturday morning, 27 October, a man shouting anti-Semitic slogans opened fire at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the historically Jewish Squirrel Hill neighbourhood, in Pittsburgh. Eleven people were killed during the morning shabbat […]

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América

Centroamérica: La caravana migrante contra la miseria y la explotación

October 30, 2018 Izquierda Revolucionaria México

“Este es el éxodo del hambre, de la pobreza, de la marginación, el éxodo de los sin tierra, de los sin trabajo, de los que no tiene lempiras para comer, de los que no les […]

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ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in Australia until 2019

Union rally brings Melbourne to a standstill

October 30, 2018 Kat Galea, Socialist Party (CWI Australia)

For the second time this year, workers took to the streets in a massive show of collective strength. The 23 October rally saw more than 100,000 people bring central Melbourne to a standstill, demanding that […]

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América

Terremoto político en Brasil: Bolsonaro se alza con la victoria

October 29, 2018 Miguel Campos • Esquerra Revolucionària Catalunya

La victoria contundente del ultraderechista Jair Bolsonaro no sólo marca un antes y un después en el desarrollo de la lucha de clases en Brasil y en Latinoamérica, representa una grave amenaza para la clase […]

Sri Lanka

Parliamentary coup in Sri Lanka

October 29, 2018 Siritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka)

Sri Lanka is experiencing a dramatic constitutional crisis – an unprecedented parliamentary coup. It has seen the president – Maithripala Sirisena – break his coalition with Ranil Wickramasinghe, suspend parliament and appoint the former dictator/president […]

Britain

Britain: ‘People’s vote’ should be a general election

October 29, 2018 Editorial from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

On 20 October hundreds of thousands marched through the streets of London demanding a ‘peoples’ vote’ on Brexit. The motivations of those who marched were varied. Some were marching to show their internationalism and opposition […]

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Teoria

El avance de la extrema derecha y cómo combatirla

October 26, 2018 Miriam Municio • Izquierda Revolucionaria • Comisión Ejecutiva

El capitalismo no sólo no puede dar a los trabajadores nuevas reformas sociales, ni siquiera pequeñas limosnas: se ve obligado a quitarle las que les dio antes. Toda Europa ha entrado en una época de […]

Canada

Jean Swanson elected to Vancouver City Council – A victory for the ‘City We Need’

October 26, 2018 Bill Hopwood and Leslie Kemp, Socialist Alternative (CWI Canada), Vancouver

Jean Swanson’s election to Vancouver City Council is a step toward a ‘political revolution’ in Vancouver city, British Colombia (BC), Canada. News of this historic victory is already rippling around Canada and further afield. Swanson […]

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s plantation workers take action

October 25, 2018 Neelakandan T K, CWI Bangalore

“Our Corpses were the Fertilisers for your Tea Plantations…The Hot Teas you sip in your Mornings were Strewn with our Blood” (lines from the Tamil Nadu poet, Aadhavan Deetchinya) The town of Nuwara Eliya, in […]

Czech Republic

Czech workers flex industrial muscle as economy grows

October 25, 2018 Petr, Socialistická alternativa Budoucnost, Prague

In April 2018, the number of available jobs was for the first time more than the number of (officially) unemployed people in the Czech Republic. Unemployment, according to September figures, stands below one quarter of […]

Scotland

Scotland: Glasgow’s equal pay uprising shows power of working class

October 25, 2018 Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

Around 8,500 Glasgow working class women made history on 23-24th October, when they took industrial action. As the BBC news commented, it was the “one of the biggest ever strikes in the UK on the […]

Finland

Finland: Political strikes against government attacks

October 24, 2018 Per Olsson, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden)

On Monday, October 22, the largest trade union in Finland – JHL – launched a two-day political strike against the right-wing government’s proposal to make it easier to sack workers in companies with 10 or […]

Asia

Asia Pacific: Socialists meet to discuss struggles ahead

October 24, 2018 Anthony Main, Socialist Party Australia (CWI)

Socialists affiliated with the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) met in Sri Lanka in mid-October to discuss politics and class struggle in the Asia Pacific region.

Israel / Palestine

Israel/Palestine: Socialism Conference 2018

October 23, 2018 Shahar Benhorin, Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in Israel/Palestine)

Over 160 people participated in the ‘Socialism Conference 2018’ event hosted in Tel Aviv by the Socialist Struggle Movement (SSM) on 27 – 29 September. Among the participants were workers and youth, trade unionists and […]

Britain

Britain: Corbynism three years on

October 22, 2018 Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) general secretary

The Tory government hangs by a thread. Its disastrous Brexit policy threatens to blow it apart and widespread desperation and anger at seemingly endless austerity could erupt at any moment. There’s still time, argues PETER […]

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Freed political prisoner, Vadim Kuramshin, determined to fight on

October 22, 2018 Clare Doyle, CWI

On 16 August this year, after a term of six and a half years in Kazakhstan’s nightmare penal system, human rights lawyer, Vadim Kuramshin, walked free. His first words to the Committee for a Workers’ […]

Quebec

Québec election: Right wing CAQ victory but Québec Solidaire rising

October 20, 2018 Bruno G. (Alternative Socialiste, Québec), translated by Martin LeBrun (Socialist Alternative Canada)

There is no reason to celebrate the election of a Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) majority government. Not since Maurice Duplessis’ rule has there been broad electoral support for a political party that is both intolerant […]

Germany

Bavarian elections and huge #unteilbar anti-racist demonstration – a weekend of German history

October 20, 2018 Sascha Staničić

Much of the German media is understandably discussing the “historical event” that took place last weekend – last Sunday’s regional elections in Bavaria. The decline of both the CSU (Bavarian counterpart of Merkel’s Christian-Democrat CDU) […]

Britain

Britain: Corbyn must fight for a workers’ Brexit

October 17, 2018 Editorial from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party England & Wales)

If a variant of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Chequers proposal eventually becomes a Brexit deal, it will mean Britain remaining subject to much of the EU’s austerity-promoting and privatising neoliberalism. On the other hand, […]

Britain

Britain: Tories crisis conference – Corbyn must fight for a general election

October 15, 2018 Editorial from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

The Tories are afraid. They are afraid of what lies immediately ahead in the Brexit negotiations. They are afraid that their party will be torn apart by the process. They are afraid of a general […]

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ARCHIVE | Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução was the CWI section in Brazil until 2019

Brazil: Mobilise to defeat Bolsonaro and re-build a Socialist Left!

October 11, 2018 LSR (CWI in Brazil) statement

Following the elections on 7 October, Brazil is in great danger from the point of view of millions of workers, peasants, youth, women, black and indigenous people, LGBT people and all the exploited and oppressed.

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ARCHIVE | LSP/MAS was the CWI section in Belgium until 2019

Belgium: Struggle against right-wing government continues – 65,000 at regional demonstrations

October 11, 2018 Geert Cool, PSL/LSP (CWI in Belgium)

Despite the rain, nine regional demonstrations in Belgium on 2 October mobilised 65,000 in protest against the right-wing Michel government. Although the previous attacks on our pensions and living standards have not yet been digested, […]

Japan

Japan: Misery of capitalism to continue into ‘new era’

October 10, 2018 James Clement and Carl Simmonds for Kokusai Rentai (CWI in Japan)

Japan’s Heisei Era – which began on January 8th, 1989, in line with Emperor Akihito’s ascension to the throne – will end next April with his abdication. This will be a purely symbolic ‘end of […]

Video

Video: Socialist feminists speak at US anti-Kavanaugh protests

October 8, 2018 Socialist Alternative

Below we post a video of Socialist Alternative members speaking at protests against the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme court in different cities around the country, many of which were initiated or […]

Theory & Marxism

The renewed relevance of Engels’ classic, ‘Socialism: Utopian and Scientific’

October 6, 2018 Tony Saunois, CWI

‘Socialism: Utopian and Scientific’ should be read and studied by socialists, worker-activists and young people interested in socialist ideas, as it greatly adds to our understanding of the roots of socialism and the tasks the […]

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América

EEUU: La lucha contra Trump impulsa candidaturas de izquierdas

October 5, 2018 Víctor Taibo• Izquierda Revolucionaria • Comisión Ejecutiva

A pesar de los aparentes buenos datos macroeconómicos y de una situación prácticamente de pleno empleo —la tasa de desempleo en 2018 es del 3,9%, frente al 10% registrado en 2009, en el pico de […]

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ARCHIVE | Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução was the CWI section in Brazil until 2019

Brazil: Polarisation, risks and resistance in run-up to elections

October 5, 2018 Andre Ferrari, LSR (CWI in Brazil)

The last days of one of the most turbulent election campaigns in recent Brazilian history are clearly showing the political polarisation in the country.

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ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019

Ireland: 10,000 demonstrate in Dublin over chronic housing crisis

October 5, 2018 Mick Barry TD, Solidarity and Socialist Party (CWI) member

Ten thousand people attended a lunchtime protest outside the Dail (Irish parliament) on Wednesday, Oct 3 to protest government inaction on the growing housing crisis and demand change.

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Europa

Alemania: La violencia de la extrema derecha y cómo combatirla

October 5, 2018 Sozialistische Alternative • (SAV) • CIT en Alemania

El 26 de agosto fue asesinado un hombre de 35 años en la ciudad de Chemnitz, en el estado oriental de Sajonia. Dos hombres, un sirio y un iraquí, fueron detenidos por este crimen, lo […]

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Medio Ambiente

El capitalismo nos conduce a la catástrofe ecológica

October 5, 2018 Eloy Val del Olmo • Ezker Iraultzailea Gasteiz

Pocos ponen en cuestión el hecho de que la humanidad se enfrenta a una crisis ambiental sin precedentes. Los datos son muy clarificadores en este sentido: la concentración de dióxido de carbono en la atmósfera […]

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Teoria

México: el movimiento del 68 y la masacre de Tlatelolco

October 5, 2018 Izquierda Revolucionaria

“De cuando en cuando cada nueva época plantea a las personas, especialmente a sus jóvenes, nuevos dilemas y tramas. Las herencias anteriores se derrumban y los muchachos y muchachas deben inventar su propia manera de […]

Britain

British Labour Party conference shows Blairites must be ousted

October 3, 2018 Editorial from this week's Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party, England & Wales)

Ten pounds an hour minimum wage; workers’ rights from day one of employment; end of zero-hour contracts; an end to council cuts. Thirty hours free childcare. Water, rail, mail and energy brought into public ownership; […]

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Europa

La movilización desborda Catalunya un año después del 1-O

October 2, 2018 Esquerra Revolucionària • Catalunya

¡Unificar la lucha, hacia una gran huelga general! ¡Por la república catalana de los trabajadores, la juventud y el pueblo! Un año después de la histórica jornada del 1-O, cuando más de dos millones de […]

Catalonia

Catalonia: Powerful student general strike on 1 October

October 2, 2018 Esquerra Revolucionària (CWI in Catalonia)

More than 150,000 young people fill the streets against repression and for the Republic

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ARCHIVE | LSP/MAS was the CWI section in Belgium until 2019

Belgium: TV documentary exposing fascists provokes new youth protests

October 2, 2018 Michael Bouchez, LSP/PSL (CWI in Belgium)

Following a recent documentary on a Flemish language TV station in Belgium, widespread disgust and anger roared through society. The documentary exposed the fact that some students were organising a group along the lines of […]

Germany

Increasing polarisation in Germany

October 1, 2018 by Wolfram Klein, SAV (CWI in Germany) National Committee

A year ago, on 24 September 2017, a right-wing populist party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), was elected to the German Bundestag (national parliament) for the first time. The AfD’s achievement in becoming the Bundestag’s […]

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Europa

Catalunya: La huelga estudiantil del 1 de Octubre ha sido un éxito arrollador

October 1, 2018 Izquierda Revolucionaria

La huelga general estudiantil convocada por Universitats x la República, el Sindicat d’Estudiants (SE) y el SEPC ha sido un éxito total: las aulas han permanecido vacías durante toda la jornada y más de 150.000 […]

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