Britain
Britain: Councils must save domestic violence services
Already this week, two women will have died due to domestic violence. By the end of the week, there will have been five domestic violence-related deaths.
Month: January 2019
CWI
Marxist Schools held in Chile and Taiwan
Last weekend, CWI Marxist Schools were held in Chile and Taiwan, discussing national and international perspectives and pressing issues facing the workers’ movement.
Iran
Iranian regime’s torture of sugar cane workers’ leader exposed
The Iranian regime has once again arrested Esmail Bakhshi, the representative of the Haft-Tapeh sugar cane agro-industry workers, and an activist Sepideh Qolian.
Europe
Climate change protesters take to streets in Belgium and Germany
Belgium School student strikes hit a record high in Belgium, as around 35,000 marched through Brussels on Thursday, tripling the numbers taking part in a protest the week before. On 2 27 Sunday, more than […]
América
Venezuela: ¡Hay que derrotar el golpe de Estado de la derecha y el imperialismo!
¡Movilización masiva de los trabajadores para construir el auténtico socialismo y acabar con la burocracia corrupta! La situación en Venezuela ha alcanzado un punto crítico durante las últimas horas. El nuevo líder de la derecha […]
Italy
Italy’s ticking crisis time-bomb
The unprecedented budget showdown between the Italian government and the European Union, which risked provoking a serious eurozone crisis, has ended with a compromise. However, all of the economic and political problems underlying this latest […]
India
India’s workers put Modi on notice
Undoubtedly India’s recent 48 hour General Strike in January 2019, when nearly 220 million workers, peasants, agricultural labourers, street vendors etc. struck work will go down in history as a record-breaking one. Interestingly the previous […]
Europa
¡8 de marzo huelga general feminista de 24 horas!
Basta de violencia machista Basta de justicia patriarcal y franquista Contra la opresión capitalista, los recortes y la precariedad La crisis económica ha desnudado de forma sangrante la opresión que sufrimos las mujeres trabajadoras. El […]
Russia
Russia: Socialists and anti-fascists released from police custody
Igor Yashin, a leading member of Socialist Alternativa and Co-President of the Trade Union of Journalists and Media Workers, together with Nikolai Kretov, Dmitrii Borisenko and Mikhail Komrakov, who came to Igor’s assistance during his […]
Solidarity
Urgent appeal: CWI member and three others face prison sentence in Russia
4 participants in the annual “anti-fascist march” in Moscow were arrested today, including leading member of “Socialist Alternativa”, the Russian section of the CWI Igor Yashin. They will be held in police detention until Monday, […]