February 2020 |

Socialists debate identity politics

February 29, 2020 Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary

Featured article from February 2020 Socialism Today (Monthly journal of the Socialist PArty- CWI England & Wales. The relationship between fighting women’s oppression, identity politics, and the struggle for socialism is a feature of many […]

Nigeria: Socialist facing criminal charges for helping workers

February 28, 2020 Rufus Olusesan, National Chair CDWR

Drop Trumped-up Charges, Recall Sacked Workers and End Slave Conditions in Sumal Foods Abiodun Bamigboye (Abbey Trotsky), the acting National Chairperson of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), is again due in court on […]

Yemen’s desperate civil war fuelled by imperialism and regional powers

February 27, 2020 Elaine Brunskill, Socialist Party national committee member

Yemen, bordered by Saudi Arabia and Oman, is the poorest of countries in the Arab world and has been ravaged by a continuing bloody civil war. Conditions are barbaric, leading Unicef to report: “No place […]

Germany: Fighting causes instead of symptoms! Only a real change of policy can bring DIE LINKE forward

February 26, 2020 Sascha Staničić, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (Sol)

After dramatic election defeats last September in two East German federal state elections the leadership of Germany’s left party DIE LINKE opened a strategy debate in the run-up to a ‘Strategy Conference’ at the end […]

Malaysia: ‘Coalition of Hope’ collapses as racial tension and economic uncertainty mount

February 24, 2020 Socialist Alternative Malaysia

On Monday, 24 February, the prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, submitted his resignation to the country’s king, opening the way for enormous confusion as to what will follow. The reasons for Mahathir’s decision seemed […]

The Constituent Assembly and Other Questions Arising from the Recent Uprisings in Latin America

February 22, 2020 Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary

Download the full thesis here. Part 1 The explosive mass movements which have rocked Latin America, Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran and some other countries have opened a new chapter in the struggle against capitalism. These […]

Germany: Right wing terror attacks in Hanau – fight racism and capitalism!

February 21, 2020 Sasha Staničić, Sol national spokesperson

The racist murders of Hanau are part of a chain of right-wing terror attacks and racism. They are not caused by the sick brains of the individual perpetrators, but by a capitalist society that produces […]

Britain: Labour Party and trans rights: united working-class fight needed for rights and resources for all

February 20, 2020 Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, Socialist Party executive committee

The Labour Campaign for Trans Rights (LCTR) has intervened in the party’s leadership contest, calling on candidates to back its 12-point pledge. Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy have done so. The oppression trans people suffer […]

China: Coronavirus crisis shakes regime

February 19, 2020 Clare Doyle, CWI

World-wide the number of dead and infected from the Coronavirus appears to have reached a peak. But fears persist that large numbers could still die because of the impossibility of knowing before the symptoms develop […]

Is there still time to stop catastrophic climate change? A socialist response

February 18, 2020 Judy Beishon, first published in Socialism Today (No.234, December-January 2019-20)

A widely-reviewed recent book by David Wallace-Wells, ‘The Uninhabitable Earth – A story of the future, presents a grim picture of the future consequences of continuing global warming. But the real story of the future […]