The world was united in misery in 2020. Too many deaths from the pandemic, job losses, pay cuts and poverty were the experience in virtually every country on the planet. Britain, as the year ends, […]
Earlier this year, publishers Pluto Press released a new book looking back at the defeat of Margaret Thatcher’s poll tax – ‘Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Fight to Stop the Poll Tax’ by Simon Hannah. […]
Almost six years after it was set up, the first phase of the Undercover Policing Inquiry – the Mitting Inquiry – finally took place for fourteen days from 2 November 2020. An opening statement to […]
Over the holiday period, socialistworld.net will be publishing less regularly. Normal posting will resume on the week starting 4 January 2021.
In any battle, the tactical details and their timing always have an element of the accidental and unexpected in them. Keir Starmer’s suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party on October 29 and – […]
The following article is an edited transcript of the speech by Mark Best in a workshop at the Socialism 2020 event organised online by the Socialist Party from 20-23 November (see ‘Socialism 2020: Growing search […]
The trade union of former Debenhams workers in Ireland, Mandate, has been engaged in extensive talks with the liquidator, KPMG, and the Irish government, over the last number of weeks. The same day as the […]
The Metropolitan Police are investigating British mercenaries’ hand in the massacre of over 100,000 civilians and the brutal defeat of the LTTE (Tamil Tigers), who fought an armed struggle for an independent Tamil Eelam nation. […]
Metal workers employed by a factory in Corum, Turkey, joined the United Metal Workers union to improve low wages and bad working conditions in the factory. They have been sacked by the management on trumped-up […]
As the year 2020 comes to a close the turmoil and convulsions that have shaken global capitalism continue. The year has been a turning point in history, affecting every aspect of society. Commentators and historians […]
In a further article in our series marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels, Ross Saunders looks at one of Engels’ best-known works, ‘Socialism: Utopian and Scientific’. Engels was very proud of […]
The recent bloody war between Azerbaijan and Armenia has taken a savage toll in terms of lives, homes and livelihoods. The latest round of brutal fighting between these former republics of the USSR has seen […]
Around £320 billion is lost annually to corporate tax abuse and private tax evasion, the equivalent of nearly 34 million nurses’ salaries, according to the Tax Justice Network. Poorer countries are most affected, with tax […]
It is surely the bitterest of ironies that a mere ten years after the arrival of the Troika in Ireland on 28 November 2010, Irish society faces yet another profound economic crisis. While it remains […]
In another article in our series on Friedrich Engels, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his birth, Niall Mulholland reviews Engels’ pamphlet, The Housing Question, and explains its relevance to today. socialistworld.net Engels published The […]
Covid-19 vaccines in record-breaking times have raised millions of people’s hopes that life will return to normal next year. But speed has also made many worry that corners are being cut in the race to […]
US President Donald Trump’s election defeat, but with a significantly increased vote, has sharply posed the question of what happens next? It is not simply about who will be the next US President. The fact […]
News of the spread of Covid-19 in factory hostels across Malaysia has come at a time when Malaysians are facing the highest number of infections since the start of the pandemic in early March this […]
While the pro-bosses elite who have traditionally betrayed the social movements are forcing through a new fraud to save a broken system that enriches, every day, a small sector of Chilean society, in the prisons […]
An unprecedented ‘occupy’ moment has developed in New Delhi, the capital of India. The authoritarian regime of Modi, for the first time, is caught on the back-foot. Some estimates are putting the number at hundreds […]
“Devolution is a disaster” were the reported words of Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson, referring to the Scottish government and “Tony Blair’s biggest mistake”. In fact, Blair was a reluctant devolutionist. He would rather not […]
Continuing our series of articles to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels, Helen Pattison looks at one of his first works, The Condition of the Working Class in England. “Insufficient satisfaction […]
Last Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated across the streets of France, including more than a hundred thousand people in Paris, alone. These demonstrations were originally against a draft law moved by the government, […]
Despite the widespread repression under the blatantly right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party-Modi regime, the all-India general strike on 26 November, involving more than 250 million workers (the Joint Committee of Trade Unions- JCTU claimed the number […]
The Tory government Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s spending review should be a wake-up call to the trade union leaders. Even from the capitalists’ point of view, there was no immediate need to impose a pay cut […]
The following book review of Engels – A Revolutionary Life, by John Green (Artery Publications, London 2008) was first published in Socialism Today (monthly magazine of the Socialist Party – CWI England & Wales) in […]
Despite Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed’s 29 November claim that federal forces had “completed and ceased military operations in the Tigray region” there can be no certainty that the fighting that started three-and-a-half weeks earlier […]
To continue marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels, we are reposting an introduction (2018) by Tony Saunois to Engels’ classic, ‘Socialism: Utopian and Scientific’. socialistworld.net This pamphlet should be read and studied […]
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