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Month: May 2021

Belarus

Forced landing of Ryanair plane illustrates Lukashenko’s desperate attempt to silence opposition

May 29, 2021 Clare Doyle, CWI

Dramatic events a week ago (Sunday 23 May) saw a Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania forced to land in Belarus. The military operation has been described as an unprecedented ‘hijacking’ and has seen European […]

Israel / Palestine

The wider impact of the Israeli state’s assault on Gaza

May 29, 2021 Robert Bechert, CWI, from Socialism Today (June 2021 issue), monthly journal of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

There can be no doubt that May’s round of death and destruction in Israel-Palestine will have serious repercussions in the whole Middle East. All the questions relating to the conflict in Israel-Palestine have been thrust […]

Culture

“Get up, stand up – don’t give up the fight!” The life and legacy of Bob Marley

May 29, 2021 Hugo Pierre, Socialist Party (England & Wales) and black members’ rep on Unison the union national executive council (personal capacity)

Forty years ago, on 21 May 1981, the island of Jamaica came to a halt as the celebrated reggae musician and political activist Bob Marley was given a state funeral. What was the political backdrop […]

Iran

Iran: ‘Joint May Day statement’ a significant coming together of workers’ organisations

May 28, 2021 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

Recent days have seen more strikes and protests by workers in Iran, more signs of the general revival of the workers’ movement there since 2017. The May Day statement (below) issued by 15 Iranian workers, […]

Scotland

Where now for the Scottish independence movement?

May 27, 2021 Philip Stott, national secretary, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

6 May 2021 saw the election of a majority of Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) committed to a second referendum on Scottish independence. Is an independent Scotland now inevitable? How will Boris Johnson and […]

Israel / Palestine

Israel-Palestine: A new stage in the struggle

May 26, 2021 Judy Beishon, from Socialism Today (No.249),  June 2021

When a ceasefire took hold after eleven days of the war on Gaza by the Israeli military, Gaza’s traumatised population re-emerged onto the streets to survey scenes of terrible devastation. This was the fourth war […]

Coronavirus

Capitalism responsible for stark global covid vaccine inequality

May 25, 2021 Nick Hart, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The pandemic hasn’t just exposed the class divide here in the UK. It’s also brought many tensions and inequalities between nations in an already fractured world to the surface. If the rapid spread of the […]

Britain

The consequences of the Tories’ Brexit

May 24, 2021 Editorial from May 2021 issue of Socialism Today (monthly magazine of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

“Boris Johnson’s withdrawal agreement with the European Union, which would “effectively leave Northern Ireland within the EU’s economic jurisdiction” following the UK’s exit, “will dangerously escalate sectarian tensions; spilling over into Britain too as in […]

Paris Commune

The ‘Fall of Paris’ 150 years ago – Counter-revolution massacres Communards

May 21, 2021 niall

“Working men’s Paris, with its Commune, will be forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new society. Its martyrs are enshrined in the great heart of the working class. Its exterminators’ history has already […]

Israel / Palestine

Israel-Palestine conflict: How can workers end war and secure national and democratic rights for all?

May 21, 2021 Judy Beishon, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The turn to devastating bloodshed by the Israeli regime has followed weeks of brutal Israeli policing in and around Jerusalem’s old city, and a number of planned evictions of Palestinian families from their homes in […]

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Latest Posts

  • American showdown
    July 4, 2022
  • Crucial stage for trade union movement
    July 1, 2022
  • Segun Sango: Family, Comrades, and Friends bid Outstanding Revolutionary Socialist farewell
    June 30, 2022
  • Sri Lanka: Crisis deepens
    June 29, 2022
  • Defeat of Macron in the legislative elections: An encouragement for victories against capitalism
    June 28, 2022
  • US: Out in the Streets to defend abortion rights!
    June 27, 2022
  • Ukraine war destabilising Middle East and North Africa
    June 25, 2022
  • France’s ‘president of the rich’ loses parliamentary majority
    June 24, 2022
  • Colombian presidential elections: Left candidate’s victory marks new era of mass struggle
    June 24, 2022
  • Segun Sango – an appreciation
    June 23, 2022

Trotsky
  • Leon Trotsky – A Revolutionary Whose Ideas Couldn’t Be Killed
    August 23, 2021
  • 8oth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination: The revolutionary ideas of a Marxist giant
    August 19, 2020
  • 79 years since the death of revolutionary socialist Leon Trotsky
    August 21, 2019
History
  • Britain: 1972 miners’ strike – The battle of Saltley Gate
    February 19, 2022
  • The origins of Christmas and the class struggle
    December 24, 2021
  • 30 years since the end of the USSR – lessons for the workers’ movement
    December 23, 2021
  • 30 years ago: Terry Fields MP, Prisoner DV 3695 – jailing a poll tax rebel and Militant
    July 13, 2021
  • Britain: The 1971 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders occupation and work-in
    June 14, 2021
Science & Technology
  • Can green technology and AI save capitalism?
    December 23, 2020
  • 50 years since Apollo 11 – ‘One giant leap’: how political conflict launched the moon landing
    July 20, 2019
  • The growth of artificial intelligence technology
    December 10, 2018
  • Technology: Will robots end capitalism?
    August 14, 2015
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