The 21st century has not brought prosperity and security to the vast majority of people on planet earth. Capitalism, fuelled by the profit motive has led to an ever-spiralling wealth gap between mega-rich multi-billionaires and […]
This summer marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first instalment of what would become Friedrich Engels’ famous pamphlet, The Housing Question. Niall Mulholland looks at this ground-breaking work and explains its relevance […]
In Norway, we see three trade union conflicts that show what happens when workers are treated badly. Two years ago, at the beginning of the pandemic, we saw every political party in Norway, including the […]
On Tuesday, July 26, 2022, there was a huge turnout of workers and other protesters in the state capitals across Nigeria for a nationwide protest called by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over the continued […]
An international rally hosted by the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) and the Socialist Party Hear from socialists across the world – from the US to Sri Lanka, South Africa to Nigeria, and Chile […]
This summer has seen the scandal-ridden Boris Johnson regime collapse. A Tory party leadership contest is seeing the long Tory civil continue to boil over. However, the Tory fratricide is over what weapons to use to brutally […]
Capitalism, the system we live under today, is unequal and undemocratic. It is a class society, based on the exploitation of the working class by a ruling class – the capitalists, a small minority of […]
The heavy military moved into protest areas in Colombo last night and during early Friday morning, clearing out the area of demonstrators. The day before, arrest warrants were issued for student protest leaders. The new […]
Record-breaking temperatures have affected much of Europe and most of the UK, with temperatures exceeding the highest previous temperature by several degrees in Wales and touching 40 degrees in England. Despite health advisers and the […]
Latin America is convulsed in political turmoil and crisis. Throughout the continent, the effects of the Covid pandemic, which compounded the economic and social crisis, have not been overcome. Economic growth and employment have failed […]
Given that the proposal for a new constitution does not mean that we will see substantive changes to the current economic system, and the fundamental problems that the Chilean working class has, this makes adopting […]
The following statement by the International Secretariat (IS) of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI), looks at the main trends in the world today – economic, political, environmental, geopolitical and class relations – as […]
The annual Gala has been a feature in Durham almost every year since 1871 – a chance to witness union organisations march for a celebration of workers’ pride. Labour leader Keir Starmer didn’t speak. A […]
The shock waves from the assassination of Abe Shinzo are still resonating across the globe. Members of the political class, both from the most liberal to the most conservative, are singing eulogies to the career […]
Tens of thousands gathered in Sri Lanka again today to make sure that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa finally resigned and was gone. With the help of the military, the president was reported to have fled the […]
Just a day after polls showed that Finland’s public, resigned to but unenthusiastic about NATO membership, overwhelmingly rejected any concessions to Turkey as the price of joining, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö announced an agreement making […]
Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish National Party (SNP)/Scottish Green government recently announced their intention to hold a second independence referendum on 19 October 2023. Socialist Party Scotland (CWI) supports the right to indyref2 and advocates […]
A historical day was marked on 9 July in Sri Lanka, when the masses decisively entered the pages of history. People from all around the country descended on the capital city Colombo to register their […]
Organise to get them all out All strike together for a pay rise Build a new mass workers’ party Join the socialists On the morning of Friday 13 December 2019, as the country awoke to […]
There is an ongoing political, economic and social crisis in Turkey. The pandemic has acted as a great accelerator, speeding up the processes that already existed. It has certainly made the situation far more difficult […]
Deepening crisis Sri Lanka came to a halt early this month as the government announced that it does not have enough fuel or any money available for imports. All private vehicles are banned and schools […]
The US Supreme Court has overturned the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling which recognised a constitutional right to abortion. This represents the biggest attack on women’s rights in the US for the last 50 years […]
July 5 is the sixtieth anniversary of Algeria’s Independence Day in 1962 which marked the end of the eight-year war of independence. CLARE DOYLE looks back at a seminal struggle in the post-1945 movement against […]
HANNAH SELL reviews one of the numerous recent books looking at the events in Washington DC on 6 January 2021 and their aftermath, examining the crisis in both the Republican and Democrat parties and the […]
This year’s National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) conference takes place at a crucial stage, as Boris Johnson’s Tory government reels from one crisis to another. The RMT rail strike has acted as a lightning rod, […]
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