Next Friday 7 June voters in the South of Ireland go to the polls for the first national elections since the general election of February 2020. Since then, there have been seismic changes in Ireland. […]
Part 3 The struggle for far sighted Marxist position I was one of the boys in the car that made its way to the Palali airport in the middle of the night. The other is […]
Part 1 Indian military intervention and emergence of political confusion One evening in 1988, when encroaching darkness seemed momentarily halted, in the gentle embrace of the emerging moonlight, a car was driving towards Palali airport. […]
The 2024 elections, more than any other in the democratic era, have highlighted, on the electoral plane, the sharp polarisation between the classes. The elections will be completely dominated by parties that, whatever their political […]
Fourteen years of Tory government look set to come to an end on 4 July, 2024. Fourteen years of the super-rich raking in £billions, while the rest of us suffer falling living standards and crumbling […]
Anna Reid’s history of the ‘intervention’ in Russia after the 1917 revolution, when 180,000 troops from imperialist powers were sent to support the counter-revolutionary ‘White’ armies, is meticulously researched but politically bereft. Reid fails to […]
Keir Starmer’s announcement of six commitments for an incoming Labour government fall woefully short of promising real change after over 14 years of Tory misrule in Britain. Adding insult to injury, Labour leaders claim it […]
The infected blood inquiry in the UK published its final report on 20 May. It has detailed how thousands of people have died and many more exposed to contaminated blood, a scandal made worse by […]
Deepening divides in Europe exacerbated by Ukraine-Russia war Two recent events – the attempted assassination of Slovakia’s prime minister and the mass protests over the ‘Russian law’ introduced by the Georgian government – have increased […]
On February 16th, “Seven national unions and over two hundred local unions today formed the National Labor Network for Ceasefire (NLNC) to ‘end the death and devastation’ in the Middle East, and to expand support […]
Fifty years ago, this week a “strike” was called by the Ulster Workers Council (UWC) – a coalition of loyalist paramilitary groups, backed by some unionist politicians, like Ian Paisley – in Northern Ireland, in […]
Macron sets Kanaky on fire! Enough of France’s colonialist and repressive policy in New Caledonia! For the full and complete right to self-determination of the Kanaks! The Parisian media pretend to discover the situation in […]
As the Socialist [weekly paper of the Socialist Party – CWI England & Wales] goes to press, British trade union leaders meet with leaders of the Labour Party to discuss its ‘New Deal for Working […]
Railroad workers cannot afford another drawn-out, “business-as-usual” bargaining process. BNSF and Union Pacific railroads carried out mass layoffs this past winter, and the corporations are attempting to eliminate freight conductors and implement one-man crews. We […]
If anything, the beating the Tories took in the 2 May local elections in parts of England and Wales was even greater than predicted, as voters vented their fury at the government. In the simultaneous […]
Issues arising from Brexit once again dominate media coverage of relations between the London and Dublin governments. This time the frictions, which have mounted to include the cancellation of Ministerial meetings, follow claims that the […]
The International Socialist Alternative (ISA) is in a major crisis and on the brink of yet another split and further divisions. The immediate cause of the current crisis appears to have been the methods used […]
On 1st May, Shramik Hakk Andolan, a trade union formed by New Socialist Alternative celebrated International Labor Day by organising a rally of workers. This is the third consecutive year that held a rally. Last […]
University students across the United States have set up encampments to protest against the brutal onslaught on the Palestinian people by the Israeli state after the US Government agreed an extra $15 billion for the […]
“More pay, more free time, more security” – this was the slogan under which the German Trade Union Confederation mobilised for May Day rallies and demonstrations this year. According to the confederation, over 330,000 people […]
From Socialism Today, No. 277 (May 2024) The signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, between the US, Canada and Western European powers in April 1949, can only be understood as one more brick being laid […]
For most of April Iran and Israel appeared to be teetering on the brink of an all-out war, which could have engulfed the whole of the Middle East in flames. The month opened with Israeli […]
A printable version of this article can be downloaded in English here and in French here. The elections in Senegal on 24 March have transformed the entire situation. With Macky Sall ejected from power […]
International Workers Day is a socialist holiday started by US unions during the struggle for the eight-hour workday in the late 1800s. It was adopted by the newly founded socialist Second International in 1889 as […]
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