The following text is from a leaflet being distributed by Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) and Youth Rights Campaign in Lagos and other areas in the nationwide protests scheduled to start on August 1. socialistworld.net […]
The disturbances in the Coolock area of Dublin earlier this month are the latest in an escalating trend of far Right and fascist violence in the country. The State has made clear it is happy to allow […]
There is an ongoing bitter battle in Serbia around a proposed lithium mine. This battle isn’t new – the current Serbian government approved the mine in 2021 and it is generally acknowledged that it was […]
Wickramabahu Karunaratne, who was a giant of the left movement in Sri Lanka, ended his life’s journey on 25th of July. I first met Wickramabahu in the latter half of 1970 when I attended a […]
The following is the text of a Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) leaflet that is being distributed at large protests in London and other parts of Britain, involving many Bangladeshis and others, over the […]
In favour of a Marxist balance sheet of the CWI split A response to “The implosion of the ISA: Can the good traditions of the CWI be saved?” by Andros Payiatsos Andros Payiataos’s article on […]
Fight for Working Class Political Alternative “America has passed through one of Lenin’s weeks in which decades happen” was how the capitalist Economist magazine started one of its leaders referencing the famous remark of the […]
Is British prime minister Keir Starmer going to “give the unions what they want”? That was the question put to him about the whole swathe of public-sector pay deals, with recommendations due in the next […]
The phenomenon of right-wing populism is not new in most countries, but there is much to suggest that it has reached a new level. Not only because in opinion polls and elections the share of […]
A recent BBC interview with the president of Guyana, Irfaan Ali, has racked up millions of views. In it, he calls out the hypocrisy of the interviewer questioning his government’s plans to extract billions of […]
Volatile Period Opens Up Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has been swept into power in Britain – by 20.1% of the electorate, the lowest share for any incoming government since the first ever election fought […]
On Saturday 13 July, a lone gunman fired shots at presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania, killing one audience member and wounding two others. Trump himself walked away after a bullet grazed […]
The UK general election resulted in a historic defeat for the Conservative Party in England and Wales, and the Scottish National Party (SNP) in Scotland, with Keir Starmer’s pro-capitalist Labour Party gaining a majority in […]
Aside from the Tories, the biggest losers in the UK general election, which took place on 4 July, were the Scottish National Party (SNP). They emerged bloodied with just nine MPs, down from the 48 […]
French President Emmanuel Macron had “thrown [his] unpinned grenade in our legs” [in his own words] on 9 June, by dissolving the Assembly. He gave Jordan Bardella’s RN (far-right National Rally), winner of the European […]
We publish below a statement by five former members of ISA Austria, three of whom have recently joined the CWI and two of whom are discussing rejoining with the CWI. Anna Hiermann, Gerhard Ziegler and […]
Not just booted out. The Tories (Conservative Party) have been crushed. The electorate has punished them for fourteen years of austerity, attacks on the working class, lies and corruption. Less than seven million people went […]
The majority did not vote for RN or Macron: let’s show it! Unite! Let’s mobilize in the streets! Against Bardella and the RN against Macron’s policies on July 7 vote New Popular Front! Not a […]
The Labour Party has watered down its promises on workers’ and trade union rights, in keeping with the dumping of almost all the policies from the Corbyn era since Keir Starmer lied his way to […]
The first round of parliamentary elections in France saw Marine Le Pen’s far right RN taking the largest vote, at 33.2%, ahead of the New Popular Front on 28% and President Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble alliance […]
Nigerians are living in hellish times. Since last year raging inflation and a collapsing economy have savaged living standards. Africa’s most populous country is facing an existential crisis as the regime pushes ahead with a […]
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