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Month: October 2025

Argentina

Javier Milei, Argentina’s right wing ‘libertarian’ president, achieves resounding victory in midterm elections

30 October 2025 Hugo Rodriguez and Pedro Albornoz (CWI Chile)

Javier Milei, Argentina’s right wing ‘libertarian’ president won the country’s 2025 midterm elections, significantly strengthening his political position and ability to push forward with his reactionary economic policies. Hugo Rodriguez and Pedro Albornoz look at […]

Romania

ROMANIA | Students at Babes Balyai University, Cluj, protest over facility re-location

29 October 2025 Andi Mureșan

In the new Romania of acute austerity, the government seems overwhelmed by inner division while locked in a conflict with the judiciary. At the same time, important student struggles have taken place, with mixed results. […]

Book review

Taming the beast or changing the system? ‘Capitalism and its Critics’, by John Cassidy

28 October 2025 Book review by Niall Mulholland

There is growing and widespread dissatisfaction with capitalism worldwide. Economic models that dominated the post-WW2 decades — Keynesian social democracy and later neoliberal globalization — are seen as having run aground. The system today is […]

Ireland Republic

Left-backed candidate, Catherine Connolly, wins Irish presidential election by a landslide

26 October 2025 ML statement

Catherine Connolly has won the 2025 Irish presidential election in a landslide victory. Her candidacy was supported by left and social democratic parties, the Greens and by Sinn Fein. Connolly secured  63.36%  of the vote. […]

History & Anniversaries - Ireland

“Not Guilty” for Soldier F: British ‘justice’ whitewashes state violence again

24 October 2025 Anton McCabe

Yesterday a judge in Belfast gave a ‘not guilty’ verdict regarding ‘Soldier F’,  a former parachute regiment solider who was accused of the murder of two civilians in Derry city, on January 30th 1972, in […]

Chile

CHILE | Presidential and Parliamentary Elections 2025

24 October 2025 Celso Calfullan

On Sunday, November 16, presidential, congressional, and senatorial elections will take place in Chile. In these elections there is a high probability that a candidate from the extreme right will be elected as president. In […]

France

REVIEW | Jean-Luc Mélenchon‘s ‘Now the People – Revolution in the 21st Century’

23 October 2025 Tony Saunois

Character, programme and methods of the new radical left This year has seen France plunged into one of the most serious political and social crises since the founding of the 5th Republic by Charles De […]

Ireland Republic

Riots at Dublin asylum centre – reject the far right and political establishment!

23 October 2025 ML statement

With characteristic hypocrisy and cynical opportunism, the far-right have pounced after  the alleged sickening sexual assault on a 10-year-old girl in Citywest. A man from the Citywest IPAS centre has been charged with this assault. […]

Tunisia

TUNISIA | Gabès Rises-Up Against Pollution and Repression

21 October 2025 statement

Thousands of residents of the southern Tunisian city of Gabès demonstrated on 15 October to demand the closure of a chemical complex of the Tunisian Chemical Group (TCG), which is responsible for serious environmental pollution. […]

Britain

Britain: What are the next steps in the unions to fight for a party based on the working class?

20 October 2025 Iain Dalton

Keir Starmer’s Labour government is preparing yet more austerity in the Autumn Budget while Reform rises in the polls. But with the recent clashes at the summit of ‘Your Party’ and the published timetable for […]

Britain

BRITAIN | The Case for a Workers-Led New Party Gets Even Stronger

17 October 2025 statement

Editorial of Socialism Today No. 291, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party. Originally published on 2 October 2025. Barely two months after Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s July 24 joint announcement of “a new kind […]

Scotland

SCOTLAND | Political Fragmentation and Polarisation in Run up to Holyrood Elections

16 October 2025 Philip Stott

Your Party must stand as part of a mass working class and socialist election challenge The Scottish National Party (SNP) annual conference met over 11–13 October, just seven months before the Scottish Parliament election due in […]

Philippines

Philippines: Police violence used against state corruption protests

15 October 2025 Krasnaya Pluma

Protests erupted across the Philippines over billions of dollars’ worth of state corruption in fraudulent flood control projects. On the 21st September, the 53rd anniversary of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s declaration of martial […]

Japan

JAPAN | Election of Right-Populist Takaichi Sanae as Leader of Liberal Democratic Party Precipitates Government Crisis

14 October 2025 Karl Simmons

A week is a long time in politics. The global headlines about Japan having its first woman prime minister, who happened to have played drums in a heavy metal band, to like pork buns, and […]

Israel / Palestine

Gaza Ceasefire – Struggle for the Complete End of the War of Extermination and the Overthrow of the Netanyahu Government

13 October 2025 Shahar Ben-Horin

There is No Solution Without a Struggle for Fundamental, Socialist Change, Including Ending the Occupation, Reconstruction, and Social Justice Below is a guest article by Shahar Ben-Horin, posted on the website of Socialist Struggle Movement, […]

Ireland Republic

IRELAND | Presidential Election – the Key Issues

10 October 2025 Militant Left (CWI)

The presidential elections are in full swing in Ireland. Last week, one of the three candidates, Jim Gavin, backed by Fianna Fáil, a governing coalition party, along with Fine Gael, abandoned the race after it […]

Morocco

MOROCCO | Youth in revolt for the right to health and education lead the way!

9 October 2025 Leïla Messaoudi

For several days, we have witnessed a massive mobilisation of young people, the youngest, especially 15-24 year olds, who have taken to the streets en masse. A tragic event triggered this social anger: in Agadir, […]

Features - Uprisings & Revolutions in the Neo-Colonial World

MADAGASCAR | Mass Protests Bring Down Government in Madagascar

8 October 2025 Scott Hunter

Madagascar has been rocked by waves of protests, the largest of their kind on the island in over 15 years. Demonstrations began on 25 September, following the arrest on 19 September of two local politicians […]

Mamdani

What does Mamdani represent and what attitude should socialists take?

7 October 2025 Frank Merritt

Social and political convulsion in the US only increases. The Trump administration is widening its use of administrative ‘bonapartist’ powers, engages in militarised methods and attacks on the “violent left” in the aftermath of the […]

Mamdani

Mamdani: Rocking the Boat, or Keeping It Afloat?

7 October 2025 Peggy Wang & Nicholas Wurst, Independent Socialist Group (ISG)

This article was originally published on 5 August 2025, shortly after Mamdani won the Democratic nomination. We are publishing it alongside a companion piece by Frank Merritt, from the CWI’s International Executive Committee, which expands […]

Features - Conflict in the Middle East

The World Impact of Two Years of War on Gaza – and what lies ahead?

6 October 2025 Judy Beishon

On the second anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel and the subsequent prolonged genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the fate of Trump’s latest proposals for an end to the war is still in […]

Israel / Palestine

General Strike Action Across Italy in Response to Israeli State’s Attack Against Gaza Flotilla

4 October 2025 Hugo Pierre

The Israeli state’s capture and arrest of aid workers, peace campaigners, workers representatives and parliamentarians on the Global Sumud Flotilla has sparked a general strike across Italy. The flotilla vessels, which were aiming to break […]

Scotland

A socialist approach to Scotland’s housing crisis

3 October 2025 Matt Dobson

Against the background of rising tensions and protests over the issue of asylum seekers being accommodated in hotels, urgent discussion needs to take place in the workers’ movement to put forward a fighting policy of […]

Germany

100,000 at Berlin ‘Together for Gaza’ Demonstration

2 October 2025 Chiara Stenger

A big step forward for the solidarity movement in Germany On 27 September, around 100,000 people took to the streets in Berlin in solidarity with the people of Gaza. This is the largest protest to […]

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