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Month: January 2026

China

Shi Yongqin – the Translator Making Trotsky’s Works Available to Chinese Readers

January 30, 2026 Philip Stott

Shi Yongqin is China’s foremost translator of the works of Leon Trotsky into Chinese. Not only has he translated many of Trotsky’s most important works, including Trotsky’s writings on the Chinese revolution of 1926/27 but […]

Nigeria

NIGERIA | Despite Arrests and Repression Struggle Against Forced Evictions Will Continue

January 29, 2026 Michael Adaramoye Lenin, National coordinator YRC & Francis Nwapa, National secretary YRC

Statement issued after Hassan Taiwo Soweto and Dele Frank (Arole Fela) were released on bail being arrested at the January 28 residents’ march against demolitions in Lagos waterfront communities. The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) confirms […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Protester shot, socialist arrested – Lagos police attack rally against demolition and eviction

January 28, 2026 Peluola Adewale, Organising Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

Hassan Taiwo Soweto, a leading member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM, CWI in Nigeria) and spokesperson of #EndBadGovernance Movement Lagos, was arrested today at the Lagos State House of Assembly, probably with other protesters.  […]

Kurdistan

No to the attacks on Rojava! No trust in the imperialists! For a socialist-internationalist strategy for the liberation of Kurdistan

January 28, 2026 Sol (CWI Germany) leaflet text

Rojava is under threat. The SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces), dominated by the Kurdish YPG (People’s Defence Units), have retreated behind the Euphrates. They have lost much of the territory they previously controlled, including important oil […]

Israel / Palestine

ISRAEL-PALESTINE | Tens of Thousands Demonstrated in Sakhnin Against the Criminal Gangs and the Government

January 27, 2026 Uri Bar Shalom Agmon, guest article from the Socialist Struggle Movement (SSM) in Israel/Palestine

A mass mobilisation of Palestinian citizens of Israel took place on Thursday 22 January as part of a Day of Rage in protest at an all‑time record in the number of Arabs murdered amid the […]

Minneapolis

EYEWITNESS | The Minneapolis Anti-ICE ‘General Strike’

January 24, 2026 ISG & CWI reporters

Tens of thousands mobilized in a day of action in Minneapolis on 23 January against the state repression of Trump’s administration and its brutal deployment of three thousand ICE agents to the state of Minnesota. […]

Spotlight on the USA

Behind Trump’s Imperial Delusions

January 24, 2026 Hannah Sell, CWI International Secretariat

Originally published in Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). In November last year the Trump administration published its National Security Strategy of the United States of America. Hard on its […]

2025-26 Uprising

PODCAST | Iran after January’s Brutal Repression

January 23, 2026 CWI

Bob Labi and Sean Figg, from the Committee for a Workers International’s International Secretariat, discuss the protest movement that has rocked the Iranian regime over the past month, the attitude of the regional ruling classes […]

Scotland

Scottish government’s budget a continuation of underfunded public services – Build a socialist election challenge!

January 20, 2026 Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

The Scottish government’s pre-election budget – the 19th since the Scottish National Party (SNP) won power at Holyrood in 2007 – did nothing to alter the crisis of underfunded public services and deep-rooted poverty in […]

2025-26 Uprising

Iran After January’s Brutal Repression

January 19, 2026 Robert Bechert, CWI

Once again Iran has seen a brave mass movement against hardship, oppression and a rotten elite. Thousands have been killed. The turn of the year saw a new upsurge of resistance against the impact of […]

World Economy

Mercosur-EU pact finally signed, but it won’t solve European capitalism’s crisis

January 15, 2026 Sonja Grusch, CWI Austria

On Friday, the 9th January 2026 a majority of representatives of the EU-countries finally agreed to a treaty with Mercosur, the Southern Common Market, a South American economic bloc. It seems that 25 years after […]

CWI

National Meeting in India Marks Step-Forward for CWI

January 14, 2026 New Socialist Alternative, Pune (CWI India)

A national meeting of New Socialist Alternative, the CWI in India, was held on 10 and 11 January in the city of Pune. Comrades from the Chennai and Pune branches took part in the discussions.  […]

Mamdani

What will New York’s ‘democratic socialist’ mayor Mamdani do next? 

January 12, 2026 Frank Merritt, CWI 

On January 1, 2026, Zohran Mamdani took office as mayor of New York City amid continued interest and anticipation for his “New Era” of affordability for working class New Yorkers.   According to his transition website, 50,000 in the city applied to […]

Iran

IRAN | Mass Revolt: How far can the movement go?

January 11, 2026 Adaramoye Michael Lenin, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

Mass protests are spreading across Iran; in a show of widespread anger against the regime of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Pezeshkan, both of whom now have answers to give to these growing mass […]

Nigeria

US Christmas Airstrikes in Nigeria

January 10, 2026 Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

Only the united action of the working people can end insecurity On Christmas Day 2025, the United States launched missiles that reportedly hit two terrorist camps in the Bauni forest axis of Tangaza Local Government […]

Mamdani

New York: Winning the demands of the Mamdani mayor campaign

January 9, 2026 Jeff Booth, AFSCME Local 3650 (personal capacity)

“A great New Yorker once said that while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.”– From Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech, quoting Mario Cuomo, a former Democratic Party Governor of New York State. “Socialist reform […]

Spotlight on the USA

Venezuela, Trump and a New Era of Imperialist Aggression

January 8, 2026 Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary

US Forces out of Latin America For workers’ unity and socialism The kidnaping of Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Celia Flores, through the military assault by US imperialism has, in a dramatic fashion, […]

2025-26 Uprising

Inflation Ignites Nationwide Protests

January 7, 2026 Scott Hunter from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Iran has been rocked by a new series of nationwide protests which have now entered a second week. Demonstrations began on 29 December as market traders and small business owners in Tehran closed down their […]

Scotland

Latest round of cuts to Scotland’s colleges another indictment of education system under austerity

January 6, 2026 Wayne Scott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

The latest round of cuts to Scotland’s colleges is yet another damning indictment of an education system suffocating under austerity and the failed priorities of both Holyrood and Westminster. For years, staff and students have […]

China

CHINA | State Intervention, World Economic Crisis and Class Struggle

January 5, 2026 Oscar Parry, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

In this era of rampant inequality, increasing wars and climate catastrophe, many around the world are desperately searching for an alternative to the rotten capitalist system. Inevitably, some are looking towards China. We publish an […]

Venezuela

Trump orders military attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro

January 3, 2026 Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary

Fight US imperialist intervention with mass protests and the struggle for a democratic socialist alternative! Early today the Trump regime unleashed a bombing raid on Venezuela and used special forces to kidnap the President, Nicolas […]

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