Month: October 2026

Amidst the mass youth movement in France, a Socialist Students delegation travelled to Paris on October 17-18 for an important meeting building towards the 20 November International Youth Strike. 27 organisations attended from eleven countries, […]

Youth and workers: let’s build a mass strike movement against Macron and his policies!   A youth movement that is spreading and taking root After the mobilisations of Saturday, October 17, we are now at […]

On 17 October, well over 500,000 workers and youth poured onto the streets of towns and cities across France to take their latest step forward in the battle to defeat Macron and the French capitalists’ […]

The Albanian masses have been on the streets for almost five months. Protests started in May when it became known that the prime minister, Edi Rama, was more than willing to give away a nature […]

“We’re in a different country now than we were on October 13”. This comment from a leading trade unionist and Militant Left member sums up the seismic impact of Wednesday’s public sector general strike in […]

Workers and Youth Unite to Fight for a Socialist Future The CWI supports the youth strikes and mobilisations on 20 November called for by the International Youth Walkout Against War. Events are confirming the timeliness […]

The Yrkestrafikkforbundet (YTF), which represents postal workers in Norway, warns: “We fear that up to 2,000 mail carriers could lose their jobs if the government’s postal cuts are implemented.” This would represent a huge further […]

Today sees hundreds of thousands of public sector workers taking strike action across the Republic of Ireland in the greatest display of workers’ industrial action for many years. Below is the text of a Militant […]

The first round of the Brazilian elections leaves a question that the left should not dodge. Lula finished second against Flávio Bolsonaro, with 45.16% against 47.03%, and lost around 3.4 million votes compared to the […]

The renewed attempt by the Orange Order to march down Garvaghy Road, at Portadown, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, reopened one of the most bitter disputes of the 1990s in the north. Following nearly two weeks […]

MASS DISCONTENT, AN ATTEMPT TO RIG ELECTIONS AND THE POLITICAL TASKS OF THE LEFT BREAKING: As this article was being posted further arrests, including of leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), were taking place […]

Nearly three years after the start of the Israeli state’s genocidal war on Gaza, the satellite images on Google Maps have been updated. They reveal the extent of ongoing devastation and deprivation imposed on Palestinians […]

The school students’ mobilisation, which began in Val-de-Marne more than 15 days ago, reached a new stage after the public sector strike on 29 September. 338 high schools were blockaded on 29 September, and more […]

Ecological collapse could become a profound threat to national security and prosperity. So warns Britain’s own intelligence assessment, conducted by the joint intelligence committee and buried by Keir Starmer’s Labour government. Its six case studies […]

The wave of school student protests across France has highlighted the deep crisis facing public education and the wider social conditions confronting working‑class youth. In dozens of towns and cities, students have walked out, blockaded […]

The brutal eviction of the 87-year old disabled woman, María del Carmen Abascal, known as “Maricarmen”, who had been living in her Madrid flat for 71 years, sparked fury across Spain. She was carried out […]

Twenty eight years after the last stand-off at Drumcree, near Portadown town in County Armagh, the local Orange Order is attempting to march down the predominantly Catholic/nationalist Garvaghy Road as local residents block their path. […]

With the passing of Anneliese Staničić, the CWI, and its German section, Sol, have lost a comrade who would have celebrated the 40th anniversary of her membership next March. I have lost my mother, who […]