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CWI Summer School Success

At the end of July, the CWI’s five-day European summer school took place in Berlin with over 140 comrades from England & Wales, Ireland, Scotland, the US, France, Austria and Germany. Over five days, political [...]

CWI’s Fiftieth Anniversary

CWI Summer School 2024

The Struggle for a Revolutionary Party Today

by Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary in Spotlight on Revolutionary Tactics & Strategy

The protracted crisis of global capitalism which is developing at an increasing speed and tempo accompanies an unprecedented crisis in leadership and, partially, the organisation of the working class. [...]

Understanding Trump’s Return to the US Presidency

USA

Trumpism and its Limits

“It is time to study Caligula. That most notorious of Roman emperors killed what was left of the republic and centralised authority in himself. Donald Trump does not need to make his horse a senator; […]

Conflict in the Middle East

Features - Conflict in the Middle East

General Strike Against Netanyahu Government

Build mass working-class struggle to end war and win Palestinian national self-determination In the space of just a week, the reports from Israel-Palestine included yet more terrible atrocities carried out by Israeli military forces in […]

Sri Lanka | The 2024 Elections and Beyond

The War in Ukraine

Features - The War in Ukraine

Ukraine Forces Invade Kursk Region

In a dramatic twist to the Russia-Ukraine war, Kyiv ordered its armed forces into the Kursk region of Russia on the 6th of August. This marks the first serious incursion into Russian territory since the […]

The Class Struggle in Europe

The Long-Term Crisis of Nigerian Capitalism – Lessons for Today

Nigeria

Nigeria’s 2012 Uprising

When Strikes and protests nearly swept a capitalist regime out of power Ten years ago, instead of the festivities that often herald the New Year, Nigerian working people and youth started the year 2012 at […]

Uprisings & Revolutions in the Neo-Colonial World

The Crisis of the World Capitalist Economy

Featured

What Causes Inflation?

“We understand better now how little we understand about inflation,”[i] commented Jerome Powell, Chair of the US Federal Reserve (the Fed), when inflation reached its highest level since the late 1970s in 2022. At the […]

Features - World Economy

The End of Golden Eras

The new lease of life that world capitalism experienced after the collapse of the Stalinist states of Russia and Eastern Europe from the late 1980s has definitively run its course. Whatever the immediate perspectives are […]

JAPAN | Liberal Democratic Party/Komeito Coalition Government Loses Majority

by Karl Simmons, CWI Japan in Japan

In the election for the Japanese House of Representatives, held on 27th of October, the Liberal Democratic Party/Komeito coalition government of Shigeru Ishiba lost its majority. The government was expecting to do badly in the election, but both the government and political pundits were surprised by the scale of the [...]

CHINA | China, Mao and the Markets

by Hannah Sell, CWI International Secretariat in Spotlight on China

Originally published in Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). ‘Mao and Markets’ is an attempt to educate the US capitalist class about the peculiar character of China and to appeal to it to find a way to “productively live with it”. On one level it is an odd read because it attempts to ‘objectively’ explain Maoism in the past and today, [...]

Mpox Exposes Continuing Global Pandemic Vulnerability

by Jon Dale, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) in Public Health

The latest outbreak of mpox virus is exposing once again global vulnerability to new pandemics.  This outbreak had been largely ignored by politicians and media in wealthy countries when it remained confined to Africa. Since 2022, 40 874 cases and 1,512 deaths have been reported across fifteen African states. An [...]

Documents of the CWI’s International Executive Committee 2024

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