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200 years since birth of Friedrich Engels: Collaborator with Marx in historic development of scientific socialism

November 27, 2020 Lenny Shail, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) national committee

28th November 2020, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels (1820-1895). Alongside his great friend, collaborator, and comrade, Karl Marx, Engels was [...]
Scotland

End the pandemic of gender-based violence – fight for socialism

November 26, 2020 Lynda McEwan, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

November 25th marked the beginning of the annual international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. This year it takes place against the backdrop of [...]
India

India: General strike set for 26th November

November 25, 2020 Text of leaflet issued by New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

Drunk with the success of a brutal parliamentary majority and with the cunning aid of spin doctors who tweak every failure of the Modi government [...]
Britain

‘Socialism 2020’: Growing search for ideas to change the world

November 25, 2020 Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) Reporters

‘Socialism 2020 ‘ – Marxist discussion and debate over four days, hosted by the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) – broke previous records on [...]
CWI

CWI meeting discusses global capitalist crisis in midst of covid pandemic

November 24, 2020 Philip Stott

The CWI’s International Executive Committee (IEC) met via Zoom over three days, from 13-15 November. Attended by over 80 comrades from Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin [...]
Ireland North

Ireland North: District council workers vote to fight attacks on pay and conditions

November 23, 2020 Militant Left (CWI Ireland) reporters

Members of the SIPTU, NIPSA, Unite and GMB trade unions at Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, in Northern Ireland, are preparing for battle. The [...]

Worldwide capitalist crisis deepens – step up the fight for socialism

October 7, 2020

A decade ago, following the worldwide financial crash, a Financial Times editorial congratulated capitalism on a bit of luck that “the left” was “missing in action in what should have been its finest hour. In […]

‘FinCEN Files’ expose rampant financial corruption

September 29, 2020

The intimate connections between organised crime, high finance, and the capitalist state have been exposed. Documents leaked from the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) detail over $2 trillion of suspect transactions over two decades. […]

Coronavirus plunges capitalism into global turmoil -The need for a socialist alternative

March 23, 2020

Statement from International Secretariat of the CWI 23 March 2020 The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has plunged world capitalism and society into an entirely new era of turmoil and upheaval. In country after country, […]