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[ March 31, 2023 ] New York public sector workers fight attacks on pay and healthcare US
[ March 30, 2023 ] Labour bans former leader, Jeremy Corbyn, from standing for party in general election Britain
[ March 29, 2023 ] What does Humza Yousef, new leader of the Scottish National Party, stand for? Scotland
[ March 28, 2023 ] Public sector and rail unions’ “super strike day” in Germany Germany
[ March 28, 2023 ] Resist authoritarian Macron: an explosive French spring to come France

US

New York public sector workers fight attacks on pay and healthcare

March 31, 2023 Daniel Neuman NYC United Federation of Teachers (UFT) (personal capacity)

The current period is a tumultuous time for New York City (NYC) municipal workers as old contracts expire and new contracts are negotiated. The unions [...]
Britain

Labour bans former leader, Jeremy Corbyn, from standing for party in general election

March 30, 2023 Editorial of the Socialist (issue 1220), paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The day before the March 2023 meeting of Labour’s National Executive, Labour leader Keir Starmer declared to the press that he would be putting a [...]
Scotland

What does Humza Yousef, new leader of the Scottish National Party, stand for?

March 29, 2023 Socialist Party Scotland reporters

Humza Yousef, the favoured candidate of the party establishment, has been elected as the new leader of the Scottish National Party. He will now also [...]
Germany

Public sector and rail unions’ “super strike day” in Germany

March 28, 2023 Angelika Teweleit

On Monday, 27th March, tens of thousands railway and public sector workers came together in a “mega strike“. This action brought large parts of Germany’s [...]
France

Resist authoritarian Macron: an explosive French spring to come

March 28, 2023 Leïla Messaoudi, Gauche révolutionnaire (CWI in France)

President Macron has officially passed his pension-busting law in France by a legal power grab, using articles 49-3. This despite more than two months of [...]
Israel / Palestine

Israeli Government crisis ignites general strike

March 27, 2023 Amnon Cohen

The Sunday night sacking of Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant by Netanyahu unleashed a spontaneous eruption of protests. 600,000 poured onto the streets, blocking highways [...]

Banking crisis marks new phase of capitalist turmoil – bold socialist policies more urgent than ever!

March 23, 2023

The global and multi-faceted crisis of capitalism has entered a new phase with the turmoil in the financial markets and the collapse of banks in the US and Credit Suisse in Switzerland. It is likely […]

Capitalist society convulsed and in turmoil: new challenges and tasks for Marxists and the working class

January 30, 2023

The following document was presented to and agreed by the International Executive Committee of the CWI, which held a meeting from 23-27 January 2023. Introduction. Not Like Other Crises. Tsunami of a Debt Crises. Amazon […]

Are cryptocurrencies ground-breaking assets for capitalism?

April 27, 2022

Cryptocurrencies have been hailed as innovative and ground-breaking assets that can have a transformative effect on the world economy. In the second article in our series ‘busting economic myths’, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) […]