Articles by Mira Glavardanov

Current Brazilian president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva has been re-elected following presidential elections on Sunday 25 October, winning against Flávio Bolsonaro with 52% of the votes. After ending the first round of voting in […]

The PT, PCdoB, PSOL and PSTU in the Face of the Crisis of Brazilian Capitalism: A Left Incapable of Turning Resistance into a Revolutionary Alternative A Run-off Election That Forces Us to Look Beyond the […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

When kids in school learn about the countries of Europe different categories are used, depending what categories are taken into account. The question if Georgia belongs to Europe is as controversial as the question towards […]

Industrial action in the public sector begins on 30 September. Two strike days are scheduled – 14 & 21 October. More are planned. Following massive votes for strike action, public sector workers are moving onto […]

The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) condemns, in the strongest terms, the killing of 37 young people, many of them minors, in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Niger State Command. […]

Militant Left (CWI Ireland) supporters in Ireland joined the Affordable Ireland pre-budget demonstration in Dublin on Saturday 19 September. The Irish Government and global media claims that Ireland is a wealthy country mask a very […]

The Scottish National Party (SNP) government have voted down a moratorium on the hugely controversial plans for up to 24 hyperscale data centres in Scotland. At Holyrood, the seat of the Scottish parliament, the Scottish […]

Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s presidential candidate of the Africa Democratic Congress and former Vice President, recently declared that he would, temporarily at least, restore the fuel subsidy removed by the Tinubu administration if elected in the […]

On Saturday 12th of September, Militant Left (CWI Ireland) joined tens of thousands of people in Dublin city centre to tell President Donald Trump he was not wanted in Ireland. The latest in a long […]

The Economist magazine, 15 August, published an article, ‘What Britain can teach Democrats: How to stop extremists from making a party unelectable’, in which it refers to Militant in Britain – the predecessor of the […]

For united action and an end to policy based upon competition between plants in different locations! On 3 September 2026, the Volkswagen (VW) Supervisory Board voted unanimously in favour of drastic cost-cutting plans. Yet just […]

Twenty‑five years after the 11 September 2001 attacks—carried out by Al‑Qaeda, a reactionary organisation responsible for mass murder—a  Marxist analysis remains essential. We republish below a chapter on 9/11 from Peter Taaffe’s book, From Militant […]

A socialist programme is needed! Several heatwaves swept across Europe and Germany this summer. Whilst forest fires raged in France and Spain, amongst other places, temperatures in Germany were also above 40 degrees. According to […]

Polarization over the AfD … plays into the AfD’s hands Die Linke must finally open a class front! The election result in Saxony-Anhalt is a political earthquake that was long on the cards. It can […]

Three recent events show life’s harsh conditions for the working class and poor people in Egypt under President Sisi’s dictatorial regime – and show resistance to his regime will grow. Horrific crash exposes widespread child […]

Following the recent news regarding the death of the Norwegian monarch, King Harald V, the bourgeois media in the country has once again been working overtime to portray the late King as a benevolent figure. […]

At the end of April, a trial began in Stuttgart of Palestine solidarity activists who have become known as the ‘Ulm 5’. What is this case about? A year ago, five activists broke into the […]

This September, Germany is facing a political earthquake that has long been on the cards. In the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the right populist AfD is likely to emerge as the strongest […]

The following article is a contribution to the CWI discussion on the character of the Chinese regime, state and economy, and is based on an introduction by Tony Saunois to a plenary session at the […]

Insecurity has become a daily reality in Nigeria, getting worse year in year out. Little wonder it hardly creates any sense of shock even though there is dissatisfaction over the failure of the government to […]

The consequences of climate change are blasting us in the face. Britain is in its fifth heatwave this year, drought conditions are spreading and temperatures soaring, again. Wildfires are burning – stretching cut-back fire services, […]

Though couched in a diplomatic tone that leaves room for manipulation, the July 1st statement by the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) representative in Nigeria that over $8 billion, equal to 2% of the country’s GDP, […]

The following book review formed part of the discussion at a commission on Marxist philosophy, introduced by TU Senan, at the recent CWI summer school (CWI Summer School 2026 – a vibrant forum for Marxist […]

An interview with a socialist activist from India  The recent mass movement of youth against the policies of the Narendra Modi government in India was a key topic of discussion at the recent CWI Summer […]

A vibrant forum for Marxist discussion and debate The 2026 Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) Summer School opened on Thursday 30 July with a plenary discussion on “Revolution and Counter-Revolution in this Age of […]

Huge wildfires have meant that 100,000s of people have been evacuated in France, and tens of thousands more in Spain. Britain khas enter its fourth heatwave of the year; extreme heat earlier in the year […]

Lessons from the “Cockroach” youth movement against the Modi Regime On 26th July, when Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced his resignation, the youth and the masses celebrated the victory across the country. The mass movement, which […]

In late 2025, we published an article on the Socialist Party Scotland website titled Fractured World Economy Heading for a Crash? In it, we pointed to the various crisis factors that could trigger a new global capitalist […]

Ousmane Sonko is a central figure in Senegalese politics, known for his anti‑corruption stance, leadership of the PASTEF party, and his recent political rupture with President Bassirou Diomaye Faye. Below Leïla Messaoudi looks at the […]

Over recent months, a group of Marxists in China have engaged in discussions wit the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI). These comrades are exploring the history, theory and practical experience of Trotskyism and the […]

Among the state elections due to take place in Germany in September, two in eastern Germany are set to shake the republic to its core. According to opinion polls, the AfD is the leading party […]

To mark the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War – the bloodiest stage in the ten year-long Spanish revolution that began in 1931 – we are republishing two articles, by Hannah […]

With developments both within China and in its geopolitical role a source of debate among the left and wider working-class movement internationally, Philip Stott provides a contribution on China and the Marxist theory of the […]

In 2025, the Economist magazine named Portugal the “Economy of the Year”. According to the magazine, high growth rates and a lucrative stock market promise good investment opportunities for those with the necessary capital. But […]

The contradictions of Chilean capitalism Chilean politics is going through a moment of profound change. After decades of neoliberal predominance carried out by the former “Centre “coalition negotiating with the right, the country has experienced […]

Mass mobilisations needed to fight cuts by federal and state government! “The year is 2026. All over the world, right-wing and far-right parties are winning elections… all over the world? No! In Graz, a small […]

On 14 June, members of Socialist Students (England and Wales) attended a Youth and Student Anti-War Assembly in Cologne, Germany. Twelve organisations from eight countries across Europe took part, including socialist youth organisations, climate justice […]

There is practically no country on the American continent that is stable: Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, and Colombia — in all of them today there is great political and social instability, and the class […]

Below we republish a short archive article (first published in 2009) by Niall Mulholland of a play, A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine by Trevor Griffiths,  on the life and ideas of Thomas […]

Donald Trump’s recent tirades against “communists” during a rambling speech on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution are a reminder of how the political right seeks to rewrite history. While claiming the mantle of […]

In Britain in the run up to June 18, eyes were turned towards the Makerfield parliamentary by-election – transformed by Andy Burnham into a ‘referendum on Labour prime minister Keir Starmer’s leadership. Another by-election on […]

As Pakistan-administered Kashmir once again grinds to a halt under strikes and security crackdowns, the current unrest is best understood not as a sudden eruption, but as the latest chapter in a slow-building crisis of […]

The 20th National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) conference took place in London last Saturday. In the centenary year of the British 1926 General Strike, just days after Keir Starmer’s resignation as Labour prime minister, and […]

Our comrade Marie-José Douet — known as Dadou — passed away on May 13 at the age of 79. Her funeral service took place on May 26, just a month ago. Since her death, we […]

In Norway, hospitals are funded by the regional health authorities, while schools and care homes are funded by local councils. As of June 2026, the Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, AP) leads the national government. Local and […]

The photo-finish elections in Colombia and Peru, and their shift to the right, are the most recent tectonic political movements in the region, driven from the United States with the blessing of the “Godfather” of […]

Two years on from a ‘landslide’ general election victory, British Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer has resigned. Whether through contest or coronation, Andy Burnham is set to be Labour leader and Prime Minister by September […]

The following is a personal statement by Sascha Staničić regarding the allegations made by the right-wing media portal ‘Nius’:  On 22 June, the right-wing media portal ‘Nius’ and Julius Böhm published various articles on their […]

Once again slim hopes have risen that the death toll in West Asia’s current wars will, at least, lessen with the announcement of a 60-day extension of the shaky truce between the US and Iran.  As Gaza, and now Lebanon, has shown, a truce can lessen the numbers of dead and injured but not completely stop the killing and […]

During the last three weeks Albanian masses have taken to the streets in daily protests against a four-billion-dollar tourist project on their coastline. It is a mass protest of hundreds of thousands of people, in […]

This year marks the 90th anniversary of a wave of mass strikes in France, following the election of a Popular Front government. To mark the occasion, we publish an article written by PETER TAAFFE, which […]

Cologne’s swimming pool operator, Köln-Bäder GmbH, a subsidiary of Cologne’s council’s municipal services provider, Stadtwerke-Köln GmbH, has filed a motion for the extraordinary termination of employment of works council member, Martin Löber. The reason given for this termination is alleged working-hour fraud. Experts from ver.di (the public sector union) who have […]

Within days, the city of Belfast has been rocked by racist violence and pogroms against ethnic minorities. The vast majority of working-class people in the north are appalled by these events. Many older people in […]

And the lie of his anti-establishment rhetoric Javier Milei came to power in December 2023 promising to end the privileges of the “elite,” touting himself as a “growth specialist with and without money.” He delivered […]

Nikol Pashinyan has emerged victorious in Armenia’s parliamentary elections, securing a mandate that will shape the country’s geopolitical orientation in the coming years. The election took place amid growing tensions between Yerevan and Moscow. Pashinyan, […]

Popular self-organization, government crisis, and the challenges of a new stage of struggle Bolivia is experiencing one of the most intense and contradictory periods in its recent history. Less than a year after Rodrigo Paz […]

Belfast has been rocked by two nights of violence that that saw roads blocked, people driven from their homes and vehicles burned. The attacks were carried out by gangs who had been mobilised by calls […]

An interview with Sascha Staničić, member of the Executive Committee of Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (Sol – section of the CWI in Germany) about his candidacy for the national committee of Die Linke (the Left Party)  […]

The Scottish Parliament voted recently to demand from Westminster the powers to hold a second independence referendum. The 72 to 55 vote among MSPs was no surprise. This is the fourth Holyrood parliament in a […]

Poignantly, just hours after his beloved Arsenal won the league title, our friend and comrade Patrick ‘Pat’ Atkinson passed away on 18 May, aged 73. Tributes highlight Pat’s generosity, humour and warmth – “a lovely […]

Sixty years ago, the ‘Cultural Revolution’ began in China. Here we carry an edited version of an article written by the late Peter Taaffe for the February 1967 issue of the Militant newspaper (predecessor of […]

The death of 35‑year‑old Yves Sakila, a Congolese man living in Ireland, after being violently restrained by private security guards in Dublin has sparked outrage. The shocking footage, shared widely online, has exposed once again […]

Between May 15th-17th, representatives of over 30 revolutionary organisations – Trotskyist, Leninist and one anarcho-syndicalist – from around the world, met in Paris, France, at an ‘Internationalist’ meeting to discuss the world situation and major […]

The Independent Socialist Group stands in solidarity with workers at the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) in New York, where approximately 3,500 members of rail unions have taken strike action against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) […]

As expected, Labour suffered a crushing defeat at the election for the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) on 7 May. Labour won just nine seats out of 96 in a newly extended Senedd, down from 30 seats […]

The Tamil Nadu state election, held on 23rd April, shocked the entire state political establishment. The newly formed TVK (Tamiḻaga Vettri Kazhagam — Tamil Nadu Victory Party), led by Kollywood film star, Joseph Vijay, won 108 seats (35%). This […]

The results of the elections for the Scottish and Welsh parliaments and 5,000 English local council seats produced, as predicted, a slaughtering of the despised Labour Party. Reduced to just 17 MSPs out of 129 […]

‘The death of Trotsky: The true story of the plot to kill Stalin’s greatest enemy’, by Josh Ireland deals with Stalin’s vilification and hunting down of his most formidable political opponent, Leon Trotsky, the co-leader […]

2026 marks the centenary of Britain’s general strike. From 4-12 May 1926, workers tasted power, in what is the most important event yet in the history of the British working class. Ian Pattison describes events. socialistworld.net […]

“I do believe I’ll be having the honour of taking Cuba, I think I can do anything I want with it” proclaimed the autocratic Donald Trump in another of his imperial declarations. This followed his […]

Hotel and restaurant employees are walking off the job in Norway, and with good reason. The biggest owners of Norwegian hotel chains Stordalen, Thon, Ringnes, and others, have made billions in fortunes in the hotel […]

Paul Heron is a CWI supporter and lawyer, and a founder of the Public Interest Law Centre, in Britain. He has written on important case law and the workers’ movement, and the role of law […]

April 22nd marks the 156 year since the birth of Lenin in 1870. Below is an article previously published on socialistworld.net in defence of Lenin from capitalist attacks and Stalinist distortions, by Peter Taaffe. In […]

Having read the foreword to Peter Mertens’ book “Mutiny”, I was full of anticipation for the rest of the book. The leader of the Belgian Workers’ Party (Parti du Travail de Belgique / Partij van […]

The impunity with which US-Israel waged war on Iran, killed its supreme leader, preceded by the genocide in Gaza, has led to shock, disbelief and anger among the masses in the region and around the […]

The cynical attempt to manipulate the liberation aspirations of the masses in Iran in order to impose a new regime of repression, subservient to Washington’s dictates, has failed. The offensive has produced a catastrophe on […]

Barely a month was enough for the ultra-right government to launch great attacks on the Chilean workers and their families. From the first day of taking office, systematic attacks against the working class began. In […]

This week’s fuel protests in southern Ireland are just the first shocks to land in the country after Trump and Netanyahu unleashed hell on Iran. Motorways across the country and O’Connell Street in Dublin city […]

For millions of workers, there are bitter memories of the depths of the cost-of-living crisis. For many, it never ended. And so projections for a new round of inflation coming down the track will be […]

Three days, twenty-seven events, more than forty speakers – 2026 ‘Socialism Days’ After seven long years, a nationwide ‘Socialism Days’ event organised by Sol (Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität – CWI Germany) took place in Berlin once […]

A demonstration “Against war and xenophobia” took place in late March in Osaka city, Japan. Supporters of the CWI in Japan took part, including CWI comrades active in the General Union, which mobilised workers for […]

This April is the 110th anniversary of the 1916 Easter rising in Dublin and in other parts of Ireland. The defeat of the rebellion saw the summary trial and execution by the British state of […]

Hundreds of thousands of people took part in the anti-far right Together demonstration on 28 March in London. The driving force behind the mass turnout was a desire to show that far-right ideas and politics are […]

The devastating war launched by the Netanyahu and Trump regimes continues to increasingly devastate Iran, Lebanon, the Gulf States, the world economy, and world relations. It is now also provoking turmoil in the domestic social […]

The second round of the municipal elections confirms and amplifies the trends observed in the first round (read our statement): deep social anger, a massive rejection of austerity policies, and a political polarisation that is […]

By late March 2026, the US and Israeli war against Iran had evolved into the most dangerous Middle Eastern conflict in decades. What began with the Israeli assassination of Iran’s supreme leader on 28 February […]

The conflict that has raged for over three weeks in the Gulf, and continues as we go to press, is the third US war in the region since the end of the Cold War more […]

Working class people, the world over, are paying the price of Trump’s Iranian adventure. More precisely we are paying for Netanyahu’s war, as it looks, in part at least, as though Trump’s ego was goaded […]

Trump and Netanyahu are inflaming the Middle East, shockwaves are striking the global economy. The imperialist war declared on Iran and Lebanon is a blow to the security of the masses throughout the region and […]

At the beginning of this year, the world economy seemed to develop in a promising direction, according to some analysists. The IMF revised its forecast from October 2025 upwards and cited a “resilient growth”. However, […]

The war launched by the Trump/Netanyahu axis has plunged the world into its deepest state of turmoil since the 1973 oil crisis. It is a war aimed at recalibrating the relations in the Middle East […]

The onslaught against Iran, soon followed by Israel’s renewed war in Lebanon, has witnessed another round of lying and hypocrisy from the imperialist powers. For a second time in less than a year, Netanyahu and […]

On March 11, 2026, Hassan Taiwo Soweto, member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and spokesperson of #EndBadGovernance Movement Lagos, and Dele Frank (Arole Fela) are expected to appear before a magistrate court in Yaba, […]

For a socialist alternative to imperialism and capitalist war! The unleashing of the dogs of war once again on Iran by the rogue regimes of Trump and Netanyahu has opened the ‘gates of hell’ for the […]

The governments of Israel and the U.S. launched military attacks on Iran last week. The Netanyahu and Trump regimes, including Republican and Democratic Party leaderships, have blood on their hands, killing innocent civilians in another […]

Cambridge and Oxford university unions cancelled debates scheduled for the end of March involving Namal Rajapaksa, the son of former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa. Tamil Solidarity and various youth and student groups organised opposition […]

On 12th February, ten central trade unions announced one a day general strike in continuation of their struggle against new labour codes that completely undermine even the basic rights of workers. This is with the […]

The “Prince of Darkness” Peter Mandelson lobbied strongly to bring pollution to the Sperrin mountains of Co Tyrone, in Northern Ireland. This was Dalradian Gold’s proposed gold mine at Greencastle. There have been more objections […]

In another humiliating setback for dKeir Starmer’s Labour in Britain, High Court judges have ruled that the proscription of Palestine Action last year was ‘unlawful’. The proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation made […]

Keir Starmer started the new year with net approval ratings (-66 points) lower than any prime minister since polling records begun in the 1970s. The sordid revelations from the Epstein files, going to the heart […]

When she called a snap general election for the lower house parliament, Japan’s prime minister Takaichi Sanae said the voters had a choice, “a prime minister Takaichi, a prime minister Noda or even a prime […]

The first six of the Filton 24 to go on trial have walked free. The activists, who allegedly broke into and sabotaged an Elbit Systems factory near Bristol which produces weapons for the Israeli military, […]

Ugandan’s Yoweri Museveni had his 40-year rule extended in January 2026 through an election marred with irregularities, apathy and heavy repression of opposition, especially members of the National Unity Platform (NUP) led by activist Bobi […]

A national meeting of Sosialis Alternatif (SA) Malaysia, the CWI in Malaysia, was held from 16–18 January on Pangkor Island, off the coast of Perak in the Straits of Malacca. The discussions included several newly […]

‘Your Party Scotland’ was officially launched at a conference on 7/8 February in Dundee. Attended by around 250 members in person, with more taking part online, the conference was the first national opportunity for Your […]

Iran started the year with a mass uprising as its long-standing economic crisis collided with popular anger. While the scale of repression has intensified, the decisive question is whether resistance can develop the structures and […]

The escalating trade conflict between the United States and China is not simply a dispute between politicians or the result of misguided policies from the White House. It reflects deep strains inside global capitalism itself. […]

Amid the unrest following the recent mass protests in Iran, that were marked by brutal violence, a weeks’ long internet blackout, and ongoing arrest of those who spoke up, sections of the population have refused to […]

Once again, tens of thousands participated in a march through downtown Minneapolis on January 30th as part of a “shutdown” against ICE and state repression. Over 300 actions were planned across the country. This time, wrongly, there […]

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 […]

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.  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The MESEM (Vocational Education Centers) system in Turkey has recently received attention both within the country and abroad after the unlawful arrest of 16 TİP (Türkiye Workers Party) youth members from several different universities. It […]

Last month marked 10,000 days since the re-establishment of local government at Stormont buildings, Belfast, following the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Its failure to deliver social and economic improvements, let alone bridge the deep […]

On Sunday, December 14, 2025, the second round of presidential elections was held in Chile. The government candidate, Jeannette Jara, suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the far-right candidate, José Antonio Kast. Jara […]

The findings of the ‘Operation Kenova’ inquiry, released last week in Belfast, into some of the British state’s covert operations during the ‘Troubles’ in the north of Ireland (approximately from 1969 to 1998) are a […]

We are pleased to publish this extraordinary article by Trotsky’s former secretary, Rae Spiegel, later known as Raya Dunayevskaya. With thanks to CWI comrade, Wayne Scott, this is the first time the article has been […]

US and imperialist forces out of the Caribbean, Central and South America! US imperialism, headed by Donald Trump, has launched a military build up in the Caribbean not seen for decades. The deployment of the USS Gerald R Ford […]

The largest hunger strike on these islands since the 1981 Republican prisoners’ protest in the Maze prison in the north of Ireland is barely being registered by the mass media. The Filton hunger strikers are […]

Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Budget on 27 November re-emphasised the burning need for mass working-class opposition to Labour austerity. That need, increasingly acutely felt, was at the root of the explosion of enthusiasm for Jeremy Corbyn […]

A total of 177 Bangladeshi migrant workers at the Mediceram factory in Negeri Sembilan were summarily dismissed and forcibly sent home after they launched a strike demanding unpaid wages, the promised reimbursement of recruitment fees, […]

Our right to protest is under attack. Recent years have seen a whole number of measures introduced by governments in Britain meant to undermine our democratic right to fight back: the jailing of Just Stop […]

Donald Trump attacked the BBC in November 2025 over a Panorama television documentary that edited his January 6, 2021 speech in a way he claimed was misleading, calling the broadcaster “beyond corrupt” and threatening to […]

The formation of ‘Your Party’ was announced just five months ago. Now, thousands are preparing for its founding conference in Liverpool 29-30 November. The conference is likely to involve around 4,000 attendees, short of the […]

One hundred years ago, in November 1915, the rent strike battle in Glasgow was in full swing. This was an historic event that saw up to 20,000 tenants refusing to pay the increased rent imposed […]

White House clashes with Zelensky and European backers over The war in Ukraine has returned to the top of global headlines following US president Trump’s latest attempt to impose a peace plan on Ukraine president […]

A large proportion of the nearly 1,000 socialists at Socialism 2025 were young workers and students, many attending for the first time. The Socialism 2025 weekend, 15-16 November, in London brought together working-class campaigners, students […]

While the global temperature heats up and our television screens are filled with the natural disasters that come with it, world capitalist leaders have jetted off to Brazil, host of this year’s COP climate change […]

Widespread banditry, terrorism, and social unrest are direct consequences of failure of capitalism and pro-capitalist policies of successive governments For united, non-sectarian, multi-ethnic, multi-religion and democratically run defense committees in communities The Socialist Party of […]

James Connolly, the socialist revolutionary and workers’ leader executed after the 1916 Easter Rising, is widely commemorated across the Republic of Ireland with statues, a major railway station, a military barracks, and streets and other […]

Fifty years ago, on 11 November 1975, the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s reforming Labor government marked one of the most dramatic political crises in Australian history. For Marxists, this event exposed the limits […]

Today, 7 November, marks the 108th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. It is also known as the ‘October revolution’ because the Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd on October 25, 1917, according to the Julian calendar […]

The anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and far-right party of Geert Wilders, the Party for Freedom (PVV), suffered a severe blow in Dutch parliamentary elections on the 29th of October, falling back from 37 to 26 seats. Left parties failed […]

The declaration for a new party announced by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana began with a bang, with 800,000 signing up in support. Since then, of course, public divisions at the top have dampened some […]

“As things stand, there are enough bubbles that are set to burst within a year. When they do burst they will cause significant economic disruption. The fallout won’t lead to a 1929-style crisis, and it […]

Javier Milei, Argentina’s right wing ‘libertarian’ president won the country’s 2025 midterm elections, significantly strengthening his political position and ability to push forward with his reactionary economic policies. Hugo Rodriguez and Pedro Albornoz look at […]

In the new Romania of acute austerity, the government seems overwhelmed by inner division while locked in a conflict with the judiciary. At the same time, important student struggles have taken place, with mixed results. […]

There is growing and widespread dissatisfaction with capitalism worldwide. Economic models that dominated the post-WW2 decades — Keynesian social democracy and later neoliberal globalization — are seen as having run aground. The system today is […]

Catherine Connolly has won the 2025 Irish presidential election in a landslide victory. Her candidacy was supported by left and social democratic parties, the Greens and by Sinn Fein. Connolly secured  63.36%  of the vote. […]

Yesterday a judge in Belfast gave a ‘not guilty’ verdict regarding ‘Soldier F’,  a former parachute regiment solider who was accused of the murder of two civilians in Derry city, on January 30th 1972, in […]

Character, programme and methods of the new radical left This year has seen France plunged into one of the most serious political and social crises since the founding of the 5th Republic by Charles De […]

With characteristic hypocrisy and cynical opportunism, the far-right have pounced after  the alleged sickening sexual assault on a 10-year-old girl in Citywest. A man from the Citywest IPAS centre has been charged with this assault. […]

Keir Starmer’s Labour government is preparing yet more austerity in the Autumn Budget while Reform rises in the polls. But with the recent clashes at the summit of ‘Your Party’ and the published timetable for […]

Protests erupted across the Philippines over billions of dollars’ worth of state corruption in fraudulent flood control projects. On the 21st September, the 53rd anniversary of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s declaration of martial […]

A week is a long time in politics. The global headlines about Japan having its first woman prime minister, who happened to have played drums in a heavy metal band, to like pork buns, and […]

There is No Solution Without a Struggle for Fundamental, Socialist Change, Including Ending the Occupation, Reconstruction, and Social Justice Below is a guest article by Shahar Ben-Horin, posted on the website of Socialist Struggle Movement, […]

The presidential elections are in full swing in Ireland. Last week, one of the three candidates, Jim Gavin, backed by Fianna Fáil, a governing coalition party, along with Fine Gael, abandoned the race after it […]

Madagascar has been rocked by waves of protests, the largest of their kind on the island in over 15 years. Demonstrations began on 25 September, following the arrest on 19 September of two local politicians […]

The Israeli state’s capture and arrest of aid workers, peace campaigners, workers representatives and parliamentarians on the Global Sumud Flotilla has sparked a general strike across Italy. The flotilla vessels, which were aiming to break […]

Against the background of rising tensions and protests over the issue of asylum seekers being accommodated in hotels, urgent discussion needs to take place in the workers’ movement to put forward a fighting policy of […]

A big step forward for the solidarity movement in Germany On 27 September, around 100,000 people took to the streets in Berlin in solidarity with the people of Gaza. This is the largest protest to […]

After a week of public disagreement between the two left MPs – Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana – who launched the call for ‘Your Party’, the show is back on the road. It is now […]

Since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, the HTS (Hai’at Rahrir ash Sham – Committee for the Liberation of the Levant) under Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, has been […]

On 27 September, the largest mass demonstration to date in Germany calling for solidarity with the people of Gaza and the West Bank and against occupation, displacement and war by the Israeli government could take […]

The Italian working class are beginning to take centre stage in the fight for the end to the brutal genocide inflicted on the people of Gaza by the Israeli state. In the middle of August […]

Nepal has now joined the long list of developing nations revolting against a rotten and corrupt ruling elite. The immediate trigger was the government’s decision to ban 26 social media platforms on Thursday, 4 September. […]

The following statement by Gauche Révolutionnaire (Revolutionary Left- CWI France) is in response to the 18 September strike action by French workers against the budget plans of the government of President Emmanuel Macron. The budget […]

Workers’ movement must urgently respond! The ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march in London on 13 September sounds a warning that the workers’ movement must urgently respond to. Police estimate that 110,000 took to the streets in […]

In March 2020, Ludovic Orban of the National Liberal Party (PNL) hilariously celebrated his anti-worker government reaching the “ripe age of three months”. The next day the government fell. At the beginning of this summer, […]

The following article by Michael Lenin from the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) looks at the explosive events in Nepal, which saw mass youth protests lead to the fall of the Prime Minisiter, Sharma Oli. […]

The focus should be against the capitalist system! The following article by United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) member, Prasad Welikumbura, looks the politics of Charlie Kirk, the right wing demagogue who was killed by […]

The month marked the 85th anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s assassination on 21st of August 1940.  Trotsky, alongside Lenin, was a central figure in the October 1917 Russian Revolution. After Stalin’s counterrevolution destroyed the last vestiges […]

Socialistworld.net has received the following urgent solidary appeal from worker activists in Iran. We ask our readers to urgently raise the case of Sharifeh Mohammadi at union branches and other labour movement meetings. Socialistworld.net Dear […]

After the arrest of Istanbul’s popular mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, Turkey was shaken by a courageous mass movement that lasted for weeks.  Heroic mass movements of workers and […]

The following document on Asia was presented to the 14th World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International, as background information. The congress convened in Berlin, Germany, from 27 to 31 July 2025. Delegates attended […]

The following thesis on perspectives for European capitalism was agreed at the 14th World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International, which convened in Berlin, Germany, from 27 to 31 July 2025. Delegates attended in […]

The recent summit between President Trump and President Putin, held in Alaska under the guise of “peace diplomacy,” and the hurriedly convened meeting of Ukraine leader, Vladimir Zelensky, and leading European powers at the White […]

MARTIN POWELL-DAVIES reviews a recent book by Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) member Pete Dickenson that gives a comprehensive socialist solution to capitalism’s environmental destruction of the planet. Planning For The Planet – How […]

“Marxists are always optimistic” – this sentence was quoted at the end of July at a rally in honour of the leading CWI comrade, Peter Taaffe, who died a few months ago. Over a hundred […]

Socialist Party Scotland and our forerunner, Militant, have a rich history of struggle within the labour and trade union movement, tracing our roots back to the early days of Trotsky’s International Left Opposition against Stalinism. […]

In recent years, the Sahel region of West Africa, stretching from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to parts of Chad and Guinea, has witnessed a growing wave of anti-imperialist sentiment which has been expressed through […]

Mass protests broke out in Luanda, the capital city of Angola, on 28 July, in one of the latest popular protests in Africa against poverty and oppression. At the behest of the International Monetary Fund, […]

Over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been massacred queuing for food in the past weeks. Television screens are filled with images of children starving and malnourished, hundreds of whom are hospitalised each day, dozens dying. […]

The 14th World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) convened from July 27 to 31, 2025, in Berlin, bringing together delegates, ex-officio representatives, and international visitors from across the globe. There were […]

Hiroshima, 6 August 1945, 8:00 am. The ‘all clear’ sounded, signalling the end of an air raid by US bombers. Workers and school children left their homes, putting out fires, clearing damage and going to […]

In one week, more than 700,000 people have signed up to the yourparty.uk website to support Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s initiative to build a new left party. The party doesn’t yet exist, and so there is […]

Trump’s second presidency has brought new waves of instability to the world economy, not least his tariff campaign. Related to this is the rivalry between a declining US imperialism and a rising China that will […]

On 21 July over one thousand trade unionists – on Zoom and via a live feed – met to discuss the fight for a new workers’ party. The meeting arose from a petition for trade […]

Former left Labour Westminster MP Zarah Sultana’s announcement that she intends to co-lead a new party with former Left Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has placed even more pressure on already stress-fractured Green Parties in […]

 Three years after the election of left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro as President of Colombia, the country is in crisis. Following the failure of negotiations with the ELN guerrilla group, the assassination attempt of right-wing presidential […]

Plans have emerged for the forced displacement of all inhabitants of Gaza into a camp built on the ruins of Rafah. The proposal, which is supported by US president Trump as a step towards forced […]

2024 was the hottest year on record. The last 10 years have been the 10 hottest years on record. It has now been 48 years since the earth had a colder than average year. Almost […]

The situation in Serbia is still critical after another huge anti-government protest on 28 June. Around 300,000 people again gathered in Belgrade from all over the country to show solidarity with the student movement. The […]

Just a year into Labour prime minister Keir Starmer’s rule in Britain and his ‘huge parliamentary majority’ has fallen apart. Elected with the lowest share of the electorate of any government since universal suffrage was […]

Air pollution in the UK kills more than 500 people a week, a report by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has estimated. The UK loses £500 million a week to ill health, NHS care and loss […]

The ceasefire in the Israel–Iran war has brought after twelve days an end, for now, to the aerial bombing offensive that killed hundreds of Iranian civilians, as well as to the counter-offensive in which missile […]

Finally, Justice Emeka Nwite was available yesterday, June 25, to preside over the treason trial of Adaramoye Michael Lenin and ten others, after having been absent in court three times previously since last November. However, there […]

Only a Workers’ and Poor People’s Government Armed with a Socialist Programme Can Usher in a New Dawn In recent years, the Sahel region of West Africa, stretching from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to […]

A glance at the news headlines shows: We are living in turbulent times of multiple capitalist crises. Wars in the Middle East and the Ukraine, environmental destruction, right-wing populist governments and, above all, an economic […]

A new video commemorating the life and ideas of Peter Taaffe — international Trotskyist theoretician and lifelong fighter for socialism — is now available to watch online. The 18-minute film, produced following Peter’s death in April 2025, features […]

On June 21st, President Donald Trump ordered attacks on three Iranian nuclear sites. The strikes included the use of B2 bombers, dropping six 30,000-pound bombs, along with missile launches from submarines. This constitutes an act of […]

Trump’s decision to join in the Israeli state’s bombing war on Iran – fundamentally in the pursuit of regional dominance by US imperialism alongside Israeli capitalism and other Western imperialisms – clearly marks a new turning […]

On June 12, protests were held in a few states across the country as a continuation of an expression by the working masses and youth of their rejection of the anti-poor capitalist policies of the […]

Stop the war of deception, bring down the Israeli death government ! Netanyahu and Trump’s arrogant campaign for regime change in Iran is expanding the scale of the catastrophe ! Hundreds killed in Iran, escalation […]

President Trump ordered the US National Guard and Marines to the streets of Los Angeles to counter protests against the deportation of immigrant workers and their families. This is a major escalation of violent action […]

On 1 June 2025, Poles elected a new president. To the surprise of many, the winner was Karol Nawrocki, a previously unknown and unrecognisable figure. He received 50.89% of the vote in the second round, […]

The county Antrim town of Ballymena has witnessed two nights of serious rioting, with targeted attacks against immigrants and ethnic minorities. Immigrants were forced out of their homes. Terrified ethnic minorities have resorted to putting […]

In most countries, following the collapse of Stalinism in 1989-91, the working class is still without its own mass political organisations. Syriza and other ‘new left formations’ were initial attempts at filling that void but […]

Truck drivers in Iran have been on strike since 22 May. Beginning in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, the strike has spread to more than 150 cities in the days since. According to […]

Gaza was put under a complete blockade by the Israeli government for over two months up to 19 May. No food, medicine or even water was allowed to enter the territory, resulting in the deaths […]

#ENDBADGOVERNANCE MOVEMENT, LAGOS STATE, PRESS STATEMENT A REVIEW OF TWO YEARS OF PRESIDENT TINUBU’S GOVERNMENT OF HUNGER, HARDSHIP AND PAIN AND THE WAY FORWARD FOR THE NIGERIAN MASSES This press conference  has been convened to commemorate the […]

Nicușor-Daniel Dan, the mayor of Bucharest and founder of the neo-liberal USR (Save Romania Union) party, won the second round of the Romanian presidential elections, marking the end of a six-month period full of political […]

Four months into the second Donald Trump presidency, larger protests against Trump’s attacks on immigrants, women, and the LGBTQ+ community are developing. Trump’s rapid-fire executive actions are meant to intimidate and spread fear. People across […]

Recent criticism of Israel for the suffering inflicted on the people of Gaza, from Keir Starmer and foreign secretary David Lammy is pure hypocrisy, typical of the British ruling capitalist class they both represent. Capitalist […]

The British Labour party suffered a humiliating defeat in the 1 May local elections, exposing the deep unpopularity of the Keir Starmer government. But far from cutting across electoral support for Nigel Farage’s right-populist Reform […]

The Met Police have charged Kneecap rap group member, Liam Ó hAnnaidh, better known as Mo Chara, with terror offences after videos surfaced seeming to show him with a Hezbollah flag at a gig in […]

On 18 May, up to half a million people marched against the slaughter in Gaza and the starvation policy imposed on the Strip by the right wing Israeli government. Days later, the UK Labour government […]

‘Peter’s last meeting’ was the most special. Linda, Katie, Nancy and the rest of his family, our comrades and friends, put together a day that will never be forgotten by those of us who had […]

Belfast is world-renowned for its shipbuilding given the most famous ship in history, the Titanic, was built in the city. Less known is its role as a pioneer in aircraft manufacture. In 1908, Eustace and […]

At many times since the start of the war on Gaza it has seemed that the situation in the strip couldn’t become much worse. But following the Israeli government’s renewal of bombardments in early March […]

A supposedly ‘historic’ trade deal between the US and UK was signed on 8 May, the first the US had agreed with any country following the chaos unleashed by Trump’s sweeping tariffs in April. Many […]

A wage agreement between the main trade union federation in Norway, the LO, and NHO (the employers’ organization, the NHO, was announced by both parties on Tuesday, April 1st 2025. They said that the framework […]

The Australian Labor Party has won a landslide election victory. The opposition Coalition has slumped to the lowest proportion of seats it’s ever held since the launch of the Liberal Party. In a country where […]

Commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of ‘victory in Europe’ (VE) are taking place today, with establishment dignitaries saluting veteran service men and women who liberated Europe from the clutches of fascism. However, the official ceremonies […]

Today marks 80 years since VE Day – or Victory in Europe Day – when fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe came to an end. The Second World War saw modern capitalist technique guarantee death […]

Canada’s federal election results, on 28th of April, illustrated the polarisation of political ideologies that is continuing to unfold in society. The crisis of capitalism is creating an increased cost of living, a lack of […]

In a historically unprecedented development, today the Christian Democratic candidate Friedrich Merz was unexpectedly not elected Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, in the first ballot for the position. This is the first time […]

Braving the rain – and despite all of the travel restrictions imposed in Istanbul – the May Day demonstration in Kadikoy, organised by trade union confederations DISK and KESK and professional associations, brought together tens […]

This week, largescale commemorations took place in Vietnam to mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, known in Vietnam as Reunification Day. North Vietnam forces captured the capital of South Vietnam, on 30 April 1975. As […]

Originally published in Socialism Today No. 286, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) Chinese company DeepSeek launched its generative AI ‘r1 model’ in January. Run and primarily funded by Liang Wenfeng, a […]

Donald Trump’s policies purportedly aimed at “Make America Great Again” have thrown the world into turmoil. It is an “America First” agenda which is characterized by protectionism, anti-immigration measures and transactional diplomacy. This is to […]

On March 28th, a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar. The epicenter was located in the border area between Sagaing Region and Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city. The earthquake was the strongest to hit Myanmar since 1912. […]

Once again, the people of Gaza are being bombed, shot and starved. Israel has imposed a complete blockade of water, food, electricity, and medical supplies. All humanitarian aid is withheld to Gaza. The World Food […]

On March 23, 2020, Britain’s first lockdown in response to the global Covid pandemic began. By the end of the year, death figures in Britain were the worst in Europe. By the end of the […]

On Saturday 5 April, members of Nakliyat-Is (affiliated to Revolutionary Workers’ Union Confederation, DISK) organised a protest outside McDonalds in Bakirkoy, Istanbul.  Union members protested Havi Logistics, the multinational company that supplies products to McDonalds […]

Trump’s 2nd April “Liberation Day” speech was a turning point, as it launched an open offensive to break capitalist globalisation in its current form. This was not, as Trump falsely claims, in the interests of US […]

After the arrest of Istanbul’s popular mayor and President Erdogan’s main political rival, Ekrem Imamoglu from the Republican People’s Party (CHP), students have been organising mass protests and boycotts around the country, mainly in Istanbul […]

This is a government focused on serving its capitalist masters. That was one clear message from Labour’s Spring Statement. The second is that the working class must organise to defy the expectation that it will […]

“The National People’s Power (NPP) government coalition won an absolute majority in the recent parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka. The seats of the traditional parties in the regions of the north-east of the Tamil speaking […]

From March 14th to March 16th, Sosialis Alternatif (Socialist Alternative – CWI Malaysia) successfully held a national meeting. This meeting discussed global and local political perspectives, in depth, and will provide clarity of direction in […]

A discussion has emerged in society about the nature of the National People’s Power (NPP) government, formed under the leadership of Anura Kumara Dissanayake. There was an old saying in Sri Lanka about how a […]

Mass protests have erupted across Israel, with over 100,000 people demonstrating in Tel Aviv and other cities on 22 March. Protesters blocked highways, surrounded the Israeli parliament in a makeshift encampment and endured beatings by […]

Taking place in a ‘new era’ of unprecedented political volatility and turmoil, epitomised by Trump’s second presidency, 290 attended the Socialist Party’s three-day congress in Coventry, 15-17 March 2025. “The most important meeting of the […]

The biggest protest in Serbian history happened on 15th March in the capital Belgrade. The upper estimate is 800,000 people; the entire population of Serbia is less than seven million. It was a culmination of […]

End the attacks on democratic rights!  Fight the cost-of-living crisis and kick out Erdogan! Fight for a working-class socialist alternative! The following is the text of a leaflet distributed by Socialist Party (CWI England & […]

The national congress of the CWI in England & Wales (Socialist Party) took place from 15th-17th March, eight weeks after Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president for the second time. TONY SAUNOIS, secretary of the […]

Keir Starmer, Britain’s Prime Minister, is everyday revealing the extent to which he is determined to govern in the interests of the capitalist bosses. His party, the Labour Party, was founded by the trade unions […]

After four decades of brutal conflict, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, has called on the organisation to lay down its arms and dissolve. His speech, delivered both in Kurdish […]

If anyone had doubts about the second Donald Trump administration unravelling the so-called ‘world order’, they will have had a sobering experience over the last few weeks. Trump has ditched the normal niceties of international […]

There has been a litany of incidents of horrific violence against women and girls in Britain in recent years. The scale of misogyny in London’s Metropolitan Police is on full view following the jailing of […]

Unions are more popular than the two corporate parties in the USA – the Republicans and Democrats. The labor movement has consistently received significantly more support from the American public than either the Republican and Democratic parties in […]

With the announcement that energy bills for a ‘typical’ household in Britain will rise by £111 a year from April, a 6.4% increase, millions of working-class families will despair at further increasing pressure on household […]

The November 2024 US election results rattled the status quo of capitalist politics, despite a billionaire being elected President and the two corporate parties retaining their duopoly over the electoral system for the time being. […]

Keir Starmer’s New Labour government has only reached its eighth month in office but the cracks are beginning to show around numerous issues, including oil field licensing, foreign policy, and Starmer’s increasingly strident anti-migrant rhetoric. […]

Germany goes to the polls on 23 February for elections to the Bundestag (parliament) after the so-called ‘traffic light coalition’ (comprised of social democrats, Greens and liberals) collapsed in November. Germany is one of the […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s regime in Turkey has stepped up their crackdown on all opposition activists, targeting trade unionists, socialists, journalists, and Kurdish activists. Between 14 and 18 February, over 282 people have been arrested. […]

Starmer offers to act as a “bridge” between US and Europe as No trust in Trump, Starmer or any of the capitalist warmongers! Fight for a socialist alternative to capitalism and war! The British prime […]

Trump’s ‘shock and awe’ offensive continues, nationally and internationally. The aim is to show his supporters that he is acting decisively, as one decision or announcement after another is made public.  And to throw Trump’s […]

Before the 2024 general election in Britain the Labour Party was clear before taking office about its aim of boosting investment – particularly in ‘infrastructure’ such as housing – while restricting day-to-day public spending. The […]

Donald Trump’s return to power has shocked and angered millions in the US and internationally. Completely understandably, there is great concern about what this will mean for the working class including immigrants and undocumented workers […]

Most of the capitalist media worldwide reacted with astonishment and condemnation to US president Trump’s monstrous assertion that he plans to oversee an expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza strip, with the US taking ownership […]

In August, last year, tens of thousands of construction workers marched through capital cities across Australia. The mass mobilisation was in response to unprecedented moves by the federal Labor Government to seize control of the […]

One year ago, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) returned to power sharing at the Northern Ireland Stormont Assembly under the pressure of a mounting industrial crisis which culminated in the January 18th public sector strike. […]

Socialist Party Scotland condemns the threats from Aberdeen City Council to make millions in cuts on the backs of hard working council employees. Their proposals are to slash the working week of council staff while […]

One million species are threatened with extinction, soils are becoming infertile, and water sources are drying up, creating the possibility of a major breakdown of the ecosystem, with famines and droughts becoming more and more […]

Coming up to the 46th anniversary of its establishment, Iran’s theocratic regime is facing several crises, internally and externally. In this article, we will try to analyse how these crises are related and thus affecting […]

Last week, the Norwegian two party minority coalition government collapsed, according to the Financial Times (London), “over whether Norway should keep more of its electricity for itself to lower prices or export it to the […]

The situation in Serbia has reached the boiling point, after three months of student protests demanding justice for the fifteen victims of the collapsed roof at the railway station in the city of Novi Sad […]

Six thousand Egyptian T&C Garments workers went on strike on 16th January. They demanded a 50% increase in annual bonus to cope with rising prices; a raise in meal allowances and their payment during Ramadan […]

It was apt that Sir Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, staged his Labour government’s December ‘relaunch’ at Pinewood Studios, where the old comedy ‘Carry On’ movies were filmed. Starmer was hoping to breathe new […]

Trump is back in the White House. Much of the world is gripped by fear about what his second term will mean, as are millions in America – particularly migrants, LGBTQ+ people, and others likely […]

The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was marked by televised ceremonies at the mass death camp and statements from governments and politicians. People everywhere express revulsion and condemnation of the murderous actions of […]

Farce and grim comedy overshadowed last week’s announcement of a programme for government in southern Ireland, following November’s Dáil [parliament] elections. The incoming government will once again see right wing Fine Gael coalescing with right […]

But faces huge economic problems and outside powers’ interference Jubilation among big sections of the population of Syria followed the quick demise of the Basha al Assad regime in early December 2024. After twelve years […]

Interview with Clare Bayler, from Independent Socialist Group. Donald Trump is being inaugurated on 20 January. Lots of people in Britain are repulsed by his reactionary rhetoric and find it hard to understand what led […]

But how to end siege of Gaza and occupation of all Palestinian territories? Emotions ran high across the world at the news that a ceasefire deal was being agreed for Gaza. But alongside that wave […]

“This is not a Liz Truss moment”, declared a former director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), referring to the brief period of the Tory prime minister Liz Truss’s time in office, as the pound […]

2025 began where 2024 ended; with collapsing support for the Labour Party in Scotland and across the UK. The full reality of Starmer and Reeves’ betrayal of their albeit threadbare promises in opposition has been […]

2024 saw the historic defeat of the once-most successful capitalist party in the world. The Tory Party vote at the general election collapsed, leading to the worst result in its 200-year history and its lowest-ever […]

Still dazed and disoriented from July’s UK general election humiliation, the Tories have a new leader, Kemi Badenoch – product of yet another leadership election fiasco. Surrounding her is a Conservative and Unionist Party – […]

Three police forces are found to have spied on Northern Ireland journalists Trevor Birney, Barry McCaffrey and Vincent Kearney. The same police spied on an un-named Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman employee. The police forces were […]

The CWI was greatly saddened to learn of the passing of comrade Sughran Khaskheli, from Sindh, in Pakistan, who died unexpectedly on 21 December. We extend condolences to Sughran Khaskheli’s family and friends, and to […]

The Westminster Labour government has approved the takeover of Royal Mail by EP group whose majority shareholder is multi-billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, with a personal wealth said to be over £9 billion.  The Communication Workers Union […]

,The disgraceful decision by Keir Starmer’s UK Labour government to cut the £300 winter fuel allowance for pensioners, except for those on the state pension who are entitled to pension credits, provoked a storm of […]

In Goodbye to Russia, Sarah Rainsford covers her two decades based in Moscow as a reporter for the BBC as well as an earlier period in St Petersburg as a student and an English teacher. […]

As we go to press, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) announced their withdrawal from the discussions to form a new government coalition in Romania, citing the lack of willingness of the neoliberal Save Romania Union […]

A roof at the train station collapsed in the city of Novi Sad in Serbia on a busy November morning, killing 15 people. It collapsed two months after a ‘reconstruction’ job where tonnes of new […]

Thirty years ago, the inspirational movement of the South African masses brought an end to the horrific apartheid regime, the process concluding with elections in April 1994. The Black majority was finally able to vote, […]

Following the Dáil [parliament of the Irish republic] elections of 29 November, government formation talks continue. While there is no doubt that the two main traditional ruling parties of Irish capitalism, Fianna Fáil and Fine […]

But independent workers’ organisation needed to struggle for socialist democracy Millions of Syrian people reacted with astonishment and joy at news that the Assad family’s five-decade long despotic regime had collapsed. President Bashir al-Assad, and […]

It is often a paradox of war that as the end begins to loom in the distance, the ground fighting intensifies. With the election of Donald Trump to the White House, the war in Ukraine, […]

Three short months and then it’s gone! President Emmanuel Macron only managed to keep in place his stopgap, appointed prime minister, Michel Barnier, and his government, for only three months. His roadmap was clear: to […]

The management team of Germany’s largest industrial group has proclaimed a turning point in operations. Wage cuts, mass layoffs and factory closures are on the table. What to do now? The Volkswagen Group may be […]

Relief swept across Lebanon when a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect on Wednesday 27 November. Thousands of displaced people headed back to their homes in south Lebanon, with many finding them destroyed or […]

“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; […]

Located between Morocco and Mauritania, Western Sahara is the last African territory whose post-colonial status has not yet been ‘settled’. At the end of 2020, Trump recognised Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, after Mohamed VI […]

Friday’s Dáil [parliament] election brings to a close a short and dismal campaign. Outgoing Fine Gael Taoiseach [prime minister], Simon Harris, has managed to demolish Fine Gael’s polling lead in a mere three weeks. The […]

The election victory of Donald Trump opens a new era internationally, and domestically in the United States. This election win is not merely a changing of the guard at the White House. Although the US […]

Following the Scottish government’s announcement in January that more than 1,000 funded university places for Scottish students would be cut, the Herald newspaper has unearthed several ominous findings about the funding gap widening in Scottish […]

Protests have rocked Mozambique since ‘preliminary’ results of presidential and legislative elections held on 9 October declared the ruling Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) the winner. Mozambique can be added to the growing rollcall of neocolonial […]

Donald Trump has been elected again, this time as the candidate with the most votes. Millions of people in the US and worldwide are looking on in trepidation as he announces a series of ultra-right […]

Lynn Walsh died on November 15th aged seventy-nine. Born and brought up in the south of England, he began studying at Sussex University in 1964. Lynn soon joined our small but growing group of revolutionary […]

The rise of China – now the major economic and geopolitical challenger to US imperialism – plays a defining role in world relations today.  The Committee for a Workers’ International has described China as a peculiar […]

The Scottish government have announced another delay in their much talked about National Care Service amid overwhelming opposition from care workers, trade unions and local authorities. In this article written before the announcement, Chris Sermanni, […]

Sri Lanka’s general election, held on 14 November, marked a breaking-point in the country’s political history. The National People’s Power (NPP) secured an extraordinary 159 seats, achieving a two-thirds majority in Parliament. This result shocked […]

The International Secretariat of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) was very saddened to hear the news of the death of Lynn Walsh, who passed away late last Friday. For many years Lynn was […]

Hundreds of working-class activists, trade unionists and students poured into the workshops and rallies of Socialism 2024, held in central London, on 9-10 November to discuss how a fighting socialist opposition to Labour leader and […]

“It’s like being in a disaster movie”, was the way that one person put it when asked how he felt about the recent wave of floods that have decimated large areas of Spain’s eastern coastline near Valencia. […]

Scotland continues to be the drugs death capital of Europe for the sixth year in a row. An estimated 1,172 people lost their lives due to drugs last year.  The figure might be the second […]

These are days of unconsolable mourning and righteous anger in València. Accompanied by shouts of “murderer”, the king and queen of Spain were pelted with mud when they visited the area and on the same […]

Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election early this morning (6 November). Once again, the Democratic Party’s pro-corporate agenda failed to win enough votes to stop Trump, the right, and far […]

The victory of Trump and his refashioned Republican party clearly opens new chapters in both US and world history. For many in a polarised US this victory of right populism will strike more than a […]

Below is the text of a press conference addressed by the #Endbadgovernance movement, Lagos State Chapter, on Wednesday 6 November 2024 at the International Press Centre (IPC), Ogba, to respond to the discontinuation of suit […]

On October 26th and 27th elections took place in Chile for regional governors and Cores (Deputies) for the regional governments and mayors and councilors for the municipal governments. The elections were held in the middle […]

On Friday, 1st November 2024, the Nigerian government arraigned 76 protesters, including 32 minors aged between 14 and 17, for ‘terrorism and treason’ at a Federal High Court in Abuja and January 24, 2025 was […]

Recently, DNB, a bank in Norway with both private and state ownership, reported quarterly earnings of NOK 15.2 billion (around £1 billion sterling), attributed largely to significant increases in mortgage repayments for workers and pensioners. […]

Months of power cuts and rising prices are undermining Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi. His government is under growing pressure from all sides. In July, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly complained, “No one expected the heatwaves […]

World relations between imperialist and capitalist powers are in an unprecedented state of flux and turmoil. The unipolar world dominated by US imperialism that briefly existed following the collapse of the former USSR in 1991 […]

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 […]

The day after the article below by a leader of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) was published, the Nigeria Labour Congress finally issued a statement entitled ‘NIGERIA’S ECONOMIC MESS AND IMF’S DENIAL: “ESAU’S HANDS BUT […]

Working-class people have every reason to despise and oppose the US Democratic Party and its capitalist agenda, but Trump and Vance are no alternative for us. Many working-class people are rightly disgusted by Trump, both […]

After years of riding high in the polls, Sinn Féin [‘Ourselves Alone’ – a republican party historically linked to the Provisional Irish Republican Army] are mired in a deep crisis. Just a few weeks from […]

President Macron’s party was beaten in the European Elections in France. It was an anti-Macron referendum that resulted in a victory for the far right Le Pen’s party Rassemblement National (RN) in an election with […]

“Things will get worse before they get better.” “The Tories left an even bigger mess than we realised.” “There’s a £22 billion black hole” – or is that £40 billion now? How many more ways […]

Alan Hardman was the first printer of the Militant (the predecessor newspaper of Socialist – weekly of the Socialist Party England & Wales (CWI)) and produced hundreds of political cartoons for publication in our party […]

For the first time in Sri Lanka’s history, the country finds itself under the leadership of a president—Anura Kumara Dissanayake—who hails from a party with a left-leaning background. However, despite the media’s portrayal of him […]

Today, in the early afternoon, twenty two EndBadGovernance protesters arrested for marking the murder of EndSARS protesters were released by the police. The #EndSARS struggle of October 2020 is a watershed in the history of Nigeria. […]

Brutal wars have repeatedly been carried out by Israeli military forces on Gaza since a ruthless blockade was imposed on that strip of land in 2007. Each one brought terrible death and destruction but the […]

The New Popular Front (NPF) received the most seats in the recent parliamentary elections in France, 182 out of the 577 total in the National Assembly. Standing on a programme of reducing the pension age […]

The 2024 hurricane season in the United States and North America has entered the top five worst before it’s even over. Hurricane Milton ranks just behind the 2005 hurricane season which devastated New Orleans and […]

What do you make of Keir Starmer’s first 100 days in office, which came to an end on 12 October? His Labour Party had a +6 ‘net favourability’ rating upon taking office. 90 days in […]

Though the establishment parties somehow survived the Aragalaya (The Struggle) in 2022, they were never able to win back the full trust of the masses. The ruling Rajapaksa family then stepped back from governmental positions […]

For years now it has been apparent that Norwegian Air Shuttle has been using anti-union and union-busting tactics. In the pre-pandemic years the Air Shuttle bosses wanted a name list of Swedish pilots which the […]

The war in Ukraine catapulted to the top of the news on 6 August when Ukrainian forces launched an unexpected assault over the border into the Kursk region of Russia. They rapidly took over 400 […]

On Saturday 5 October 2024, the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) took part in the biggest anti-war demonstration since the first months of the onslaught on Gaza, marching on 10 Downing Street, the New […]

The Samson and Goliath cranes in Belfast shipyard continue to dominate the city’s skyline but workers in the shipbuilding sector once again face an insecure future. For more than 160 the Harland & Wolff has […]

Working-class people in the US need an alternative to the two pro-corporate political parties. We have to build opposition to the Biden/Harris and Trump administrations’ support for the war in Gaza, the cost-of-living-crisis, and attacks […]

Lough Neagh is a freshwater lake in Northern Ireland and is the largest lake on the island of Ireland and in the United Kingdom. According to Northern Ireland Water, it supplies 40.7% of Northern Ireland’s drinking water. Lough Neagh is also home […]

The right-wing Israeli government has set about turning parts of Lebanon into rubble, as it has already done in Gaza following its decision to escalate its war against Hezbollah to a much higher level.  The […]

Steelworkers in Community and GMB unions  in Wales are awaiting the results of a vote on whether to accept a settlement with Tata Steel. Unite the Union representatives decided that the terms were not good […]

The contrast between the insurgent mood that marked the run-up to September 18 2014 and the prospects for Scottish independence today, on the face of it, could not be more different. ‘Indyref 1’ was an […]

Election years in the United States are often intense. To make it seem like voting is the only way to make a difference, capitalists and the media create drama and attention-grabbing headlines. Slogans like “This […]

Resist racist propaganda and the restriction of democratic rights The terrorist attack that took place last week in Solingen, Germany, is shocking. Three people were killed at a town festival and eight were injured, some […]

On Tuesday 27 August 2024 the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) held a press conference at the International Press Centre (IPC) Ogba, Lagos, over the arrest and continued detention without trial of the YRC National Coordinator, […]

The Israeli state’s onslaught on Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip continues despite international condemnation, massive protests across the world and the unimaginable suffering of those trapped by the IDF’s siege. With the death toll […]

Despite two years of negotiations, nine rounds of talks, extended deadlines, last-minute pleas and much hand-wringing the World Health Assembly failed to agree a new pandemic treaty on 27 May. It was meant to ensure […]

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 […]

After over a week of horrific violent racist and Islamophobic attacks, huge numbers took to the streets in counter-protests on 7 August. Millions of Black and Asian people, especially Muslims, have been living in fear. […]

Following the death of the former president of the Islamic Republic of Iran in a helicopter crash on May 19th, this year, the second round of voting to choose his successor took place in early […]

Egyptians expect intense summer heat in June and July but this year also had to endure daily three-hour power cuts. Fridges, air-conditioners, water pumping, lighting and electrical equipment stopped as indoor temperatures rose. People were […]

Tens of thousands of anti-racist counter-protesters took to the streets over the last week across Britain and the North of Ireland in response to a wave of attacks against immigrants by far right mobs. On […]

On August 8th, members of Sol (CWI Germany) in Berlin gathered in front of the Nigerian embassy to protest for the immediate release of Adaramoye Michael, Babatunde Oluajo and Mosiu Sodiq. During protests against the […]

Socialist activists in Ireland and Britain protested at Nigerian embassies in Dublin and London this week demanding the immediate release of local youth leaders and CWI comrades Babatunde Oluajo and Adaramoye Michael from police detention […]

For working class unity not division! Horrific scenes played out at the weekend (3-4 August) in Britain as hundreds of people gathered outside hotels housing asylum seekers in Rotherham and Hull, throwing bricks and bottles, […]

The workers at the Bundesanzeiger publishing house in Cologne have been on strike for more than 70 days. They are fighting for a collective agreement that has not yet been granted to them, and what’s […]

Adaramoye Michael (‘Michael Lenin’), National Coordinator of Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) and National Mobilisation Officer of Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has been abducted by the Nigerian state forces, the Department of State Services (DSS), in […]

The right wing populist regime of Javier Milei in Argentina is carrying out brutal neo-liberal attacks on the Argentinean working class and all oppressed peoples. It also unleashing brutal repression and in particular is targeting […]

Sir Keir Starmer’s New Labour spent the election campaign endlessly repeating that they would have to make ‘tough choices’ in office. Now they are doubling down, claiming to be surprised at the terrible £22 billion […]

The following text is from a leaflet being distributed by Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) and Youth Rights Campaign in Lagos and other areas in the nationwide protests scheduled to start on August 1. socialistworld.net […]

The disturbances in the Coolock area of Dublin earlier this month are the latest in an escalating trend of far Right and fascist violence in the country. The State has made clear it is happy to allow […]

There is an ongoing bitter battle in Serbia around a proposed lithium mine. This battle isn’t new – the current Serbian government approved the mine in 2021 and it is generally acknowledged that it was […]

Wickramabahu Karunaratne, who was a giant of the left movement in Sri Lanka, ended his life’s journey on 25th of July. I first met Wickramabahu in the latter half of 1970 when I attended a […]

The following is the text of a Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) leaflet that is being distributed at large protests in London and other parts of Britain, involving many Bangladeshis and others, over the […]

In favour of a Marxist balance sheet of the CWI split A response to “The implosion of the ISA: Can the good traditions of the CWI be saved?” by Andros Payiatsos Andros Payiataos’s article on […]

Fight for Working Class Political Alternative “America has passed through one of Lenin’s weeks in which decades happen” was how the capitalist Economist magazine started one of its leaders referencing the famous remark of the […]

Is British prime minister Keir Starmer going to “give the unions what they want”? That was the question put to him about the whole swathe of public-sector pay deals, with recommendations due in the next […]

The phenomenon of right-wing populism is not new in most countries, but there is much to suggest that it has reached a new level. Not only because in opinion polls and elections the share of […]

A recent BBC interview with the president of Guyana, Irfaan Ali, has racked up millions of views. In it, he calls out the hypocrisy of the interviewer questioning his government’s plans to extract billions of […]

Volatile Period Opens Up Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has been swept into power in Britain – by 20.1% of the electorate, the lowest share for any incoming government since the first ever election fought […]

On Saturday 13 July, a lone gunman fired shots at presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania, killing one audience member and wounding two others. Trump himself walked away after a bullet grazed […]

The UK general election resulted in a historic defeat for the Conservative Party in England and Wales, and the Scottish National Party (SNP) in Scotland, with Keir Starmer’s pro-capitalist Labour Party gaining a majority in […]

Aside from the Tories, the biggest losers in the UK general election, which took place on 4 July, were the Scottish National Party (SNP). They emerged bloodied with just nine MPs, down from the 48 […]

French President Emmanuel Macron had “thrown [his] unpinned grenade in our legs” [in his own words] on 9 June, by dissolving the Assembly. He gave Jordan Bardella’s RN (far-right National Rally), winner of the European […]

Not just booted out. The Tories (Conservative Party) have been crushed. The electorate has punished them for fourteen years of austerity, attacks on the working class, lies and corruption. Less than seven million people went […]

The Labour Party has watered down its promises on workers’ and trade union rights, in keeping with the dumping of almost all the policies from the Corbyn era since Keir Starmer lied his way to […]

The first round of parliamentary elections in France saw Marine Le Pen’s far right RN taking the largest vote, at 33.2%, ahead of the New Popular Front on 28% and President Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble alliance […]

Nigerians are living in hellish times. Since last year raging inflation and a collapsing economy have savaged living standards. Africa’s most populous country is facing an existential crisis as the regime pushes ahead with a […]

The UK general elections take place on 4th July. As well as an expected Tory party meltdown and a Labour majority, the Green party is on course to possibly win more seats. Many voters regard […]

The release of Julian Assange is a win for a world-wide campaign. Journalists’ unions have been the backbone of that campaign. It is also a blow against the creeping censorship across the ‘Western democracies’ This […]

The following motion condemning the Gaza slaughter and calling for a class based, trade union approach to the conflict in the Middle East was passed at the recent conference of the Northern Ireland Public Services […]

Two weeks have passed since the local and European elections in the South of Ireland. These signalled further fragmentation within the political system. And from that fragmentation is posed ever accelerating political crisis. The financial […]

On 23rd May 2024 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution that designated 11th July as the “International Day of Reflection and commemoration of the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica”. The resolution was drafted by Germany. […]

In the run up to the July general election, it could be time for the Scottish National Party (SNP) Scottish government to go back to school. In a cowardly and highly controversial move which will […]

The June 6th-9th elections to the European parliament saw expected gains made by the populist and far right, on a 51% turnout of voters. The hard right is on course to hold almost a quarter […]

With the UK general election less than a month away Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, remains on course for Downing Street. “Things can maybe get a bit better”, was how the Economist magazine summed up […]

Unite, one of the UK’s largest trade unions with over 1.2 million members, is campaigning in six vital oil-dependent constituencies in Scotland during the general election. This comes as a reaction to a key policy […]

Queen Mary: ‘We won’t pack up and give up!’ QMUL student, Tower Hamlets Socialist Party As we go into another week of the Queen Mary University student encampment for Palestine, East London, it’s becoming clear […]

The results of one of the most important parliamentary elections in the history of India show a resounding setback for the ruling BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) regime. Given the numbers, the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) […]

In a shattering rejection, the ANC, elected in an atmosphere of heady euphoria with an overwhelming 62.7% majority in 1994 to mark the end of white minority rule and apartheid in South Africa, has been […]

The elections to the European Parliament will take place between June 6 and 9 in the 27 states in the EU. Right-wing populist and far-right – i.e. nationalist – parties are expected to be successful, […]

The recent decision by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, to seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and leaders of Hamas, was […]

As the UK general election campaign goes into full swing, many Tory and Blairite Labour politicians will probably be hoping that minds turn away from Gaza and their parties’ refusal during eight months of war […]

The crucial Mexican election has resulted in a landslide victory for Claudia Sheinbaum, standing for the populist Morena party. Morena was founded by the outgoing President Manuel López Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, in 2014. […]

The Argentine government of Melei in Argentina is carrying out brutal attacks against the working class. Hundreds of thousands have lost their jobs and poverty has dramatically increased since the government came to power a […]

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) welcomes the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to embark on an indefinite general strike from Monday June 3 over the failure of the […]

It is highly likely that a Keir Starmer-led Labour government will form in Britain after the general election on 4 July. But what will it inherit? An ailing economy with stagnant growth and productivity well […]

Next Friday 7 June voters in the South of Ireland go to the polls for the first national elections since the general election of February 2020. Since then, there have been seismic changes in Ireland. […]

Part 3 The struggle for far sighted Marxist position I was one of the boys in the car that made its way to the Palali airport in the middle of the night. The other is […]