Articles by Robin Nilsen, CWI Norway

The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) rallies and lobbies of the TUC Congress have been an annual fixture since the first in 2010. They have become the most important pre-Congress event, reflecting the demands of […]

On Friday 20 August, Ismail Sabri was chosen by Malaysia’s king to be prime minister – the country’s third in three years. The 17 month-old government of the ‘National Coalition’ (PN – Perikatan Nasional) under […]

The ruling Scottish National Party (SNP) and Scottish Greens have agreed to form a de-facto coalition at Holyrood, the seat of the Scottish parliament. For the first time since the parliament was established in 1999, […]

This year marks the 81st anniversary of the assassination of the outstanding socialist revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, by an agent of Stalin, on 21 August 1940. Last year, the CWI published a new book on his […]

Tragically, a CWI comrade in Nigeria, Nurudeen Alowonle a.k.a Omomeewa, was murdered in Lagos, late on 18 August. It is not clear why comrade Omomeewa, along with a supporter who was wounded and is now […]

“1991 marked a turning point…We have entered a more disturbed period in world history, marked by sharper inter-imperialist rivalries and a deepening capitalist crisis.” (The Collapse of Stalinism) In 1991, the world watched as the […]

It is thirty years since an ill-fated coup was launched against Mikhail Gorbachev, president of what was still known as the Soviet Union (USSR). It was over in three days. By the end of 1991, […]

Every Olympics reflects the sad contradiction of the world we live in, but Tokyo 2020 took this to a whole new level. On the one hand, millions of people enjoyed and were inspired by the […]