Interview with Siritunga Jayasuriya (first published on ‘Left Voice’ website), Author at Socialist World Media

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Interview with Siritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party’s veteran Trotskyist leader

May 5, 2021 Interview with Siritunga Jayasuriya (first published on ‘Left Voice’ website)

The following English language translation of an interview with Siritunga Jayasuriya was conducted by Samantha Rajapaksa and published on the ‘Left Voice’ (Sri Lanka) website. socialistworld.net Siritunga Jayasuriya (Siri) is General Secretary of the United […]

South African Federation of Trade Unions reconvene ‘working class summit’ to discuss political representation

May 4, 2021 Weizmann Hamilton, Marxist Workers Party (CWI), South Africa

On 12th and 13th June 2021, the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) will reconvene the Working Class Summit (WCS). The WCS was first convened in 2018, in line with a resolution adopted at […]

“A carnival of reaction” – 100 years since the partition of Ireland

May 3, 2021 Niall Mulholland, from Socialism Today issue No.248, May 2021

Today, 3 May 2021, is officially marked as the hundredth anniversary of the creation of Northern Ireland. With sectarian tensions rising once again, the real history of the tumultuous decades leading up to the division […]

May Day

May Day 2021 – The workers’ global struggle against capitalist barbarism

April 30, 2021 CWI

The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends revolutionary May Day greetings to all workers, youth and the oppressed fighting against exploitation, injustice and capitalism. On May Day, we stand with all those fighting against […]

General strike in Chile over attacks on workers’ rights and poverty

April 30, 2021 Revolutionary Socialism (Committee for a Workers' International - CIT), Chile

More than a year after the start of the pandemic, the government and the business political caste in Chile have proven to be completely incapable of offering a response to the immediate needs of the […]

Protests across Russia as Putin gives annual ‘State of the Nation’ address

April 29, 2021 Clare Doyle, CWI

Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, made his ‘State of the Nation’ speech on 21st April as protest demonstrations were taking place across Russia. In April last year, his annual address had included an announcement about a […]

An era of capitalist turmoil – only socialism offers humankind a future

April 28, 2021 Statement from the International Secretariat of the CWI

One hundred comrades from the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) attended an extended meeting of its International Executive Committee from Friday 9 April to Sunday 11th April. Due to coronavirus restrictions, the meeting was […]

Covid: India’s health system in meltdown under Modi’s misrule

April 28, 2021 Yuvraj, New Socialist Alternative (CWI, India)

An unmitigated public health disaster is gripping India. The daily number of people infected with Covid-19 has exceeded 350,000 for a week – the highest of any country since the pandemic began. Health services have […]

Germany in the new world disorder

April 27, 2021 Tom Hoffmann, Sol (Socialist Organisation Solidarity - CWI Germany)

Capitalism is increasingly reminiscent of what is called a ‘Royal Rumble’ in professional wrestling. In this sport what is happening in the ring becomes more and more confusing due to the arrival of more and […]

Scotland: Socialists and elections – a response to the SWP

April 26, 2021 Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

The importance of building a socialist alternative in elections has long been recognised by Socialist Party Scotland. We are currently helping to pioneer the Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition’s challenge for the Scottish parliamentary […]