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Taiwan: Landslide victory for pro-independence party

January 25, 2020 Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (CWI in Japan)

On 11 January, the incumbent president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), was re-elected with a landslide. She won 57.1% of the popular vote – the highest figure ever recorded […]

“Real, deep anger” – Interview with a French striker

January 24, 2020 Interview with Virginie Pregny, striking teacher and a member of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI France)

The strike movement against the French government’s wholesale attack on pensions has gone on for almost two months. Many transport workers downed tools for 45 continuous days, joined by some other sectors on the unions’ […]

Britain: Local council cuts continue…so must the fightback

January 24, 2020 Nick Chaffey, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party)

Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson says austerity is over. But who believes this pathological liar? As London mayor and Tory MP, Johnson promoted cuts to council services and supported tax cuts for the super-rich. The […]

Germany: Workers need fighting strategy for unions, not ‘partnership’ with bosses

January 23, 2020 Angelika Teweleit, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität, Berlin

Hardly a day goes by in Germany without a new announcement of job cuts, dismissals in car plants and components industry and in companies such as Thyssen-Krupp or Siemens. The planned loss of hundreds of […]

Workers’ struggle in France on the boil

January 22, 2020 James Ivens, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) member and participant in French protests (15-19 January)

After more than 45 days of strikes and 62 weeks of ‘gilets jaunes’ protests, French workers’ appetite for struggle endures. The trade unions counted 250,000 on the national day of action in Paris on 17 […]

After mass protests, the Chilean government calls plebiscite to try to put breaks on demands for real change

January 20, 2020 Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Chile) Statement

In relation to the plebiscite that has been called for the 26 April 2020, it is necessary to make clear some issues before marking a Yes or No on the ballot paper. The result of […]

16 January – another day of mass strikes and workers’ demonstrations across France

January 17, 2020 Gauche Révolutionnaire Reporters photo gallery

Another day of mass demonstrations of strikers all over France on 17 January 2020. The determined battle to stop Macron’s pension attacks goes on! The following photo gallery is by Gauche Révolutionnaire comrades from Paris and […]

British Labour Party leadership contest – What policies are needed?

January 16, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist, Weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The process to elect a new leader of the Labour Party is underway and poses an essential question. What will happen to the potential, opened up by Jeremy Corbyn’s unexpected leadership victory in 2015, to […]

France: Struggle over pension rights; government in difficulty

January 14, 2020 Clare Doyle, CWI

After the biggest and most widespread strikes and demonstrations last week in the current fight over pension rights in France, Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, announced the suspension of the government’s proposal to increase the pension […]

Massive Scottish pro-independence demo marks new stage in struggle against Tories

January 13, 2020 CWI

At least 80,000 marchers packed the rain-soaked streets of Glasgow in a mass Scottish pro-independence demonstration, on Saturday, January 11 January 2020. The date for the mobilisation was set hours after Boris Johnson’s general election […]